agent is in the cyanotype or "blue-print" process. This blue-print paper
is coated with a solution of potassium ferrocyanide and ammonio-citrate
of iron. Each of these salts is soluble in water, but when the paper
with which they are coated is exposed to the action of light, the two
substances combine and form a compound which is something of the nature
of "Prussian blue." This compound is insoluble in water, and when a
print is made on the sensitive paper and placed in water the salts which
have not been acted upon by the light dissolve and wash away, while the
compound formed by the union of the two salts under the light action
remains, and the image is permanent.
A curious experiment may be made with the blue print. A paper is coated
with an equal mixture of the two salts in equal proportions, and a blue
print made on it in the usual way. When this print is dry, if it is
placed in a solution of proto-nitrate of mercury the picture will soon
disappear. If this apparently clear paper is washed and dried, and
ironed with a hot iron--not hot enough to scorch the paper--the picture
will gradually reappear, but the color will now be brown instead of
blue. When this picture is placed for a few days in a book or portfolio
it will fade away, but can be restored by again pressing with a hot
iron.
The next paper will give the explanation of the toning or--as the early
photographers termed it--the coloring process of the silver print.
* * * * *
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many mothers believe, is the most precarious in a child's life;
generally it may be true, but you will find that mothers and physicians
familiar with the value of the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk do
not so regard it.--[_Adv._]
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* * * * *
Magic Squares.
Magic squares have been so called on account of the wonderful
powers which the ancients thought they possessed. According to this
idea, a square containing one cell represented the Deity, the
product of unity by itself always being unity. The square of the
root two represented imperfection, while a square of nine cells was
consecrated to Saturn, of sixteen to Jupiter, of twenty-five to
Mars, of thirty-six to the Sun, of forty-nine to Venus, of
sixty-four to Mercury, and of eighty-one to the Moon. There are
even and odd magic squares. Added vertically, horizontally, or
diagonally the result will be the same. A still more ingenious
square is so arranged that when it is lessened by one, two, or
three bands on each side it will still remain "magic." Still
another square is divided into four compartments, each compartment
being magic.
ODD SQUARE.
[Illustration]
EVEN SQUARE.
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BORDERED SQUARE.
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COMPARTMENT SQUARE.
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VINCENT V. M. BEEDE, R.T.F.
* * * * *
An Unreliable Florida Lake.
There is a lake quite near to our house which is covered with weeds
and tall grass. From a distance it presents the appearance of a
large swamp. In this lake there are a number of clear places, which
are said to have no bottom, and are called "sinks." It is said that
twice this lake has run dry, the water escaping through one of
these sinks. Millions of fishes were left on the sand, and wagons
came and carried them off to be sold. I have also been told that
one of the farmers planted a field of rice in one of the fertile
places that the lake had uncovered. The rice grew and nourished in
the rich ground, when one morning, looking out to see how it was
growing, he found that the lake had come back in the night and had
buried his rice-field.
Have you ever tasted fresh figs? When at a friend's house the other
day some were brought in, and I tasted one. I found it to be very
sweet and sticky inside, and was what is called "sickish." I would
like to correspond with any member of the Round Table who is
interested in finding out the strange things in other countries.
MARION M. CLUTE, R.T.L.
LAKE CITY, FLA.
* * * * *
Kinks.
No. 14.--HIDDEN NAME.
Prose by Optic, Poe, and Emerson offers no greater variety than would
poetry by Goldsmith, Ruskin, Edgeworth, Greene, Otway, Reade, Young,
Irving, and Xerxes, had all written poetry. Find the name of the man who
sent usurers to England to loan money to poor people unable to pay
tithes, which usurers, having offices on a certain London street, give
it a name to this day.
* * * * *
No. 15.--BEHEADING.
Behead the foot of a horse, and leave a fruit; behead again, and leave
part of the horse; behead again, and leave before.
SIMON T. STERN.
* * * * *
No. 16.--THREE KITCHEN RECEIPTS.
First have your stove intensely warm
If this dish you'd properly make:
Then into it put two less than a dozen
Of tiny creatures to bake.
By following directions you find it will give
A well-known people who in Africa live.
* * * * *
Make your first layer of a very small article,
Your last of an equally small measure.
Between them place the beginning of speech.
A transposition you have at your pleasure.
* * * * *
Take a dish for an invalid,
Neither liquid nor solid.
Mix it well with a space
That's broad and not squalid.
'Twill make you a dish
That epicures covet,
And all who partake
Will vow that they love it.
