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A STRONG MAN CONTEST. Trial of Strength Between Two Men of Muscle. Sampson, who advertises himself as the strongest man on earth, and an athlete from Birmingham named Sir. Montgomery, had a trial of strength for money at Liverpool. Sampson, accord¬ ing to the conditions, was the first to lead off, commencing with a barbell weighing 172 pounds. This he lifted from the ground with his two hands up to his chest, and then over his head auu on to his shoulders, following this up the by bringing the barbell hack again to fol- floor. Loud applause, of course, lowed this, but it.was as nothing com¬ pared to that accomplished which greeted Montgomery feat. when he the same The Birmingham man, however, did not pass through the ordeul by any means so gracefully as did Sampson, there being a certain amount of clumsiness apparent. Balancing the barbell was next on the list. As usual, Sampson did his utmost without an effort. Montgomery, when his turn came, rivalled his opponent, after a desperate effort. Next the chal¬ lenger, by a supreme effort, hoisted over his head with one hand the same barbell. In response, the Midland man did likewise, amid great reaching ap¬ plause, pitch. the excitement now selected by fever Two iron bars the rol'eree were now introduced, Samp¬ son leading off by bending the one sup¬ plied to him by striking it on his bare arms and straightening it again in the same manner. His opponent, amid great excitement and a perfect din of applause, followed suit. Now commenced one of Sampson’s particular feats. Standing on a chair, with bis feet strapped, he got hold of the aforesaid barbell, and bend¬ ing backward dropped it on the stage. again Steadying himself once more, he bent back until his hands reached the barbell, and by an almost superhuman himself effort lie triumphantly recovered and hoisted it above his shoulders. Montgomery advanced to the front. The act of putting it down he did very clev¬ erly, but in picking it up it was apparent that he was in dire straits, and no soonci had he hoisted it up than he fainted away and had to be removed from the stage. Mr. Henderson came forward and stated that Mr. Montgomery was unable to proceed any further, but that, as lie succeeded in all his feats which had been set him, he would be satisfied if Sampson would break a shilliug which lie had in his pocket. To this the ’‘Strong Man’ : readily conceded, and it was scarcely in Sampson's hands ere it was in two halves. The umpire now came forward and an nounced, amid tremendous applause, that Sampson had won.—[Pull Mall Budget, Lake Mysteriously Drained. In the year 1881, without a moment’s warning and with scarcely a tremble ol the earth, the high and rocky strip ol land which the separated city of the Manzonillo, large lake Mex¬ ir the rear ot ico, from the sea suddenly parted harbor. anti the waters poured out into the The immense amount of water which poured through the narrow chasm may bo better calculated by consulting tin figures of R. Zappa;o, the civil cuginecr, who declared that the volume represen¬ ted 1,000,000 gallons a minute through during the three days it was rushing alliga¬ the bieak. The lake was full of tors and the harbor swarming wish sharks. When the monsters met ft watei battle immediately ensued, and was closely watched during the three days it , lasted by almost the entire mentioned population that o! Monzanillo. 1! may be ’’ the sharks finally triumphed.—[St. Louis Republic. • An agricultural school has just been elected in the peninsula of Jutland to which women are eligible. the The course of of instruction includes treatment milk for cream, butter and cheese, care of cattle and poultry, chemistry, agri¬ cultural book-keeping and the calculation of percentage and application of milk, weights fat, and measurements in handling feed, &c. Besides this the young women arc taught kitchen gardening, cooking, needlework and gymnastics. A class is intended to last from January till April, pupils and during the Summer the poorer will be assisted in getting a profitable market for nuytliiug they raise or pro¬ duce. ■■TUe Bible on IVnll Coatings.” "And behold if the hollow plague bo in the walls of tho houso with streaks, greenish orreddish, then the priest shall go out of the houso to the door of the house and shut u the house seven days. * * * And he shall cause tho house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into on un¬ clean place.” This matter of looking to the sanitary na¬ ture of wall coatings seems to be considered of much importance of late. A supplement to the Michigan State Board of Health con¬ demns wall paper and kalsomine for walls, and recommends Alabastine as being sani¬ tary, pure, porous, jtermanent, economical and beautiful. To each of the first five persons in every city and town, who write the Alabastine Company of Grand Kapids, Michigan, giv¬ ing the chapter containing the above pass¬ age of scripture, will be sent an order on the Alabastine dealer in the town for a package of Alabastine, enough to cover fifty square yards of wall two coats, tinted or white. To test a wall coating, take a small quan¬ tity of it, mix in equal quantity of boiling water, and if it does not set, when left in the dish over night, and finally form a stone liko cement, without shrinking, it is a kalso mine, and dependent upon glue to hold it to tho wall, the feature so strongly objected to by sanitarians. Continuing this sanitary wall-coating re- form tho Tribune offices have been nicely decorated with Alabastine. The effect is pleasing, and the rooms are very sweet and clean.