New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-13
father though. the hes. is that famous story of man

VII A.
lie I'VE not read a word you have Wr''en'' '-""
teri .-orv old one. II is
This is an Irish bull sti f. yGry 0Ia uoraeo
only $50 years older than tho Sf IyeI Edeeworh and
thoght the other Irish bull was tne man
who said IL would haze ,e p sTade dreat augnter
That comes from Don Quixose sna IN the fourth
Oertes S 'gs Creeks stole 1t from the Egyptian
GREEK JOKES THEIR DorAaE
1ero is ono story which II is said Washington mas re-
| lated OF man who went into an inn and asked ior
class Of drink from landlord. who pushed forward
vine about half the usual szc-the teacups also ia
that day we're not than half the present si1e'
The landlord said THAT glass out OF which you arc
drinking is 10 years old" "We said the thirsty trav
tJ rs tbe Smallest thing ever saw"
That story as told is given story Of Athens 1915
are (ireek-every one of them. (Great merrimentI
Take the Irishman who carried around brick as
tie freshman shut his eyes and looked into the glass
how he would look when he was dead lreheNw o
ing the reported 20 live 200 years. anu ne
meant to set out aud try it. !LangherJ o s,,a % him
why, Sir, heard you were dead" Well says inc
81 Would believe the man who told me good deal
quicker than would you" lIreat merTlmenLI weh1
| parallel character, come from Athens
Our old Boston patriots felt that tarrng and feather
Ya s They little imagined that when Richard
C9ur dc Leon set out Of his Crusades among the
orders issued TO his camp OF soldiers was that any one
who robbed henro0st should be arred ana eathered;
Many a man who lived in Connecticut has repeated
the story Of taking children to the limits 0, the t0%n
| and giving them sound thrashlnR 10 ENFORCE
IN memory S St now Zoo years Old ariSated vaor
In the east France because 1T had law tna the cn
there soundy WHIPPED order that they might for
| ever remember whore the limits came. p, h
SO we have very few things in that line lLaueh
teri But said would take the subject, for INSTANCE
of tnis very materiayery suostance-SiasS' IL 10 tie
| very best expression OF mans setoOnceit
TEACHINGS FROM GLASS.
had heard that nothing had been observed in ancient
times which could be called by the name OF glass that
there had been merely attempts TO initiate It, thought
that they had proved the proposition they certainly
had elaborated it.
In Pompeil, dozen miles south Of Naples. which was
covered with ashes by Vesuvus 1900 years ago. they
broke into room full Of glass; there groundgass
window-gass cuglass. and colOred glass OF every va
the lie and the refuation came face to face g. 100. nv
was IKE pamphlet printed IN Lo1Un eo MD n St
cross tho ocean, and the book came 10 tins country In
the first steamboat that came across the Atlantic
The chemistry the most ancient period mad reached
point which we even approached and which
management Of the effect Of light glass Is s mat
ter profound study The first two stories which nave
IN offer won are simply stories from history.
The fst from The letters Of the Catholic priests who
broke into China which were pnohsheg ~ france y,s
and cOorlesss, which filed with liquor made by
reared to be coioriess ike water This liquor was
poured into the glass and then, looking through H. IL
| seemed 10 be filed with fishes.
They turned this out and repeated the ana
again u was eG Win n:1 t19 Se ese @ pSer Of
foreign conquest This Is not singular tang IN
Chinese history, for Ill some of their scegtnc dsooV
have found evidence that they did not make
The second story Of half DOZEN certainly five,
laes TO the age of Toerius the tune OF St Paa, ana
tells Of Roman who mad been 6aaished ana WHO ie To-
dashed upon the marble pavement and it was crushed,
not broken by the fall II was dented some, and with
u 1 10 easily brOugl IL into shape again.
1t was brilliant, transparent but not brittle had
vine-eass when 1 made this talk in New-Haven, and
among the audience the owner, Prof slliman: lie
was kind enough to come to t!e platform Mheh IG
facts but, speaking of maeable glass he had this 70
sayhat IL nearly natural impossibty, ana thas
amount of evidence which could be brought would
they brought 1t into spain eight centuries ago. ana
their books Of that age they claim that they got rom
spoken there that supported by one end, by its own
weight in 20 hours would dwlnde down TO fire line,
| and that could curve 1t around your wrist Won
Beusthe Chancellor OF Austrla-has ordered secrecy
in Hungary in regard to recently discovered process
by which glass can DO used exactly Ike WOOL ana manu-
These are a few records. when you 60 TO Rome they
| will show you a bit OF glass like the solid OF this
tumbler-a transparent glass solid thing, which they
lit so as TO show you that there nothing concealed
but IN the center of the glass drop OF coored glass
perhaps as large as pea, nottled like duck finely
notified with the shifting COored hueB OF the neck ana
which miniature pencil could not do more per-
1t Is manifest that this drop of liquid glass must have
been poured because there Is no joint This must have
| y a
because that process shows breaks.
He spoke also OF the imitation OF gems. They deceived
cheated Some OF these limitations In later years have
| been discovered
referred to the celebrated vase Of the Geneva
thedral, vase which considered solid emerald
The Roman Catholic legend OF 1t was that 10 was OF
the treasures that the Queen OF Sheba gave 70 Solomon,
and that was the identical cup out Of wi Ell the Savior
ate the Last supper Columbus must have admired IT,.
tG a9e SS t6oc I pe az Ana t whaS o
Napoleon beseged Genoa-I mean the Great Napoleon,
little offered hy the
10 loan the Senate s300O0O on that single article
curly.
10 the Institute. IN fools night somewhat reluctant
ly the scholars said 1t is not stone; We hardly know
| what it Is"
Cicero said that the entire niad, which
a poem as large the New Testament, written skin
so that it eould be rolled up in the compass of nut
she'll row this Is mpeIcepticle the ordinary eye You
have seen the Declaration Of Independence the
pass OF Quarter OF a dollar written with glasses.
to-day paper at nome es long as half my hand,
on VIII N photographed the whole contents OF Lon
| don newspaper. IL was put under doves wing and
sent into PARIS, where they enlarged it ana read the
news Tlis copy OF the HAD must have been made by
some such process In the Roman tbeatCrthe Coliseum
J which could seat 10000 peopc-the EmperOrs box.
raised to the highest tier bore about the same proper
look down to the center OF siEaere lot, was to look
| considerable distance.
Chesterfield it in his letters TO his 1t has
good English origin Piny says that Nero, the yrant,
HAD ring with gem IN IL which he looked through aud
watched the sword play OF the gladlaoIs--Inen who
killed each other TO amuse the peopemore clearly than
| with the naked eye. So Nero had mn opera-Glass
So Mauritius the stcan stood tie promontory Of
his island and could sweep over tthe entire TO the
| rived from two Greek words, meaning TO sec ship.
! Evidently Mauritius who was pirate, had q macne
YOU viii see the ring of Cheops Boonson puts him ut
900 years before Christ
2 dollar. aud the engraving Is Invisible without the ii
Of glasses No man was ever shown INTO The cabinets Of