Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-01

~ lDe nafleSt Tor US. lney Hau no ulHl'
Guilty with the Tyrian purple. The
burned city Of Pompei was city OF
siucco. All the houses are stucco out
! side, and il is stained with Tyrian purple
the royal color Of antiquity. But you
never can rely upon the name Of color
after n thousand years. SO the Tyrian
purple is almost n rtd-about the color
of these curtains. This is city of all
red. II had been buried ZOO years. and
if you take shovel now aud clear awav
the ashes this color flames up upon you,
a great deal richer than anything we can
produce.
You can go down into the narrow
vault which Nero built him as retreat
from the great heat, and you will find
the walls painted all over with fanciful
designs in arabesquc, which have been
buried beneath the earth 1900 years
but when the peasants light it up with
their torches the cOiors fash out before
YOU as fresh as they were in the days of
ST.. Paul.
Your fellow-citizen, Mr. Page, spent
twelve years in Venice, studying Tilian's
method of mixing his colors, AMI he
thinks he has got it. Yet come down from
Titan, whose colors are wonder fully and
perfectly fresh, TO Sir Joshua Reynolds.
and although his colors are not yet hun
dred years old, they are fading; the col
ors on his lips are dying out, and the
cheeks arc losing their tinis. He did
not know how to mix well.
All this mastery of color is as yet une-
qualed. II You should go with that
most delightful of all lecturers, Prot.
Tyndall, be would show you in the spec
trum the vanishing rays OF violet, and
prove to you that beyond their limit
there are rays still more delicate and to
you invisible, but which he, by chemical
paper, will make visible; aud he will tell:
you that probably, though you see three
or four inches more than 800 years ago
your predecessors did, yet 800 years after
our successors will surpass our limit.
The French have theory. that there
is certain delicate shade of blue that
Europeans cannot see. In one of his
lectures to his students, Ruskin opened
his Catholic mass book and said Seen
lemen, we are the best chemists in the
world-no Englishman ever could doubt
that-but we cannot make such scarlet
as that, and even if we could it would
not last twenty years. Yet this is 500
years ago"
The Frenohman says: 81 am the best
dyer in Europe; nobody can equal me,
and nobody can surpass Lyons" Yet
worth 10000, they will show him 800
distinct colors, which he not only cannot
make but cannot even distinguish.
When was in Rome, if lady wished
TO wear half dozen colors at mas
querade, and have them all in harmony,
she would go to the Jews, for the OreIl-
tai eye is better than even that OF France
or Italy, which We think so high.
ANCIENT MASTER ARTISANS.
Taxing the metals, the Bible in It's
first chapters showed that man first con-
quered metals there in Asia, and the
wonder is that on that spot to-day he
can work more wonders with those met
ais than we can.
One of the surprises that the European
artists received when the English plum
dered the Sum nler Palace of the King Of
China, was the curiously wrought meta
vessels of every kind, far exceeding al
the boosted skill of the workmeu OF Eu
rope.
Mr. Coffin, of the Boston journal, the
first week he landed in Asia, found that
his chronometer was ont of order from
the steel of the works having become
rusted. The London Hedicdk and Sur.
gicaI Journal advises surgeons not Ia
venture TO carry any lancets to Calcutta
to have them gilded, because Englisf
steel could not bear the atmosphere O
| India. Yet the Damascus blades OF tht
Crusades were not glded, and they ar,
as perfect as they were eight centuries
ago. There was one at the London Ex
hibition, the point of which could b,
made TO touch the hilt, and which coul,
be put into a scabbard like cork screw
and bent every way without breaking
like an American politician. Now, III,
wonder of this is, that perfect steel Is a
marvel of science. Ii London chro
nometer-maker wants the best steel t
use in his chronometer he does not senC
10 Sheffield, the center OF all science, bu
to the Punjaub, the empire of the sever
|
The first needle ever made in Englan,
was made in the time of Harry the VIII
and made by negro, and when he die,
the art died with him. Some of the frs
travellers in Africa stated that they fount
a tribe in the interior who gave then
better razors than they had, the IRE
pressible negro coming up in science a
in politics. The best steel il the great
est triumph of meIallurgy, and metallur
gy is the glory OF chemistry.
The poets have celebrated the perfec
ton of Oriental steel, and it is recogui2
ed as the finest by Moore, Byron, Scoli
Southey, and many others. have evel
heard young advocate of the lost art
find an argument in Byron's Schumacher
ib" from the fact that the mail of IN
warriors in that one short night ha'
rusted before the trembling Jews stol
out in the morning TO behold IT,
terrible work of the Lord. Scott, il
his "Crusaders for Sir Walter wa
curious in his love of the lost arts-de
scribes meeting between Richar'
Ceur de Lion, and Saladin. Saladin ask
Richard to show him the wonderful
strength for which he is famous, and th'
Norman monarch responds by severint
bar of iron which lies on the floor o
the tent. Saladin says, 81 cannot d.
that" but he takes an eider-down pilla
. from the sofa. and drawing his keel