The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular (1877)

50 Class XXXIX. Dissolving Effects, for Two Lanterns. (SUPPLEMENT 1 St. Goar on the Rhine. I Two Slides $10.50 Landscape at night. Clouds' passing. The moon sometimes, appears and il uminates the landscape and buildings. 2 Icebergs in the Northern Sea. Two slides $7.00 The ice is seen moved by the tide; a ship is seen being wrecked by the iceberg. 8 The Highlander's Dream. Two Slides $5.00 A Highland Soldier asleep by his ramp fire. Vision of his return tothe Joved ones at home appears in the smoke of the camp fire. "Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud hail lowered, And the seutiuel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground, overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. When reposing that night ou my pallet of .straw, By thu wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain, At the (lead of the night a sweet vision 1 saw, And thrice ere the morning I dream't it again. (The Vision is made to ap- pi ar faintly.) " Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far had I roamed, on a desolate track ; T'was autumn—and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that wel- comed me back. (The Vision is made very bril- liant.) •I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft, In life's morning march, when my bosom was young. I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-readers sung. "Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly 1 swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er. And my wife sobbed aloud in fuliuess of heart— "Stay, stay with us—rest, thou art weary and worn; And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay; TO CLASS xi.) But sorrow returned with the dawning of lurrn, And the voicfl in my dreaming ear melted away." (The Vision vanishes away.) 4 Washington's Dream. Two Slides $1.00 Washington,'tired -with the day's cares, preparing de- spatches by candle light, in his camp at Valley Forge, has fall. en asleep, and dreams of the future glory of America. 6 The American Soldier's Dream. Two Slides $">.<).) The soldier is seen asleep by the <;>imp tire, the sentinel in the di. tance. The vision of his promotion and return to the dear ones at home appears, aud is then made to vanish. (Similar to the Highlander's Dream.) 6 The Martyred Christian; or Heavenward. Two Slides $->.00 The lifeless figure of a beauti- ful woman, the victim of heath- en persecution, is seen floating upon the water, the moon shed- ding its rays upon her upturned face. Her spirit is been borne to heaven by angels. 7 Mercy's Dream. Two SI ides $.500 Mercy is represented in u reclining position beneath a spreading tree. An angel from heaven appears aud places a, crown of glory on her head. 8 The Rock of Ages. Four Slides $10.00, or Two Slides $5.00 A dark and stormy sky, and the waves dashing against the rooks, from which the Rock of Ages arises. A wreck is seen in the distance. The wreck disappears, and the figure of a woman Appears clinging to the cross. Tho figure ascends to heaven. 9 The Orphan's Dream. Two Slides 5.00 This scene represents an or- phan boy, who, tired by his pas- times, has fallen asleep upon his little couch. The spirit, of his mother ;»ppeqrs an-i bends tenderly over him, as if to give him her blessing.