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A GREAT FRENCH ETCHER 
ARLES ATERVON—born in 
I —was brought up to the 
navy, going first in 1837 to the Naval 
School at Brest. As a youth, he sailed 
round the world. He touched at 
Athens; touched at the then savage 
coasts of New Zealand; made sketches, 
a lew of which, in days when his greater 
work was most of it done, he used as 
material for some of his etchings. Art 
even then occupied him, and, deeply 
interested as he soon got to be in it, he 
seems to have had a notion that it was 
less dignified than the profession of the 
navy, and after a while he chose delib¬ 
erately the less dignified—because it 
was the less dignified. He would have 
us believe so, at any rate; he wished 
his father to believe so. And in 1845, 
having served creditably, and become a 
lieutenant, he resigned his commission. 
A painter he could not be. The gods, 
who had given him even in his youth a 
poetic vision and a firmness of hand, had 
denied him the true sight of color; and I 
remember seeing hanging up in the sa/on 
of M. Burty, who knew him, a large im¬ 
pressive pastel of a ship cleaving her 
way through wide, deep waters, and the 
sea was red and the sunset-sky was green 
for Aleryon was color-blind. He would 
have to be an engraver. He entered the 
workroom of one AI. Blery, to whom, in 
after times, as his wont was, he engraved 
some verses of his writing—appreciative 
verses, sincere and unfinished —“a 
toi, Blery, 771011 maitre." The etchings 
of Zeeman gave him the desire to etch. 
He copied with freedom and interest sev¬ 
eral of Zeeman’s neat little plates, and 
addressed him with praises, on another 
little copper, like the one to Blery—“to 
Zeeman, pe/ntre des matelotsd’ — Pall 
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ACETYLENE GAS AND PLANT LIFE 
/^NE of the advantages now claimed 
for acetylene gas is that the prod¬ 
ucts of its combustion are not at all 
injurious to plant or animal life as is the 
case w'ith coal-gas. A test was recently 
made with acetylene in a greenhouse, 
and absolutely no effect was produced, 
whereas the coal-gas worked a distinct 
and readily seen injury to the growing 
plants. On this account, the new gas is 
recommended to photographers for their 
dark-rooms which do not have the best 
of ventilation.— Isf. T. Evening Post. 
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