Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08

/ b ,ard or stout paper. and cut il into
sheets of convenient size--say eight
inches long and five wide. Then a box
will be need 10 keep them in, SO that
they will not get lost or soiled. Give
one sheet TO each tree, and uponIt paste
a piece of the bark, a leaf and blossom.
The bark should not be taken from the
tree where il is too coarse aud clumsy.
but where il il nearly smooth ana
perfect. and gives the best idea Of the
tree; nor should too thin piece be taken,
as when It gets dry it may wrinkle up
and crumble 10 pieces. Ii may be wei
to take off with the bark thin layer OF
the wood to stiffen il and keep IL smooth.
A piece Of bark about three inches
long and two wide would be OF good
size.
The blossoms will have 10 be pressed
and dried before they are attached 10
the sheet. Take care to lay them SO
as to show the face and the inside parts
as plainly rs possible. Ii may be wen
in some cases to- press two or more bios
SONS, laying them i'm different positions,
so that every part can be seen.
The leaves will be easy, rs they are
mostly flat. II they are small, several
may be taken, or little twig. III the
under side of the leaf is very different
from the upper, or is remarkable for It's
hairs, or for any reason, one leaf should
he placed with the under side upward.
Care should be taken TO do the FASTING
neatly, so that the sheet will look
pretty, and the parts can be readily ex-
amined by the eye alone, or with
magnifying-glass or microscope, which
reveals many interesting facts that can
not be discovered by the eye unassisted.
In this way the trees can be studied
at any time, even in winter. when the
world outside is bare and dreary, and
the evenings are long. and afford line
opportunity for such amusement. And
what is more important still, the sheets
prepared us we have shown can be sent
through the mail to distant parts OF the
land, where the trees displayed on
them do not grow. and are wholly I'M
known.
Thus our young readers, scattered
over the United States and Canada and
elsewhere, can supply each other with
specimens, so that each may make up
collection from the trees growing over q
very wide area.
Most trees are very long lived, and
some are still living that are known To
be hundreds Of years old. Certain
kinds of wood, too, seem almost inca
pable of decay if protected from the
weather.
Probably the Oldest timber in the
world which has been used by man is
that found in the ancient temples Of
Egypt, in connection with the stone
work, which is known TO be ut least
four thousand years old. This, the only
wood used i'm the construction Of the
temple, is in the form of ties, holding
the end of one stone TO another.
When two blocks were laid in place,
an excavation about an inch deep was
made in each block. into which tie
shaped like an hour glass was driven.
The ties appear to have been of the
tamarisk or shittim wood. Of which
the ark was constructed--a sacred tree
in ancient Egypt, and now very rarely
found in the valley OF the Nile. The
dovetailed ties are just rs sound now rs
on the day of their insertion. Al
though fuel is extremely scarce in the
country, these bits of wood are not
large enough to make it an object with
the Arabs to heave of layer after layer
to obtain them. Had they been of
bronze. half the old temples would
have been destroyed years ago.-Hdr-
Der's Yoh,l1 PeoDip