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' Iho newspaper law says il imv
poison orders lim paper discontinued,
lie must pay all urreuges, ortho pub
lish,.).' mtiv continue to seinl it until
payment is made, ami collect the
whole amount. Also u nct'oii lor
fraud cun ho inst'nutcd Against any
poison, whether ho is responsible m
a limincial view or not, who rel uses
puv for his subscription.
AnV person who takes a papei
regularly f om the postollleo—wiieih
cr directed to his nmno <>r nr.otli r'-',
ror whether he hus Niibseibed or not
s responsible tor the amount.
'1 In) courts h ive l c'nlul that P
fusing to lake newspapers i r pmio l
ieuls Trout the post 'fliee, or remov
ing an leaving th in unealled for is
pnma liicio evidence of iutennition
al fraud.
Andre’s Prophetic Poem
Daring the years 1771) ami 17SII
Ander was on duty in New York, cnni
took a lending part in the social life
of that City. 1I accompanied Sir
Ilonry Clinton at the cqituro ol Sto
ny Point, June Ist, 177!), and wrote
as uid-de-camp upon the ghissic of
Fort La Fayette the terms of capitu
lation conceded to the gpun-iou.
He kept a careful diary and freipiem
ly wrote squibs in prose and >yti-o
l',,r the loyalist papers, and,in Augu-t,
1780, composed at Elizabethtown a
burlesque poem entitled ‘ Iha Cow
Chase,” in three cant >s, amounting to
ueveity quarirains. Tiie subject was
the attack made by Gtii Wayne upon
a block house near Ball's terry, two
or three mil'S below Fort Leo, in oi
d. r to drive in some cattle iroin Her
gen N 'ck. l>v a singular eo incident
the last canto of this poem was print
ed in Lliviiigstan’s Gazette, Sept. 2.5,
1050, the day ofth • poet’s capture at
Tarry lown. The last stanza is as
follows:
Ami now I liiive oVtsctl my epic sli'iiin;
[ treiriLle us I show it.
Lest this si mo warrior drovor, Wayne,
Should over catch the poet.
It, happened, nit gulariy enough,
that. Gen Wayne was the command -
or of the post at ''.’apan at the time of
Andre’s execution The original of
t ie ‘'Cow Chase ‘ is still preserved,
in Ander’s nittograj h,and underneath
the above quoted lines an American
pon has added 11 to coarse commenta
ry:
When ttie epic, strain was snag.
The poet ’oy his uecK wnshuug.
Equal to the Emergency.
A father started for the west
from zVarylnnd, with his daughter,
to get her away from the young
jnun whom she wanted to Many
They stopped at Harper’s terry to |
change trains. The lather lolt the
girl in the waiting-room, wh le ho
wait out to mail a postal-card
informing his Wile that too jour
ney was proceeding sat : s'acior>.
When lie returned site was g l n> ,
and whon heio md lur halt an
hour later she was done married
to her 'over.wholiad to lowed close
behind, with tho license and
preacher.
OV HR- CON FID EEC E.
Don’t be over-confident, young
man. Don’t carry your pet hobby
too far. Take not - ol the shomhrs
and logs ot a man before yon h.iSr
linn. Out here on West Hid there is
a gout that for t re long years lias
butted everything nod everybody the
broad empire of Burlington coni I
cc Id send again-t [pin. lie n'o the
circus posters 1) fore the paste was
dry, and when the advance agent re
monstrated, the gout just S’ood H]\ j
end crowded the rash man clear
through the bill staid. He once up
sot a hay wagon; jammed his head
through the end ol a wood shed and
battened an officer up against a brick
bouse. Ami one day ho wondeicd
down into a saw mill and baited tho
flywheel. Only one**. Whenheemne
down his neck was bent, lie couldn’t
make a dent in a sack ol mca 1, now.
