CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT FAINTS.
The best brown paint used by artists is made out of mummies taken out of the Egyptian mausoleums. When a person die 4 in the East about a century or two 8.C., he was preserved in the finest bitumen. The remains of a body treated thus in those times, on being unwrapped to-day, present an appearance similar to light coloured leather. The bitumen and the feather-like remains are ground down by machinery and turned into a beautiful brown liquid paint, the delight of all artists. Crimson, purple, lakes, and carmine are all obtained from the cochineal insect. Sepia is the dark fluid discharged by the ' cuttle-fish to- render the water opaque for its own concealment when attacked by a larger fish. -. Prussian blue is made by pressing the |hoofs of horses with impure potassium cartboiiate. - '■.■'* { Ultramarine is obtained frem tho precious %petal known as lapis lazuli. Turkey-red is made from ths Indian madder plwfci
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Southland Times, Issue 18059, 31 January 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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