Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-12-16
HERE AND THERE.

The little town OF Administer, Dew
onshire, England, became famous by
its cardets in 1865. They were woven
in one piece, but until 1889 this III
volved so much time that it caused
them to be few in number and enor-
mously expensive. In that year it oc.
CURED to Mr.. Terapleton, a Paisley
shawl manufacturer, that the process
adopted in weaving chenille shawls
might be applied to Administer car
pets, and this greatly reduced their
price, although they are not yet very
costly. The firm Of Templeton & Go
of Glasgow still do nearly all the
weaving by hand. They have design
ing establishments in London and
Glasgow, where nearly one hundred
persons are employed. They are now
making carpet for the library at the
White House and some for Mr.. Van
derblt. They some time since made
for the King Of Siam carpet 100 feet
by "a. Its center was three headed
white elephant. A carpet made for
the King of Denmark as present to
the Mkado represented a menagerie.
One "a by 81, woven for the Sultan,
was valued at $4,000.
In accordance with annual custom,
a sale Of very singular kind is now
in progress at a storehouse in the Rue
DIES Ecoles, Paris. The objects offered
for sale belong to two categories, in
the first being those, such as the
clothes OF some murdered man or the
instrument with which murder has
been committed, which have been put
in as evidence at trial, and which, if
not claimed at the expiration of six
months, are sold for the good of the
Paris almshouses. In the second cat
egory are the effects which have be-
longed to deceased prisoners and the
articles which have been found and
taken to the Prefecture of Police
without being claimed. The objects
included in the second category,
though they often comprise jewelry Of
considerable value, are purchased by
ordinary brokers, but, according to
Paris papers, the price Of articles
which have belonged to notorious
criminals generally rules very high,
owing to the competition Of the Eng
lish, always numerously represented
at this sale.
A remarkable collection of art tiles
from the establishment of J. & J. G.
Low, at Chelsea, near Boston, is now
on exhibition at Wanderlich's print
store, S6S Broadway. The Chelsea
tiles have for some time been employed
in decorative or architectural purposes,
and are deservedly esteemed for their
beauty Of color and design. Those
now on view are not merely decorative,
but may be described as exquisite
pictures in clay. They number be-
tween sixty and seventy, and embrace
ideal heads, single figures, cattle,
landscape, genre, and archite ctural
subjects, glazed in tones of color in
vented by Mr.. John G. Low, of which
the chief are rich mellow brown,
indigo blue, pale green's, and various
shades of olive. They were exhibited
in London last spring and highly
commended by such men as Ruskin
and Sir Frederic Leighton. A casual
inspection of them seems to justify the
remark of London critic, that they
"reveal new phase Of art, somewhere
between sculpture and painting" The
plastic form is there, the relief, high
or low, sharp or vague, as the condi-
tons of the subject require; but, in
addition to this, there is a sense of
color, monochromatic to be sure, but
SO agreeably diffused that wonderful
impression of air and light is conveyed,
and the distance in landscape almost
equals the effects of the painter on
canvas. They indicate departure in
the ceramic art of America, and are a
credit to both designer and manufact-
Juror.