Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-07

ing the ceiling of the dining hall of the Wes London district schools when he noticed man concealed between the ceiling and the l roof. On ascending to the loft the manager discovered several parcels of bread, butter and dripping and dark lantern, together
 with some very old and filthy clothes, upor
 which the prisoner had been in the habit o1
 sleeping. The loft was not visited more thar
 twice year. The prisoner stated that he
 had lived in the loft for about five years. h
 the daytime he remained concealed, but at
 night he visited the lower parts of the build
 ing, picking up all the odds and ends of food
 that he could find. He stated that for twelve
 years he slept in the loft at Southall schools,
 and afterward he repaired for Ashford. The
 prisoner was sentenced to three months hard
 labor.
 In paper on the action of light upon pig
 ments employed in painting an Edinburgh
 artist states that his experiments have led
 him to the conclusion that Prussian blue in
 oil is the most stable of colors. He asserts, however, that it would never do to employ the feeting aniline pigments upon the same canvas with the stable Prussian blue-paint- ing one portion of picture with the former and another with the latter. In fact, the aniline colors are found to be, for the most part, quite unsuited for painting purposes, and some of them, as is we'll known, are so changeable in the sunlight as to be used in the production of photographic images. They are also extensively employed for coloring photographs, their thin transparent charac- ter rendering them particularly suitable for the purpose, it being possible to see the shadows and outlines of the image bereath the layer of colors Nevertheless, photo graphs tinted in this way soon lose their bloom, and the colors are often seen fading while the pictures are yet exposed for sale in the shop windows
 MT. Max Muthel has patented in Germany an ineandescent lamp which possesses the advantage of requiring no vacuum in the globe. He has, it is reported, very ingenious ly overcome one danger that experiments of this kind have hitherto presented, and that is the fusion of the incandescent wire. The wire used by him consists of mixture of bodies that are conductors and non-conduct- ors of electricity. He takes magnesia, sili- cate of magnesia, etc., and porcelain clay, and forms fine thread of them, which he heats to incandescence and saturates with solution of platino iridium salts, and after ward raises several times to incandescence in order to reduce the absorbed salts to a metal lie state. Instead of the foregoing mixture, flaments of clay may be taken and saturated with solution of metallic salt, which is then reduced to a metallic state through in and the use of oil of lavender or some other organic substance, or through an electric current. With wires thus prepared fusion is absolutely overcome, the presence of the non-conduoting substances preventing the metallic parts from melting. Mr. Muthel supposes that the electric spark jumps, so to speak, from one particle to another, and in this way causes heating of the other sub stances, which, brought to incandescence, emit a more intense light.