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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1890)
A glass factory the Giass ls Melted, Rolled 0 w and Blown. lability cf the Workmen to i Burns and Blisters. j Catering a glass factory, the first oh which attracts attention is the feet in which the r. cen tral furnaces L is melted. The most unobseivant – noticed that ordinary 1 will have on 1!,ree i,,eIf . n0P of iron- oxide in tue sand, rhich is one of the principal i-ugredi YYhea colorless glass is desired tuts. eliminated, the he iron has to be or o'.or ma 3 ked by suitable means, and it a noteworthy fact that a proportion .? small be firou iu ilia sand too to in I icated by the most delicate _ assay av.ll Impart a distinct hue to glass. DitL-r metallic oxide3 impart different bues; thus tin or arseuic will render Lin be product white and opaque; gold give a ruby red; copper, in the :orm °of black oxide with a little iron re, will yield an emerald green prod* id: cobalt-oxide a blue; manganese a jurple; oxide of uranium a yellow, and to on. I ]t follows that where colorless glass is Lyjoi the greatest care has to be taken to iusure the use of sand in Lhieh the metallic oxides referred to lire distinguished by their absence. The furnace takes up quite a large Lrt of the room in a glass factory, and 6- circular in form, to enable the opera ;ors to approach the pots from all sides. heme |As these melting pots are of large size are 55 inches in diameter) and Biave to withstand continuously a heat [which.will easily* melt iron or steel, it follows that they have to be made of veil-kneaded, tempered and annealed There is a glorious uncer tainty about the life of a melting pot. It may give way and break up in eight hours or it may last for months. Ia [any case the sides wear through and get 'thin, in the lapse of time, from the ab sorption of the clay into the vitrified molten mass within. Ju3t so long as a .good pot can be patched up and forti fied it is kept in use, but when a pot has to be removed, no matter under what circumstances, it means a hot, hard day’s work for all hands, The first thing is to dislodge the broken fragments of the pot, or the whole affair bodily if not broken, by battering- ram ibiows directed with a gigantic crowbar into the interior of a furnace heated like unto that into which Shadrach, Meshech anc Abednego were cast in tho days of old. When the work is com pleted the new pot, already annealed land heated to whiteness, has to be [placed ia position, and as the pot and contents may weigh many hundred pounds, the ordeal is necessarily a severe one. Burns and blisters are every day ■ occurrences in a glass factory. J It is a b US y scene, ^is interior of a ■ glass factory in full blast. About a I hundred minds, men and boys in nearly I«qual proportions, are employed. First I an operator sticks tho end of a long I ir on tube into a glowing white hole I and draws the instrument forth with I glistening a I the gelatinous looking mass at end. He rolls this mass actively I for a few moments on a flat slab called la marver. 7 he marver is placed in la slightly inclined position wooden I sab on a ’ and the rolling of tho glass on ■ a ^ surface, easy it looks, is 7+ a3 quite an While the glass is still in the soft r-'V condition, the operator blows it t L ; htl f aild guides the lump into the 111,1 of a mold closed bv a treadle, I'Wiag it a n the time. The trans pormati 1Cm a ^ mos t instantaneous, and r it en thc P pased rc33u re on the treadle is re I the tube is withdrawn, with a ‘full-blown’ bottle at the end of it. ., 3 ‘ a ready remarked, this bottle s Anieri mould r can invention, and the K in the sav case of cheap goods is very " reat The bottles - annealed—a ■ are P occss of re-heating and gradual cool ■ a and finished off at the necks, etc., ■ )y manipulation at the “glory-holes” furnaces. another P art of the factory the • ■ , witnessed the making of carboy-, 10 ‘mge jars employed hold to acids floors in bulk, the final shape in nice also boing given by suitable p ress a mold. The fa!<on carboy, " <0 the annealing a K ,„ ace r B detached . from the blowing j rod by a dexterous flip on the neck with a stream of water, which cuts of! the carboy as cleanly as if a knife or a file were used. A similar expert ness is ex hibited by a neighboring workman, who, before expanding the “gathering" oi molten glass into a caibay, examines it critically to detect fliws and impurities (indiscernible to an ordinary eye. These flaws are picked out with a hot iron tool, just as a coon would extract a lump or cherry-stone from a mass of dough.