Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
ART AND SCIENCE.


A colossal statue representing "Italy"
illuminating the world, after the man
ner of Bartholdy's Liberty" intended
for Bedloe's island, is to be erected on
the Janiculum hill, at Rome.
In number of Conservatives in the
Azore islands, it has been noticed that
the development of rosebuds and other
flowers appear to be fastened by allow
ing smoke to have access to them.
The astronomer royal of England an
nounces the discovery by Lohse recently
of comet in % hours 46 minutes right
ascension, AZ degrees, "a minutes north
declination, with q daily motion of 7
minutes in right ascension and 68 min
utes north.
Nordenskjold has ordered a vessel to
be built at Tic mouth of the Lena,
whence he will set out in 1882 on another
voyage of discovery in the Arctic seas,
BY going overland through Siberia to
the mouth of the Lena he hopes to
"steal q march" on the brief open
season.
The simultaneous injection OF sui
phuric ether in three-drop doses, at
intervals of II hours, is recommended
by DR.. Comegys for the successful treat
ment Of sciatica; and he also thinks
that the substitution Of ether for ergo
tine in dealing with tic-douloureux
would give good results.
Count Wilczek, in Austria, is perfect
ing arrangements for the establishment
of q chain Of scientific observing sta
tons on the borders of the unknown
Polar lands and seas, and the first of
these will be founded by Lieut.. Wey-
precht, the well-known explorer, some
where on the coast of Nova Zembla.
A house in Paris produces q "pearl
thread" or "beaded thread, which has
the appearance of thread on which
beads are attached at regular intervals
The process consists in impregnating
the thread at proper intervals with
| drops Of pasty substance, like wax,
resin, lac, gum, etc., which, on cooling,
becomes CLASSY OF crystalline.
The Vienna academy of science pro-
poses as the subject for the prize OF 1000
forms the microscopic investigation of
the wood Of living and fossil plants, in
order to ascertain whether it is possible
to determine with certainty, from the
microscopic sections, what the genus
and species of plants may be from which
they were taken.
In electro.gilding the parts not to be
gilt may be protected with mixture
made by melting good yellow resin
not French-hve parts, beeswax three
parts, red sealing-wax two parts. Melt
the resin and sealing-wax together, and
then add the beeswax. When the mass
is fluid, stir in about one and half
part jewellers rouge, chrome yellow, OF
washed crocus. The mixture should be
stirred until quite set.
The fatigue experienced by the eyes
from artificial light is--M. laval says
due more to the want of light than the
excess, Even in a room brightly il
Illuminated the pupils are much more
dilated than by daylight, and this dila-
ton produces fatigue. The electric
light contains a large proportion Of
chemical rays, the injurious effect OF
which on the eyes may be neutralized
by giving yellow tint to the globes.
M. Bonnaud, the successor of the
Photographic firm of Numa Blanc, in
Paris, has invented mode of reproduc-
ing photographs in colors on baked
china at hundredth part of the cost OF
the old faiences. By it common dinner
plate can be converted into yeritable
work of art, which under the old sys,
tenn would cost at least $50, and can be
produced at q twentieth of that sum,
and even then at an enormous profit.
The coloring and tints are finer and
purer and more clearly defined than
anything on hand painted china, and q
revolution in the prices of such bric-a,
brac is at hand
The sun is not burning out. Aftel
the elapse of thousands of years we
have the most incontrovertible evidence
that the light of to-day is no less bril-.
liant now than it was when man walked
amid the groves of Eden. We may
venture further back into the arcana
of time and say that the sun of the
past summer has shown with splendol
equal to the radiant power which
myriads Of ages ere yet man appeared
on this planet, stimulated the growth o.
those luxuriant forests which persisted
to form those vast beds from which We
derive our coal.
That the hardest steel is not the most
durable for railroads appears from AT
examination Of the wear Of some of the
steel rails of the Great Northern line
Eng. Seven of the rails which lay side
by side on this road were taken up and
tested, and it was found in one instance
that q hard rail had been worn away
one-sixteenth of an inch by traffic
amounting to 5,251,00 tons, while 6
soft rail for the same amount of veal
had withstood Z, 402, 900 tons; in another
instance, the total was 1851 900 tons
for the hard rail and 81, 061, 900 tons fol
the soft rail, the wear being the same
one-si1teenth of an inch. Analysis
showed this rail to consist of 3d. pen
cent. of iron, and minute quantities o.
carbon, phosphorus silicon, manganese
sulphur and copper.
Of late, some of the most beautiful
mosaics, both in design and material
have been produced by Russian artists
in the imperial glass mandatory Of
Russia, the artistic elegance of which
it is asserted, has never been surpassed
The pieces Of glass, technically called
"smalts," and comprising every posi-
BILE shade of color-are wrought into
minute pictures of wonderful perfection
rivaling, in fact, those of Italy. The
varieties Of mosaic work peculiar to the
latter country are known distinctively as
the Florentine and the Roman, the lat
ter being entirely formed of pieces O.