The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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Colorado.
Some very elegant parasols have just
come into the market, which cost from
5000 to $500. The tops are of lace,
either black or white, and the handles
of some are of carved coral, while
others are of gold, with vine of silver
and gold leaves.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue decides that the dust produced in
the manufacture of smoking tobacco,
and which cannot be used as tobacco or
snuff, may be sold by the tobacco manu-
facturers to farmers as fertilizer for the
land"
In Oswego county, N. Y, the ladies of a
village have met and resolved that they
"will not accept the company of any
young man who uses tobacco in any
form, unless the night is very dark and
the road muddy, for the space of sixty
days from date"
Henry Allen, of Pittsfeld, Mass, who
has been growing deaf gradually for the
last six years, had q wasp removed from
his ear recently, which he now remem-
bers took up its abode there at the time
the deafness commenced to trouble him.
A New Haven paper says there is II
horse chestnut tree in front OF the old
General Green place, on Water street,
which blossoms only on the north side
one year and the south sidA the next,
while every seventh year it blossoms
freely on all its branches" This year
the blossoms are on the south side.
The most learned woman in the world
is said to be Princess Dora d'Istra. She
reads and speaks fifteen languages, has
written novels, historical and philosoph-
ical works, is an honorary member of
ten learned societies--and is, notwith-
standing, quite good-looking.
The rules of Portland savings bank
prohibiting the drawing out of small
er amount than 81, boy took the fol-
lowing mode of getting only 25 cents,
which was ali he wanted. He took the
S and went out. In about five min
utes he returned, deposited the ex-
ira rs cents, and took his departure,
highly satisfied at the success of his
financiering.
One of the most costly and magnlf-
cent-and probably much the largest
Photographic portrait lens ever made is
one produced for Mr.. Mayatt, the cele-
brated English photographer. 1t is IN
achromatic lens, ten and one-half inches
III diameter, and will take portraits of
any size, from the smallest miniature up
to very nearly the full life stature. 1t
is made of glass of the whitest and
purest description, and its size admits so
largea volume of light that photographs
covering space of Ten inches by twelve
inches may be done in eight seconds.
In the open air, groups of fifteen to
twenty persons-e face about the
size of an English sovereign, and the
whole picture two feet long and two
feet wide--can be taken with an ex-
posure of ten seconds. The cost of
manufacturing this lens was upwards of
one thousand dollars.
The production of sheet iron plates
coated with copper and brass is new
branch of industry in England, which
has excited considerable attention
among manufacturers. 1t is claimed
for this product that the plates present
great advantages to the makers of fin
ished goods, compared with timed or
galvanized plates, as they can be an
nealed as much as requisite during the
process of stamping, without injury to
the copper or brass coating and that
they also are superior to sheet copper or
sheet brass, because articles manufac-
tured from them are not so readily bent
or dented as when they are made Of
brass or copper, and they can be bur-
nished, planished, or spun, and SO
brought up to any required degree of
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specially adapted to the manufacture of
lamps, candlesticks, and all kinds of
goods hitherto made by stamping from
sheet brass or sheet copper, and at a
greatly reduced cost.
1t appears from recent statistics of the
industry and manufactures of Birming-
ham, that the following wonderful re-
suits comprise the aggregate of one
weeks labor in that vast British work.
| shop: 100000 pens, 5000 bedsteads,
1000 guns, 800, 100000 cut nails. l00,-
100000 buttons, 1000 saddles, 100000
copper or bronze coins, 10000 pairs of
| spectacles, six tons of papier-mache
ware, 1000 miles of iron and steel wire,
ten tons of pins, five tons of hair pins,
hooks and eyes, and eyelets, 10000
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screw-bolts, spikes, and rivets, fifty tons
of wrought iron hinges, 300 miles length
of wax for vestas, forty tons of refined
metal, forty tons of German silver, 900
dozen of tenders, $500 bellows, 1000
roasting-jacks, $50 sewing 500
tons of brass and copper wares, besides
an almost endless multitude of miscel-
laneous productions, of which no def
mite statistics can be given.
What is called photographic print
ing is proposed to be accomplished by
the following method-a recent foreign
invention-caseine or curd of milk being
prepared in peculiar manner for sub
sequent use in the formation of casting
blocks, printing blocks, and in treating
the surfsces Of paper. The plan is to
take the milk which has become sour
and set by keeping and separate from il
the grease and other extractive matters
by the following process The milk is
churned when sour and set by natural
ctuses and put into bag and allowed
to drain for about twenty-four hours
when boiling water is poured upon it
and it is then subjected to a squeezing
process; after this the best result is OBJ
tanned by pouring water at about half
boiling temperature upon it. 1t is agai1
squeezed and allowed to stand until it i,
cooled down, and then washed well il
clear, cold water, with continuous
squeezing, to remove all the grease ant
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