Young man, be content with reason
able victories. Some day you, tio
may run against a ily-wheel.—Bur
lington lJawkf-ye
YOU WILL NOT HE SO Hill
For being coin tooiis to nil;
For doing good to nil men;
For speaking ovill of no one;
-—wr hearing before ji dging;
For thingitig before speaking;
For holding an angry tongue;
For being kind to the distressed;
For asking pardon for all wrong;
For being patient toward every
body;
For stopping the ears to a tale
bearer;
For disbelieving most of the ill rc •
ports.
Hayes is said to have laid by over
one hundred thousand dollars of his
salary as LTes.dent,
fill
IF, A. SINGLETON. FA A-I'mi>'r.
VOL G.
IT MIGHT II AVK HEKiV.
BY It. 11, IIKNIIY, OK MIOOKIIVVEN, MI-1.
It mh/lit. Ituve b fi f"n! Tlioho words so full of
ur'ailing,
To tlioiismi.lH Urea the tlio time-worn mourn
ful si rain;
Shutting out present joys while wildly
gleaming
Como bv-ijoue lionrs, to rocli tho fevered
bruin.
“11 might have b'en”— the child says to its
mother,
With eve* raised unto tho azure sky
-If ho had lived my darling title brother
Ho mortal would bo liappior than 1.
We used to gather wildiiowets by tho brook-
And climb together up tho mountains
blow:
Our little boat stands filled with withered
leaflets— „
1 cannot row it o’er the waters now,
“it mio/it have beni /” In sadnesns K.ghs toe
maiden,
Whilst musing o’er fond hopes which now
are dead;
81io feels a careless word has le.t hfospnr-
A wiV-Tivd mockery, whence joy h is fled.
She seeks tho giddy throng her brigat eye
beaming, ,
Spent s not of burning, eager thoughts
within;
Skilled well is she in power of joyous seem
ing, .
But on the heart is traced H might have
bt-n !
'll might have bvc.t/' a proud youth sai.'.y
nmnnurs.
‘ Yet she is false, and I, too. must forgot;
Sho shall not know the power she has gain
ed o’er me—
My wild, deep love for her o mnot be met!
i.nd thus two hearts were barred from out
each other,
That night two barks we re drifting o or the
sards
Of life-long sorrow; can tin-'lw another
Greater Ilian this—the sundering of hearts'
bauds?
The man of niidd e-ngo dreams by his fire
side
Of fon l plain wrecked npon life’s troubled
wave;
Of bright hopes, knowing but an hour's cre
ation.
Then to sink into nu early grave,
Tho gloomy matron, seated bv tho window.
Struggles with her rebellious thoughts
within;
She. too, istliiDkingof life’s joyous promise.
And sadly mariners, “Oh, il might hew
bom F
In youth are bound rho summer s wreaths ot
roses.
But years tiring on the cloud and rushing
slot ins;
Time’s hand the worm among the bud dis
closes,
The petals fall and only leave the thorns.
The air is full of whispers md upraidings
Of aspirations crushed, of dou‘ t and sin;
Ah, well for they who never line'' tlnUeoli-one
lJ.op in thoir souis, alas! It might, have
been !
But this is not all; thank God ! tin t; is
auothei
World belter than this checkered life time,
far.
Where friend shall meet with friend, where
sister, brothel
Shah dwell in the holy land b. yon 1 the
stars.
There we shall sip the sweets of joy for." er;
There we shah know no more doubt or sin ;
There our heart strings never more shall
cpii ver
With these upbraiding words, "ll might
hath: it tit !"
About Hailing Eggs,
There is an objection to the com -
mou way of boiling eggs which peo
ple do not understand —it is Ibis:
The white, under three minutes
rapid cooking, becomes tough and
indigesti -le, while the yolk is loft out.
Wiimi properly cooked, eggs are
done evenly through like any other
food. This result may be obtained
bv putting I lie eggs i )to a di.-h with
a con r, as a tin pail, and then pour
ing upon tln'in boiling Lot water, two
quarts or iroi'e t > a dozen eggs, and
cover and sot them away from tho
stove for fifteen minutes. ’l’he heat
of the water cooks the eggs slowly,
evenly and sufficiently, and lo ho a
jolly like consistency, leaving tho |
center, or yolk, harder than tho
white, and the eggs taste as much
richer and nice us u bosh egg is nicer
than a stain egg. No person will
want to cat them boiled after trying
this method once.
