Dollar Jewelry

Fpcaking nf tho stores cstabhshed m niany eities of the Uuited Statos, wher purchasers of jewelry ca have their ' choice for one dollar," the Chicago Journal say : The principal coinposition used in the manufacture of the jewulry is tcrined Oreide, and is simply an excellent quality of brass. It is tho most positivo iraitatioii of gold that has ever been discovcred; it wears like it - not discoloring auything it touches, as common bras or eoppur will j it may be engraved or chased - jeing the same all the way through; it much softer and more readily fused tiuM gold, bowever, and its valuu way be imagined when we say tliat a dozn fincly chased spoons of this metal can be bought for $4 5Ü, with a prolit to the retailcr, even ït that price, of Orer thirty threo er cent. 01' this metal, the New York Scicntifie American, most excellent authority, g:iy : Oreide of rold, of wliich so many cheap articles nf jewelry are now made, Ls simply a very boautiful brass, without a, singlo graiu of gold in its compoaition. Tlie costliest part of the ' Uruide" operation is the molds and forms iu which tho jewelry is shaped and cut. Were they obliged to have these molds made oxpressly at each cliange of fushion, it would materially reduce the proflts ; but they avoid this difficulty by purch.isins; the molda in whicli jewelers have made the real gold jewclfy, and thus also obtain the lateat patterns. Prabably the most expeusivü looking piece of this jewelrv does uot cost for the metal, molding, putting together and making up, rty ctnts.