The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-15
A WONDERFUL MATERIAL.
It Holds in Liquid Form Any Object in
 Stone or Metal.

Stone or Metal
 Professor Woods Washington chemist, has discovered a substance which can be made to resemble any metal or marble in color and texture, it can be nodded into any form, takes high polish, reproduces the patterns of the toughest stone or most delicate lace is acid proof, imperishable, un- breakable and Is probably destined to bring about revolution in arts and architecture.
 The compound, which has been the result of years of study, is metalloid in its nature and has been named Pro- tean Plastic from its adaptabtlity to every metal and stone with which It IS brought in contact and also from the innumerable uses to which 1t can be put. The astonishing change by which 1t will take on the texture of any sub- stance is its greatest advantage, and it is by this means that it can be made to resemble gold, silver, copper, iron, steel, brass, glass. granite, marble, onyx and numberless other materials. The laboratory in which are kept many models of this new discovery IS in one of the busiest streets of the capital. Scattered about the room are molds of the plastic in every form; here a cam co of gold, there a bas-relief of bronze, while on long table Is arranged col- lection of figures in every known met al; iron and shining gold resting side by side with marble and mosaics of highest polish.
 All of the objects are made of the same substance, the changes in it's ap- pearance and color being brought about by chemical formula, which is known to the inventor alone. The plaster Is metalloid, as by it's nature 1t partakes of the nature of a metal. Professor Woods, however, states that the base of this plastic is of very finely powdered stone, known as steatite, a variety of soapstone, known to commerce. This, with other l elements, he places in a crucible and subjects to heat of nearly 600 degrees adding at pleasure the substances with which he varies his formula to produce the different effects.
 This liquid which is about the con- sistency of thin molasses, is poured in- to mold and as soon as cooled is ready for market. By mixing peculiar compound containing gold dust the work will come out with a golden sur l face; it will be, not gilded wood or l marble, but a metal as hard as gold, Of the same color and possessing all the properties of the most precious of ores, except that 1t is not quite so heavy. But 1t will not corrode and will last | forever.
 With this golden metal which is one third cheaper than real gold we could have our homes fashioned into bowers of Oriental luxury. The houses of the future can be filled with golden statues exact copies of the ancient Grecian art, | the tables and service can glitter With yellow lustre, and even the doors and windows may be made to seem parts of Aladdin's fabled palace.
 l The daintiest lace will be reproduced on this golden surface with every fiber of the thread showing in its outline as l fine as hair; the bowls and the thou sands of utensils can be equal to the dishes of Midas of old.
 If we wish to have 8 home which will flash back the sunshine from Parian marble, this counterfeit compound can be mixed in a certain consistency and we have but to pour it into mold and there we have the shape in the purest of stone of that we wish. No cut ting for days with a slow saw by the old process; no filing away of the prec- ious stone, but what seems to be the fairest of Italian marble will spring up out of the crucible and cool into beau tiful shapes within our sight in few minutes.
 Silver and other metals and rocks