Eaton ton Messenger: Tho South
ivied to whip tlie North in war, ami
failed; tho South tried to whip the
North in oolitics. and failed. There
is one infallible way by which tho
South may wh.p the North, and that
is by building manufactories, and
supplying the wants of the Southern
people at lioirio. No blood need bo
sited in this fight—not a drop. The
South may have a bloodless, etlecUi.
al victory.
Tho old town ballot Athens took
lire on tho afternoon of tho 9'hinst..
and was burning in quite a lively
manner when extinguished by tho
fire companies.
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., DECEMBER 22, 1880.
THE OLD TIMES.
fltr. A'*pn‘iil lin'ftWi'itfuiift Mi lOi < T,il
Clominnuion on tlii'C.cmii nv
Moiintiibi-lli'inorimi oF tile
Wu l*—Among Uw O'il
Tuvviis ol' Ueoi -
in.
“Don’t look back—let the dead
past, bury its dead.” Thuds what
they say now, and they want ns to
keep moving nnd shove ahead and
shout, “Excelsior!’’ as we clmfb up
the mountain. A feller advised nr;
to quit romancin' about ihe past,and
let the cussed old war alone, am!
quit ptvnchiu’ about (he old planta
tions, antj confine my random :e
--murks strictly to business. lie said
something about Lot’s wife looking
buck and turning lo a pillar ol salt.
Well, 1 suppose she d'd, but there
was lire and brmstone, too, a few
years ago, and we didn’t lock back,
either, but that's all over now, and
wo have got to a faio place, and I
reckon we can talk over tho old times
onoa or twice in a whil-, can’t we?
I've seen a picture of a feller c'imb
ing up the r igg and edge of a steep
mountain with a Hag in his hand,
and shouting excslsior as ho riz up
on the crumbling rocks, and I al
ways thougut he was a tool, for a ft—
or tie got io the tho top I kuowed
M' eonldent git down any ittore and
would just perish to death on the
pin do of glory Now its well lor a
man as travels through this valno ol
tears to ,-top occasionally and look
back lo see bow far he has got, ami
if there is a mountain to climb he had
(letter take a ladder along so that lie
can get down on the other side. 1
iuve to iook back over chtqnred 1 fo
and in sweet memories hvo over the
past and in past trea- uro up
of it and lament the bad of it. Mem
ory was given to us for some good
purpose, and 1 have no respect for a
man who wants to blot out some
thing behind him nnd keep rushing
aniji i in a wild hunt for fume or fort
une. ‘‘Stop poor sinner, stop and
think,’’ was one of tho first hymns I
ever learned, and it, fits us now as
W' I! is it did tut'ti. 1 thought of itpis
the cars swept along the base on the
big■ Kt'itio Mountain, and as I looked
Uj'on i's barren ami majestic sum
mit, memory carried mo back to the
nays of my gushing youth when there
was a lofty tower up there, and my
sweewtheart and I mounted its spi
ral stair and sat together at tho top
in sweet communion with nji>ureand
ourselves, and as I looked into her
nazel eyes it seemed to me wo were
a little neater heaven thanl have ev
er been since. It was a glorious
hour, bat it could not last for there
was a storm impending and the
lightning Hashed and the thunder
pealed, and we harried down to a
S'l’e retreat. Not long afterwards
tho storm came, and the winds blow
and beat upon that tower and it toil.
Just so it is with ou" life and our am
bition. The mountain's top is gtand
and cbnrming for a little while—but
it is bleak and cohl and dangerous.
Our softest refuge and happiest re
treat is down among tho humble
(lowers that blossom at its base.
Covington’s a nice old town,adorn
ed with evergreens and inviting
homes.and' a contented people. It’s a
town of mcmurics, too, for 1 found
the old soldiers there, who loved to
t.uk about the war audits many curi
ous scenes and incidents. Captain
Pace showed me the crgmal parting
adress which the officers of the Vir
ginia army prepared to send General
Leo immediately alter tho surrender.
