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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81838, 3 September 1906, Page 4

THE MAILS

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Whence Colors Come. Th-ac-liiiienl insects furnish a great many. «f the veiy line colors. Among them are the F'-neoi.»'.-aimiiie, the crimson, scnrlet carmine a:» 1 purple lakes. The cuttlefish gives the sepia. Ii is Mio inky fluid which the fi.-ih discharge!, in order to render the wuter opaque when attacked. Ivory chips produce the iiory back &;:d bone black. The exquisite I'nuwir n blue is made by fusing liuimV hoofs anil -itlier refuse animal matter Rith imp i/t pot-issiuin carbonate. Vr.iious l.ikta ate Jeri ed from roots, barks and gums. Blue-black conies from the charcoal of the tii:i'»tii!k. Lampblack is soot from certain resinous substances. Turkey red is nude from the ui.idilei plant, which grows in Hindustan. The yellow sap of a tree of Siaui produces gamboge. Raw sienna is the natural earth from t e neighborhood of Siena, Italy. Raw umber is also an earth 'nund near Cuibria and burned.

A Lesson in Civility. As a large black dog was standing near the edge of a dock, he was very much annoyed by the conduct of a small dog, which persisted in snapping at him. The aggrieved animal for a long time bore the indignities with seeming indifference, but at length, losing all patience, be turned upon his tormentor, and seizing him by the back of hit neck, dropped him into the water. The straggles of the unfortunate animal were 7iewed with apparent interest by the canine joker, who at last, seeing that the poor thing could hold out no longer, jumped In the water and swam with the small dog to a boat, in which they were both safely landed. The incident excited much laughter amongst the people who were standing about.

Where it Freezes Every Night. At Alto Crucero, Bolivia, water freezes every night of the year, and the thermometer frequently falls many degrees below zero. There arc no facilities for artificial heatnot even a fireplace—and people keep themselves warm by putting on ponchos and other extra wraps. Mr. Grundy, who has charge of the smelter at Maravill&a, says that last winter the thermometer frequently fell to 8 degrees below zero in the sitting-room of bll residence, but the family felt no discomfort from the lack of stoves and furnaces, and sat around the evening lamp reading just as they are accustomed to do at an ordinary temperature. At noonday the sun is intensely hot, becanse of the elevation and the rarity of the atmosphere, and blisters the .flesh of those who are not accustomed to it. There'is a difference of 30 degrees and sometimes Jd degrees in the temperature of the shade and the sunshine. Water will freeze in the shade while, twenty feet away, men may be working in their shirt sleeves. The natives seemed to be entirely inured I? .'old and go about barefooted aud barelegged ever the ice and stones indifferently without regard to temperature; but they have a way of heaping the blau-.eu on their heads and wrapping up their faces to keep the pure air out of their throats and nostrils. The women who herd the llocks are cften out on the mountains for weeks at a time without shelter or anything to eat except parched corn, strips cf dried meat, and cocoa leaves, which at the mrst powerful of n»rv» ■*•—"i^t..