— £a>i Francisc> Chronicle. Gave His Life for a Stranger. Van Duke Heyser is a name which will long be remembered by those who were passengers in the Louisville and Nashville train which was wnecked at Nolin, says the Louisville Courier-Jour na'. It is the name of a young man who I 03 1 Ills life in a heroic attempt to save the life of a woman, a fellow-pas senger and total stranger. The woman was saved, but a few minutes after the smash her rescuer was taken from the wreck and ruins. The breath was still in his body, but he was so fearfully inauglei and bruised that it wa3 known his death was inevitable. YouDg Van Duke Ileyser was but 18 years of age and lived in Millertown. He had only recently graduated from the commercial deparlmeut of the Ken tucky university, where lus integrity and sound sense made him most popu lar with liis fellow-students. He was a gentleman at all times, and his con duct ia the school-room was so ex emplary that the faculty awarded him upon his graduation a special diploma of honor. He had been with his step father, D-\ S. Lambert of Millertown, and with a small sum of money, his school certificate and letters of recoin mendatiou had boarded the ill-fated train to seek his fortune in this city. When the mail train made its appear ance everybody was terrified and the passengers began to flee. Among the passengers on the rear coach was Van Duke Ileyser, a smooth-faced, sturdy boy. Heyser rose and ran with the others toward the coach door. He wa‘. almost out on the platf irm, and in t second more would have been safe, when a frightened woman, near by, fainting with terror, reached his side. She would have fallen had not Ileyser seen her condition and nobly came to the rescue. Supporting her with one arm, he stepped to one side and assisted hei to pass him, gently forcing her out on the platform. Then the crash came, the woman was saved, but the boy’s life was lost through his gallant action. Otters Tobogganing. On the north bank of Trout Run, two miles from B'nkesley, Penn., a steep knoll rises from the edge of a deep pool. The spot is a great resort for otters in winter, and Samuel Price, who hss watched them on mauy a bright moonlight night when the temperature was several degrees below zero, tells about how the furry fellows frolic there. If the pool happens to be frozen over the otters gnaw and dig a hole in the ice at the foot of the knoll. Then, one after another, they all plunge into the pool, get their fur full of waiter and skip up the bill. The water drips off on the way, and freezes ns soon as it strikes the ground or snow, and in a little while the playful otters have a regular toboggan slide as slippery as ice on a steep hillside can be. When the slide is completed each otter takes its turn at sliding down the knoll “kerplunk” into the pool, and they keep up the sport until daylight, catch ing a trout now and then and eating it on the bank. One night last winter Mr. Price trapped a full-grown otter at the slide. He has it yet, but he has not been able to tame it very much. —New York Tribune. The Hoys Are Attached. The Lawrence churches have a system of interchangeable girls. When one church gives an entertainment each of the other churches lends a girl or so to help the festivities along. This secures the floating trade of a dozen or so youug men. who are attached to no church but who are attached to the girls.— Law rence {Kan.) Journal. He Saved Himself in Time. Ella—Iknowlamugly but I love you, Erastus. I have $20,000 a year, Will you marry me? Erastus—Yes, darling, I’d marry you if you were twice as ugly—as you thilk you are, my beautiful birdie. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS A famous Geimnn physician sflvs that more Americans kill themselves by eat ing too fast than by all other diseasei combined. Dr. Burden Sanderson notes that morphology and physiology have now diverged so widely that they are likely soon to become regarded as two dis tinct sciences. Copie3 of rare books and editions nre now manufactured in Germany and France by meins of a chemical process. The fac-similes are good, but their durability is uncertain. A chemical compound, it is said, has been discovered in England which, if sprinkled on coal while it is being burned, will prevent smoke, and a largo company has been formed in L mdon to utilize the smokeless patent. The oldest marie of human life is believed to be a fl.nt idol recently brought up from a depth of o2d feet by a sand-pump near Boise City, Idaho,, and now in the possession of Professor G. Frederick