Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-01
l-a - ta AsHTABULA, OHIO SATURDAY MARCH |, 1873.


make them; hat they were the plunder
Of some foreign conquest. This is not
a singular thi ng in Chinese history, fol
in some Of their scientific discoveries ",
have found evidence that they did moi
make them, but stole item.
The second story OF half dozen, Ger
tainly FIVE relates TO the age of TiberieI
the time Of ST. Paul, and tells ofa Roman
who had been banished and who return
ed TO Rome, bringing wonderful cup
This cup he dashed upon the marble
pavement and IL was crushed, not broken
by the fall. IL was dented some, and
with hammer he easily brought il into
shape again. 1t was brilliant, transpar.
ent, but not brittle. j had a winp-glass
when / made this talk in New Haven.
and among the audience was the owner,
Prof Silliman. lie was kind enough to
come to the platform when had ended,
aud say that lie was familiar with mosl
OF my facts, but speaking Of maIleable
glass, he had this to say that it was
nearly natural impossiblity, and that
no amount OF evidence which could be
brought would make him credit it.
Well, the Romans got their chemistry
from the Arabians ; they brought IL into
Spain eight centuries ago, and in their
books OF that age they claim, that they
got from the Arabians malleable glass.
There is a kind OF glass spoken of there
that, if supported by one end, by is own
weight IN 20 hours would dwindle down
to fine line and that you could curve il
around your wrist. Won Beust the
Chancellor of Austria-has ordered se-
crecy in Hungary in regard TO recently
discovered process by which glass can
be used exactly like wool, AID manufac-
tured into cloh.
There are a few records. When YOU
go to Rome they will show you n bit Of
glass like the solid rim Of this tumbler-
transparent glass, solid thing VIII ch
they lift up SO as TO show you that there
is nothing concealed, but IN the center
of the glass is a drop OF colored glass,
perhaps as large as pea, mottled like a
duck, finely notified with the shifting
colored hues Of the neck, and which even
a miniature pencil could not do more
perfectly. 1t is manifest that this drop
OF liquid glass must have been poured.
because there is no joint. This musl
have been done by greater heat than
the annealing process, because that pro-
cess shows breaks.
EXCELLENCE PER Sc.
Cicero said that he had seen the entire
Had, which is poem as large as the
New Testament, written OH skin so that
it could be rolled up in The compass OF a
nutshell. Now this is impel ceptble to
the ordinary eye. You have seen the
Declaration Of Independence in the com
pass of quarter OF dollar, written
with glasses. have to-day paper al
home as long as half my haad, Oh which
was photographed the whole contents
OF London newspaper. 1t was put un-
der doves wing aud sent into Paris,
where they enlarged il and read the
news. The copy of this Iliad must have
been made by some such process. In
the Roman theater-the Coliseum,
which could seat 100000 peope-the
Emporcr's box, raised to the highest tier
bore about the same proportion 10 the
space as this stand does to this hall, aud
TO look down to the center of a six-acre
lot, was to look considerable distance.
Considerable, by the way, is not a
Yankee word. Lord Chesterfield uses i;
in bis letters to his son, so it has good
English origin. Plnny says that Nero,
the tyrant, had ring with gem in
which he looked through and watched the
sword play of gladiators-men who kill
ed each other to amuse the people-mort
closely than with the naked eye. Sc
Nero had an opera glsss. So Mauritiu:
the SicilIan, stood on the promontory ol
his island and could sweep over the en-
tire sea to the coast of Africa with his
nGuScOpite, which is word derived from
two Greek 1rds, meaning to see ship
Evidently Mauritius, VINO was pirate
had marine telescope. You may visi
DR.. Abbot's museum, where you will SEE
the ring of Cheopt. Bunsen pn,s hin
at 500 years before Christ. The signe
of the ring is about the size Of a quartz
of dollar, aud the engraving is invisibl
without the aid of glasses. No man wa
ever shown into the cabinets of gems il
Italy without beng furnished with mi
croscope to look at them. 1t wonld b.
idle for him to look at these wthout]one
He appreciates the delicate lines and th,
expression of the face. If you go I,
Parma they will show you a gem one
worn on the finger OF Michael Angelo, q
which the engraving is 2,o0G years old
on which there are the figures of sever
women. You must have the aid cf
glass in order to distinguish the forms a
all. | have friend who has ring, per
haps three-quarters ofan inch in diane
ter and on it is the naked figure of tn
god Hercules. BY the aid of the glasse
you can distinguish the interlacing mus
cles, and count every separate hair o
the eyebrows.
Layard says he would be unable {
read the engravings on Ninevah wilhou
strong spectacles, they are so extremel
small. Rawlinson brought home ston
about twenty inches long and ten wide
containing an entire treatise on matht
matics. 1t would be perfectly illegibl
without glasses. Now, if we were una
BILE to read it without the aid of glasses
you may suppose the man who engrave
it had pretty strong spectacles. So tn
microscope, instead of dating from on
time, finds its brothers in the Books G
Moses-and these are infant brothers.
THE OLD DYES.
So If you take colors. Color is, W
| saw. an ornament. We dYe our dresse