It was was written hastily in camp
at Appomatox upon confederate pa
per,and is a model of tender, touch
ing love,revere nee and admiration lor
the grand old captain.' It is not
known who wrote it, bat it has the
genuine autographs of Longstreet,
Gordon, Pendleton, E. P. Alexander
-A- DBMOCBATIO NEWSPAPER,
C, A. Evans, J. Lowe. LV*'
nd Johnson and Gem ral
Ransom. This paper was entrusted
to Captain Pace to*obtaiu tho signa
tures g. iwrally of the army officers,
but the confusion following the sur
render and Hio speedy dispersion of
the lorees prevented him from do
ing so, and ho has* Him paper yet. Ho
" ill send to the Georgia liislo. ienl so
ciety very soon. lie told me about
the bravo and lie?y Mahouu; how ho
trembled with the uttermost anguish
and defiance, altd nyt vously clit'eh
od the hilt of ins sword as he stood
and witnessed the great commander
make tho surrender of his army. But
time in a wondesfnl doctor, and the
genet al seems quite pac'iio now.
Well, that’s i ighl and 1 think with
Major Wa Unco that tiie general will
stand upon honor and principle and
never forsake his people. Like Cous
in John Turaslicr, I’m not going hack
upon a brave soldier about a little
uiaiter of polities for the time may
t ome when we will need ’em again.
The best fighters are the best , ponce
makers anyhow. Some of those Ox
ford boys came over t > hear me dis
course upon Dixie, and bad liked to
have tismped my show. They had on
pa.Vobo.ird standing collars about a
foot long, with a deatfi’s bead on one
side and a mot'o of sic semper tyrnn
i,and ontho otlu-r tt big bsbboon and
B 3 in ribas nniini. * They were very
respectful in their deportment and
dident charge anything, so the au
dience had no reason to complain. 1
used to be a boy mysdl, and 1
thought the like of that was just the
biggest thing in tin; world. There’s ■
no malice or meanness in it and the
boys have got to go through it just
like taking the measles. But they
get over it by and by when the beard
begins to grow, and then their col
lars arc cut down so ns to gtvo their
whiskers a more visible showing.
Washington is a venerable place, it
was laid out in 1780, just one hun
dred years ago, and it scents to me
they ought to havchi little cmiiennhd.
It was the first town jthat was ever
named f r the father of our country
It was the tho place where the con
federacy departed this life intestate.
I was in tho very chamber General
Hearti's house where Mr. Davis and
Mr. Ileagan and General Urccken
ridgo held the last Cabinet meeting.
What a sad wrt-ek of hope was there!
Old Wilkes was one of origiual eight
counties ot the state, and embraced
a large teririory, ironi which many
others have been made. It was or
iginally kown as Hornet's Nest, lor
the old wings of the revolution made
it pretty hot for the lories thero and
hung cm up sometimes, eleven on a
tree. John and Holman Freeman,
two brothers, from Scotlanc, were
the leaders o( the rebels and i tide
svtiers with wisdom and prndetic The
great chair of state in which John
Freeman was aoensiomed to preside
and which came from 'Scotland, is in
General Heard’s house and is in good
condition. Judge Junius lli lyer, of
your city, married a daugterol John.
Freeman. Many of tho decoudants
of the first settlers of Wilkes live
there yol; and it is assented that there
has been less emigration ir m this
section of Georgia than fr in any
other. Indeed, the last census report j
shows a larger increase ol population
in tho eighth District than any in the
state. Solid wealth nboudsin Wash,
jngton, and her people can justly
boast of the highest culture and most
refined taste and manners, ail ol
which is acotdnd with a generous
hospitality. They honored me with
splendid audience, which 1 gicatly ap
preciated, for there was a feller close bv
in the street singing a liver pad song
by torchlight and trying to convince
the crowd they needed Ids pack saddles.
I'm afraid I itilctfered with his business,
hut that people dident need em. Their
livers are all right. Yours,
IS mi, A Hr.
