, 1875-03-14

triatne loan for the car-fare il is at your se,
vice." "No, no. he answered, II nauss walk
tor my money is gone-l had forgotten it.
Walk, even II It does sleet fittle won't hurt me
But. /" hare be paused, ''with this CLEAN Of hop
| my appetite for food has come. am not asham
j. ed to say That for the frst time to-day am hun
gr7. must have had supper yesterday, I think
Yes. am positive it mas yesterday"
'Just nv idea" I said; :" we will eat some
thing together" He took my arm. I could iee
him tramble, and walking but few steps n,
entered an eating-honse, where ordered mod
est supper. Seated at small table in retired
corner Of the room I had now, for the frs
time, good opportunity Of examining my ques,
companion. the forehead was broad, the ton o.
the head unnaturaily high aud barrett Of hair
the eyes Were sankcn, the whole face was pre-
uaturely old, while tho eyes flashed from undel
shaggy brow II ith the fire Of youth. 81 *Tou say,
remarked, THAT your eyes are bad. They
hardly look so.'
''At times they utterly fail me. 6co1ohins
glare8 OF Light hzVe impaired them; but 1aeutxl-
y appreciate color-reye1 in it-lika tho poor
stone,deaf musician ~ who glotied IN sound"
the supper came on then, which he scarcely
heeded, occupied as be vas in examining tbs
fragments Of his shiyered glass. which he placed
on the table-cloth. where they glistened in the
gasligbt. Hastily dividing the pieces into two
parts, be selected more particularly those por-
tions which had formed the base, now splintered
| in twain a piece Of this Lo held now beueath
| the table. shading it with his hand.
! "5ec, look |" he cried. HDou't allow your eyes
to be deceived with the milky opalescence Of The
| = is not yis,bie over surface bigger than my
thumb nall but there It ia
''What ls there I" Inquired, IT know moth
ing about glass. This Venetian glass only
Pleased me when perfect, as ~ expression Of
the wonderful delic,oy Of mans hand.work."
!? / 7
SAW it In modsrn CLAUS but once before, and that
vas IN one OF the cabinets Of the Louvre. Now,
+ havs at home miserable glass Wine bottle. 4
junk. man might giSe cents tor it; but turn
bottom, not bigger than pins head. little
round nodule Of gold. How did it come there?
The sand the bottles we're made OF vas
amiferouH. Untold measures Of river sand
we're melted, all containing particles of
gold which analysis could have discovered
Finally, they were concentrated. Accident
caused the molten fluid to DO dipped up in
one last ladlefu1, aud that single, miserable
bottle held in it all the gold. I. only tel! you
this in ordof to Ahov you that am learned in
insans ouriosiss-moneers? This fragment Of
glass; BY auzlyais. must give me all its
component parts. This poor splinter OF
glass has exactly those metallic lustrous
colors which the Greeks Kept sacrat.
Go to Ce.nola Museum, and see how tho old
sometimes staring ut that glass. Tho Vividness
of their colols think has focused IN my brain
and scared It. I will have them,-they shall be
mlue,-sIt the haloB OF those glowing sunsets,
those doye-oolorsd orepuscues, tint Of pearl
Which GUNNER, glare OF diamonds which blaze,
bloods Of rubies which flash, with the quivering
OF the emera1d greens, all quickenins and pull
saung In those Old glasses.
- But eat somstuang." / said. as 1 looked
asnaet at the man Uhosa monomauia was vlslb'e-
af an T vii mi EAtan
Venice they have resuscitatod the art Of glass
making. There alone remained aoms traces OF
that glorious art Of giving true life to glass. In
the sixteenth century, tha secret Of making this
old Greek ( glass M vas almost found asnn- II
daoed cup Of glass which oore within itself
all 1he glowing rr1descence ct d rninbow.
Toe old Italian goidaulths, Bsnvenuto
Cellini, At their head, could not brook that gasa
should supplans their cunning in gold and silver
and mia works wers never aftegward thought OF.
The very glass, now on this table, all fractured,
he produced See these hands OF mine, they are
scorched, burned almost to the bono. toiing only
It is affirmed by the ignorant, and I
class all arcanologsts In this category that it Is
time alone and i,s SLOW, moldering decay, which |
has given 10 glass its vivid colors. They are !
fools. They may approximate 70 nehnlous pc |
riods BY hundred or q thousand years or SO, but
0AA~"
q Pittsburs glass-wo1ker, c1ust manufacturer, |
il you please, or one Who turns out talegraphic |
insuators by the million. and he knows BY IN
Btinct more than ali these t1reaome phlioso- ]
Pliers. I sm Of French origin the old stock
made glass IN Cohorts time, aud great King |
snnobled an ancestor Of nina who was simpla I
It has, this glass, led US into
many ~vagary. It WAS distant relative Of !
mine, one OF the English brauch-the Hugueuot
9tock-who, determining to solve tho mysteries
If the Portland vase smashed it all to pieces.
[ta secrets had dazed him, and he wreaksd his
9engeance on it. It de7olvea on ne to redeem
lis errors, and to restore to the world,
through America, lost art. What man
,as done man can Dc aa;,1 again; There @ sso s.a
est his Paradise, shall ho mentally be. deprived
i evesy blessingf The Prasm'ts ;;t as hacs which
here some day, like Bird Of Paradise in it's
age. Fortune once had, aud hare given it
il to this subject. / have followed glass
through step by atep from the silica. potash,
oda, lime, and atunina; and all tho fa4es. from
be glass beads OF the Egyptian Menes. even to
be factory, where they made lamp shades, in
lew ersey. but yesterday. All aote, Ordinances,