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10 Dr~e and Paiss Magic L~ssera
Slfdes.

They are first prepared by having
them cut To the right size in width
and about ten inches in length (they
can be bought for a small sum at any
glass warehouse); clean them, then
lay your picture on a pad Of blotting
paper, and place your glass over it
the blotting paper will serve as bed,
and the glass will keep the picture in
its place ready for tracing the outline,
which is done with camels hair paint
brush, using ivory black, ground up
in the best drying oil, made thin with
little spirits Of turpentine. The best
outlines are funny men and women,
animals, birds, and grotesque figures,
sheets Of characters, clowns, harle-
quins, etc. When done in outline
with the black, they are filed in with
the transparent colors. mixed up as
the black only use carmine, gam
boge, Prussian blue (the more bril-
liant the colors, the better effect they
produce), the above being for red,
crimson, yellow and blue. 10 form
other transparent oolors, mix carmine
and Prussian blue for purple, and law
ender, gamboge and Prussian blue for
all the shades of green, using for light
green more gamboge. Carmine and
gomboge make n fine orange color,
and for brown shades mix little ivo-
ry black with carmine or lake, with a
little gamboge to temper il. Many
other tints are made by mixing the
primitive colors first named-red,
blue and yellow-by using less of one
color with the another; and if at any
time the colors are too thick, thin
with turpentine it works more east
ly when not too thick, and is more
transparent.
When all the colors are finished,
mix nice thin black, and fill in care
fully all the ground of the glass round
the edges of the figures with the black,
leaving no part of the glass slide plain.
These slides should be made very well /;
and to take better care of them, have
them put in small wooden frames,
with a tongue at one end to move
them in the lantern without the finger
touching the glass part. Many beau
tiful designs can be copied from a
kaleidoscope, which, whca copied and
painted on slides, are very beautiful,
and show the colors to advantage.
Drawing and painting slides is an
instructive amusement, and worthy
the attention of all persons connected
with youth, as it gives them original
ideas for combining colors, and thus
can be brought into use for many pret-
ty designs in a pleasing manner
Scientific American.
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Chrome os.

We have received from Charles Clu-
cas- Il Co., Chicago, an exquisite copy
Of Eastman Johnsons celebrated pic
ture, "The Old Kentucky Home y
which is, in many respects, the best of
all the works of art of that great
artist. The original is now the prop
erty of Mrs. A. T. Stewart. for which
her late husband paid $4,000, and it
is now on exhibition in the Art Gal
lery at Philadelphia.
No one familiar with Southern negro
home life, especially as it was before
the war, can fail to recognize the faith.
fulness Of the realistic scene rep
resented.
There are on the canvass no less
than thirteen human beings. While
each Of these is u study in itself, the
picture, as a whole, full Of life and
sentiments, tells story which no
words, however eloquent, can convey.
The chrome is an exact copy OF the
original, reproduced by 27 different
Impressions in oil colors, size 2x2t
feet, and is presented free to every
subscriber of The Illustrated Weekly.
Messrs. Clucas Il Co. are an enter.
prising firm, and besides publishing
one of the best illustrated and inter
esting weeklies in the English Ian
guage, the German edition of the same
is the only strictly family illustrated
German paper published in America.
Professional canvassers should look
after this Immediately, as it is un-
doubtedly the best opportunity for
business ever offered tc the unemployed
of America.
Address all inquiries to Chas. Gu
cas- Il Co., l12 Monroe St., Chicago.
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Ssrinii iaer's Ora H,p.

