New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-13

ri 10y b a. retreat FROM the great heat aud you viii
nd walls painted all over WIN ianeilal designs IN
1908 years but when the peasants ght II up Win Their
the colors fash out before you as fresh as they
Yonr felow-eitizen, Mr. Page. spent twelve years in
Venice, STUDYING Ttians method OF mixing hls eoors
whose oolors wonderfully and perfectly frerh, to Sir
Joshua Reynolds and although his colors arc not YET
hundred years old they are fading; the color on his lips
dying out and the cheeks are losing their tnts lie
did not know how to mix well.
All this mastery OF color yet unequaled. II you
should 20 with that most delightful of all lecturers
Prof Tyndall he would show you In the spectrum the
their limit there are rays still more delicate ana 20
yo1 invisible but which ne entmIea Ppf tbowh
you three four inches more than 800 years ago
your predecessors did yet 800 years after our Successors
The French have theory that there is certain deli
cate shade OF blue that Europeans cannot see ~ one Oh
mass book and sad "Gentemen, we are The pest cen
lists in the world No EngiShman ever could douD tha
But we cannot make such scarlet as that ana even
We could IL would not last Tor 70 years he1 'ni' " wv
The Ffenchman SAWS ct am the best dyer In Europei
nobody equal me. and nobody can suriass lSol;;
Go oo th & slow him sOo distinct colo rs which he
not only cannot make but cannot even DISTINGUISH. ,,
When was in Rome, II a lady wished to wear halt
dozen colors at a masquerade and have them al IN
harmony would so to the Jews, Tor ly oFehta eye
is better than even those of France or Italy when VIC
ANCIENT MASTER ARTISANS.
Taking the metals, the Bible in its first chapters
showed that man first conquered metals there IN ASH
and the wonder is that on that spot to-day he can work
more wonders with those metals than We can.
One of the surprises that the European artists received
when the English plundered the Summer palace OF the
King China the curicusly wrough metal vessels
Of every kind far exceeding all the boosted sh Oh tae
Mr. Cotton Of The Boston Journal the first weel: he
landed in Asa, found that his chonomeer was owl or or
der from the the works having become ruseu INC
london Medeal and Surgical Journal advises surgeons
not to TO carry any ancets TO Caitta 10 "
them gded, because English steel cOua not Gear tne ~
mOsphere or Indla Yet the Damascus Di4ats oi 'o
Crusades not Glded, and they are as perfect "S
There was one az the London Exhibition the point OF
which could be made 10 touch the mt ana %hoh COun
be put into scabbard Ike cOrkscIcW ana DehL eVery
way without breaking Ike an American poI'iciah'
NOW. the wonder Of this u.s. that perfect steol is
! marvel of science. If London acknowledgements
wants the beso steel 90 use in his eronomeeT ne aees
NOT send to Sheffield the center OF all science DU 20 '
Punjaub. the empire OF the seven rivers NheIe leic 10
no Te frs needle ever made in England made in
the time OF Harry the With ma made b. negro ana
tvelers in Africa stated that they found Tribe in the
interior who gave them better razOrs han they baI me
The beat steel is The greatest triumph OF meaurgy, and
| metaurgy is the glory OF chemistry. . ,,,.,
The poets have celebrated the perfection OF the oriental
steel and 1t recognized the finest by Moore Byron
| Scott southoy, and many others. have even heard
young advocate OF the lost arts ma an IN BY
rons Sennacherib" from the fact that the mail OF the
warriors in that snort night had Tusted before we
trembling Jews stole out in the morning to behold the
terrible Work OF the Lord. Scott, in tbs Crusaders -
| fOr = Walter
describes meeting between Richard CGur dc Lion ana
Saladin. -, a., A.. .-..,.u,,i
strength for which he Is famous and the Norman mon
arch responds by severng bar OF iron which lies ON the
he takes an eiderdown pillow from the sofa and draw
ing his blade it, 1t falls In two pieces ilc-
This is the black art It is magic it Is the deyl;
yon cannot at that when mas no , 80 9 at
scarf his shoulders, which Is SO nShg lndt III almost
floats in the air and tossing up, before
| THOMPSON
Calcutta throw handful VI moss SILK mo the ar anu
Hipdoo sever it into pieces with his saber We pro-
duee nothing like this.