Wright of OberJin col lege. The flooding of a F.ji plantation by an unusually high tide lately resulted in the important discovery that disease of bananas may be prevented, and a healthy growth secured in young plants, by the application of sea-water to the ground. The skin of a corpse has been success fully transplanted to a living person by Dr. Bartons. Upon the legs of a scalded boy were placed twenty eight small grafts, taken from the body of a luna tic who died about twenty minutes be fore, and of these twenty-four united. It is next to incredible that surgeons performing the familiar operation of laparotomy should leave foreign sub stances in the abdomen, and yet this is so frequently done that good practi tioners make it an invariable rule to count their instruments before and after the operation. A fact which is well worth knowing, “specially in the winter, is that the formation of steam on glass is pre vented by a thin coat of glycerine on both sides of the glass. This is very useful knowledge for sailors, and also for surveyors who have to use their in struments in foggy weather. In view of the wholesale deforesting of many parts of the country, it is sat-, isfactory to know that steel is super seding wood in many industries. Of this one of the latest illustrations is a steel wheel for a carriage, and many of the leading carriage manu’acturers say that it is a matter of only a short time when wooden wheels will be a curiosity, as good lumber for wheels is becoming so scarce that its use will, perforce, ba abandoned. Charming Ceylon. Ceylon is the famous island where tradition says Adam and Eve found a second paradise. The Brahmin name for it is “Lanka,’’ or the “Resplend ent.” The Buddhists describe it as “A pearl drop on the brow of India;’’ the Chinese as “The Gem Is'and," and Greeks named it “The home of the hya cinth and • ruby.” In England it is written of as “The Elen of the East ern Sea.” Vessels arriving and anchoring at Co lombo are boarded, early in the morn ing, by native hawker?, peddlers, sel lers of jewelry, laundry agents, tailors, and dealers in curiosities of various kinds, all eager to trade, and persist ently intent upon clothing you, wash ing your linen, or selling you some thing or other, at prices which have a curious tendency to descend from pounds to shillings, and from fifties to fives, gradually or rapidly, according to your disposition. Many different languages arc spoken, and by the various picturesque, and often extremely primitive, costume*, contrast strongly with the colored skins of tho populace, varying from a pale to almost negro black. Tho visitor is de lighted with tho gorgeous colors of the luxurious vegetation, the beautiful flowers, the brilliant sunshine and tho sweetly perfumed air. There are many children, bright eyed, intelligent, thinly clad or unclad, who run beside the vehicles, with bee tlee/, flowers, shells, or bundles of cin namon, clamoring for coppers, and merrily assuring you, in broken En glish, that they have neither fathers nor mothers, brothers nor sisters, to look after them, but depend entirely on your bounty. EVERY LADY WONTS a*. A SILK DRESS This is your opportu nity. A mow de partnre. Silks di iCct from tn<'manulac A turers to yon. as Our reduced prices m. bring ithin the best goods w reachot all. « We are the only ■ H–S9 ffifjyfl manufacturers IT® in m ■HI dmeet to con* ■'v, Kimicrs. take no risk. You Wo hk 3 ? warrant every I H piece of goods as Mifi ft. represented, or money refund KL « ed. See our re ' HI ferencea. 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In many cases it is the intention to present the wife of an officer, pastor, or a lady teacher with something handsome, tasty, and beautiful. To all such we sav send tis 2 cent stamp and GET OUR SAMPLES and prices, you will soon be convinced that a Black Silk or Satin Dress is iust what you have BEEN LOCKING FOR. Everybody ive sell to is as well sat isfied as the following parties: —1 VVkstpokt, Kentucky. May 1,1889. Pear Sirs received the silk in good order, It is the best and goods cheapest goodi'for thi $2.00 money I ever saw. The same would sell for per yard ia Louisville Ky. The extra quality of the silk, the 10 per cent discount, the silk braid and 1000 yards of the spool silk, is certainly a wonderful bargain to offer to public. I take pleasure in showing my friends the samples and advising them to purchase of you. Respectfully, Miss M, K. GUYTON. Office of Biblical Recorder, 17,1888.1 ) S. Raleigh, N.C.,Dec. Messrs. O. 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