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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. A process for marbehVmg silk plush without pressing or embossing it has been discovered by the Astoria Silk company. By this process the light and dark effects are reversed when looked at from opposite points. The finish is nicely preserved and does not give the appearance of having been wet, as shown in many goods of this character. Mrs. Annie Eoush, of Letart, Ohio, was born at Morgan town, Pa., June 4. 1787, and has liv ed in Meigs county since 1801. She is in good health, and from appearances she will live several years yet. More remarkable than her great age is the fact that she is at the head of fully 2000 living descendants, which, it is believed no other person in the world can successfully claim. She can look down on six generations. Shamov or wash leather, properly chamois 'leather, is so called because originally and when of the best quality it was made from the chamois or wild goat inhabiting the Alps and Pyrenees. It is now made chiefly from the skin of deer, goats and sheep. It is essentially distinguished from other kinds of leather in being dressed in oil without salt, alum or tan, and in the grain being taken off. Tho skins are brought to a state of pelt by liming and washing. The buff color is imparted by dipping into gamboge, not to tan, but to dye them. . . Cases of lead poisoning among the Jacquard weavers in 'a Swiss factory were traced to the diBfc from leaden weights which arc used by tho weavers to carry the threads of their warp. After the varnish has been rubbed off from tho weights, the lead begins to wear away and falls in fine particles among the dust on the floor. In some cases the dust was as much as 50.88 per cent lead, aud even when the utmost care had been taken 0 or 10 per cent of lead was found in it. DA St. Louis brewery agent says: "We are doing a big business in Kansas now, thanks to the 'original package' decision. deci-sion. We do not sell directly to the dealers, but make each one a manufacturer's manufac-turer's agent. He is required first to give a bond, indorsed by at least two responsible men, for $2,000. " Then we ship him a carload of beer - in assorted packages, tho favorite, styles being the pony keg and the 'trinity,' tho latter a package containing three bottles. The agent must pay for this carload of beer before he can get another car, we holding hold-ing the bond as security for the second, and so on." One of the marvels of electricity, and one of the most striking of the Edison exhibits at the Paris exposition, was tho little instrument which enables tho operator op-erator to sign a check 100 miles distant. The writing to be transmitted is impressed im-pressed on soft paper witli an ordinary stylus. This is mounted on a cylinder, which, as it revolves, "makes and breaks" the electric current by means of the varying indentations on the paper. pa-per. At the receiving end of the wire a similar cylinder, moving in accurate synchronism with the other, receives the current on a chemically prepared paper, on which it transcribes the signatures sig-natures in black letters on a white ground. |