Mr. LINCOLN yawned, and turning to me, inquired: "Well, SARSFIELD, you see what a man's got to do to run this machine,now what's your advice?" "Your Excellency," I replied, "there's a man in the tanning business at Galena, in your State.

{314c} Passiflora. {314d} Canavalia. {314e} Libidibia coriacea, now largely imported into Liverpool for tanning. {314f} Erythrina corallodendron.

They want the tanning, and some one must be sent from this country to teach them.

In one place they were boiling crude oil; in another tanning hides; in a third there was a long rope-walk.

He watched the young and the not so young prowl along the beach, bodies glistening with tanning oil.

And no wonder; for a very slight proportion of tannic acid in the water corrugates and stiffens the thin, smooth skin of the anemone, like the tanning of leather.

Some are used as cabinet woods, and some for tanning, for oils, dyes, gums, or fibres.

Canada possesses immense quantities of hemlock in her woods, and the tanning business having been introduced so generally, these hemlock forests will probably prove to be mines of gold.

Some opinion of the extent to which tanning is carried on in Montreal and its vicinity, may be found in the following statement of twelve tanneries connected with one house in that city:Cost of tannery, 15,600l.; number of hides manufactured yearly, 40,500; average weight 30 lbs.; weight of sole-leather produced, 1,215,000 lbs.

TAMEOS, v. 242, n. 1. TANNING, v. 246.

As soon as he was released, he went immediately to work at his trade of tanning leather, and conducted himself in the most exemplary manner.

Not that it doesn't do a boy good, though, once in a while, to have a good tanning.

*** There is a falling off in the tanning of kids in India, says The Shoe and Leather Trades Record.

Possessing now the trades of blacksmithing, tanning and weaving-and-spinning, Lindsey was tempted to follow some of his former associates to the North, but was discouraged from doing so by a few who returned, complaining bitterly about the unaccustomed cold and the difficulty of making a living.

No one knew anything about composition leather for making shoes so the tanning of hides was a lucrative business.

Tanning and curing pig and cow hides was done, but Claude never saw the process performed during slavery.

In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees, there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts.

But it is not the part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious; and tanning their skins for shoes is not the best use to which they can be put.

Lombardy, on two islands in the river Mincio, 83 m. E. of Milan, is a somewhat gloomy and unhealthy town, with many heavy mediæval buildings; there are saltpetre refineries, weaving and tanning industries.

MARLBOROUGH (9), on the Kennet, 38 m. E. of Bristol, a Wiltshire market-town, with sack and rope making, brewing, and tanning industries; has an old Norman church, the remains of an old royal residence, and a college, chiefly for sons of clergymen, founded in 1845.

MUSSELBURGH (9), an old-fashioned Midlothian fishing town on the coast, 6 m. E. of Edinburgh, with golf links, paper, nets, and tanning industries, and Loretto school.

The bark of several species has been considered as useful for tanning leather.

The tanning decoctions of nut-galls, acacia, and other strong astringents, Venice treacle, wine, spiritous liquors, and spices, are useful.

Spirit of wine, and ether, extract some part of their poison; and tanning matter decomposes the greatest part of it.

Much of this would, of course, have come had the Colony's ports been free; but the factories engaged in the woollen, printing, clothing, iron and steel, tanning, boot, furniture, brewing, jam-making, and brick and tile-making industries owe their existence in the main to the duties.