VOL IS. NO. 45.

CATE MAY CITY. WEDNESDAY MORNING AVGCST *>•

PRICE 3 CENTS.

CONTFECTIOMl

HOW A MOSAIC IS MADE.

A Moldliac la X^tpX-

On the principal etraet we beard mo■ctn the diatancr. and rominjc nearer GLASS ’ found that a wedding wtu in prugnwa A matting wa» ejirrad opuu the ground, upon which the '•nilr, a rather old and 1 rather croa» U«*fcjug Nubian girl, naL

temilac UrT Trl ] WBB the ueual ahawl. thu time Differed j 0 ( arhite. AUo upon the matting net

two drummer* playing

: long drum.

One of Jhe moct important recent de- ^ . „„„ ,

TelopmeuU in glue* manufacturing Ran been in the art .d working in glaa« mosaic. and they hal e repradnced in thi» method Mr. Hobnan Hunt * iiicture of ••CJirUt among the l»«-tiu*,' which many people may n-miunlwr in the old Watercolor aodaty * exhibition in !S87. The iun mosaic, about eight feet wide and four j feet high, wa* made for the reredoa of Clifton .xdlege chapel. Few people hare

the other, both heating L>-

To this mahe a number of w««ije*i in gay dreaaea were .lancing, two at a time, taking turn* in tiuuruhing ore*- the hea-i pf the Muted bride a pule xaae nx f«g long. We ttopped in the encircling ' are what wa* going cm. and

The eaae with which lioTernor Bearer, of Pemuylrania, get* about on one leg

rlaas at the end of the war 1 wa» the hand. After engaging nuoatrarg hotel I sauntered around the old college building* waiting fur the rest of the hoy* of the of '3« to turn mi. Hie first one to put in an appearaure had an empty coat sleeve. While a Confederate shell had taken my by. a Cni.m ball had tom

the slightest i.lea of how a mosaic is

dr.

•The art of working in mosaic, the moat imperishable of wall daroration*. known to the Homans." said Mr.ell, sniierinundcnt of a manufactory. -and ha* Usn rerived and [racticed Thu* there wa* a re-

1 Titian also

leuf the w

n who had

viral in KapluteT made design* fur

day it ha* Ism revived by ftalriati. Venice, and it has been prartk-ed in the Vatican and at St. Peter'* tn Rome under the present and former |iope for the purlK**e of rrpr.docing the work* of the old master* in an imjieruUable form. Mbs! of the work dune in thi* country and on

the continent for the last quarter of man', help w« century ha* Ism by Salviati. *ati»fi.sl t.

been daui-ing suddeiily threw heiaelf headlong upon the matting, cloned her eye* and seemed to go off in a kind of fit- ’ The Other woman ran to her. fuaaed

over her a little, a

dragoman to find out what this all meant, he said she had been drinking too much of the native wine, and he tn-

tiun and began wildly to clutch about her. The umbrella belonging to one of our i*rty being conveniently near she seized upon it, and only with the drago-

tuni away. Wep *

New YuIV Commercial

ruled in

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Advertiser.

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working at mosaic for about ton Tear*, and have introduced some very important inijirovement* We have, moreover, trained all our own craftsmen, and I sol of the work, from tie-making of the glass to the romplaiiou of the ■. i» done by highly skilled En-

glish craftsmen." THE I, Less M MADE,

are the cube* of glass made and arranged into a jiietunrl" "You must begin at the beginning and ace the glass made.'' said Mr. Powell, leading i way into the workshop. "But firat me show you what the old method . This." showing, me a piece of ujiaquc colored glass, for all the world

place of gigs* inch as

is used in Venice. It is made by taking big drop of molten glam and [Jessing out fiat—to about a quarter of an inch

in lliii Ilium These

color. They are cut into little cube* and arranged to f.irm the design, andituth*

face which forms the picture sur-

face. The disadvantages are the disagreeable glitter id the glam and the dif-

ficulty of shaping the piece*-"

•‘And the new method/' 1 wa* shown the maker of the glass at work. The workman has a sliallow mold, into which he

sifl* from the perforated bottom of

jug a colored powder From another jug he sifts another thirknew of whits powder, and then a ronxidcnible thick-

of coarser powder, making alto-

gether about a quarter of an inch. These powder* are of ground glass and are \ fused by the heat of the fire into a solid j j , tile. Thy first powder is of the color the ! j iv

pretty nearly everything elae that a man with two arm* find* necessary to do. I mid to him that the kia* of an arm did Dot amn to incommode him. 'Well, do yon know. Jim.' he replied, that since I lust my other arm and find that everything I want to do can be done with one arm instead of two, 1 often wonder what reason the good Lord had for making a man with two arms.' Now. in my case," the general concluded, "I wont put the thing as strongly aa my maimed cl**amato did. but one leg mem* to answer me very well."—Chicago Herald.

ladles Use* Drlaff 0.1.

