Show HOUSE FURNISH furnishings INGS 7 the rage tor for finishing the houses of the tha rich in costly cosily and varied earled woods makes it necessary to ransack the forests of 0 Ilon honduras dur and mexico with each house of a rich man the effort Is to got moro more and moro more rare and varied woods and it seems to us ug as tills this goes on it those who mba are producing aluminum from the clays claya of the country could a little more reduce the cost of 0 producing so that tile the aluminum could be put upon tho the market a little cheaper thereat tho next race would bo be to have the finishing of houses in that substance and as it can bo be it would only be necessary to have the moulds fixed to produce the metal in perfect figu ea so that no carving would ile be necessary wo we suspect that it the thought were suggested to a man like mr beikes for instance Ini tance whose eloit Is not to have a very line fine house but to have bave the most moat costly house in the country he would at adopt it and then all the rage race would lie be tor for aluminum with the price 0 of copper as it is we can imagine tho the library and dining room could be done in copper and it if the Shylock in the last east keep at work a little longer the next thing iiii bo be to adorn houses with allver that Is the vay may things went on in pompeii and Hercula herculaneum until justice itself was waa outraged anti and sent showers of asla ashes s to whelm the cities sixty feet deep now after nearly 1310 1900 years as the excavations KO go on it Is a clear case that there was a struggle there as there Is in new york now amone the rich to excel each vo other th erand and from the evidences left th the a walls show that pompeii was fill e 11 with at that time but t alie 11 e and little all passed aay t tho lie civilization oc CC that coti country passed away the glory that had attached to it for seen benen hundred years pa pawed passed wed away and our tace lace Is no stronger et ronger than was waa that of old rome then too communications were not as rapid me a they now are arc and it took several centuries for old rome to degenerate until it became a reproach and a byword by word among nations it will not takfour tak take cour lour country nearly so long when it really starts on its downward course |