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Within the past three years four cases that have excited national interest have been tried in Chicago, and in eaehease theljuryihas brought in a verdict which has accorded with the evidence and public opinion. The juries are known as the 4 'Joe" Mack in- jury, the Anarch ist ! jury, the McGarigle jury and the 'boodle' commissioners' jury. A conv viction has been secured in ; every case. .The results are , that Mackin, tried for altering election returns,,is in prison, the anarchists are awaiting 'the decision of the court on an application for a new trial, McCarigle has escaped to Canada, an the "boodle"' commissioners have either paid their finef or are awaiting the issue of an appeal to a higher court. i The United Btates Treasury agent in charge of Ihe Alaskan sea islands reports that tfijSritish lnarauders .during the IhimTinv O'Brien, you" the islands belonging to the United States.' The. seals are killed not in the waters wthn the disputed jurisdict?6n but on the islands. The British case is made up on the theory that the offences against the statutes of the United States are committed within ' the 'waters which are claimed to be part of the high seas. The fact seems to be that the British ves sels land their crews on the islands and kill the seals during the breeding season. The offense1 has a far larger importance, ! therefore, "than is involved in an occa sional infraction of the, rights of this country. If the British position is agreed to, the result must? bo the exter mination of the seals. The Boston Transcript enthusiastically exclaims: "What a country jwe have altogether ! One section of it that was untouched in 1880 is now producing 4,000,000 tons of iron annually, and an other section. (Montana) scarcely known in 1880, is producing 80,000,000 pounds of copper in a year. Another (Idaho) has a .mountain of sulphur, andj another (Wyoming) has vast areas of petroleum within its borders. California ha3 sent over $1,000,000,000 of gold to the United States mint, and is also a veritable gar den spot. .America finds iron tonic. In her iron ores she can furnish food, cloth ing, shelter, and resources for any possi ble millions of population. And with the rapid extension Of science (America, by the way, tooks away the five gold medals at the last. Paris electrical expo sition took the whole five) beyond the present limits of imaginable experience' who can but feel the great responsibility for developing not only' these material resources, . but also those moral and politi cal virtues that alone make a blessing of .wealth to the common well being ?" A Tarantula Trainer. .The Alta California gives an account of a strange Pacific coast character, named J Tom Schandleyy often called "Tarantula Tom," this appellation characterizing his pastime, if not his business. A reporter, having inter viewed him, gives the following account : "Here's my favorite spider,'1 said-Mr. Schandley, as he placed a cigar box with j holes bored in the top on the tabled He,! threw back the lid and disclosed the occupant of the box, which was an ugly,' hairy tarantula. As the light was thrown upon the tarantula it began to move its joints and cavort around the box in a manner that would have caused a timid woman to go into hysterics. The re porter drew back as the savage-rooking creature displayed.s tendency Jto -creep out of the box. - ; .' 1 v . "Oh, don't be afraid of Tim. I call know," said Mr. J, "if Schandley 'it's only, a little nickname. He can't : luu you. . I've drawn the jxispn from ais nippers.' ' Come Tim, " and, to the horror of the reporter, Mr. Schandley reached his hand out and allowed the tarantula to crawl upon it. A. tarantula is not a very handsome or pleasing specimen of an animal iindci anv circumstances, and. it causes a shudder to come over the ordinary man to -see one dragging its hairy form ovei the hand of a human being. Mr. Schandley allowed the creature to crawl aroundAis fingers, and it worked its way up his coat-sleeve. It stopped when near .Mr. Schandlevs elbow and cocked its ; eyes up at the reporter in what the latter considered a wicked manner. "Go back to the box, Tim," com manded Tim?s master in harsh tones, apd to the , reporter's surprise the animal quickly turned and snielled over its own er's hand and dropped into the cigar box. . "I have him well-trained, you see," BUCKEYES." ' ! ' now ciicaioiIj paintings are manufactured: of tlie Canvas Various 1 Portions Painted at the Sanie Titne Copies of Fine Ojl Paint ings Sold as Originals. Hiss Swainson, a lady who has labored . for some years in the Zenanas of the , Punjaub, related her experiences' a short time ago in Dr. Thain Daviison's Presby- tevian Church in London. The condi-. tiort'of Hindoo women was described as bne of great degradation. It was a disgrace to a woman if she