The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-03-07

the Italian, stood on the promontory Of his
island, aud could sweep over the entire sea
to the coast OF Africa with his ndnSeopite,
which is Il word derived from two Greek
words meaning to see a ship. Evidently
Mauritus who was pirate, had marine
telescope The sgnet Of ring in DR.. ABB
bett's museum, said TO belong to Cheops
who lived FIVE hundred years before Christ
is about the size of a quarter Of dollar,
and the engraving is invisible without the
aid of glasses. In Parma is shown gem
once worn by Michael Angelo, Of which
the engraving is two thousand years old, in
which there are the figures of seven women.
A glass is needed to distinguish the forms
at all. Layard says he would be unable to
read the engravings on Nineveb without
strong spectacles, they are SO extremely
small Rawlnson brought home stone
about twenty inches long and ten wide,
containing an entire treatise on mathemat-
les. 1t would be perfectly illegible without
glasses. Now, il we are unable to read it
without the aid Of glasses you may sup.
pose that the man who engraved it had
pretty strong spectaces. So, the micro
scope, instead Of dating from our time, finds
its brothers in the Books Of Moses sand
these are infant brothers.
| THE OLD DYES.
For the Egyptians, color was means Of
recording history. We find upon the stucco
of their walls their kings holding court,
their armies marching out, their craftsmen
in the ship yard with the ships floating in
the dock, and in fact we trace all their rites
and customs painted in undying colors.
The French, who went to Egypt with Ma
poleon, said that all the colors were perfect
except the greenish white, which is the
hardest for Us. They had no difficulty with
the Tyrian purple The burned city Of
Pompeii was city Of stucco. All the
houses are stucco outside, and it is stained
with Tyriaa purple-the royal color OF an
tiquity and the flaming hues are as bright
as if painted but yesterday. Come down
from Titan, whose colors are wonderfully
and perfectly fresh, to Sir Joshua Reynolds
aud although his colors are not hundred
years old they are fading; the colors or his
lips are dying out, aud the cheeks ace losing
their tints. lie did not know how TO miS
we'll The French huyc theory that there
is certain delicate shade Of blue that
Europeans cannot see. Ruskin says that
we cannot initiate IN co.Ors that would last
for twenty years the magnificent scarlet il
old illuminated missals, now five centuries
old. The Frenchman says II am the bes
dyer n Europe; nobody can equal me, ant
nobody can surpass Lyons" Yet in Cash
mere, where the girls make shgws wortl
thirty thousand dollars, they will show hin
three hundred distinct color5, which he no
only cannot make, but cannot even dis
! tinguish
ANCIENT MASTER ARTISANS.
Taking the metals, the Bible in its frs
: chapters shows that man first conqnere
!. metals there in Asia, and on that spot tc
a day he can work more wonders with thos
q metals than we can. One Of the surprise
g that the European artists received when th
i English pundered the summer palace or th
d King Of China, was the curiously wrougt
e metal vessels Of every kind, far exceedin
d all the boosted skill Of the workmen (
!. Europe. English surgeons going to Ind
+ are advised to have their instruments giIdet
y because English steel cannot bear the a
10 mosphere. Yet the Damascus blades
S, the Crusades were not gilded and they ,
lie perfect as they were eight centuries ag
Is There was one at the London Exhibition
lie the point Of which could be made to touC
the hilt, and could be put into scabbal
a. like corkscrew, and bent every way wit
,e out breaking. If London chronomet
le maker wants the best steel to use in b
lg chronometer, he does not send to Sheiiiel
ID the centre of all science, but to the Pujau
30 the empire Of the seven rivers, where the
I'd is no science at ALL The first needle ey
ID made ia Europe was made in time Of Hen
Of the With, and made by negro al
W when he died, the art died with him. Son
ry Of the first travellers in Africa stated tn
a they found tribe in the interior who ga
them better razors than they had. SEQ
in his al'ales Of the Crusaders" +" describes
re meeting between Richard Cenr de Lii
w and SaIadn. Saladin asks Richard to sht
it him the wonderful strength for W hich he
it famous, aud the Norman monarch respoL
he by severing bar of iron which lies on t
u floor of his tent. Saladin says, a cam
% do that = but he takes an elder down pillt
ID. from the sofa, and, drawing his keen bla
ut across it, it falls in two pieces. Richa
ad aays aThis Is the black art it is mag