News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-16


facsimile has been arranged here with
part of the earth removed to show tn,
interior workings. The zinc was fount
Is feet below the surface and has contin
ued down 200 feet or more in an enor
nous deposit. In the excavating, bis
pillars of the zinc have been left as sup
ports, worth about million dollars
These will eventually be blasted away
when the mine has been worked out, al
lowing the earth to cave in.
learned new kind of jack, father
1t has to do with zinc. One kind is
known as ruby jack, occurring in red
crystals, which look like rubies. There
are also black jack and rosin jack. ]
have likewise become acquainted with
zinc silicate, which is very curious in
deed and more nearly resembles tripe
than anything else that 1 can think of.
If serious statistics appeal to you, / am
now prepared to say that Missouri fur
nishes large proportion of the zinc in
this country-some years more than half.
The next time you 90 by Tiffany's, ia
Their, you may feel that can do the same
thing here in Calfornia-only that we
shall be seeing vastly different things.
Here it is chiefly uncut jewels, but they
are so beautiful and interesting in their
natural condition that one fingers in COM
plete absorption over the glass cases.
With feminine frivolity 1 could hardly
tear myself away from piece of opal
about twelve inches long and i've or six
inches thick. Imagine how many orna-
ments, cleaning with elusive lights,
that might be evolved from this one
piece! Almost as fascinating was huge
slab of amethyst crystals from South
America, and then there were wonderful
specimens of sapphire from Ceylon, am.
Der from Roumania, silver and volcanic
glass from Mexico, goodies of various
sorts, striking lenses of the eyes of the
giant cuttlefsh, and agate-like sections
of a mastodon's tooth.
The varied Industries contains many
beautiful and costly things: fabrics and
furs; tapestries and rugs; china and
wearing apparel; jewelry in artistic set
tings. We began tiptoeing past connect
ing rooms filled with china SO fragile
that one instantly felt the responsibility
of moving softly. A smiling attendant
lowered the inevitable plush rope, and
accepted the invitation, but 1 grasped
Joe firmly by the hand, that the damage
might be as light as possible. They need
not have printed any of those $40 Not
Touch" signs for me; feel no tempta-
ton to take chances with platter worth
$50. They may sit on their respective
tables for all of me.
This does not mean, however, that
do not appreciate them. If owned a
home and fat check book, 1 should be
glad to empty the latter to fill up the
former, and this would be good place
to begin. don't know how to describe
the varied beauties we saw here, but |
fingered most longingly over gold orna-
mented goblets with pink enamel, over
plates with soft underglaze effect, over
acid-etched vases covered with color in
stead Of gold.
A paper pattern manufacturer has in
stalled an attractive display of miniature
figures, wearing smart dainty gowns that
represent the latest notions in dress.
Costumes are shown for every possible
occasion, and 1 never pass these long
glass Uifhnnt fnIinn
rounded by spectators. l can under
stand why the overplump ladies' should
be drawn irresistiby to the slender, girl
ish models, and it is only natural that all
women should be interested, but it don't
stop there. Sometimes l think it don't
begin there: in other words. there are
usually more men than women, standing |
spellbound before these tiny figures that |
might have stepped out of fairy exist
ence. 1t was on the Chinese day that |
saw two shabby Cinnamon standing here.
They gazed long time, and then stimuli |
taneously they turned toward each other |
and began chattering excitedly. wish |
might have known what they said.
You would like to see the monster |
typewriter that 1 came across the other |
day. 1t is so big and funny that it makes |
you laugh as inevitably as looking in |
big magnifying mirror. 1t is almost |
1000 times as large as the ordinary type
writer, standing 10 feet high. and being |
81 feet wide. 1t runs by electricity and |
weighs IA tons. The paper required is
nine feet wide and the key cups are seven |
inches in diameter. 1t is very diverting
to watch this ponderous contrivance
writing letters that can be read half a |
block away.
1 mustn't forget TO tell you that the
French exhibits have been recently I'M
loaded from the Jason, which has had a
long, perilous trip and has finally reached
here with invaluable treasures for the
Exposition. 1 saw some of the exhibits
being conducted with great ceremony.
Guards marched in front, followed by a
band playing martial airs; then came Ex-
position and French Commissioners on
foot; and bringing up the rear we're
trucks loaded with nackino cases dranad