That Torriblo Child. .
A Galveston lady made a l.ic al
ter noon cull and Imd uom**’iricd lo
slay to tea. The biscuits wore a lit
tie heavy, and toe gm-.-t, instead of
eating them, shoved t.iem shyly into
her pocket, link when urged to try
one inure by the lady of the bouse,
the guest answered•
“They are really delicious, but 1
can’t lake any more ns J ale a late
dinner. 1 never relished anything ns
much in mv life. ”
“Dial’s so, urn,” says little John
‘‘She likes'em so much she put’em
in her pocket to take ’em In me
! and cut ’em.’’
On an other occasion there was a
gentleman there at supper. Tin;bis
cuits wer really good, nnd the get -
lemon ate very heartily of them.
When urged to take one more, lie
replied:
“No, I thank you, I’ve eaten three
already.’’
“That’s a lie,’’ says Johny, “you
ate live; I counted ’em!’’ —Galveston
News.
A Liberal Editor.
We were grived to read the other day
of the death •>! one of Michigan’s je’-
liest pioneer editors—ahnost the last
man of a hand who published weeklies
in the State when a coon-skin whonhl
pav for a column “ad,’’ and tlnee
bushels of corn dumped on ilia office
floor steed for a year sub oi iption. Nev
er a publisher was more liberal with bis
space. It was bald work for him to
charge for anything except the tax list
and mortgage sales, and he measured
short even on them. One day in the
years gone by his paper copied an as
tack ou a county ofiidal, and old Mark
Nvns dozing at his desk when the injured
party stalked in nnd began:
“You are a coward, sir—a—cow
ard !”
“Mcbbo I am,’’ was the edditor’s
complacent lvply.
“Ami I can lick yon, sir—lick you
out of your wrinkled old boots !”
“I guess yon.could,” answered Mark
as be busted the wrapper off his only
exchange.
“I’m going to write an article call
ing you a fool, liar, coward, cur, skin
deter and body-snatcher, and go over to
loni > and pay five cents a line to have
it published I”
“11-w ?’’ ipieried the old man as he
wheeled around.
“Say, let me tell yon something,’’ re
plied Mark “I’ve got 200 more eirer
ialion than the Banner, and 111 pub.
iishyour attack on me for two cents a
line mk! lake it out in mill feed ol corn
stalks! Don l trot over io lonia when
you can help build up ynr own
town !’’
Mark would have published it word
for word, just as he said, and tbowu in
a cut of a burse or a slump-puller free
gratis, but tho official cooled’ off.— De
ll oil Free I’l ess.
A BUSINESS D All KEY.
An enterprising darkey of a calcu
lating turn ol mind, says a Florida
paper, called on a gmitleimm who
owns a garden iu the cry of T'ailc
hassce and represented that the gar
den was gras<y, which, it left to go
to seed, would render it impossible to
*r-t>w wgit tiy.es on the spot next year
and pioposod to cut it. down (or n
ci:■•min sum, which tho gentleman
agreed to pay. 11c then went to the
gentleman who had recently rented
the premises and made the flame
popnsition, which was agon accept
ed, tin 'a'tor not knowing, of couse,
that the owner had agreed to pay for
the work, ns the darkey had studious
ly keptOint to himself. Aft-r cut
ting Ilia grass and collecting pay
from doth gentlemen our hero pro
ceeded to the owner of a cow, sold
tho grass for double what he charged
lor cutting it, pocket and fo r times as
much money as the work was worth,
and went on his way humming a
bym tune. Now, who says the Afri
can isno.t a progressive race?
aa’ncal sunsmirrioN. $2 00
Epitaphs. •
Here lies .Tnlin Altoni.v. lio reeeiwd il thump
Hi;;h! “11 the teivlle ul. ti'.im tile |> I'isll pump
Here lays John, wit!i Mary Ills tu iile -
They livrdnitil they liuiyeii while liieywasalile
And at 'ast was chimed to knock umlei tho
tn' do.
