The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04

steamed again, and afterwards pressed il
a wooden wedge by hand. To facilitate
the flow of wax, a percentage of TIE nc
abural (oil from Perilla of cimoides) i:
added. This wax is made into candles
the art was introduced from Loo ChoC
towards the end of the 10th century.
, Another tree yielding a kind of vegeta.
BILE tallow is the Cinnamomum Pedun-
culatum." There is also an insect pro-
ducing kind of wax exclusive of the
honey bee. They are identical with the
"Ligustrum Ibata. 1t is wonderful
the variety of designs made frC m this
vegetable wax. Candles are painted and
of variety of shapes, crude and artistic
This wax tree as well as the wax insect
could be introduced into the United
States with the most productive fruits.
There is nothing known to the varied
fields of agriculture or horticulture, and
their assaults in any part of the world,
but can be reproduced in America, and
the necessity for this introduction is ap-
parent, when we consider how different ele-
mefts exhaust themselves, and balance
of power can alone be preserved by pro-
NOTING supplat1tihg gifts whose strength
| will take the place of the efete produc-
tion of coil devoted to a speciality for
| generations. Let our people study Japan
and her resources and the consequence
will be resulting profit.
THE sECRETARY's OFFICE.
This is really the executive head of
| the centennial movement, as from its fiat
there seems 70 be no intelligent appeal
| The experience of the secretary and the
| competent experts he has gathered in the
formation of his clerical staff renders all
the rulings of the Hon. Jno. l.. Camp
bell acceptable to the commission. The
staff of the office have beef selected for
their intelligence and address, a necessity
in this case, as contact with the brains
and manners of the educated and pol
ished of the circle forming the upper
strata of international society de-
tI1andS corresponding ability. Chief
of tile Office, p. G. De Sauqiie. Chief
auditing clerk, Wilfred Patterson; E. S.
Fletcher, chief bureau of correspondence;
w. H. Landell, head of mailing depart
ment d. G.. Hauxhurst in charge of the
contract department. These gentlemen
are the prominent aid to the office. AS
correspondent of the Newspaper Union,
1 am indebted to them for many courte-
sizes, and the cotintry is under obligation
to these gentlemen for their efforts in |
accomplishing the to be desired great |
ends of the centennial exhibition of 1876. |
MISCELLANY.
Austria exhibits Some rare specimens of |
parqiietry. Some of the patterns are
beautiful. Austria exports largely of /
this speciality to northern Germany,
Russia and Greece. Vienna sends from
one baking establishment thirty varieties
r |
coal from a mine that has been on fire
since 100, and it still burns-how
wonderful it is, can be appreciated by
hose who have experienced the heat of
Philadelphia for the past two weeks.
Here we see the suns rays, that psne-
trated the earth thousands of years ago,
when sO1idifying into carbon his intense
heat, has awakened from his tOrpor, and
bursts out in fire and smoke from his
tenement to destroy or defructify. Ger
many makes a splendid exhibit of
ceramics. 1 have alluded to those of
Japan. The immense value of those of
Germany deserve special mention. The
ceramic productions are prepared in
small furnaces and gas muffie-furnaces.
The fine etttshine of glazing and enamel
co1ors is performed with steam power in
mill contrived for this PURPOSE. The
SCOT or lamp black is produced in
furnaces. There are employed two pro-
fess,onal chemists, painter on porcelain
to try cOlOrs on divers ceramic shards,
four male and eight female workers in
the artistic part of the factory making
the exhibit. The products for the. use of
are supplies of liquid and tofri-
fed manufactures of metallic ingredients,
gold, cobalt, uranium, iron, antimOny,
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reduxes. Liquid lustres are metallic
oxides dissolved in volatile oil, mostly
applied to glazed articles. Enamel colOrs
are metallic oxide alloyed with fluxes in
terrified powder, which compounded
with turpentine oil are painted upon
porcelain, or in water colors. When
baked in an oven the fire is white heat.
This valuable branch of industry was
only introduced into Germany in 1868,
and its progress Is an exhibition of what
can be done by a nation of workers and
thinkers. Our people should study this
of ceramics and apply it to our
interest and there is no
reason why it should not be that the
vase of Vienna, the ceramics of Berlin,
or the porcelain of China and Japan,
NAV not be excelled in the United States,
The rule in Germany is, that when
are sick, they receive one
half pay, medicine and medical advice
gratis. This is another European rule
that should be adopted in this country.
Austria shows egriots from SpalatO, from
which the far-tamed Maraschino is pro-
duced. Elegant specimens of lace from
Bohemia. The art school for lace making
in Austria, which country exhibits the
rare bohemian lace, was founded in the
year 1855, by her ]. r. highness, the
Sophia of Austria. J. B.