27th Round.+10 brown, 4 white, 4 cerise, 6 white, 6 brown, + 4 times. 45th Round.+ 8 brown, 1 steel, 1 brown, 4 white, 2 brown, 6 white, 1 steel, 51 brown, 1 steel, 5 brown, + 4 times. 28th Round.+ 9 brown, 4 white, cerise, 4 white, 2 brown, 2 white, 4 brown, +4 times. 29th Round.+ 9 brown, 4 white, cerise, 6 white, 6 brown, + 4 times. 30th Round. +7 brown, 5 white, cerise, 5 white, 7 brown, + 4 times. 31st Round.+8 brown, 4 white, cerise, 6 white, 6 brown, + 4 times. 32nd Round.+6 brown, white, cerise, 4 white, 9 brown, + 4 times. 5 46th Round. +7 brown, 1 steel, 2 brown, 1 white, 2 brown, 1 white, 2 brown, 5 white, 4 steel, 5 brown, + 4 times. 47th Round,+6 brown, 2 steel, 2 brown, 3 steel, 8 brown, 3 steel, 1 brown, 1 steel, 4 brown, + 4 times. Fasten off 6 the cerise. 6 48th Round. + brown, 2 steel, 1 5 brown, 2 steel, 10 brown, 2 steel, 1 brown, 2 steel, 4 brown, + 4 times. 33rd Round.+6 brown, 1 steel, 5 white, 5 cerise, 3 white, 1 brown, 2 white, 7 brown,+4 times. 34th Round. + 5 brown, 7 white, 4 cerise, 3 white, 2 brown, 3 white, 6 brown, + 4 times. 35th Round. + 6 brown, 2 white, 2 brown, 2 white, 4 cerise, 3 white, 3 brown, 1 white, 7 brown, + 4 times. 36th Round.+6 brown, 1 steel, 3 brown, 2 white, 4 cerise, 3 white, 3 brown, 1 white, 1 brown, 1 steel, 5 brown, + 4 times. 37th Round.+5 brown, 2 steel, 3 brown, 3 white, 3 cerise, 2 white, 1 brown, 2 white, 3 brown, 1 steel, 5 brown, + 4 times. 38th Round.+5 brown, 2 steel, 3 brown, 3 white, 2 cerise, 2 white, 1 brown, 4 white, 1 brown, 2 steel, 5 brown, + 4 times. 39th Round.+4 brown, 3 steel, 1 brown, 5 steel, 2 cerise, 2 white, 2 brown, 2 white, 2 brown, 2 steel, 5 brown, +4 times. 40th Round. 4 brown, 3 steel, 3 white, 2 brown, 2 white, 1 cerise, 3 white, 5 brown, 3 steel, 4 brown, + 4 times. 41st Round.+4 brown, 1 steel, 1 brown, 1 steel, 2 brown, 1 white, 2 brown, 2 white, 1 cerise, 2 white, 2 brown, 1 white, 3 brown, 3 steel, brown,+4 times. 42nd Round.+4 brown, 1 steel, 1 brown, 3 steel, 1 white, 2 brown, 3 white, 1 cerise, 1 white, 1 brown, 1 steel, 1 brown, 1 white, 2 brown, 3 steel,4 brown, + 4 times. 43rd Round.+5 brown, 6 steel, 5 white, 1 cerise, 3 white, 1 brown, 1 white, 2 brown, 2 steel, 4 brown, + 4 times. 44th Round. +6 brown, 4 steel, 1 brown, 11 white, 1 steel, 1 brown, 2 steel, 4 brown,+ 4 times. 49th Round.+4 brown, 1 steel, 2 brown, 1 steel, 1 brown, 5 steel, 2 brown,' 4 steel, 2 brown, 2 steel, 4 brown, +4 times. 50th Round.+9 brown, 2 steel, 2 brown, 7 steel, 1 brown, 4 steel, 5 brown, + 4 times. 51st Round.+10 brown, 2 steel, 4 brown, 1 steel, 13 brown, + 4 times. 52nd Round.+ 17 brown, 3 steel, 10 brown, + 4 times, 53rd Round.+18 brown, 3 steel, 9 brown,+4 times. Do the other end like this: then for the centre, backward and forwards, + 2 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, + end with 2 Dc. Every following row, +2 Dc, under chain 2 Ch, +. Crochet up the ends with white silk, and make the fringes of steel beads and bugles. The rings are to be slipped over the middle before the second end is sewed on. An ALWAYS BUSY.-The more a man accomplishes the more he may. active tool never grows rusty. You always find those men who are the most forward to do good, or to improve the times and manness, always busy. Who starts our railroads, our steamboats, our machine shops, and our manufactories? Men of industry and enterprise. As long as they live they work, doing something to benefit themselves and others. It is just so with a man who is benevolent-the more he gives, the more he feels to like giving. We go for activity-in body, in mind, in everything. Let the gold grow not dim, nor the thoughts become stale. Keep all things in motion. We should rather that death should find us scaling a mountain than sinking in a mire-breasting a whirlpool than sneaking from a cloud. "MY FORTUNE'S MADE." My young friend, Cora Lee, was a gay, dashing girl, fond of dress, and looking always as if, to use a common saying, just out of a band-box. Cora was a belle, of course, and had many admirers. Among the number of these, was a young man named Edward Douglass, who was the very "pink" of neatness, in all matters pertaining to dress, and exceeding particular in his observance of the little proprieties of life. I saw, from the first, that if Douglass pressed his suit, Cora's heart would be an easy conquest; and so it proved. "How admirably they are fitted