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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XIX (search)
elves in the Hotel Reservoir, happy to find there two or three American families, with whom, of course, we quickly made acquaintance. This American circle was enlarged a few days later by the arrival of General Wm. B. Hazen, of our army, General Ambrose E. Burnside, and Mr, Paul Forbes. Burnside and Forbes were hot to see, from the French side, something of the war, and being almost beside themselves to get into Paris, a permit was granted them by Count Bismarck, and they set out by way of Sevres, Forsyth and I accompanying them as far as the Palace of St. Cloud, which we proposed to see, though there were strict orders against its being visited generally. After much trouble we managed,through the open sesame of the King's pass, to gain access to the palace; but to our great disappointment we found that all the pictures had been cut from the frames and carried off to Paris, except one portrait, that of Queen Victoria, against whom the French were much incensed. All other works of a
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 20: the Executive mansion-the hospitals. (search)
nd excuse for coming in on the white carpet with his splashed boots, sat down and plunged at once into army matters; the outlook was not encouraging, and the two friends talked in a circle until both were worn out. There was a little silver saucepan on the hearth, and the General stopped abruptly and said, That is a comfortable and pretty little thing, what do you use it for? And then what a delight it gave me to heat steaming hot the cafd au lait it contained and hand it to him in a little Sevres cup. When I attempted to ringr for a servant to bring luncheon, he said, This drink is exquisite, but I cannot eat; do not call a servant, it is very cozy just so; then looking at the cup, he remarked, with a twinkle in his eye, my cups in camp are thicker, but this is thinner than the coffee. Behind the playful speech I saw the intense realization he had of the coarse ways and uncomfortable concomitants of a camp, and that he missed as keenly the refinements of life to which he had been a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
e to resist scratching by steel, quartz, or flint. Should not be stained if sulphate of copper or muriate of iron be left in it for twenty-four hours. Should not be abraded by the rubbing down of an ounce of sharp sand to a fine powder. The pestle should possess the same character. Mortars of iron, brass, marble, dolomite, and glass are acted on by particular solvents, especially acids. They are also too soft for many purposes. The colormortar b, used in the porcelain manufactory of Sevres, has a projecting conical piece in the center, which forms with the sides of the mortar a circular trough in which the pestle rotates. The pestle is a cylinder of porcelain, rounded at the bottom, and weighted with a disk of lead at the top, to which the handle is attached. The colors are finished on a porphyry slab. The mortar a for crushing diamonds for lapidaries' use is of hardened steel with a cylindrical cavity, and has a hardened steel pestle fitting neatly therein. The pestle
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
The French porcelain works were first established at St. Cloud, in 1695, by Louis XIV.; at Vincennes, 1740; removed to Sevres, 1786. The Meissen, Saxony, porcelain manufactory was established by Augustus II., Elector of Saxony, in 1710. Botticparticulars of the history of the art, nor describe the ingredients and compositions of the porcelains of China, Dresden, Sevres, Berlin, Vienna, Bohemia, but must refer our readers to Birch's History of ancient pottery (1858): Marryat's History of Pt the same temperature, and also a gold enamel. He refused offers to devote his talents to the national establishment of Sevres, preferring to maintain his independence and devote himself to a life of experiments and labor at his humble home in Tour.Tessellated tile. Refractory.Tesserae. Re-pressing machine.Thrower. Saggar.Throwing-engine. Setter.Thwacking-frame. Sevres porcelain.Tile. Slapping.Tile. Encaustic Slicing-machine.Tile-kiln. Slip.Tile-laying plow. Slip-kiln.Tile-machine.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
p-set or condense longitudinally the bloom, previously elongated by the action of the squeezer which ejects the cinder. 2. (Bakery.) One of the beech scantlings which form a frame around the congregated loaves in the oven and keep them in place. Set-work. （Plastering.) Two-coat plastering on lath. Laid and set. Sev′er-y. （Architecture.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling. Sevres Por′ce-lain. Porcelain of fine quality, made at the French government works, at Sevres. It is principally of a peculiarly fine and delicate quality, for ornament rather than use. Berlin, Dresden, and Munich have national ceramic works. Sew′age. The surface drainage, slops, excrementitious matter, and other filth carried off by sewers. Sewerage is a term applied to the sewers and drains of a town collectively. When the sewers merely receive the street drainage and the liquid refuse from kitchens, etc., the disposition of this comparatively innocuous matter pr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ace and yet she spends me forty pounds a year in mercury and hog's bones. All her teeth were made in the Blackfriars Ivory was for many years the favorite material for artificial teeth, that from the hippopotamus being preferred. The teeth of the narwhal, as being somewhat harder, were also used. Volney, Chateaubriand, the elder Pitt, and George Washington also used artificial dentures thus made. See denture. About 1765 Pierre Lavouse, a workman in the royal porcelain works at Sevres, France, made rude imitation teeth of porcelain, but the art was not practiced to any considerable extent until about forty years ago, when it began to be utilized in the United States, where it has now developed into a manufacture of no inconsiderable importance. The principal materials employed are feldspar, silica, and kaolin, with various fluxes for promoting fusion. Coloring materials, as titanium for yellow, platinum sponge for gray, oxide of cobalt for bright blue, and oxide of gold f