* * * * *
No. 17.--A MENU.
Soup--lake in Minnesota. Fish--cape in Massachusetts, river in
Connecticut. Roast--river in Tennessee, lake in California.
Vegetables--river in Vermont, river in Alabama. Entrées--town in
Arizona, river in Montana. Dessert--city in New Jersey, island off
Connecticut coast, river in Arkansas, river in Montana, river in
Mississippi.
* * * * *
No. 18.--A DINNER PARTY.
Some time ago, no matter when, a grand dinner party was given, at which
were guests who assumed the following names, in order to make the feast
a celebration, by famous Americans, of a great American event. The
assumed names were:
1, Common, a county, a human being.
2, Government appropriation.
3, Good advice, to cease from.
4, Casual, worn out, a slip.
5, A fish, a city in Oregon, to pursue.
6, A vegetable, a drink, a hinderance, torpid.
7, An Irish nickname, a stack, a fowl, grain.
8, An animal's cry, meat, a torch, to peruse.
9, To agree, cleansing, a weight.
10, Two Bible characters, a meadow.
11, A patriarch, a beverage.
12, To satisfy, a wine, a cave.
13, A small truck, a cry, a film, a heavenly body.
14, A past participle, a sweetmeat, a tavern, hirsute, a relation.
15, A fowl, to recompense, the strand, to wander.
16, A plant, a verb, two letters, residences.
17, A nickname, an animal, a whirlpool, a luminary.
18, A bird, a Russian, a small room, to sink, to flow.
19, An outfit, a chariot, a relation.
20, Headgear, a weight, an animal.
* * * * *
Answers to Kinks.
No. 9.
Central letters.--Meleager. Cross-words.--1, Plummet. 2, Bisects. 3,
Mallard. 4, Foreman. 5, Durance. 6, Leggins. 7, Creeper. 8, Starred.
* * * * *
No. 10.
1, 1808. 2, 375 A.D. 3, A. 4, 6. 5, _Nein_ (9). 6, Cat. 7, 85. 8, 60
tons. 9. 1880 carats.
Solution.--
1808-375=1433+1=1434÷6=239x9=2151÷3=717-85=632+60=692+1880=2571.
Square root of 25=5x2=10, number of letters in _Euphrosyne_.
* * * * *
No. 11.--A dream.
* * * * *
No. 12.--Caprice--a price, price, rice, ice, ream, cream, ice-cream.
* * * * *
No. 13.
Donkey, keynote, notelet, letter, terror, roral, allot, lotto, tower,
ergot, gotten, tender, derma, marine, renal, alarm, armor, mortal,
tallow, Lowell, well done.
* * * * *
Much In a Right Beginning.
Governor William E. Russell, of Massachusetts, who died recently at the
age of thirty-nine, but had in that short life been Mayor of his city
and Governor of his State, and had gained national fame, early began to
think and act right. As a school-boy, when boating with five companions,
his craft was overturned, and he swam a mile to shore. Asked by his
mother about his struggle to reach land, he said, "I thought of you,
prayed to God, and kept my arms and legs in stroke."
THE END OF OLD MONEY.
Every one has at some time or another received in change a ragged bill,
sometimes in such a dilapidated condition that it is held together with
pieces of gummed tissue-paper, made expressly for that purpose. When
such bills are received, the desire is to get rid of them as quickly as
possible, and so they pass from hand to hand, until finally they reach
some bank that will turn them into one of Uncle Sam's treasuries.
Uncle Sam would like to keep his paper money clean, and he endeavors to
withdraw from circulation every ragged bill. Eventually most every bill
finds its way back to the Treasury after a life of from two to four
years, except those that are lost, or destroyed in fires, etc. It is an
almost impossible task to recall them all, yet the number that are
withdrawn provide work for a large department in the Treasury Building
at Washington. If one passes through the corridors and should glance
into this room, he will see a lot of girls busily counting bundles of
dirty greenbacks of all denominations. When the count is carefully
tabulated, the bundles are stacked on the floor in small piles. It is
not an uncommon sight to see two of the girl counters seated on a pile
of these bills chatting to each other, doubtless of some social matter,
utterly regardless of the fact that they may be sitting on some hundred
thousand dollars of actual money.
The end of these old bills that have served their purpose so faithfully
has a certain amount of pathos. If one is fortunate enough to be present
when a committee of three officers of the Treasury send them to their
destruction, a curious, almost indescribable sensation will creep over
one. This destruction takes place in a room in the Treasury Building.
