Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-14

Christian era. However that may be, Mon goliaR named Litchao and his son Lifting Kouei went into the ink making business and turned out about as good ink as has ever been made
 ssTheir successors were not so successful and for time the business rather lan- guished. The process now employed by the Chinamen in the manufacture of their India ink is not radically different from that in use in ancient days. The old principle that burning resinous material will throw off thick smoke in large quantities is employed, scientifically handled. In the middle of big porcelain dish, about two feet in diame- ter and three or four inches deep, they place Q stand of about Eix inches diameter and the same height as the dish. Several small lamps rest upon the stand, and by means of conical dishes are held just over the lamps. The dish is filled with water almost up to the tops of the lamps Wicks and the lamps are lighted. The smoke condenses on the conf cal dishes hung over the lamps and is collect ed in the form of 8 dense, black powder. This powder is placed in 8 vase and 8 warmed mixture of nine parts of fish glue and one of animal glue strained into it through 8 piece of silk held over the mouth of the vase. The contents of the vase, then being thoroughly stirred are rolled into balls, wrapped in cloth and immersed in hot
 
 beating with hammer follow, the paste is scented and in the form of long sticks is placed in various shaped moulds. Wrapped in paper the sticks are placed in dish filled with rice-straw ashes, and in 8 day or two are thoroughly dried. Rubbing with cloths and brushes serves to clean and polish them, and they are then ready for the market. The soft paste can of course be moulded in any shape, but as rule is made into short, slender sticks, which are generally ornament ed with more or less Volapuk inscriptions or Chinese designs. The peculiar qualities of the ink render it indispensable to sketch ar- lists and draughtsmen, and nothing has been found to take it's place."
 A LIVELY FRENCH WOMAN. She Wants to Fight Duel and to SItin
 the Legislative Chamber.
 [Chicago Tribune's Paris Letter.l
 Mile. Astie de Valssyre is up again. You will remember her as the wou1d-bs fighter of a duel on the field of Waterloo. She has been brought before the public in other sen- sational ways. Once she offered herself to M Pasteur to be experimented on with the virus of rabies and the germs of yellow fever and cholera. She also wanted to go out to Tonquin on some harebrained mission or other. At various times she has put herself forward as the champion of "woman's rights,n particularly of the right to wear
 
 this latter point that she now challenges at- tention. She has consuming desire to fight duel with man. Already she has sought dozen such encounters. But no man will fight her. Why nota "Because," she says, "they consider it dishonorsble to fight anyone who wears petti-coats." If she were arrayed in manly attire they would be willing to cross swords with her. So, for the tenth or hundredth time, forget which, she petitions the Chamber to repeal the law which makes it 8 misdemeanor for woman to wear mans clothes. To this petition the Deputies will, of course, turn deaf ear, as they have done dozen or thousand times before.
 What then? She must have voice in the Chamders. She must become Deputy her. self in her own clothes. Then she will be able to speak from womRnly attire. So to that end she is pushing with all her might. In this campaign she is numerously and vociferously supported by 8 considerable body of agitators. Perhaps ought to say bodies, for the advocates of woman's rights are by no means united. They are divided into several camps, which fight against each other whenever warfare agaluss common roe is at low ebb. The most conspicuous leader of these camps is Mile. Hubertine Auclert. She is editor of La Cheyenne, a journal de- | voted to the rights of wamen. Formerly she was school teacher, but took to journalism and scored great success. Her editorials ! in La Cheyenne are among the brightest and in the French press. I may add that Mile. Auclert is still young and decidedly pretty She will presently be married. ''I have," I she jokingly remarked the other day, ''been ! trying for years to get the right to wear l trousers, but in vain. Now, however, I am l about to succeed. shall get married and | rule my husband with 8 rod of ironl" I suppose there are lots of men who would not I object to being ruled by so charming wom- | an as Mile. Auclert. There is, I believe good deal of discussion as to whether, after f marriage, she will be able to remain in office ! as President of the Society for the Rights ! of Women. Her own opinion is that she ! can. 'In getting married, :" she says, ''I shall I only be maintaining one of the most impor- | tant rights of woman-the right of getting ! married"