EGYPT's MECHANICAL MARyELs.
Taking their employment Of the mechanical forces ana
their movement Of large from the earth, know
that they had the five, seven three mechanical pow
ers but we cannot account for the multiplication and In
crease necessary perform the wonders they accom-
| plished.
In Boston. lately we have moved the Pelham Hotel
weighing 5000 tuns, IA feet, and very proud Of 1t
| and since then we moved whole block OF houses ~
feet and have doubt We will write book about II;
but there is book telling how Dominica Fontana OF the
sixteenth century set up the Egyptian oDelsk al Rome
on eud In the Papacy OF bXtuS " wonderful! Yet the
ougfred that stone and carried 10 100 miles
and tine Romans brought 1t 700 miles, and never said
Mr. Patterson of Hartford walking with Brunei the
architect OF the Thames tunnel, IN Egypt asked Hun
what he thought of the mechanic" power OF the ESyp
fans and he said there il Pompeys Pillar 10 IL 100 feet
high and the capital weighs 2Op pounds IL j. something
of feat 10 hang 600 pounds at tlat g IN me ar ana
the few men that do would better discuss E puan
mechanics. a.. r., -.-.-.-
Take canals for instance. The suoz Canal aosorbs
half its receipts in cleaning out the sand winch Ills it
continually and It is not yet known whether II IS pc
cuniary success The anclens buit can'l at ISlt an
ges 10 ours, because they knew t would not oil upn
built in that direction, and they knew sueh an one as
T6ere were magnificent canals in the land OF the Jews
with perfectly arranged gates ana sluces We have
only just begun to understand ventilation properly for
our houses; yet late experiments az the pyramids III
Egypt show that those EgypiiIn tOmb5 were ventilated
In the most perfect and scientific manner.
Again. cement modern Tor the anclents dressed and
joHted their stones 70 closely tlat IN buildings thou
sands of years old the thin blade OF pennife cannot
be forced between them. Tho railroad dates back 40
A pantipg has been discovered OF q ship full Of ma
chinery, and French engineer s-d that tue arrangement
of this machinery could only be accounted Tor hy sup
posing the motive power TO have been steam. Brahma
acknowledges that he took the idea OF MS celebrated
lock ancient Egyptian pattern, ID Ioequeynle
says there no social question that was nos discussed
to rags IN Egypt
OLD HINTS or NEW THINGS.
"wen," say you. q" Franklin invented the lightning
rod" have doubt lie dld; but years before his in
yenton and before the muskets invented, the Old
soiers on guard the towers used Franklins inven
ton TO keep guard with and n spark passed between
them and the spearhead they ran and bore the warning
Of the state ana condition or analrs.
After that you will admit that Benjamin Franklin was
not the only one that knew OF tho presence OF cleo
rioity aud the advantages derived from its Solo
mons Temple, you VIII find was situated on an exposed
point OF the hill the temple was so ioiy that u was
often In peril and guarded By asyatem exactly like
that OF Benjamin Franklin's lLaughterl
Well, may tel you lttle OI dhcltnl
TIE Duchess OF Burgundy took a necklace from tho
neck OF a mummy and wore t to ball gwen at The TUT
cries and everybody said they thought II the new
cst thing there. You have heard OF what is called tue
EstruScae, aud the Italians spent their lives in trying
to lind out the secret; and IL has down to aud
cur day, and We do not know either
The old novels OF Walter Scott were three thousand
years before the popular tales OF Eastern Aa. Russell
Lowell says: "There was town IN Vermont corrupt
that the inhabitants had TO sleep in the walls at nig
lIaughter.l Well lie bad this opinion HIndoo prIn-
cess came into court and her tther SEEING her said Go
home YOU are deconty cOyercd-gJ hume;" and Gle
sad, "Fatler, have seven sdts :" but the suits
Thin TINT the kim cOnld