The buns of India appear to be going the way of the groat bustard and the dado, and the reason is found in the extoniuou of railways, for the monarch of the burnt sham with Mr. Ruskin a mortal antipathy to the smoke and screams of locotnotivm. Within the memory of many peraons bon* were common enough

be heard occanunallr in the

wildest parts of Centrul India; but tbs new railway from Nagpur is now being coustructod through this country, and this is practically a notice to quit served ujsm the few remaining lions in tha central provtaoea. Practically the only lions now remaining that are worth mentioning seem to be the race existing in Kattywar. which wa* visited by Prince Albert Victor the other day. Their nuin-

Two men named Peter Thornton and

Thomas Smith won- recently charged before the Liverpool stipendiary magistrate with having frequented the steamship Motia's Isle with intent to nimmit a felony. Detective Boyee stated that on Saturday he was a pasn-nger on hoard the steamer from Liverpool to Douglas, and on arriving at his destination he noticed Thornton endeavoring to jdek

the pockets of several ladle*, panion acting as a shield to h s. He took them into custody and

them in charge of the Manx police, tionary. It is strictly forbidden

prisoner* were stripped of their them, save by way of the grand spurt; money, wstche* and jewelry and then ' but many conditions are unfavorable to allowed to go. ! their multiplication, and even the KatTbey wandered about without mean* j ty war lions are clearly doomed ere lung

of sustenance until Monday, when they to disapiiear.—London News. were sent over to Liverpool, and Boyes | ’ met them and removed them to prison. Ai...ut Halklns Horan.

In reply to the magistrate the prisoner* , Hone* know nothing about balking said that the Manx police authontie* until they are forced into it by bad told them <b*t they would not bede- management. When ahoree balks in hartained if they delivered up their prop nea* it is generally from some mismsnerty. Detective Boyes said that there ageiueut. excitement, confusion, or from was no likelihood of the prisoner* recov-. not knowing bow to pull, but seldom

cring their valuables, as the Manx police '

invariably held pTi.m of things belonging to [insoner* taken into their custody. Smith asked what |*oc«*-d-ings they could take in order to recover their property. The magistrate told them they hadvjietter keep away from the island. The prisoner* were then dia-

chargciL—Time*.

from any

to perform all A free hor»e in a

team may be so anxious to go that when he bears the word be will start with a jump which will not move the load, but give him so severe a jerk oo the shoulder* that he will fly back and stop tha other burae. Next will come the slashing and cracking of the whip and hallooing of the driver, until something is

taatiue* la Brooklyn. ! broken or the driver is through with his I surprised conductor the other ; course of treatment. But what a inis- , HOC of Deacon Richardson's open take the driver makes in whipping his

glass i* intended to be, the second is loWT1 rmrK When the car stopped horse for this act: Reason and common white, to give quality to the surface a t „ n.^-iug a man Uiardcd it with two sense should teach him that the horse color and to resist damp, and the third is c j 11 i,] rrn „ om . of the car and a was witling and anxious to go but did simply a backing ofcoar-cr glass to give ^, U11UI1 wlt h two children at the other j not know how to start the load.—New

strength and thickness. j P.,-1, took the ssme bench facing 1 York Times. The tile is then cut up into little pieces the horse*, with the four children he- j — with a Steel American wheel into the twwn tbpni conductor received ] T ‘"' “*u~*a Aedd..!-

shapes required. “The advantage," coo- t [ le , luLn > five cent piece for one j The first great railroad accident octiuueil Mr. Powell, "besidu* the *ui>e- f4r< . ^ | lurred no the Great Western road of

rior color it that we use the surface in- -Won’t you pay a little more-" said j England in 18ft. A train w

stead of the cut edge of the tile for t t 1( . conductor, holding the nickel ii the picture. And so we can cut any hm,! and looking at the children, shape we require. Thus, as in Mr. Hoi-j -wiiv should I pay any more:" Hunt s [hi tare. we can cut pipccs i lite angrily; "the oldest child is not

the shape of a thnmh nail, orTit a 3 veareuM."

nostril, or of parts of an eye, or of any \ '-How old is your wife?" said the <x

of the little hits of drawing which go to I j uctnr narcarti'cally.

make np a [lictnre. In the old way these ] -What's that your allairr retorted the 1

things would have to lie made up of lit-1

tie mhos, and of course theahapre would I t „i ut ., uo w, yotrran heat n

of earth and stones

-11 from the .'Uil-ankmcnt and obatructed the way. Eight persons were killed and many wounded. The coroner’s jury returned’ a verdict of "accidental death In all case* and a dcodand of £1,000, an engine, tender and carriages." The old common law provided that when any [icraoual chat V-i was the canae of death

it should he forfeited to the king.

