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i!y, but the llame is >m:ill.-r a:id tin- i-om- 

 l!i:iu tli.it "I 4 pure magnesium. 

 'I'll-- :1 mi'- is ci>M, ami tin- heat-rondiictin'.j 

 property of tin* alloy, eompaivd with in 

 slum, i- -v-n-ibly dimini-lird, showing tbo 

 cbaii molecular const rurt ion of the 



metal. Tin- Miiok,' produced in th" comhiis- 

 tion uf these alloys is inoro dense, and as it 

 curls gracefully away it is seen to bo fringed 

 with a rather pretty dark-purple tint; but the 

 magnesium light i-i >o very intense that it al- 

 mo-t c >-:i|>letely masks the thallium flame, t>o 

 that, it is not observable in some of the alloys 

 indeed, the green light is scarcely recogniza- 

 ble I- veil iii an alloy containing fifty per cent, of 

 thallium. An alloy of tive per cent, of thallium 

 appears to render magnesium less brittle and 

 more ductile than pure magnesium is usually 

 produced; but the higher alloys of thallium, 

 say thos;> eontaining twenty-five and fifty per 

 cent, of thallium, are more oxidizable than pure 

 magnesium. The metals were put together cold 

 in a closed iron crucible ; only a slow heat was 

 required to melt them. 



Among the magnesium lamps at the Paris 

 Exposition was one invented by M. Isambert, 

 a modification of Larkin's pattern. An ordi- 

 nary spirit-lamp supplies the flame ; a glass 

 tube forms the chimney ; a small box or recipi- 

 ent contains t lie metal magnesium in powder, 

 mixed with fifty or eighty per cent, of fine sand. 

 By turning a small button, a cock is opened, 

 aud th marnesium powder descends with a 

 regular flow into the alcohol flame, and there 

 burns with a very brilliant light. The expense 

 of this lamp per hour is said to be only three 

 francs. 



The Magnesium Metal Company have found 

 from experience that if the magnesium ribbon 

 is pressed broader and thinner, and by that 

 means made to present a larger surface to the 

 n of the atmosphere for the same weight of 

 metal, it burns much more steadily and surely ; 

 and they are now supplying the metal in that 

 form. 



MAINE. The House of Representatives of 

 the Legislature of Maine ratified tho constitu- 

 tional amendment, known as Article 14, on 

 January llth, by a vote of 126 yeas to 12 nays. 

 On the 15th the Senate concurred in the action 

 of tho House by a unanimous vote. 



The Democratic State Convention met at 

 Portland, June 25th. Eben F. Pillsbury was 

 unanimously nominated for Governor, and the 

 following resolutions were adopted : 



Resolved, That the past history of the Democratic 

 party is to bo found in the proudest records of the 

 country, its creed in the Constitution, and it is ready 

 to meet the threat questions of the future with the pa- 

 triotism, li.ldity to principles, and practical wisdom 

 which otutntoterixed its auspicious identification with 

 the history of the nation. 



2. That representation in the Congress of the 

 -*, and in the electoral college, is a right 

 lized by the Constitution as abiding in every 

 -Hid as a duty imposed upon its people, funda- 

 mental in its nature ana essential to the existence of 

 our republican institutions, and neither Congress nor 



the General Government has any authority or power 

 to deny this right , or withhold it* enjoy- 



under the Constitution from the people thereof; 

 :IM I v.i) are, therefore, in favor of admitting to Mate, 

 in either l-ninch of Confess, every representative 

 from every State in allegiance to tfie Government, 

 who can be found by each. House in tho exerc'we or 

 the power conferred upon it by the Constitution to 

 have been duly elected, returned, and qualified for a 

 seat therein. 



3. That our last Congress was without precedent in 

 its utter disregard of the Constitution, and the rights 

 of the people under it ; all conservative pledges which, 

 during the war. were made bv both branches of Con- 

 gress, by the President and nis Cabinet, and by our 

 leading generals, were cast aside and disregarded, 

 and the voice of the people, speaking through the 

 minority, was stifled on questions of the most mo- 

 mentous interest, and which overturned the funda- 

 mental principles of repubb'can government. Ten 

 millions of people, who nad made a full surrender to 

 our victorious arms, were deprived of their equal 

 rights, dignity, and authority, as States within the 

 Union, and were declared as alien enemies, and 

 placed under irresponsible military rule ; our taxation 

 was increased, our treasury burdened, our foreign 

 commerce paralyzed, capital arrayed against labor, 

 and the toiling masses made subservient to the rich 

 by the unjust exemption from taxation of a largo por- 

 tion of the wealth of tho nation ; and, in short, their 

 legislation was used for corrupt and unlawful pur- 

 poses which merit, and must receive, the condemna- 

 tion of an enlightened but outraged people. 



4. That while we are in favor of judicious measures 

 to prevent all unnecessary and improper traffic in 

 intoxicating liquors, we are opposed to the present 

 law as bein" extreme, tyrannical, cruel, and oppres- 

 sive, in violation of the inalienable rights or the 

 citizen, injurious to the cause of temperance, and de- 

 structive of the very objects professed by its authors. 



5. That the law enacted oy the last Legislature 

 of the State, known as the Constabulary Law, is an ( 

 innovation upon our system of government, arbitrary 

 in principle, offensive in its operations, insulting to 

 local officers, in treating them aa incompetent and un- 

 worthy, and unnecessarily creating a horde of official 

 spies and informers to harass our citizens, and add- 

 ing greatly to the expenses of a heavily-burdened 

 and over-taxed people. 



6. That the exemption from taxation of about one- 

 third part of the entire wealth of the country in the 

 shape of Government securities is an outrage upon 

 the rights of the people ; that it is in violation of 

 every principle of justice, and hostile to the welfare 

 of the country; that it is subversive of the very 

 foundation principles of our Government as estab-. 

 lish'.-d by our tUthers; it tends to foster and protect 

 the rich capitalist ana bondholders at the expense of 

 the laboring class, casting the heavy burden of taxa- 

 tion from the favored and protected few upon the 

 back of the unprotected poor man, whose life and 

 strength are being constantly exhausted to pay the 

 deficit in taxes resulting from this injustice ; that the 

 burden of the national debt should DO equally borne 

 by the property of the country, and that we will sup- 

 port no man or class of men who favor the present 

 iniquitous system of laying all the taxes upon the 

 labor and enterprise of the country in order to favor 

 and protect capital. 



7. That we recognize anew the services of our Army 

 and Navy in the cause of the Union, and the duty of 

 our national and State Governments to meet promptly 

 their claims for services rendered the nation, ana to 

 extend to the widows and orphans of those who have 

 fallen the most generous consideration and care. 



The following resolution was also added to 

 the series : 



Hesoloed, That tho United States bonds ought to 

 be taxed. 



