Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-04
have been worthier of his place had he been
lineal descendant of Alfred.
HOW GOLD LACE Is MANUFACTURED.

q ll0eal QeScenQanC OF Alfred.
HOW GOLD LACE Is MANUFACTURED.
The Coventry Standard says: Gold lace is
not gold lace. 1t does not deserve this title,
for the gold is applied as surface to silver.
1t is not even silver lace, for the silver is ap.
piled to foundation of silk. The silken
threads for making this material are wound
round with gold wire so thickly as to conceal
the silk; and the making of this gold wire is
one of the most singular mechanical opera
tions imaginable. In the first place, the re-
finer prepares solid rod of silver about an
inch in thickness; he heats this rod, applies
upon the surface sheet of gold leaf, burnish-
es this down, applies another coating, bur.
nishes this down, and so on, until the gold is
about the one hundredth part of The thickness
of the silver. Then the rod is subjected to a
train of processes which brings it down to a
state of fine wire; it is passed through holes
in steel plate, lessening, step by step, in di-
ameter. The gold never deserts the silver,
but adheres closely to it, and shares all its
mutations it is one hundredth parsthe thick
ness of the silver at the beginning, and it
maintains the same ratio to the end. As to
! the thinness to which the gold.coated rool of
silver can be brought, the limit depends on
the delicacy of the human skill but the most
remarkable example ever known was brough'
forward by DR.. Wollsstcn.
This was an example of solid gold wire
without any silver He procured small rod
of silver, bored hole through it from end to
end, and inserted in this hole the smallest
gold wire be could procure; he subjected the
silver to the same. wire. drawing process, until
he had brought it to the finest attainable
state-being, iu fact, silver wire as fine as a
hair, with gold wire in its centre. To iso.
late this gold wire, he subjected it to warm
nitrous acid, by which the silver was dissolved
leaving gold wire one thirty thousandth of
an inch in thickness-perhaps the thinnest
round wire that the hand of man has yet pro-
duced But the wire, though beyond all COM
parison, finer than any employed in manufac-
tories, does not approach in thinness the film
of gold on the surface Of silver; aud gold lace.
1t has been calculated that the gold on the
very finest silver wire for gold lace is not more
than one third of one millionth of an inch in
thickness, that is, not above one-tenth the
thickness of ordinary gold leaf. +.
| JUVENILE WIZ AND hCMOh.
George Mcdonald, in one of his popular
works, SAYS 1T is marvellous how children
can reach the heart of truth at once" r
A little boy was one day asked by clergy
man if he knew what an implicit, child-like
faith was. He thought he did. Being asked
to describe it, nfter thinking a moment, he
said: "When my mother says thing is 80,
| r L.l;.,,. - :, ,n ;n't
A boy in Cambridge was told by his moth.
er that he must not play marbles in the front
yard on Sunday, but 90 in the back yard.
Isn't it Sunday in the back yard, mother p
asked the little inquisitor. -. a ..E.#
BENJAMIN Franklin, when child, found
the long blessing repeated by his father over
every meal exceedingly tedious. So one day,
when they we're engaged in sailing down
pork, he suggested to his father that it would
he saving of time to ask blessing on the
whole hog at once. The reply cf the father
is not recorded, but it is supposed to have been
Of striking character and to have bsen
deeply felt and long remembered by the irrev-
erent young philosopher, who thus early,
and under difficulties, was beginning his stud
les in economic science.
1t is told of little fellow in New Hamp-
shire that, after the funeral of hia father, be-
ing asked why his eyes were dry when all the
rest of the family we're weeping, replied, "Oh
didn't see any use in whining and snivelng
about it, as any of you."
Utilitarian ideas have never been followed
out more remorselesssly, perhaps, than in the
case of the little boy, who had been set to eol-
lect all the bones lying around, TO burn as a
dressing for the asparagus bed. One day
neighbours barn took fire and his father has
tened to help extinguish the flames. Willy
stood with his mother looking over toward it,
when he asked: "Mother, what should We
do if father should fall into that fire and be
burned up?" "Oh!" she replied "he will be
careful and not get burned" II know, moth
er, but suppose his foot should slip and he
should fall in and be burned, what should
we do ?" II don't know what We should do,
Willy" swell, there's one thing we could
do, mother; we could have his bones for che
asparagus bed"
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYED Whenever
either employer or employed forgets that there
is community of interest between the two,
both are sufferers This is true of all kinds of
business in which the two classes come in con-
tact. The employer who has no other inter-