A considerable industry is being carried on in Europe in the manufacture of picture frames from paper. Paper pulp, glue, linseed oil, and carbonate of lime, or whiting, are mixed together and heated into a thick cream, which is run into moulds and hardened. The frames are then gilt or bronzed. The Singer Company has recently completed on the Clyde river in Scotland, not far from Glasgow, a manufactory of sewing machines, where 3500 men are employed. There they make the Singer machines that are sold in Europe. This Company no longer ships any machines across tne water either from Europe or to Europe. Benjamin Moore, who died in Berlin recently, left by will a reward of one dollar for every policeman reporting, a case of cruelty to animals. "As men have. no *' ‘ja V- _ . . money to the brutes.” And ] riching the Berlin Society for tl tion of by nearly J530,0< hearts. o’ wrote in his will, 9 . .. i. j . if I
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8061, 7 January 1887, Page 2
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162Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8061, 7 January 1887, Page 2
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