for each other," I remarked to my husband, on the night of the wedding. "Their tastes are similar, and their habits so much alike, that no violence will be done to the feelings of either, in the more intimate associations that marriage brings. Both are neat in person, and orderly by instinct; and both have good principles." "From all present appearances, the match will be a good one," replied my husband. There was, I thought, something like reservation in his tone. "Do you really think so?" I said, a little ironically; for Mr. Smith's approval of the marriage was hardly warm enough to suit my fancy. "No doubt of that in the world, Cora. But remember, that he cannot see what is in your mind except by what you do or say. If he admires your taste, for instance, it is not from any abstract appreciation of "Oh, certainly! Why not?" he replied. it; but because the taste manifests itself I felt a little fretted at my husband's in what you do. And, depend upon it, he mode of speaking; but made no further will find it a very hard matter to approve remark on the subject. He is never very and admire your correct taste in dress, for enthusiastic nor sanguine, and did not instance, when you appear before him, day mean, in this instance, to doubt the fitness after day, in your present unattractive of the parties for happiness in the mar- attire. If you do not dress well for your riage state, as I half imagined. For my-husband's eyes, for whose eyes, pray, do self, I warmly approved my friend's choice, you dress? You are as neat when abroad, and called her husband a lucky man to as you were before your marriage.' secure for his companion through life a woman so admirably fitted to make one like him happy. But a visit which I paid to Cora, one day, about six weeks after the honeymoon had expired, lessened my enthusiasm on the subject, and awoke some unpleasant doubts. It happened that I " "As to that, Mrs. Smith, common_decency requires me to dress well when I go into the street, or into company; to say nothing of the pride one naturally feels in looking well." "And does not the same common decency and natural pride argue as strongly in favour of your dressing well at home, and for the eye of your husband, whose approval and whose admiration must be dearer to you than the approval and admiration of the whole world?" "But he doesn't want to see me dressed A out in silks and satins all the time. pretty bill my dress-maker would have against him in that event. Edward has more sense than that, I flatter myself." "Street or ball-room attire is one thing, Cora; and becoming home apparel another. We look for both in their place." Thus I argued with the thoughtless young wife, but my words made no impression. When abroad, she dressed with exquisite taste, and was lovely to look upon; but at home she was careless and slovenly, and made it almost impossible for those who saw her to realize that she was the brilliant beauty they had met in company but a short time before. But even this did not last long. The habits of Mr. Douglass, on the contrary, did not change. He was as orderly as before; and dressed with the same regard to neatness. He never appeared at the breakfast-table in the morning without being shaved; nor did he lounge about in the evening in his shirt-sleeves. The slovenly habits into which Cora had fallen, annoyed him seriously; and still more so, when her carelessness about her appearance began to manifest itself abroad as well as at home. When he hinted anything on the subject, she did not hesitate to reply, in a jesting manner, that her fortune was made, and she need not trouble herself any longer about how she looked. Douglass did not feel very much complimented, but as he had his share of good sense, he saw that to assume a cold and offended manner would do no good. "If your fortune is made, so is mine," he replied, on one occasion, quite coolly, and indifferently. Next morning he made his appearance at the breakfast-table with a beard of twenty-four hours' growth. "You haven't shaved this morning, dear?" said Cora, to whose eyes the dirtylooking face of her husband was particularly unpleasant. "No," he replied, carelessly. "It's a serious trouble to shave every day." "But you look so much better with a cleanly shaved face." "Looks are nothing-ease and comfort everything," said Douglass. But common decency, Edward." "I see nothing indecent in a long beard," replied the husband. Still Cora argued, but in vain. Her husband went off to his business with his unshaven face. "I don't know whether to shave or not," said Douglass, next morning, running over his rough face, upon which was a beard of forty-eight hours' growth. His wife had hastily thrown on a wrapper, and, with slipshod feet, and head like a mop, was lounging in a large rocking-chair awaiting the breakfast bell. "For mercy's sake, Edward, don't go any longer with that shockingly dirty face," spoke up Cora. "If you knew how dreadfully you looked." "Looks are nothing," replied Edward, stroking his beard. 