The morning call., 1890-09-21
!, Sc Warren St, New J
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value; jute, 20 per cent; flax thread and
Irvine, DO per cent; jute yarns, 50; bags and
bagging, 40; linen, brown and beached. So :;
burlaps, so to 40; leather and manufactures
of cafskin tanned and morocco finished, 20
per cent: morocco tanned but not finished,
10; upper leather and dressed skins. 20; kid
or leather gloves, so; other leather manu-
features, 80 per cent; iron ore, 70 cents per
ton; pig and scrap, Sc y; bar iron,
$50; steel railroad bars, S17; bars OF steel,
40 per cent and ~ cents per pound;
iron or steel wire rods, 6 to 10 cents per
round and steel not enumerated specifically
40 per cent; cutlery, 80 to 80 per cent; fire.
arms, So; machinery, 45; wheels and tires
of steel, 212 cents per pound; all other iron
and steel manufactures, 40 per cent; rice,
cleaned, ~; unclaimed, " per pound;
graduated or meal, 20 per cent; tobacco, So,
40 and 70 cents per pound; cigars, 81 90 per
pound and % per cent ad valorem; tea, cof-
fee and spices are free OF duty, and on sugar
the duty is from 40 to 81 cents per pound.
You must at the same time remember that
Congress is revising the tariff and among
the changes contemplated and practically de-
cided upon wines and sugars are affected and
tea and coffee taken off tie free list.
OPAL AND MooNsToNE-A. L. H, City.
o. The opal is a mineral species presenting
many varieties and known by number of
names. Its composition is silica Sand,
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ter, which has apparently hardened from
gelatinous state. The flashes of rainbow
tints are reflected from surfaces of irregular
dimensions at different depths in the trans
lucent stone and interesting at various an
giles. The colors are not due to the presence
of any material pigment in the mineral, but
are optical effects due to certain structural
peculiarities. The opal is sometimes white,
but is also found OF various shades OF red.
yellow, brown and gray. In the precious
opal a play OF rich coiors Is exhibited; In
fire opal, bright hyacinth red, with yellow
reflections. Changeable red and green col
ors are the most highly priced, while one
variety called the hydrOphane Is remarkable
for becoming transparent when Immersed in
water. (2) The mOonStone is variety of
feldspar of pearly white, not properly
a precious stone. 1t was formerly much
in fashion, but now is of trifing value.
The best come from Ceylon, and an opaque
and green variety, deriving its tint from an
admiXture of copper, comes from Siberia,
where it is known rs the Amazon stone. The
moOnstnne is sometimes known by the name
of Water or Ceyl0n opal. Fe!dspar, as COM
monty seen, is the light-colored ingredient of
granite distnguishable by its peary luster
and of hardness little inferior to that of the
quartz with which it is intermng!ed. Com
mon feldspar Is slllcate OF alumlna and
potash, though lime and oxide of iron are
commonly present in small quantities, and a
portion OF the potash is often replaced by
soda Labradorite, said to have been first
discovered by Moravian missionaries on the
island of st. Paul on the Labrador coast, is
a beautiful variety of pearly luster, often ex-
hibiting play of blue, green, yellow and
red cOlors, lime and soda in this replacing
the potash with a little oxide of iron. This
labradorite is sometimes so beautiful from its
changeable cOlors that it is employed in jew
eIry. lis having been found in meteoric
stones probably suggested the name ''mouu-
stone" (3) The q. c. does not know of any
superstition attached to this stone but the
opal is considered by those who believe in
such things sacred to the month Of October
and denotlng nope and sharpening the sight
and faith of the posSeSsor, or as put IN the
versiied form;
October's child is born for Woe
And life's vicissitudes must know:
But lay an opal on her breast
And hope will Iul those woes to rest.