The loss of body heat in water is
now held 10 be intimately associated
with the cramp which SO often seizes
even able swimmers. Here there is
not only general powerlessness
induced, but the spasm OF the muscles
connected with respiration diminishes
the capacity of the thorax, and the
cnmp-stricken swimmer often disap-
pears Immediately without warning,
never to appear alive. The bouyancy
conferred by the chest being full of air
is largely reduced by this diminished
thoracic space, and the body at once
goes under No skill in the art Of
swimming will secure any one from
this risk and when the water is cool
II is well that the swimmers keep near
the shore. or at least near each other,
50 that aid can be readily rendered il
required. Record.
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The Western Union Telegraph
Company, In its annual report 10 its
stockholders, just issued, says, of the
experiment in adopting the tube sys-
tenn Of transmitting messages, that du-
ring the past year the central Office 10
New York has been connected with the
branch Offices at No. IA Broad street,
No. 134 Pearl street, and the Cotton
Exchange by pneumatic tubes. The
tubes are made Of brass, each 2t inches
internal diameter, and A Of an inch
thick, and are laid under the pave
ments IN the streets at depth Of three
feet.
Messages are sent from the central
Office to the several branch Offices by
compressed air, and from the branch
Offices 10 the central Office by atmos-
pheric pressure or vacuum. The mo-
tive power is furnished by a so horse
power duplex engine situated in the
basement of the central Office, which
operates two double air pumps commu.
nicating with the compressed and vacu.
um mains terminating in the opera.
ting room. These are connected to
the tubes extending under tie streets
by double sluice valves, which are SO
constructed that carriers containing
messages may be sent through the
tubes in either direction by turning a
cock connected with the compressed
or exhaust air mains.
With the usual pressure employed
8 lbs. to the square inch-the time oc.
cupied in transmitting a box or car.
rier containing messages between the
central Office, corner of Broadway and
Dey street, to the office at No. IA
Broad street, 200 yards) is about 40
seconds; and between th5 central Of.
fee and the Offices at No. 1874 Pearl
street and the Cotton Exchange 600
and 1,l0O yards) about one minute
and FIVE seconds and one minute and
twenty seconds respectively.
The operation of the pneumatic
tubes is very satisfactory, resulting in
a material saving Of both time and
money.
The total cost of the system is less
than $50. 900, and about one half of
the outlay will be save annually, to
say nothing Of the saving in time, by
the decreased cost of performing the
servic, by pneumatic tubes between
these stations as compared with the
former cost ofwire.
There are several other Offices in the
city where the traffic is large enough
to warrant their injection by pneu-
matte tubes with the central Office,
and it is probable that the system will
be extended to some of them after its
value has been more fully ascertained.
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We mentioned last spring the incep-
tion Of a melon sugar enterprise on the
Sacramento river. 1t seens from n
correspondent Of the Sonoma Demo-
erat, that the work goes bravely on.
The location is at Isleton, six or eight
miles above Rio Vista. The company
have incorporated under the name of
the California Sugar Manufacturing
Company, with a capital stock of
s2,000,OOO. They have sold $4,000
shares. and are putting up bull ling
120 by 48 feet. besides the engine and
boiler rooms, which are about 40 by 40
feet. The first story is of brick. The
machinery was purchased in Germany
for $4,000. The foundation of the
building is already laid, and the work
will be pushed to aspeedy completion.
1t is the design of the company to
make some three grades of sugar out Of
the pulp Of the melon, alcohol out of
the refuse syrup and parts of the rind,
and table oil out of the seeds. The
melons will yield about ten per cent.
OF sugar and the seeds rs per cent. of
oil. Isleton, as the name would iDdi-
cate, is built upon an island. 1t is
known as Andres island. 1t is COM
posed Of land rescued from the tules,
is rich, as such lands usually are. and
is well adapted to the culture of mel
ons. Beets grow to great perfection
here, and it is the design of the CON-
pany to add about $4,000 worth of
machinery which will enable them to
manufacture beet sugar. Mr.. Josiah
Poole, to whom we are indebted for the
information here given, and who is
deeply interested in the enterprise,
showed us field of eight acres from
which a crop Of hay had been harves-
ted, that now Was growing beets that
would yield from thirty TO forty tons
to the acre Pacific Rural Press.
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Rissf Of Passenger 20 q Seat.

