Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-22

1 wheel of fire that, after the floating star has
 l burned out, whizzes about for little while ] in most astonishing manner and finally l disappears in burst of tinted meteors. Of I course these things are cheap, merely costing I from sixty to seventy-five dollars dozen. ''The colored prismatic fountains are | among the most charming novelties brought
 | out this season. They the perfected | floral fountains hitherto known, and nothing 1 more beautiful has ever been seen in pyro- techny than their leaping showers of golden 1 fire intermingled with colored fire drops. ] And they only cost thirty dollars a dozen. ! The great golden shower fountains, also new, l are still more overwhelming in their magnif l icence, as they should be at the price of if teen dollars each. We have even got up improvement in flying pigeons for this l son, making them go four flights to and fro l instead of two, distance of two hundred and fifty to three hundred feet, and you can l get the largest kind of them for four dollars each.
 'tIn speaking of the new rockets I should have mentioned the 'colored geysers.' They are laid down on the ground for firing, and when lighted go straight up into the air with | spiral screw motion, making column of
 fire as they ascend from fifty to one hundred | feet high.
 ''Not only have we got up all these and more novelties ourselves, but the Japanese, l who are still our masters in some branches
 |
 | some new things this year in the way of
 l bombshells. There are fifty varieties of l them, the largest ten inches in diameter and | worth thirty-seven dollars and half each.
 \ One kind that we do not know anything | about making is huge bomb enclosing five smaller ones that are thrown out upon the l explosion of the main one at the highest point of flight and burst separately, sending out wondrous masses of golden corruscating l fires. Another sends floating in the air g gigantic fiery serpent seemingly hundreds of feet long, that hangs together in the most | miraculous way if the wind is not too strong. Still another spreads as it ascends veil of fire that remains unbroken from the ground up until the bomb has reached the apex of 1 it's flight, apparently four or five hundred feet high. An, we cannot touch the Japa- ! nese in fireworks. What they can do seems l magic, even to the most expert of us. And yet, singularly enough, we far ahead of them in the production of colored fires. They only use white, yellow and copper col or, but such effects as they get with them may well challenge the admiration of the world.
 "We have thirty-two new exhibition pieces of original design and, as we fatter our selves, surpassing beauty this year, ranging in cost from thirty to one hundred and fifty dollars. One of the most effective will be Boss Tweed's Diamond, grand and com plicated combination of three overlaying cir cular parterres of steel fire cases, central pots of golden and colored fires, &c., which in the large specimens will give a seemingly solid mass of the most brilliant colors con ceivable, not less than one hundred feet in diameter. The demand for fireworks this year is greater than ever before at this date, and the supply is in quality and price unex- celled."