— Detroit Tribune HOW STATUES ARE MADE. THE SCTTLPTOR’S ART AS PRAC¬ TICED HERE AND ABROAD. The Clay Model and the Plaster Cast —The Process of Malting a Marble Statue. In painting, mechanical dexterity is quite a minor matter, and the painter is comparatively free from any but artistic considerations. In sculpture, on the other hand, though the same application of artistic principles is exacted and neces¬ sary,a large proportion of purely mechan¬ ical work falls to the share of the artist, necessitating unusual care and skill. What anxiety the sculptor feels while his clay takes on form, when it is being cast in plaster, and finally during its repro¬ duction in marble or the delicate process of casting it in bronze 1 A painting practically passes through only two, or at most three, stages in the course of its development into completed form; there are the sketches, the studies, and finally the finished painting. In sculpture the case is somewhat different. There we have also preliminary studies and sketches, but the clay model already shows the work in its artistic comple¬ tion. The plaster cast is simply a repro¬ duction in marble or bronze. Thus, when the statue is practically finished, it must still pass through two more stages, in which usually nothing is added to the original work (except sometimes in the plaster cast), but it is simply reproduced in¬ in other materials. But this process volves no end of labor and anxiety. The painter makes preliminary sketches and studies, often many in number, for his works. Similarly the sculptor. He begins by giving form to his idea in a small model from four to six inches in height. This Is a mere sketch, roughly blocked out, but it suffices to give an idea of the position of the proposed figure, or the composition of the group, if there are several figures. The material used in this first study is sometimes modeling wax, but usually clay or plasti- line. The latter, a kind of wax, some¬ what resembles putty, but does not harden; unlike clay, therefore it does not need to be wetted. Naturally, the sculptor sometimes turns out these little figures just as the painter often does his sketches; not necessarily as studies for larger works, but also simply for prac¬ tice. Thus the visitor to the studio of John Rogers of “group” fame, for in¬ stance, can often see long rows of those minute statuettes in the rough, filling shelves that run around tho room. From this preliminary sketch the art¬ ist usually prepares a larger study, gener¬ ally in clay, and, say, about one foot in height. This is already very much more elaborate than the first and allows the in¬ tent and conception of the sculptor to be seen much more clearly. So, for ex¬ ample, the study of Beecher for Ward’s statue of the great preacher, which the writer saw at the studio about two and a half years ago, was extremely suggestive in its presentation of spirit and character. Now, for these smaller models, which have been wrought over into a suggestive semblance of the work to be, there must be evolved a large clay model of the size in which it is intended to reproduce the figure or group. But such a mass of clay, if left unsupported,would collapse. Brian dan-’ with the precautions that are taken, gerous breakdowns havaoccurred in large or equestrian ^groups. But these would occur only through the inexperience of the sculptor. The clay is molded around a sort of iron skeleton, with lead pipes for the arms and legs, which are bent in¬ to the positions required. This model is placed on a revolving stand, so that the sculptor may have the light on any side he wishes. The modeling is done with tools of bone and wood of various sizes. Some are about the length and thickness of a carpenter’s pencil, and flattened out at one end or at both ends; others have a triangular wire loop projecting from one end. The finer touches are often putin with the fingers alone, and it is in¬ teresting to watch the artist at work, picking off a small lump of clay at one place and dabbing it on in another, or producing delicate effects by deft digs or sweeps with his thumb. Water is oc¬ casionally squirted upon the model to keep it moist, and when the day’s work is done the figure, after another sprin¬ kling from the hose, is covered with damp cloths. Some sculptors, after thus wrapping up their clay model, take further precautions to keep oil the air. At Ward’s studio a cylinder of black oil cloth, closed on top and held in shape above and below by stiff rings, is let down from the ceiling over the model. J. Scott Hartley effects the same result by means of a metal cylinder which has some resemblance to an inverted ash can and which was invented by Walter Clark, one of his pupils. Sometimes the clay is mixed with stearine and glycerine, in¬ stead of water, but the latter is generally used. In this clay model the figure is worked out completely to the smallest detail, and when the sculptor has fashioned the pli¬ able material into exactly the