Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03
Indust, ial Secrets.

"A ColAluIy ago WIldC u man QlS-
covered in the arts he concealed.
Workme3 Wete, put upon oath
never to reveal the process used
by their employers. Doors were
kept closed, artisans going out
were searched, visitors were rigor-
orously excluded from admission,
and false operations blinded tho
workmen themselves. The mys-
teries of every craft were hedged
in by thick-set fences, empirical
pretensions md judicial aflirma.
ton. The royal manufactures Of
porcelain, tor example, wero car
ried on in Europe with spirit of
jealous exclusiveness. His maies-
ty of Saxony was especially cir
cumspect. Not content with the
oath of secrecy imposed upon his
work-people, he would not abatc
his kingly suspicion in favor Of a
brother monarch. Neither king
nor kings delegate might enter the
tabooed walls Of Nielsen.
What is enormously called the
Dresden porcelain-that exquisite
pottery Of which the world has
never seen its like-was produced
for 200 years by a process SO secret
that neither the bribery of princes
nor the garrulity of the operatives
revealed it. Other discoveries
have been less successfully guard
ed fortunately for the world. The
manufacture of tinware in England
originated in stolen secret.
Few readers need be inform
ed that tinwaro is simply thin iron
plated with tin by being dipped
into tho moltenNmetal. In theory
it Is, an easy matters to clean the
surface Of iron, dip it into a bath
OF boiling tin, remove it enveloped
with silvery metal to place tor
cooling. In practice, however, the
process is one Of the most difficult
in the arts. 1t was discovered in
Holland, and guarded from pub
licity with the utmost vigilance for
more than half a. century. Eng
land tried in vain to discover the
secret until James Sherman, O
Cornish miner, insinuated himself
master of the secret, and brought
it home. The secret ofmanufac Ct
uring cast steel was also stealthiIy
obtained, and is now within the
reach of all artisans.--Trade List.
Among the many gods of the
Chinese is the kitchen,god. They
put up a new ono every New
Years day, when they burn the
old one. They think that this god
takes care Of everything in The
kitchen; and if the fire don't burn,
or the bread is baking too fast, or
there is any trouble, they scold and
beat the god. When he is burned,
they think he goes to heaven, and
tells all that has happened in their
kitchen for q year: so sometimes
they dahb molasses on his mouth
before they burn him, and they
think then he can't tell. What
ideas these people have Of God
and Of Providence!
.
The potato bug, which for the
last decade has hung along tho
edges OF civilization like tho de-
stroying Goths and Vandals of
antiquity, by developing an en-
tirely new use Of himself has
reaffirmed the law that evil is
always ovcrruled for good. 1t has
been diseoyered that this brilliant
but tgroady distrusted bug contains
a dye superior to cochineal or
Persian red, or any of the other
materials now in the market. IF
this be true it is not unlikely, as has
has beet elsewhere suggested, that
potatoes will be hereafter Guilt
waited for tho, sake Of the potato
bpg, J Il.
Gen. Garfield has a niece who 10 study
ing medicine 10 Boston.