There is a small table in the centre of the room, and on this the
bundled bills are piled in reckless confusion. Through two holes in the
floor at the end of the table can be seen the large cylinders or
macerators into which the bills are placed. They are about the size of
locomotive boilers. A large funnel is inserted in one of the holes, and
it connects with one of the macerators. The bills are then untied and
thrown into the mouth of this funnel. It is amusing to see one of the
committee take a stick when they become jammed and prod them through.
When the last one is safely in, a mixture of lime and soda-ash is placed
in the macerator, a cover is clamped over the ventricle, and each member
of the committee fastens it with a separate lock. Steam is then turned
on, and the cylinders are set in motion. When the bills have been
thoroughly macerated the pulp is drawn off and taken to a paper-machine,
where it is made into sheets of paper, and afterwards sold.
Some one suggested the idea of using part of the pulp to make little
fancy images. The idea was adopted, and dainty little knick-knacks made
of the pulp can be bought in the stores in Washington. The salesmen
often induce the possible purchaser to buy by telling him that the image
at one time represented a large sum of money.
To pick up one of these images is to give rise to thought, for here
embodied in a small compass is that which was once part of the greatest
power in the world.
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. By the Sieur LOUIS DE CONTE, her
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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
THE INTRODUCTION.
[Illustration: THE CARVING FORK. "MR. PITCHER, ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU
TO MY FRIEND MR. BUNNY."]
[Illustration: THE PITCHER (_bowing low_). "HAPPY TO MEET YOU, MR.
BUNNY."]
* * * * *
A WISE BOY.
HELEN (_awed_). "Oh, Tommie, aren't you awfully afraid of the bears they
tell about up here?"
TOMMIE. "Naw! I'm not afraid of the bears anybody tells about. I'm only
afraid of the bears I see."
* * * * *
A HAND-CLAPPER.
"Papa," said Willie, as he entered his father's room at the Mountain
House, "can I join the band here?"
"I don't know. As what--bass-drummer?"
"No, clapper," said Willie.
"You can't play the clappers," said his father.
"No," said Willie, "and they don't want me to; but I'm to start the
applause when the band stops playing."
* * * * *
There is a smart little town out in North Dakota, and its inhabitants
imagine they are a great deal smarter. They have an excellent opinion of
their city, as they term it, and blow and bluster more over its welfare
and growth than a Kansas cyclone. The main line of a railroad runs
through it, and once a week a train stops there. This indifference on
the part of the railroad people is a source of bitterness to the
inhabitants, especially as the engineers make it a point to go through
the place at full speed. Finally, they resolved to put a stop to it, so
one day they built a barricade on the tracks, and forced the first train
to come to a halt. Then they arrested the engineer and took him before
the judge of the place. He was charged with running through a city
regardless of speed, and to the danger of the populace.
"What have you to say in answer to this charge, sir?" sternly asked the
judge.
The engineer smiled and looked around. He stepped to the door and looked
at the few straggling houses, and allowed an expression of astonishment
to settle on his face. Then he walked slowly up in front of the judge
and said:
"Upon my honor, judge, this is the first time I ever knew there was such
a place as a town on this part of the line."
The citizens after that slowly removed the barricade, and let the
engineer proceed on his way.
* * * * *
AN ACCOMPLISHED LITTLE GIRL.
AGGIE. "Mamma, can't I stay up to the dance to-night?"
MRS. B. "Why, you can't dance, my dear."
AGGIE. "No, mamma; but I can stay up splendidly."
* * * * *
AN OBSERVANT YOUNG LADY.
"It's dreadfully mean," said Mollie. "They have an elevator in this
hotel to take you up to bed when you don't want to go; but they haven't
anything to take you up the mountains that tire you out to climb."
* * * * *
A MISTAKE SOMEWHERE.
"There's one thing I can't understand about the mountains," said Benny.
"Pop says it's awfully expensive up here, but I can't see it. This is my
third summer here, and it's never cost me a cent."
* * * * *
VERY SUPERIOR.
MOLLIE (_at the Mountain House_). "We had a german last night."
POLLIE (_a visitor from the Valley House_). "Pooh! We have a Frenchman
at our house for the whole summer."
* * * * *
[Illustration: "SAY, JACK, THAT CATFISH YOU'VE GOT WAS A HOWLING SUCCESS
AS A CATCH."
"YES. IT JUST FILLED THE BILL."]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, August 4, 1896, by Various