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'The maiden who can work such wonders is fitted to be the wife of the greatest chief, he said, and so he married her, and took her with him across the sea to his own home, where they lived happy for ever after. From 'Folk Lore, by A. F. Mackenzie. THERE was once a fisherman who was called Salmon, and his Christian name was Matte. He lived by the shore of the big sea; where else could he live?
In the evening, soon after moonrise, we stopped for wood at the little Brazilian town of Porto Martinho. There are about twelve hundred inhabitants. Some of the buildings were of stone; a large private house with a castellated tower was of stone; there were shops, and a post-office, stores, a restaurant and billiard-hall, and warehouses for matte, of which much is grown in the region roundabout.
Ahti owns also the fairest maidens, who bear the train of his queen Wellamos, and at the sound of music they comb their long, flowing locks, which glisten in the water. 'Oh! cried Matte, 'have your worships really seen all that? 'We have as good as seen it, said the students. 'It is all printed in a book, and everything printed is true.
Matte lay down, but soon rose again. 'The weathercock is squeaking now, said he. 'Just fancy! Go to sleep, said his wife; and the old man tried to. For the third time he jumped out of bed. 'Ho! how the weathercock is roaring at the pitch of its voice, as if it had a fire inside it! We are going to have a tempest, and must bring in the net. Both rose.
Doctor Peckolt, celebrated chemist of Rio de Janeiro, has compared the analysis of matte with those of green tea, black tea, and coffee and obtained the following result: Manner of preparation: The matte tea is prepared in the same manner as the Indian tea, that is to say, by pouring upon it boiling water during ten to fifteen minutes before using.
The heavy bars of copper matte are now ready for shipment to some manufacturing point, where they are refined still further and made into the various copper utensils, copper wire, etc. Copper is valuable for many purposes, as it does not rust easily, is highly malleable and ductile, and is a good conductor of electricity.
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