Show artificial effal GOLD now AL CHEMISTS USED TO MAKE MAK E IT IN THE OLDEN TIME it 11 Ill ought to 0 o most mo of them at aa unhappy rate if one failed to carl carry Y out ont MI an ho he lost ni his mr life an Aln american erlean tarns a it has often been stated and with truth that modern chemist chemistry aryls Is indebted for much of its knowledge to the al chemists of old whose experiments for the ho purpose of making gold by artifice were certainly extraordinary n ary to the utmost poll point at of absurdity some of them actually attempted to imprison the suns rays raya which they tried to calcine and powder the rays being supposed to con bist of pure golden sparks parks others sought to abt obtain ain the philosophers stone which was to transmute all other metals into gold from honey sugar wine blood and even rainwater dead bodies were dug up from their graves and saltpeter was extracted from them to servo serve as an ingredient still others other believed that gold grew f from rom seed other luhtala merely f furnishing ur a fruitful soil boll in which the yellow germs developed like plants in a work now rare called the history of ancient pharmacy it is ig mentioned that raymond nully was said to have transi transformed ormed pounds of mercury into gold for the english king edward ill III and that from this supply of the yellow metal the first rose nobles were coined the credibility of the story is ia somewhat diminished however by the circumstance that tho the same monarch was soon after obliged to coin money from his own and the queens crown and from the golden vessels of churches and cloisters it is gravely brately recorded that the emperor rr frederic ederic ill III on jan 15 1018 at prague changed three pounds of mercury into two and one half pounds of gold by means of one grain of a lead powder given to him by a man named Richt richthausen hausen lie ile created this man baron of chaos and from the gold a medal was made which bore an inscription referring to its artificial origin this medal was long preserved in the vienna treasury in I 1 1705 s 05 a saxon lieutenant named pay kull was taken prisoner by charles XII at warsaw and condemned to death deat h bo Ho promised tomako tomake worth of gold each year if his life were spared in n the presence of witnesses changed six ounces of lead into goldby gold by means of a tincture which contained antimony sulphur and saltpeter among other ingredients out of this gold medals were stamped but must have f failed ailed in subsequent attempts because ho he was afterward executed if this goose had been able to lay real golden eggs it is to be presumed that he be would not have met with so melancholy a fate the business of manufacturing gold in those days seems to have been an extremely dangerous one commonly bringing pers persons who pursued it to a violent death george honauer promised to transform thirty six hundredweight of iron artil into gold for the prinle e of the prince detected aboy a boy who had been concealed in the laboratory in the act of f putting gold in the crucible he treumon the thereupon ordered an iron gallows to be constructed from which the imprudent fakir was hanged in 1697 two other gold goldma makers kera were likewise hanged from this thia same gallows at stuttgart in 1006 1000 and 1738 respectively in a man named Kroh Krohn emanu entered the service of the marquis of brandenburg with the rank of colonel ile ho soon boon won reputation as a goldmaker and was given charge of the mint and mines subsequently he was suspected of fraud and on his trial it was proved that he had stolen goldana gold and silver from the treasury of the margrave for use in the deception he was condemned tobe toba hanged A quack named daniel supplied italian apothecaries with a wonderful gold powder called fur which was supposed to havo have astonishing toni shing medicinal value pretending that the art of compounding this with other drugs was a mystery known only to himself he directed his patients not to permit the apothecaries tomia to mis thoin the ingredients 0 9 of his prescriptions but to buy them including 0 the and bring them to him for putting together ha mixed the drugs omitting om omitting ittin 0 the iu in which manner he succeeded in having restored to him the gold powder previously bously soli by him at a high price to the apothem caries the powder soon became bee aine famous und and the quack finally offos offered ed to teach duke cosmos II 11 of florence the art of making gold the duke paid daniel ducats dubats for tho the secret and the swindler led fled to france md with th the money count cajetan in 1705 1703 in the presence of frederick I 1 of prussia changed one pound of mercury into gold by means of a i red tincture subsequently ho he promised to male mako worth of gold in six weeks but failing to 1 keep bep his word he be was hanged banged draped in gold leaf which became ther customary method of dealing with al chemists 9 the tribe triba of al chemists iq in not yet entirely extinct in 1680 an american named wise duped a member of the roban family and a collateral of the necklace cardinal whom cagliostro deceived by pretending to make gold wise gt a considerable sum of money from roban and de camped only a few days ago the writer picked up a little pamphlet on a bookstall in new york which contained several pages of advertised advertisements adver lei ith if it a substance bub stance for transmuting other metals into gold tile price bei being ng only rive five dollars washington star |