Seiircnstic P|iitlinplis>, not neemn
ria'ly involving a pan on the name,
uro, we Hii.-'peet, seldom to b! found
really engraved on toinb-iomp; and
' y in some cases written by robi
i ions of tho doc used. It Drydeti ;o
ally wrote ih* epitaph on liis wile at
tributed to him, io must, indeed,
have felt ami owed her but little af
fection:
Here lies my wife; Here Jet he lii ;
She's now at rest, and so am I.
One Mrs. Saute gave occasion, we
are tola, to the following:
Here tics, cut down tike unripe fruit,
The wife, of Amos Duncan Slmto,
Mw died of drinking too ranch coffeo,
A tiny Dummy ei"litt.on forty.
Jan. Wyatt, of course, took no part
in I lie concoction of this effusion:
At rest beneath this church -yard stone
Lies slingy Jimmy Wyatt.
tie and ed oneniornin:'just at ten,
And saved a dinner by it.
The ocupati.'ii of a dyer has sug
gested many e fit nils of an obvious
character, such as:
He dyed to live, and lieu to die.
Also: “*
He died himself, and dyed no more.
So many jokes have been fired off
at Iho late Sir Willi in Curtis —an Al
derman distinguished for defective
education and had gramma—that wo
need not led surprised at an epitaph
couched thns:
Hero lies William Curtis,
Our late Lovd Mayor,
Who Ims loft this here world,
And gone lo that there.
A useful hint is wrapped up in the
following:
l>icd <>f tijiii shoes, January 1839.
—Chamber’s Journal.
HOSTOS FOUNDED ON A COLD BED.
zlu artesian well is now being
su k in Boston, w!ii> It according
to tho American Architect, seems
to have at least one peculiar feat
turc, the well has been driven
rather more than fifteen hundred
feet without reaching any consid
erable spring, although there is a
consfaiitc modente flow of water
into it, but it seems that at •> dio
tanco ot fourteen hundred feet
from the smi'ace a stratum of
gold hearing quartz, twenty feet
thick, was reached and pierced.
As the city is itse f situated on a
mass of diluvial clay and gravel,
although siirrondeu on all sides,
at a distance of a few miles, by
granite and porphyry formations,
it might naturally i>e inferred that
the auriferous veui would crop out
somewhere a out the edge of the
ba-in, and as ‘bonanzas” twenty
feet thick are not only rare but
valuable, possibly further attempts
mat be made to trace the course
of the deposit. Vv’u are not inform
ed, adds the editor, whether the
material brought up by the auger
proved to be very rich ii the pre
cious metal; probably it was not,
but no surprising results could be
expected Loin a random incision
into the me!;. Whether anyone
succeeds in making any profit out
of it or not, the thought that Bos
ton, alone ot large cities, rests upon
a plateau ot go and ore may at least
serve to gratify the vanity of its
inhabitant s.
TOSi A Kin 1 UVUiu Wlt ITIKG IIV EF -
FACE VULE.
It is said that pencil drawing may
be rendered inetfacable by this
simple process: Slightly warm a
sheet of ordinary drawing paper;
tin t) place it car'dully on the surface
of a solution ol white resin in alcohol,
leaving it there l ug enough to be
cine thoroughly moistened. After
ward dry it in i current of air. Pa
per pepared in t bis way has a very
smooth surface. lit order to fix the
drawing the pap r is to be warmed
for a few minutes. This method may
prove itsclul for the preservation of
plans or designs, when the want of
lime ur any other cause will not al
low the drough suian to reproduce
them in ink. A simpler plan than the
abovi, however, is to brush over the
bock of the paper containing the pen
cil sketch or chin coal a weak solution
of white sheilae in alcohol.
The census enumeration thus far
completed shows a gain ol 2:14 pe
cent over too census of 1870. y
Who is the oldest person?
nny Djnniiiii.
( Glass Spinning and Weaving.
Quite recently a Pittsburg glftas
linn lias succeeded, t> u notable dr-*
gree, in producing tl'i'oailsi of_
sufficient lineness ami elasticity to
permit of ♦licit - being wovyti into b
In ics of novel character am! quality.