shape that he waDts, the whole is cast in plaster of paris. A plan followed by some sculp¬ tors is to have the plaster cast made be¬ fore they have finished modeling; in that case the work is completed on the plaster cast, as good plaster Hiram can be pre¬ pared for this purpose. Powers is said to have done all his modeling in plaster, and invented some very ingenious tools for his work. Ward, I am told, when making the equestrian statue of General Thomas, first prepared a careful study of the horse, about one-third of the proposed size. From this, by ex¬ act measurement, he manufactured a sori of skeleton, three times a large, with ribs, which he covered with burlaps. Then he piled on the plaster, being guided all the while by measurements model. made from all points of the small It was a very ingenious way of avoiding the difficulties presented by the tendency of the legs of large animal figures to crack and crumble when modeled in clay. A few artists, like Bernarovitch Fein- berg, for instance, the sculptor at the Eden Musee, finish their figures when they are cast in plaster, but the general practice is to complete them in the clay. The next and last step is to reproduce the plaster cast in the material in wuich it is desired to perpetuate the artist’s work. Marble or bronze is generally used for this purpose, and whether the statuary is hewn out of stone or cast in metal the operation iu both cases is a delicate one and requires a high degree of mechanical and artistic skill. If the material chosen is marble, the process is as follows: The material is placed upon a large ‘‘scale stone,” and the marble block on a similar one. Marks are then made on all the project¬ ing or salient parts of the plaster figure, and each “scale stone” is also covered on it3 front with a number of points, which are the same on each stone. By means of an ingenious contrivance the marble is drilled full of holes corresponding to the marks made on the model. The in¬ strument used for this purpose is what is known as a "pointing machine,” which is provided with arms that end in metal “needles,” and which is placed between the two “scale stones.” In using it, one of the arms, which move in ball-and- socket joints, is set to touch a point on the scale stone, while the upper one is pointed upon a mark on the figure. The arms are then fixed in this position by means of a screw, and the instrument is swung around to the other scale stone. Here a corresponding point is touched by the lower needle, while the upper one, of course, strikes upon the marble block. This upper needle is made to slide backward and at the point it marks a hole is drilled into the marble. The hole is continued to such a depth that when the needle is protruded again to its full length and touches the bottom of the hole it marks a spot that corre¬ sponds exactly to the place on which it was set on the plaster cast. This oper¬ ation is repeated until the marble is covered with a large number of holes, The “scarpellino,” or chiselman, then cuts away the marble as far as the bot¬ tom of all the holes. After the statue is thus roughly blocked out it passes into the hands of a more skilful scarpellino. The latter completes the marble statue almost entirely, being constantly aided by the pointing machine in making meas¬ urements. The sculptor then has little to do more than to add the finishing touches .—New York Times. SELECT SIFTINGS. Filberts originally came from Greece. Koch’s lymph is a clear,reddish-brown fluid. It is said that a Chinaman never goes crazy. Thomas Jefferson invented tho hill¬ side plow. Maryland’s State Museum has a petri¬ fied oyster. The United States has more miles of railroad than all Europe. Beavers and otters ^re still trapped in Northern New York in large numbers. A lawyer of California has just received §95,000 for five years’ work on one case. Cincinnati (Ohio) physicians propose the enlargement of the head as a cure for idiocy. Queens College, Oxford, England, has just celebrated the 550th anniversary of its foundation. Farthings are legal tender in England up to one shilling, but are frequently refused if offered for even one penny. Millionaire Crocker, of California, is said to have four diamonds in the crown of his teeth. The stones are valued at $1500. The skeleton of Tonti, the famous French explorer, has been unearthed at Starved Rock, on the Illinois River. It was identified by the iron hand. One of the employes of the Postal Telegraph Office in St. Petersburg, Rus¬ sia, has invented a watch which will run forty-five days at a single winding. A goose at Tarrytown, N. Y., has reached the age of twenty-two years and is still sound in mind and body and ap¬ parently good for five years more, She has furnished enough feathers in her life to make three feather-beds. Probably the most unique and expres¬ sive annual pass for 1891 is that sent out by President John Hoey, of the Adams Express Company. On thejface, delicately engraved, is a skull, and about it in fine letters is the word “deadhead.” For many years it was believed that the atmosphere had a great deal to do with thread-making, and that Scotland. good thread could only be made in It is now known that it is ail in the twist and nothing in the atmosphere. 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