In the case Of Barnet lie Van against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
in Court Of Common Pleas No. 4, at
Philadelphia last week, the facts are
given as follows: The plaintiff in No
vember, 1868, purchased at Harris
burg ticket from the defendants for
passage to Philadelphia. the train on
which he was to take passage being
known as the Cincinnati express.
When the train reached the station ut
Harrisburg it consisted of but two pas
senger cars, an ordinary car and smo.
king car. The plaintiff asserts that
he was constitutionally unable to ride
in the smoking car, and the other car
was full, The plaintiff was afflicted
with a disease which made standing
for any length of time positively injuri-
Gus to him, and, as some other cars
were added to the train at this place,
he asked permission Of the brakeman,
and was directed by him to enter one
Of them, a sleeping car, where he
found a seat. When the conductor
took up his ticket he demanded s1.50
extra for the privilege of riding in the
car, which plaintiff refused to pay, al
leging that his ticket entitled him to a
seat, and that there were no seats else
where on the train. The conductor
afterwards put plaintiff off the train
aboot eight miles from Lancaster.
He walked in to Lancaster, and in the
long walk his disease, as he alleges,
was aggravated TO such an extent that
he has never entirely recovered from
the effects Of it. lie Vans suit for
damages has been pending eight years.
On the trial the company's version of
the affair was that the conductor al.
lowed the plaintiff to remain in the
sleeping car until there were seats va
cant in other parts Of the train; that
shortly after the train left Middletown
the conductor requested him to take
one of these seats and he refused,
whereupon the train was stopped and
he was elected. There was no force,
the defendants claimed, used on the
plaintiff except the mere laying on of
hands, so that he should not seem to
assent to his being put of the train.
1t wa the duty of the plaintiff, His
Honor said, to accept the sent offered
in the ordinary car, if such had been
actually offered him, and the conflict
ing versions of the affair must be re-
conciled by the jury. The jury, after
deliberation Of over two hour, re-
turned verdict of IS, 500 damages.
(Chicago Railway Review.
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Experience with Bwddfmg.

An experience of many years with
this operation has taught me many
little hints not usually laid down in
the books. sincerely believe that
there is as much skill required in tying
the bud properly, as there is in cutting
and inserting il. When a "budder"
and "tyer" are each employed on a
large job, it would be advisable to
keep strict eye on the latter, as it is
a too prevalent belief that any one can
perform it-and here is where many
an operator fails. No matter how
carefully the budding is done, the
string must be wound tightly around
every portion of the wound, pressing
il close to the stem below, as well as
the eye above. A smart rub with the
thumb, when the job has been compile
ted, should never displace Il strand Of
the tying material. Formerly, was
a firm believer in the doctrine that a
damp time was almost certain to make
the buds take !" l now believe the
reverse. During dry spell of weather
the sap appears more sluggish, and the
buds adhere quickly and surely.
When the stocks are growing vigor-
ously, l mostly shear off their tops to
retard this luxuriant growth, and the
result is sure "take" of buds. A prac-
teal budder usually cuts as little wood
with his bud as possible, and in the
peach and plum none whatever
[Croppie, in Rural World.
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Leap l'e0r.

Remember, o, maiden fair! ! a few
weeks more and leap year is gone!- =
for you, perchance, forever gone How
inexpressibly sad--how inconceivably
heart-touching--the thought. But
within these few weeks, brief though
the period be, much may be accom-
plished. Pick out judiciously, and
with an especial eye to his total absti-
nence from thos, patent air-brakes to
the aspiring youth. beer and tobacco,
the lordly, leal and liquor-contemning
young cuss upon whom you would
lavish your gushing affections. Where
is the girl, whether futtering in the
brocade Of princess or wearing the
calico polonaise of the laborer's daugh-
ter, who would be told that one month
is not time enough for the wooing and
winning as good a husband as may be
wooed aud won by any other girl with
no better faculties for the business {?
1t is Shakespeare who knows-that,
that man who hath tongue, say,
is no man, if with that tongue he can
not win a woman" This is scarcely
less true, perhaps, than gospel. If it
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Eu<adiHl Bread.