was not mar ' ried before she was twelve. Among the upper classes they had no occupation but .such as was implied in braiding their laughed the trainer of tarantulas as he closed the lid on Mr. O'Brien. . "A queer business I'm in?" said the tarantula trainer, in reply to a question thrown out by the reporter. "Yes it is. Money in it ? Yes. When I was in Texr as I got an idea that the ' tarantulas could be trained, and I started in. I was successful and soon had about fifty of the ugliest tarantulas that would do al most anything. Of course, I drew their poison, so that there was . no danger to be incurred in handling them. I took 'em to New Yrork and sold 'em. "VTio bought them ? Well, the greater part of them were purchased by saloon-keepers, who wanted to attract custom by exhib iting them on their burs. Some of them I sold to ladie who had a bent of mind somethag like Bernhardt. They made pets out of them. I tell you that there are at least 'a dozen Murray Hill belles who keep their iet tarantulas with their lapdpgs now. I got very good prices from them for a tarantula that was well trained and would not betray any vicious ness. Some ofthe brutes can never be trained. They will bite.' No; I don't exactly make a living out of selling tarr antulas, but I am always -willing to ac I he manufacture ot i irermm oil paintings" is quite an iildustryin. New York, and the M&U auk Esprtss gives this account of the business : 9 i - . What are technically known as "buck eyes" are produced in great numbers at Establishments in several of the large cities. Girls who have ijeen trained to the degree of mechanical skill necessary for making a copy of the picture before them, or rather that part of if i&ich is given, them jfy duplicate; show a remark abte facility in accomplishing their task. In some, of? the workshops the walls are covered with strips of canvas, upon which the copyists are busily jat work. . One paints the sky and the distant effects : an other follows with the foreground; an other paints the figures, and still another finishes the picture. The work-is done with great rapidity, but the result, as might be expected is not pleasing to an artistic eye. Yet the facUity attained by ; constant practice is suci that the rude copies of landscape thus produced bear ai sufficient resemblance to j the " orignal to ; give them a market valuejaspictures. j One of the largest manufactories pfj cheap paintings in this country is in New! York. A" three-storv buildingis devoted' j to. the business, and when the demand! was at its height, a few yjcars ago, neaily' one thousand pictures a week were turned; 'out. Some of the processes . employed are peculiar to these manufacturers, and the upper story, which is the "studio,"; or workshop, is carefully guarded against, intrusion. The doors are kept locked, ; and no one except those employed in the establishment is allowed to enter. A representative of the Mdil and E.rpre&, however, obtained admission, witnessed the methods of manufacture, and saw. the pictures grow to completion under the hands of the busy ("artists." The first step in the production of the brill iant landscape in a 'guilt frame which i to be the subject of the auctioneer or the picture peddler is the- preparation of the' canvass. This is done by means of a machine which coats a long slrip of cot ton doth with a mixture. of glue and whiting and gives it something of the firmness and appearance of canvas. Th$ cloth is then thoroughly dried and i? then ready for the stretcher or innej rame. The stretchers are produced b$ ah ingenious machine jwhich shapes,' joints and fastens them i with great ra pjdity, and by a third machine, which is! tended by a small! boy of artistic pro! divides, the cloth is s quickly fastened upon the stretcher j and made ready foi machinery, in the' story below the 'studio." They are much thinner than they appear to be, butalthough so un substantial, "are.qu it e ornamental in de- and after , being covered with a metallic 'preparation known to the trade as "Dutch metal," or "Dutch gilt,5 which closely resembles gold leaf, but i has not a particle of gold in its composi tion, they are .dazzling , enough to satisfy the most exacting purchaser. So it will be seen that in these "genuine oil paintings" the oil which is used is about the only thing to' justify the term, ilittle else is genuine. The canvas is cotton cloth, smeared with glue and whiting;' the frame, apparently so substantial, is a mere shell, anfl the( shining gilding ha no gold about it. - The result of all thii ' cheap artistic labor,isthat these "genuine ,oiI paintings," measuring 52x30 inches, surrounded with glittering gilt frames and box fd for shipment, are sold at from $15 to $50 aiozen. . - When the auction 'sales of these pic tres by gaslight are held dining the day, as was tlie case in New York a few years