Part 7

In copying a black and white picture we want no half-tones or shadows, so that if the paper has a grain it must be placed in a strong front light. An all-round illumination, which can be had by using the apparatus out-of-doors, is the best lighting, as there is no possibility of shadows.

The most suitable plate for copying a black and white picture is the brand called "photo-mechanical." If these plates are not easily obtained, use a very slow plate.

Place the picture on the support upside down, fastening it very securely with thumb-tacks. If the paper is thin, place a piece of red or black paper behind the picture. This should always be done if the picture is being copied from a book, or there is any printed matter on the reverse side of the picture.

In copying pictures from books a thin piece of flat board should be put back of the leaf, and the leaf held in place by two stout rubber straps.

In copying photographs or half-tone prints, a plate of medium rapidity should be used. If there are heavy shadows a more rapid plate is required. A small diaphragm must be used in order to have the picture sharp at the edges.

In copying colored pictures the only plate to use is the orthochromatic plate. This will render the true color values of the different tints in the picture. Oil-paintings require more care in lighting than other colored pictures, in order to avoid the brush marks appearing in the photographs.

The plates are developed in the same way as if made direct from the object, hydroquinon and pyro giving the best results.

If one has been unfortunate enough to break a valuable negative, but has a good print from it, a small negative may be made from the photograph, and from this small negative an enlargement can easily be produced.

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AMBITIOUS.

"Wisht I wuz a cork," said Jack. "They can swim all day and never get drownded."

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JIM'S JOKE.

CHARLIE. "Catch any fish down at Beachville?"

JIM. "Yes. Caught a brook-trout yesterday."

CHARLIE. "Brook-trout? At the sea-shore? Whereabouts?"

JIM. "At the dinner table."

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A CORRECTION.

"Look at that old sea-dog," said Uncle George, pointing out the old sailor.

"He ain't a sea-dog," said Bob. "He runs a cat-boat."

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HOW IT IS DONE.

HARRY (_who is not yet up in bicycular slang_). "I say, Will, how do you do when you scorch?"

WILL. "Pretty well, I thank you. If you wish to scorch, say in the Park, just let your wheel go like forty. The bicycle cop will do the arrest. That's scorching."

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A FAMILY RESEMBLANCE.

DR. BALSAM. "Your boy favors you greatly, Mr. Hillside--that is, takes after you."

FARMER HILLSIDE. "He'd favor me more, Doctor, ef he'd only obey me. He don't take after me; but I tell you his mother takes after him when he don't toe the mark she chalks for him."

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A BUSINESS SESSION.

RAYMOND. "Papa, you say Congress is in session when it is sitting, don't you?"

PAPA. "Certainly, my boy."

RAYMOND. "Well, then, would it be wrong for me to say that our old Plymouth Rock hen is now in session in the barn?"

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A fat old gentleman in a light gray suit got into an elevated train at Thirty-fourth Street, and bustled every one out of his way in order to secure the only vacant seat left on the shady side of the car. As soon as he had thrown himself into the seat, he buried his face in a newspaper in order that he might not see how many women were standing in the car. The train had hardly pulled out of the station when a poorly dressed and undoubtedly Irish woman who sat next to him touched him on the arm, and said,

"I beg your pardon, sorr--"

The old gentleman looked up and frowned, and then turned to his newspaper again.

"Will you be so good, sorr--" began the woman again.

The fat man in the gray suit glared savagely, but gave no reply. Several times the woman tried to make him speak. At last, just after the guard had announced "Ninth Street!" the woman said again, "I really beg your pardon, sorr, but--"

The fat man turned upon her savagely, his face very red, and exclaimed,

"If you don't stop talking to me, woman, I'll call the conductor and have you put off the car!"

"Shure, sorr," exclaimed the woman, "I'm afther gettin' off at Ninth Street, but, conductor or no conductor, I won't get out until you get off my butter that you've been sittin' in since you got on at Thirty-fourth Street!"

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A gentleman recently returned from travelling in England brought back the following story, which he tells with such hearty laughter as to make one believe that to have seen the incident were better than to read about it:

The engineer of a train, or rather driver, as they call him in England, not shutting off steam soon enough, ran his train some distance past the station. He backed down again, but either through carelessness or defective machinery his engine ran some distance the other way. The station-master, exceedingly wroth at the first miscalculation, was simply spluttering with wrath at the second, and running down the track he yelled out:

"Hold on there! Stop where you are! We'll just shift the station up to you, being as you can't get up to it."

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Freddie was sent down stairs by his uncle to bring up a pair of tan shoes. The youngster returned with two shoes, one of which was laced and the other buttoned.

"That isn't the right pair, Freddie," said his uncle. "I can't wear those. They are not mates. Where are the others?"

The little boy looked somewhat puzzled for a moment, and then said, "I don't think you can wear the other pair, uncle; it isn't alike, either."

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, July 28, 1896, by Various