66 Nothing, only its such a trouble to shave every day." "But you didn't shave yesterday." "I know; I am just as well off to-day, as if I had. So much saved, at any rate." But Cora urged the matter; and her husband finally yielded, and mowed down the luxuriant growth of beard. "How much better you do look!" said the young wife. "Now don't go another day without shaving." "But why should I take so much trouble about mere looks? I'm just as good with a long beard as with a short one. It's a great deal of trouble to shave every day. You can love me equally as well; and why need I care about what others say or think?" On the following morning, Douglass appeared not only with a long beard, but with a bosom and collar that were both soiled and rumpled. "Why, Edward! how you do look!" said Cora. "You've neither shaved nor put on a clean shirt." Edward stroked his face, and run his fingers along the edge of his collar, remarking indifferently, as he did so : "It's no matter. I look well enough. This being so very particular in dress, is waste of time; and I'm getting tired of it." And in this trim Douglas went off to his business, much to the annoyance of his wife, who could not bear to see her husband looking so slovenly. Gradually the declension from neatness went on, until Edward was quite a match About six months after their marriage, we invited a few friends to spend a social evening with us, Cora and her husband among the number. Cora came alone, quite early, and said that her husband was very much engaged, and could not come until after tea. My young friend had not taken much pains with her attire. Indeed, her appearance mortified me, as it contrasted so decidedly with that of the other ladies who were present; and I could not help suggesting to her that she was wrong in being so indifferent about her dress. But she laughingly replied to me "You know my fortune's made now, Mrs. Smith. I can afford to be negligent in these matters. It's a great waste of time to dress so much." "How broke in Cora, energetically. could you come here in such a plight?" "In such a plight?" And Edward looked down at himself, felt his beard, and run his fingers through his hair. "What's the matter? Is anything wrong?" "You look as if you'd just waked up from a nap of a week with your clothes on, and come off without washing your face or combing your hair," said my husband. "Oh!" And Edward's countenance brightened a little. Then he said, with much gravity of manner "I've been extremely hurried of late; and only left my business a few minutes ago. I hardly thought it worth while to go home to dress up. I knew we Besides, as my were all friends here. fortune is made "—and he glanced with a look not to be mistaken, towards his wife "I don't feel called upon to give as I tried to argue against this, but could much attention to mere dress as formerly. make no impression upon her. About an hour after tea, and while we were all engaged in pleasant conversation, the door of the parlour opened, and in walked Mr. Douglass. At first glance I thought I must be mistaken. But no, it was Edward himself. But what a figure he did cut! His uncombed hair was standing up, in stiff spikes, in a hundred different directions; his face could not have felt the touch of a razor for two or three days; and he was guiltless of clean linen for at least the same length of time. His vest was soiled; his boots unblacked; and there was an unmistakable hole in one of his elbows. 66 Before I was married, it was necessary to be particular in these matters, but now it's of no consequence." I turned toward Cora. Her face was like crimson. In a few moments she arose and went quickly from the room. I followed her, and Edward came after us, pretty sore. He found his wife in tears, and sobbing almost hysterically. 