. St. Nicholas [serial]. 659 water. Then rub, rub, rub. It will take twohours to give a horn a good polish. For engraving, use ordinary engravers cameo carving or raised work, use fine Swisscarving-tools. Common gouges and chisels willdo, but the finer tools hold their cutting edgelonger and better. Horn is in a class by itself. There is nothingjust like it. Few acids will affect it. It can bestained by potash and red lead, which is used toproduce the tortoise-shell effect on some think that horns must be softened in orderto carve them. This is a mistake. They can besoften
. St. Nicholas [serial]. 659 water. Then rub, rub, rub. It will take twohours to give a horn a good polish. For engraving, use ordinary engravers cameo carving or raised work, use fine Swisscarving-tools. Common gouges and chisels willdo, but the finer tools hold their cutting edgelonger and better. Horn is in a class by itself. There is nothingjust like it. Few acids will affect it. It can bestained by potash and red lead, which is used toproduce the tortoise-shell effect on some think that horns must be softened in orderto carve them. This is a mistake. They can besoftened only by a high degree of heat, eitherdry or moist, but they will remain soft for notmore than ten minutes. In carving horn one must cut away all exceptthe figure that one wishes to represent. This isslow, hard work. Engraving is much easier, butnot so artistic. T. S. Hitchcock, A CARROT HAND The photograph of a hand-shaped carrot wassent by Mr. E. Kay Robinson of London, Eng- A PIECE OF WOOD RESEMBLING A SNAKE. THE CARROT THAT GREW IN THE FORM OF A HAND. land, who says the carrot was dug up in thegarden of an inn called The Hand. This inn,by a remarkable coincidence, has as its sign theupright red hand familiar in baronets coats ofarms. Mr. Robinson supposes that the growing-point of the carrot had been injured, or perhapsobstructed, and that it then formed five secon-dary, finger-like branches. It is an interestingexample of a freak of nature.
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