The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
Colored Yarnishes for Tin.


The Gewerbeblatt gives the follow
| ing: Thirty grammes of acetate of
copper are ground to fine powder in
a mortar, then spread out in thin
layer on porcelain plate and left for
few days in moderately warm
place. By this time the water of
| disqualification and most of the acetic
| acid will have escaped. The light
| brown powder that is left is tritu-
rated with some oil of turpentine in
a mortar and then stirred into 100
grammeS of fine fatty coal varnish
warmed to sixty degrees R. Q6.7 de-
grees Fah.) If the acetate of copper
was exceedingly fine the greater part
of it will dissolve by a quarter hours
stirring. The varnish is then put in
glass bDttle and placed for a few
days in warm place, shaking fire.
quently. The small quantity OF
acetate of copper that settles can be
used in making the next lot
This varnish is dark green, but
when applied to tin it requires four
or five coats to get a fine green lustre;
but two coats are sufficient, if it is
heated in a drying closet on a uni
fornly heated plate, to produce a
great variety of shades of gold. A
greenish gold, yellow or dark yellow
gold, then an orange, and finally a
reddish-brown shade is obtained,
according to the time and temporal
ture. The colors are superior in bril-
liancy to those obtained with the En-
glish gold varnish, and have the adj
vantage of pernanency in the light
If a good copal varnish is used in
making this polychromatic varnish,
or lac. the tin can be hammered or
pressed.
The production of golden colors de-
ponds on the reduction of cupric
oxide to cuprous oxide (protoxide to
suboXide), which, in small quantity,
dissolves in the copal varnish with a
golden color. The more the heat the
greater the reduction, and hence the
darker the color. Success depends on
applying it evenly and warming uni
forlnly.
An Arrangement of American Vet
Urinary Surgeons.-A person who
called himself veterinary surgeon
read a paper recently before the New
York Farmers Club, in the Cooper
Institute, on the diseases of cattle
and their treatment by veterinary
doctors. whose methods he con-
demned. There were, he said, on the
farms of the United States in June,
1882, 10,357.981 horses, valued
at $1,O35, 798, 100; 1,S12,932 mules,
valued at $181 1893, 200; $685.
$40 oxen, valued at $49,69S, 500;
12,443,593 mich cows, valued at $321,-
069. 725; % 4SS,590 other cattle, valued
at 1862, PA $50; 80, 191, 1856 sheep, val
ued at $527 ,S67 $40, and 47,683,9
swine, worth $476,839.510, making a
grand total of the value of dumb an
imals, on farms in the country, SO, 1884,
821, 125. This estimate, however, the
lecturer considered by far too low,
and he felt certain that the value of
dumb animals in the United States
was about $7,OO0,O00,O00, Judging from
the fact that some animals are held
at $4,000, as in the Case of Damascus,
just sent by John w. Garrett, of Bal
timore. to the king of Italy. 1t is a
disgrace to the nation, the orator con-
tinued, that there is not one legally
chartered, organized and established
veterinary college in the country.
Veterinary science here lies deep
down in the ditch of ignorance, and
the billions of dollars invested in an
NAL property, as well as the animals
themselves, are left to the
mercieS and wantonneSS of
chance. The country is flooded
with bogus diploma mills, several of
which are in this city and other parts
of this state. The speaker went on
in the above strain, but failed to men
ton where the New York diploma
mills are. 1t is understood that par
ties in this city do practically sell
veterinary diplomas, and it is to be
regretted that some definite facts
were not given.
Muscle VS.. Brain. This popular
heading aptly illustrates the miscon-
ception that prevails in result of ig-
norance of the laws of physiological
development. 1t is radical error to
suppose that one part of the organism
can be or ever is developed '.at the
expense" of some other. One part
may be neglected while attention is
exclusively directed to another part,
but the fault does not consist in the
oyercare of the one, but in the neg
lect of the other. 1t is important to
recognize this, because the phrase
'.muscle vs.. brain" would seem to i'm
ply that if we have muscle we can
not have brain. It is needless
to remind those who understand the
physiology of the higher animal life
that no such alternative is presented.
Each and every part of the body
grows as it feeds. The point which
is too commonly forgotten is that it
feeds as 1t works, and in that prup0:
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