66 'I've got a carriage at the door," he said to me, aside, half laughing, half serious. "So help her on with her things, and we'll retire in disorder." "But it's too bad in you, Mr. Douglass," replied I. "Forgive me for making your house the scene of this lesson to Cora," he whispered. It had to be given, and I thought I could venture to trespass upon your forbearance." Why, Edward!" exclaimed his wife, with a look of mortification and distress," as her husband came across the room, with a face in which no consciousness of the figure he cut could be detected. 66 Why, my dear fellow! What is the matter?" said my husband, frankly; for he perceived that the ladies were beginning to titter, and that the gentlemen were looking at each other, and trying to repress their risible tendencies; and therefore deemed it best to throw off all reserve on the subject. "The matter? Nothing's the matter, I believe. Why do you ask?" Douglass looked grave. "Well may he ask, what's the matter!" "I'll think about that," said I, in re turn. In a few minutes Cora and her husband retired; and in spite of good breeding, and everything else, we all had a hearty laugh over the matter, on my return to the parlour, where I explained the curious little scene that had just occurred. How Cora and her husband settled the affair between themselves, I never inquired. But one thing is certain, I never saw her in a slovenly dress afterwards, at home or abroad. She was cured. ELECTRO-METALLURGY. — 1. HISTORI- 1. THE art of electro-metallurgy, or the operation of working metals by means of electricity, is one that has of late years made very rapid advances; and as it is a subject that any one may study with advantage, and readily practise, we now commence the first of a series of papers upon it. 2. The discovery of electro-metallurgy is due to Professor Daniel, who observed (when employing his constant battery), that the reduced copper which was deposited upon a platina electrode,* had an exact impression of the marks upon the platina. He did not follow out the subject, being too much occupied with other matters. In 1838, Professor Jacobi, of St. Petersburg, and in 1839, Mr. Spencer of Liverpool, announced that they could produce medals by the deposition of the reduced copper; and at that time great attention was given to the subject, which was more generally known as electrotyping or volta-typing. remain in it long enough for the exposed 3. Mr. Spencer soon afterwards published his method of producing engravings in relief from copper plates by means of voltaic electricity. The process is described as follows:-" Take a plate of 4. In the early part of 1840, Mr. Murcopper, such as is used by an engraver, ray discovered that non-conducting subsolder a piece of copper wire to the back stances could have metallic copper depart of it, and then give it a coat of wax posited upon them, by being previously on both sides-this is best done by heat-coated with plumbago or black-lead. ing the plate as well as the wax-then write or draw the design on the wax with a blacklead pencil or point. The wax on one side must now be cut through with a graver or steel point, taking special care that the copper is thoroughly exposed in every line. The shape of the tool or graver employed must be such that the lines made are not V-shaped, but as nearly as possible with parallel sides. The plate should next be immersed in dilute nitric acid, say 3 parts of water to 1 of acid; it will at once be seen whether it be strong enough, by the green colour of the solution, and the bubbles of nitrous gas *The surfaces by which electricity passes into and out of other media, are termed "electrodes." 5. In the latter part of 1840, M. Kobell of Munich, presented some engravings through M. Brongniart to the French Academy, which were produced by a modified process of his own. Upon a well polished plate of copper or silver, he executed a painting of the subject to be engraved. The colour which he employed was oxyde of iron, pounded with essence of turpentine, and mixed with a certain quantity of the same essence thickened by standing. This painting was of course or one colour; and the tints were produced by the different thicknesses of the colour applied upon the plate of silver, so that the lights were given by the metallic surface, and the half tints and the shades |