since, and is still the custom in the ' smaller cities, the pictures are hung upac the walls of a room, which is lighted by rows of gas jets so as to show the .tawdry canvases to the. best advantage. .Aspeach; picture is reached in the j catalogue, it it " placed on a brilliantly lighted eaself and the glib7tongued auctioneer exiatiates upon itOalue and points out jls many leauties. By means of by-bMders the price is sometimes run up to a high figure.' . ctures that cost at the factory $40 to . $C0 adozen occasional ly bring $25 to $4G c each, and sometimes even a .more ridicu- . lous price. This (is the sort of traffic which the law against gelling pictures by raSlight was intended ;to reach. But jnfjortunatcly tlie prohibition affects the business of the honesty dealers as well a that of the tricksters m this trado Shoes Made in Quick Time. "Yes," said the proprietor of one of our .largest shoe manufactories in this city to the writer; "It doesn't take long, to make a pair of ladies' shoes. S om time ago a gentleman and his wife walked into our factory, and injust one . hour and thirty-three minutes the lady left the house wearing a pair of fine shoes which were made for her from the stock while she was in the factory. This waa simply an experiment. These shoes were made on a single set of machinery and passed through the hands of the' different operatives at their machines. By run ning a double set of. machinerv and crowding the machines our crew of one hundred men make six hundred pairs lot shoes in a day, or one Iptfir jof shoes per minute. That is six pairs'of shoes to . -Portland- (JLfc.) Pre3. man Next comes th There one finds a the coming landscape, work of the "studib." line of girls, their j dresses slashed with paint,and their general! appearance, in commodate any one who wants one of i ?ker respects, quite in contrast with the the animaU. I"ve got abuut eighteen tar- voung antulas now. I hope to inaugurate a i hair, , smoking and counting their j craze among the ladies for the creatures, jewelry. ' She had met women who had j rf I can get up a boom you'll see women been in one room for thirtv years. If ! p;omenadinj on Market street ou Sutur- tjiey fell ill they were often left alone to j die. It was believed by them that the highest happiness was to be attained by being suffocated in the mud of the Ganges, because by that means individual woman was transformed into cow TheJ lot of th widows was so wretched thatVsome of them were not thankful to the Government for the law which pre- j vented them being burned on tee funeral pyre of their husbands. Christi anity, Miss Swainson said, had done much for the Hindoo woman; tut much days with : their pet tarantulas on their arms. A small blue ribbon around their waists is what keeps them in place. The novelty of the thing is taking. The Last "SScseter's Picnic." . Tis the last hungry '"skeeter" ; - Jjett humming alone, , All his bloody companion ' Are faded and gone. ."Jh. why does this "skeeter"' Now laugh in his-sleeve? 'Cause he'll feed on the landlord Who's too t&t to leave. ' ' ' - women at. tne s Art fctuacnts League or the ideal woman artist in a well appointed studio. On the wall within easy reach, hang jstencils of yaj rious patterns -which the , girls have rapidity. The Btttterine . Microscoped. j , Dr. Thomas ;Tay.lor,microscopist to the Department of Agriculture at Washing ton, has in the last ani.ual report othat. Department shown by means of ., photo micrographs and colored -plates, illustra tions, of the crystallization of butter and ' other animal fats. He shows that the faHof differeu tT aRimals differ in their crystallization, and asserts that if but ter, lard, and. beefifat are separately ; boiled and gradually cooled, the crystals ' that are formed will show marked differ ences under microfk;opic examination. These differences are easily to be seen in the photographs alluded to, ani they, point out a ready means of detecting butter which has .been adulterated br , spurious f&ti.rC?tamber' JourndU- learned to use with great process employed is similar to what i? known as Theorem painting, and also a$ t'oohah, or Oriental painting. By thj use of a kind of stencH jthe outlines are one, after another put upon the cloth, and the picture then passes into the hands of a more advanced painter j for completion! ' A few skilful touches with her brush j alex'KO has a peculiar way of dealing supply the deficiencies left by the use with strike. The punishment .for of the 'stencil, and after a plentiful sup interfering wffch the runniiig otirainsin ply of varnL&h, and a suitable exposure in t tint Leuighted country is either If :ng the drvinsr-robm. the biciure is read? foi i imprisonment or 'prompt ' eiicution by- for n b?ia the military. j remained to bo done market. The frames jare made
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