Kneading bread, ss commonly prac-
ticed, is decidedly Objectionable at any
time; but in warm weather, when the
perpiration is in constant flow, it is
the undoubted means of introducing
into the most universal article Of diet
loathsome impurities, and, too, fire..
quently, the seeds of positive disease,
from the body of the person making
the bread. How many persons eat
bread without so much as knowing
who makes it, or whether the maker
is infected with disease or noti 1t is
not a pleasant consideration, but an
important one. In the hard exercise
Of kneading bread and pastry. perspi-
ration, with all those impurities which
it is designed to carry of, is constant
ly exuding from the skin and is mixed
with the bread. 1t is no security that
the hand is externally clean. The
cleaner the skin the freer the perspi-
ration. What i'll effects result and
what diseases are communicated in this
way can be learned only by expert
ment and close observation. But that
impurities of the blood are worked of
through the skin is fact so well re-
cognized that specific diseases are treat
ed by this means, and it is even pro-
posed to eliminate from the system
the virus of hydraphobia by a process
Of sweating. The pores Of the hands
are more open than those of many
other parts of the body. The constant
perspiration of the hand in warm
weather, even when unexercised, will
remind every one of this fact. When
the hand is exercised it perspires free
ly, and physicians, especially, general
ly understand the danger of introdu-
cling putrid exhalations into the sys-
TEN in ever SO small a quantity. May
we not hope the time is not far distant
when other and more cleanly as well
as safer means Of bread making, will
be universally adopted. 1.-THE SANTA
rian.
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The saSscss.s M ephass.

INC SO0ocso0s EsrRhOnts
Every school-boy remembers the
story of the elephant who put his
trunk into a tailor's shop in search Of
something good to eat. and received
only the prick from the tailor's needle,
and how he soon returned with trunk
full of muddy water and dsluged the
little tailor's shop for revenge. No
doubt that lesson was never read by
one OF the supes of the Grand Opera
House, or he would not be suffering
sore bruises on various parts Of his
body. 1t happened a few nights ago
he gave to the elephat that belongs to
the stock company of Kiralfy Broth
ers show, chew of tobacco. The ele-
phant gave no signs OF indignation al
the time, but quarter of an hour af-
terward, when the offending "supe'
next came within reach OF the insulted
animal, the handy trunk reached for
the bad young man, selected him un.
erringly from a group Of half a dozen,
caught him and tossed him up into
the air, allowed him TO fall heavily on
the floor. There en- be no doubt nov
shout the authenticity Of the story oI
the tailor and his needle and the mud
dy water.-[Cincinnati Gazette.
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The Scientific American says: On
the platform Of the Corliss engine, at
the Centennial, is perhaps, the smallest
piece Of steam machinery ever con.
structed. II is an engine made Of good
steel and platinum, so minute that ii
has for its foundation twenty-five cent
gold piece, while many of its parts are
50 tiny that they cannot he seen with.
out a magniging glass. II has rcgu.
lar steam gauge and though complete
in every particular, the entire appara.
tus weighs only seven grains, the en-.
gine alone weighing but three grains.
The hywheel is three-fourths Of an
inch in diameter, the stroke is one
twenty-fourth of an inch, and the cut.
of one sixty-fourth Of au inch. The
machinery. which can be taken apart.
was packet 10 films Of silk. The con-
structor Is Mr.. Levi Taylor, Of
Indian9.a, Iowa.
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California. is for women, the modern
Utopia, u Judge of Sar Francisco
having decided that, under the laws
of that State, a wife has full and ex-
elusive control over her OWE property,
and is competent to execute mortgages
or transfer of real or personal property
held in her own right. In the words
of the decision, the laws of the State
are "intended to make the wife entirely
free from the husbands care and guar.
dianship, anG more free and independ-
ent in all things than the husband
himself"
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Doa'f Take 90 - Heart.

