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2 shall

is

in

large establishments, where workmen greatly subdivided, become won labor derfully adroit doing fraction something. They always remind

in

us

the Chinese the old Egyptians. young person who mounts photographs day long confessed having cards to

or

at a

all

on

a

of

had lain long hypo gold or

picture him whether enough the solution sulphite.

if

a

is a a

he

in

toning bath, but you asked

good joke,

of

are required, we may state that the esti mate of the annual consumption of the

elbow

his

would think

it

In another portion of the same estab lishment are great collections of the chem ical substances used in photography. To give an idea of the scale on which these

day long. the process was going One forlorn individual will perhaps pass cleaning his days the single work the glass plates for negatives. Almost

in

the minions of the sun and the feeders of the caravanseras.

never, negative almost never, seen developed, though standing the time within few feet of the dark closet where

at

cackle over the promise of their inchoate offspring, doomed to perish unfeathered, before fate has decided whether they shall cluck or crow, for the sole use of

all

on

aves”

vos non vobis nidificatis,

A

or

partlets

“Sic

elaborate products skill often very simple. and The

is

The amount of photographic paper which is annually imported from France and Germany has been estimated at fif teen thousand reams. Ten thousand na tive

ture

times seems

of of

as we

of

“sensitized” when wanted, see by-and-by.

[July,

Sunbeam.

the

a

Doings of

of

2

preparing the tant part the process negative plate and finishing the positive print, are also demanded.

were not wanting this respect. One the girls had pasted the wall before her,

Each single process

such

other sized the

wanted. manufac

is

of to

a

of

on

in

to

of

a

of

’t is

of of if

if

his a he

up

performance

es

We left the great manufacturing tablishment the Messrs. Anthony, more than ever impressed with the vast acces happiness which has come sion man kind through this art, which has spread

it

be

to

a

to

may happen

be

or

schooners,

in to

craft

as

sloops,

some

the wall was examining, were exploring the inner chamber freshly opened pyramid

to

in

in

at

a

in

as

they say ships are cut up, somewhat Maine, time, built mile afterwards sawed across so as become

copy

into lengths there were

2

at

a

of

on

gold and the centre-table gorgeous velvet, the perfect imago. The cases lengths, and for portraits are made

not own

he

is

as a

a

It

swathed and pressed and glued into the chrysalis, and condition last alights

prose that ever broke who would not look to see

widely self civilization. The photog rapher can procure every article needed as

tropical butterfly, goes through

many transformations “purple em peror.” begins pasteboard larva,

“Yankee Girls,” “Yankee Ship and Yankee Crew,” “My Country, thee,” and—was there ever anybody

of

resplendent

Parting” was

of

clasped, gilded,

“The Moment

twice noticed. “The Haunted Spring,” “Dearest May,” “The Bony Boat,”

on

are

maxim.

of

a

as

embossed,

work

The luxurious album,

words can never die.”

give her would not have been easy harsh one after reading her chosen

a

branches

very interesting.

as

these

of

Many

of

of

of

photographic albums, cameras, and cases for portraits, parts printing pictures from negatives.

It

of

on

is

of

manufacturing

or

in

“Kind

as

of

an

of

in

of

is

a

of

in

the neighborhood each operative's place for work. Our friends the manufactory we are speaking

In

another building, provided with steam-power, which performs much the labor, carried the great work

at

bench

at

tons for silver and half ton for gold. Vast quantities the hyposulphite impor soda, which, we shall see, plays

es,

We always take glance the litera ture which certain adorn the walls

in

precious metals for photographic purpos this country, set down ten