Their success is such ns t> wnriant
the assumption Unit garments >f pure,
glass.glistoiiingfand imperishable, lire
among the possibilities of tli > near
lutu'o, Th*’ spinning of glass thread*,
of extreme line ness is not, n nnw.pnv
ci ss, but, ns carried on t present by
lhe firm in question -Messrs Alter*,
bury <& Cos,, possesses e<Mis‘d.-ruble
interest. From n qtmUiy of glass
’similar 1 1 tlial Imtn which tabic ware
is made, ro is o( <l::ss averaging
hail' an ineh in diameter are drawn,,
to any desired length and various
colors. These rods are then so placed
that the flame of twogis burners is
(Town against that end of tho
rod pouted toward Ihe targe ‘‘spin
ning'’ wheel. Tho latter is 8J feet in
diain tor, and turns at the rale of
300 revolutions per minute. Tho
Humes, having played upon the end
ol the glass cylinder until a melting
heat is attained, a toread of gl tss is
drawn from too red and affixed to the
periphery of tho wheel, whose face
■’s about 12 inches wide. M tinn is
then communicated, and the eht y.-tal
thread is drawn from between the gas
jets and wraopvd anon tho wheel at
the rate of about 7 570 feet per min
ute. A higher speed results in n fur
or filament of glass, and vice versa.
During its passage from the fl uno to
the wheel, a distance of live or six
feet, the thread lias become cooled,
and yet. its elasticity is preserved to
a notabla degree. The next stop in
Iho process consists in tho removal
of the layers of threads from the
wheel. This is easily accomplished,
and after being cut, to the desired
lengths, i he filaments are woven in a
loom somewhat rimilar to that used
in weaving silken goods. Until
within tlis past few weeks only tho
woof ol the fabric was of glass, but
at present both warp and woof aro
in crystal. Samples of this cloth
have been forwarded to New York
and to Chicago, and tho mannfacierr
ors claim to bo able to duplicate la
color, texture, etc., any garment sent
them. A tablecloth of glass recent'*
ly completed shines with a satiny,
opalescent luster by day, and under
gaslight shows remwKable beauty.—
Imitation plumes, in opal, ruby, pale
green, and other hues, aro also con
structed of these threads, nnd aro
WoluV l full.) pretty. The chief ob
stacle yet to surmount scorns to lie
in the manipulation of these threads,
which are so fine that a bunch con
taining 250 is not so I hick ns nn aver
age sized knitting needle, and which
do not possess the tractability of
threads of silk or cotton.
NO. 10
[The foregoing information is fur
nished by a Pittsburg correspondent.
A sample of the goods mentioned, a.
uiblceloth of glass, is now on exhibi
tion in this city.
The weaving of such heavy fabrics
of glass for ornamental purposes and
fer curiosities is no new thing, nor in
our estimation, dors comparative suc
cess in such experiments warrant the
enthusiastic claims of the Pittsburg
manufacturers touching the adapta
bility of gbios tor wearing apparel.—
Unless it is in their power to change
the nature of glass absolutely and
radically, it does not seem possible
for them so to overcome the ultimate
bridlenesfl of the separate libers as to
make the fabric tit to be brought in
contact with the skin. The woven
stuff may bo relatively tough and
flexible; but unless the entire fabr?>,
can be made of one unbreakable fi
ber the touch of the free ends, lie
they ever so tine, must be anything
but pleasant or beneficial, i( one can
judge by the finest filaments of glass
spun hitherto, besides, in weaving
and wearing the goods, a certain
amount of fiber dust must be produc
ed as in the case of all other textile
material. When the softest of veg
etable fibers are employed the air
charged with their fragments is hurt
ful to the lungs; still more injurious
must be the spied® ot spun gtass.
However, although the manufac
turers are likely to be disappointed
in their expect, tion ot finding in glass
a c heap ami available substitute tor
linen, cotton and silk in dress goods,
it is quite possible that a wide range
of useful application uny lie found
Ur their new fabric.J —Scieuliliic
American.