Desf Take 90 ~ Heart.
There's many a trouble,
would break like a bubble,
Aud into the waters oi Lethe depart,
Did We not rchearse II,
Aud tenderly nur-e Il,
Aud give II permanent place In the heart.
There's many q sorrow
Would vanish to-monov,
Were se but willing to furnish the vins'i
So sadly iDtruding
And quietly hrooding,
II hstehes out all serts of terrible things.
How welcome the seeming
Of looks that are bean,ins,
Whether ones wealthy or whether ones poor.
Eyes bright as a berry,
Cheeks red as a cherry,
The groan and the curse and the heartache cure
Resolved to BE- merry,
All worry 10 ierry
Across the famed waters that bid US forget,
Aud no longer fearful.
Rnt happy and ehesrfal,
We fel life has much that's worth living for yet
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REMOVING SUBSTANCES From THE
EAR.-Take a horse-hair, about six
inches long, and double il so as TO make
a loop at one end. Introduce this loop
as deeply as possible into the auditory
canal, and twist il gently around.
After one or two turns, according to
the originator of the plan, the foreign
body is drawn out with the loop. The
method is ingenious, and at all events
causes little pain. and can do no harm.
i Medical Record.
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Eastern Kentucky rejoices in the
possession Of places with the following
mellihuous names Seed Lick, Rabit-
hash, Pinchemslily, Raekabackdavy,
Dogs Tail creek, Tickle Breeehes's
run, Lick Ridge. Cid Brother, Steep
Gut, &c.
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The Amazon river drains $500, 900
square miles of land and is navigable
for 2,200 miles from its mouth.
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II, during a frost, the moles throw
up fresh earth, within As hours the
frost viii be gone.
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,ared IN ,.le more det;o;,e oh.erva
t;ons and bear;ny, The peak bs, IN,
honor Of be;ng called the "Dome Of
the North American Continent, !" and
we think the term Is well bestowed,
II /. included in the "divide. /" its west,
erp stones sending their water. in the
Pacific. its eastern into the Atlantic
Ocean. The Colorado peaks are pear
" in the center of the Rocky Noun
tain range of North America, and
Grays Peak is central among the Col
orado eroup. II Is surrounded by q
eoodly COMPANY; fourteen mountain.
upward of fourteen thousand feet in
height, aud fifteen over thirteen thou.
sand feet. can he easily counted by the
tourist who reaches its summit II.
own altitude is IA, ,45O feet. The ex.
tent Of mountain ranges which il com.
mands we are sure will make every
one who visits Colombo desperate q
reach the summit.
Looking southward. the eve will
first take in the snowy mountain range
surrounding Middle Park. over which
Gray's Peak stands as the soutbeas,
sentinel. Tn these same mighty laby
rinths and forti6catious of granite also
stand Longs Peak. I4Z52 feet in
height. and fitv miles distant from
Gray's also James Peak. twenty miles
and $4,000 feet in height /;
likewise Mount Lincoln. I4,l23 feet in
altitude and fifty miles distant. and a
little to the west one of the most re.
mountains in the world
the Mount of the Holy Gross. 1t is
in the Sawatchi range, is 14,176 feet in
height, and is distant from the point
we now occupy but sixty miles. 1t is
well to bear in mind. while thinking
Of these distances, that they seem in
this rarified and transparent atmos.
phere less than half as far as they
would upon the seaboard in the clear
est weather. This Mountain of the
Holy Gross, therefore, seems at no
great distance, and one is easily de-
ceived into the thought that he could
walk the distance in a few hours.
The HAYDEN party, however, were
several days in merely finding their
way to its base, its dscent, subsequent
ly, being made with the greatest diff
Guilty. This is the only mountain in
the world bearing this consecrated
name. Upon a nearly vertical face of
dark gray rock /. well nigh perfect
cross of pure, white snow. 1t is of
.ucb remarkable size. and so perfect
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snow fll. an unr;cb, 6slAre 20 foe, in
hr..a,h .nd soo Go, n ,.,o,h tho
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I'll o,h.. -. s,,oa w;,h s;,on, al
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Passing the southern boundary of
Middle Park, the eve will trace the
outlines cf South Park, which is
thought by some, by its delightful eli
mate and magnificent scenery, to ex-
,eed, in attractiveness, all others. 1t
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