have been nearly so accurate. By the kliis. if you like." said the conductor. | «* thlB-act was not enforced in

method we are enabled to approach , gutting mad, "but you must pay for the • ,mt » heavy fine w -*- pictorial effect—quite as 0 id (pj." .i —-

-i * a about U

Part

as is desirable in this class of deco- ;

the owners of any chattel doing personal

ske a hot re- injury to the king's subjects- This law

! j,under when the won*, stopped the was <*mrv«d IW.tffapgrootniEa. , lOMrTv l by saying. "Throe two children ! Rameirisl-obshed the practice—Detroit

•And the putting of the pieces to- are with me; I don't know the man." ITem. getherr "Tlicre are several way*. The "Oh." said the .conductor, accepting the j . _

most obvious is to rement the gla« piece woman's nickel. Hewa* too mad- * by piece upon the stonework. But that out to ask if either of her children

ro-kro very uneven work, and it is difficult to mske alterations. The methods .

we actually practice are two—namely, j ‘face down' and -face up.' The funner It is now accepted that a Turkish bath is used fur decorative paucl* and the 1st- is peculiarly unfriendly to rheimisrism, tor for ini]—riant work, like picture*, and far ahead of any other remedial The method is this: We have a tracing agency. One physician records over 8,000 made of, say. a iiead, which Vjpcing is ou.-* treated by the means of these baths, pasted down on a plate of glaai: The ! and a i-ure was obtained ill #3 per cenL LtUe pieces of mosaic are then, after One rouse of rheumatism lies in the much careful”•election and cutting, put : waste insterial which arciunulatro in the down uj—n their [daces on the tracing , bodies of its victims. The rosiest way and fixed with weak cement, and so tat { to expel thu is through the akin ami by by bit the whole is made ui* ] sweating. Turkish baths, w hen rightly "The advantage is that we aec what employed, can scarcely do barm. They we are doing as we go on, and that al- ' sometimes debilitate, but it U only for terations are easily made. When the 1 the time bring, the strength being almost work U finished in thu wsjffit u ready ... ***

fu transferring permanently to 'the stoue wall or to a slab of slate. This U rosily done. We take a piece of linen, such as architects uae for tracing, and cement it all over the face of the I«n-ce* of glass. When thU U hard the linen with all th* pioccs of mosaic in stripped off the glass plate. The slab of slate or the wall is then prepared with cement, upon which the mosaic, held together by the linen, is pressed and left to harden. The linen U then washed off and the finished mosaic exposed to view. And this U how a glass mosaic U made."

—Pall Mall Gazelle.

« u rimer o. urr om.ure,. ... - A Ute **> rf The OAtetW 8 vear* of age.—Brooklyn Eagle. I K>r« ex-King Theehew . officml eiqd*.

nation of bow he came to lose the throne. Thecbaw writes thus: "My Ute father, the royal Mindoon Min, the golden footed lord of the white elephant, master of a thousand gulden umbrellas, owner of the royal pcacocka, lord of the sea and of the world, whose face was like the tun—he alwsyt smoked the Eaoof cheroot while meditating oo his treatment of the bull faced, earth swallowing English. Had 1 done the same I should never hare lost my throor, but I used the o[*uin drugged cherouU from Manila ami the traah which wa* sent me from Sen Francisco, and I fell. (Signed)

Thecbaw, formerly king.

Smith—Which do yon prefer. Willie

i'anderbilt or Jfy Gould:

"Are you acquainted with them?" " all; but they can go on my

l-ara4* wf tk* Bars' Ustaal* SoelsllThe second parade of the Royal Botanic society in Regent park was a brilliant success." All kinds uTfehiclcs wruslhed in flowers formed a charming proccahuu. The most original and striking device of the day wa* a dug cart draped in white, shaded by a huge umbrolU, which gave the effect of an idrphant's howdah aa l» appeared in the distance of the ground*. Near at hand thU chariot was seen to be entwined with plaited straw and white marguerite*.—Chicago Herald.

Hard to PI****.

Clara—I don't like Charlie Feathcr-

brayne.

Ethel—Why not? dare—He's too extravagant. Ethel—Then I suppoae you like Jack Harding. He's a regular miser. Clara—No. I don't. HeY

t rich

The longest run by conductor* on record U undoubtedly that of the Pullman conductors whoa* trip extend* from Washington. D. C„ to Mobile, Ala., thence back U/ Philadelphia, thence to New Orleans and thence beck to Washington. Fourteen days are consumed in the run, allowing the conductor to reach his home only twice a month, although it includes a "lay off* at the different

terminals. Of course, tl

to?"— enough to be extravagant—Munsey's

When will parents learn not to expect too much of their children? “Ethel, get np, my dear. Don't yon know it's naughty toplay like that’ Mr. Smith's daughter never would do so. She's a good little gill." -Well, mamma. Beasie Smith ought to be a better girt than I am. Her papa's a minister, and my papa's only a dea-

Weakly.