ANCIENT MASTER ARTISANS.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1661, 19 August 1873, Page 4

ANCIENT MASTER ARTISANS.

Taking the metals, the Bible in its, first chapters shows that1 man"first conquered metals there in Asia, and on that spot to-day he ; can work more .wonders with those, ! metals than we can. .. One of the surprises that the European artists received when the English plundered the summer palace of the King of China, Was the curiously wrought metal. Tesse^s of every kind, far exceeding-ell the boasted skill of the workmen of Europe.1 '"English"surgeons going to India are advised to have their instruments gilded because English steel cannot bear the atmosphere. Yet the Damascus blades of the .Crusaders were not gilded, and they areas perfect as they werejeight centuries ag0.... There was one at the London Exhibition, the point of which could be made to touch 'the hilt, and! could be put into a scabbard like a corkscrew, and bent every way withoui breaking.; If a London chronometer maker wants the best steel to use in his chronometer, he does not send to Sheffield, the centre of ail science, but to the Punjaub, the empire of the seven rivers, where there is no science at all. The first needle ever made in Europe was made in the time of Henry the VIIIth,; and made by a negro; and when he died', the art died with him". Some of the first travellers in Africa stated that they found a tribe in the interior who gave them better i razors than tbey'had. Scott, in "Tales of the Crusaders," describes a meeting between Richard Ofleurde LionaudSaladin. Saladin; asks Eichard to show him - the wonderful' strength for which he is famous,-and the I Norman monarch responds by severing a bar of iron which lies on the floor of his tent. \ Saladin says,-"I cannot do that," but he takes an eider down pillow from the sofa, and drawing his keen blade across it, it falls in two pieces. JRichard says: " This is the black art; it is niagic; it i> the devil; you cannot cut that which has no resistance; " and Saladin, to show him that such is not the case, taking from his shoulders a scarf which is co light that it almost floats in the air, and, tossing it up, severs it before it can descend, George Thompson states that he saw a man in Calcutta throw a ha'ndfuJLl of Joss silk into the air, and a Hindoo wver it into pieces with hit sabre, "We can produce

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A chemist and druggist named popster, living at Preston, has, been summoned fob the twenty-fifth time for the rion:vaccination of his child. The daughter of George Sand, it is stated, is going to be married to a former Catholic. prießt, named Touanne. The bridegroom ia now, despite his clerical antecedents, proprietor of a livery stable at Tourß, and. is reputed to be quite wealthy.

A revolving signal light has been invented, to be attached to the rear of trains, by which engineers behind can tell by the speed (of their rotations, as shown by tht succession of different colored lights, at rate of speed the trains are moving, and when they are at rest.

. A correspondent of The Colonies writes on May 12th:—" I have recently heard from South Africa, under date February 3rd, of the discovery of a rich alluvial goldfield about 50 miles in extent, 26 miles from Leydenburg, Transvaal Republic. The gold is found three feet under the surface. A Dutchman got 4oz. ia four days by rough washing. Lydenburg in 440 miles from Durban, Fort Natal. This information may be relied on."

A French writer proposes to photograph despatches to microscopic minutes, and blow them through a pneumatic tube sunk under the water, as under the Dover Straits. At the end of their journey the despatches would be reproduced in their natural sizes. Bulky despatches would thus be transmitted with the same facility and rapidity as the smallest.

Eenan (writes our Paris correspondent on June 16th) aiter a few years of rest and. some months of travel, haß brought out his fourth volume on. the "Origin of Christianity." Like the preceding three, the present bears a distinct title, " Anti-Christ.' 1 Anti-Christ is Nero. The work embraces the origin of Christianity from the arrival of St. Paul at Borne up to the Jewish revolution, a.d. 72 or 73; the conflagration of Borne; the massacre of the Christians; the death of. the apoetles ; the Apocalypse ; and the destruction of Jerusalem. These episodes have the palpitating interest of a novel; the style is charming, and many will find improvements not to be regretted. The massacre ot the Christians is a veritable photograph, and the portrait of Nero is a masterpiece. It was believed at the time that Nero was not dead, that after bandaging his "fatal" wound, he escaped to Parthia, where he remained concealed for 40years, and was about returning to torture the world. This feeling created an atmosphere of terror and strange crises in Christian consciences. Nero had even numerous loving friends, as the flowers daily strewn on his tomb prove. Benan's tenets may be disputed, but no one can question his marvellous talents.

A letter in The Times states that C. B. Brown, the surveyor of the British Colony of Guiana, has, in the last of his adventurous series of journeys to the sources of the great rirers of British ( Guiana, discovered, from a spot near the head waters of the Maßsarund, what at 30 miles distance appeared to be an immense river descending bodily from the. northwestern face of the great precipice of Beraima mountain, " the attic story of the world." This extraordinary cliff is known to be 2,000 feet in height, and, appears inaccessible on all sides yet surveyed. The summit is flat and of great extent. The fall is believed, on Indian authority, to belong to the Caruni river, a tributary of the Orinoco; and will be, therefore, in the territory of Venezuela. After tumbling sheer down, that astonishing wall, the water rushes down a glacis of (perhaps) 3000 feet more, at an angle which cannot be less than 45 degrees. The number of exhibitors to the American section of the Vienna Exhibition is 645, of which number 228 are from New York.

In his early life the late|Mr. Gillofct (the late celebrated penmaker) worked privately as the employee of half a dozen different penmakers. One day the manufacturers met together at dinner, and each backed himßelf to be the possessor of the beat workman. They severally wrote down the name of the special artizan who could make more pena in a day than any other, man. " Gillott " was written on every master's paper. This led to the discovery that Giliott had invented and was using a machine for making pens, which enabled him to do the work of a dozen men with one pair of hands.

In New York glass-lined iron pipes are being used to convey water, lhe friction is lessened, the pipes are always clean, and the. water is kept pure. Between the glass and iron is a layer of plaster of Paris, which, being a non-conductor of heat, prevents the water from freezing in the winter.

The London Lancet late published a case of a man who for nine days followed, his occupation with a needle fixed and embedded in his heart. On the ninth day a surgical operation was performed and the needle! extracted. The patient recovered without' exhibiting any unfavorable symptom. The Mikado's palace, Japan, has been destroyed by fire; also, 500 houses in Osaka., —More railroad schemes in Japan are! talked of. !

The fall of Khiva and the advance of the Bußsians in Central Asia is exciting great; attention among the natives of India, but: they have little sympathy with the Bussians.j A society for the promotion of scientific | industry has just been established in Man-i Chester. . . ;

Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., has beeni appointed Principal of the Working Men's; College, in room of the late Professor Maurice.

Twelve locomotives, the first ever constructed there, are nearly completed at the railroad work-shops, Sacremento, California. Eminent chemists and physicians in Europe contemplate for tiling a pbarmacopige adapted for general use in all European nations. .

i Steps are being taken to have an exhi-1 bition of leather at Northampton the pri'iif-! cipal pla.ee where the boot and ihoo trade of

That giilll, spell BetW tMiikfi tbl annual Bpftlling-tiiatcheß at Washiflgtoti prove, to. some of the schools the perfect spellefl among the boys were last year two to four among the girls. Brigham Young's. 117 children have been learning to sing, ■' Father, dear father, come home," one singing the solo while the other 116 join in the chorus, until each has successively given a tug at their father's domestic affections. The chorus tears. Brigham's tender vital* to flinders.— American paver.

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