The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-25
INTERESTING ITEMS.

enter YOU see about twenty intelligent looking
young women seated at machines, each OF which
is little larger than a sewing machine. The
paper of which collars are made is specially
manufactured for the purpose; it must have
strength, elasticity, and whieness. Toe sheets
are about l6 by "a inches in size. The first pro-
cess is to put these sheets through the cutting
machine. This machine consists of set of steel
rollers with knives attached. As the sheets go
through they are cut INTO nine strips, each OF
which is the exact width OF q collar. The ma
chine is fed by a girl, who in nine hours can cut
about GO, 000 collars. As the collars are cut they
slide into wooden tray, from which they are
carried to the shaping machine, The shaping
machine is an upright press, the knives oil which,
as they descend on the parallelogi anlc strips OF
paper, cut their ends into the form of a collar
making the marrow band in which the but
ton-holes are cut and the santing piece which
turns over. About seventv-hye strips are put
INTO this machine and cut at single stroke.
The PAPER has now the form OF collar,
but il has neither button-holes nor stitches. IL
is now carried TO the button.hole machine. Six
of the strips are put under q small machine
very like a sewing machine 49, and the
button-hGles are rapidly al drilled m a. in them. One
machine is expected to drill 10000 collars daily.
The stitching machine is different from the
others. 1t is sort Of mould-s wooden mould
the two halves of which are hinged together,
meeting at tie handle, which the girl holds. 1t
is Of the form OF collar, with small teeth. This
mould is then put under a machine, which
presses it down, thereby bringing the double
row OF teeth on both sides of the collar, and
UlNlIE an GQudl pISebuIt W ptIbH VI Nllb ueI1,
When the mould is opened the collar is found
to be finely stitched. Two girls sit at each ma
chine
"Stitch, stitch, stitch"
ing all day; but never singing the song of the
shirt They turn out between them 6OOO col
lars daily. The collar is next put under an
upright press-we use general, not technical
terms-and receives the imprint and curve the
first of which identities Ihe manufacture, and
the second enables 1t to be turned over. The
turning.over process is done very rapidly by
hand. 1t is then placed around block OF the
form OF a neck which expands gently, and
thereby moulds the collar out evenly and
gives it good set. As fast as the collars are
thus moulded, another girl picks them up and
puts them into boxes. They are then ready for
sale. Ladies' cuffs are more easily made The
sheets are simply passed through the cutting
machine and made into the narrow slips, and
these are quickly passed through two marrow
indented rollers. They are then boxed, That is
all.-Boston Advertiser.
ROMANTIC SToRY.-The arrival at Paris of
the German poet, philosopher, and patriot
Gottfried Kiukel has reminded a correspondent
there OF an adventure OF the stormy times OF '4S
in Germany, in which KiEkel and Carl Schurz,
well known In this country soldier. politi.
clan, and journalist, were engaged. When the
revolution broke out, Knkel was professor, and
SchurZ, then not twenty years old, student as
Bonn. Both took prominent parts IN the struggle,
both were captured, tried, and sentenced, the
professor to imprisonment and hard labor for
lite, and the student to be shot. Schurz escaped
across the French frontier, but could not leave
his friend and teacher in his dreary contne-
ment. He disguised himself in rags, and re-
turned to Prussia as an organ-grinder, begging
| his bread by day, and visiting the friends of
| liberty at night, and thus travelled many hun.
| dred miles, only to find that Kinkels prison lad
| been Chaneed and that he was confined in the
| fortress at Spandau.
SchuIz now changed his tactics and had re-
| course to stratagem. Late one night a carriage,
| supported by 1our Dragons, drove through
| Spandau to the fortress, ano officer in the
uniform OF a colonel OF the Royal Guard de-
livered to the Director a letter bearing the Off
cial seal OF the Minister of the Interior at Ber-
| lin. 1t ordered him TO send the prisoner Kin
| kel at once, in charge of the bearer of the
| letter, to the citadel of Magdebourg. Kinkel
was awakened, securely ironed, and placed in
the carriage. 1t travelled rapidly all night, the
escort OF dragoons and the magic words 1.-THE
| Kings SERVICE" insuring prompt relays of
| horses everywhere.
In the morning the prisoner was taken out
| and found himself not at another prison, but on
| the seashore, close under the guns OF an Eng
| lish vessel to which he was Immediately trans
feTed. On her deck he found his wife and
children and in the Colonel who had borne him
away, he recognized his friend Carl Schurz
in new disguise. The Dragons, it is needless
| TO say, were also confederates IN the plot.
| Kinkel has since resided in England and France
! unable to revisit his own country; but Carl
Schurz has SINCE then been back at leisure and
| without disguise to his birthplace unmolested
by any one: Tor, though condemned telon he
was diplomatic representative of one of the
| most powerful of nations, and bore, as his safe
| guard, a commission signed by Abraham Lin
| coln.-BOston Advertiser.
| The DELUGE IN LOUIsIANA.--The deluge still
| continues along the river borders of Louisiana
| Within the last few days the waters of the Mis-
| sissippi, Arkansas, Ouachita, and Red rivers
have broken through the newly made levees
| near Lake Providence, and flooded all that
| cotton-growinR region and the Ouachita coun-
| try. 1t has also forced immense crevasses
| through the new levPes of West Baton Rouge,
| and flooded the whole countIy-the richest
| plantations of sugar and cotton IN Louisiana
| down to the Bayou Plaquemine. IL is feared,
even, that the whole country down to the BAYOU
Latourche will be oyerfowed. Several crevasses
have also broken out in the immediate vicinity
| of New Orleans.
| POCKET PICKING REGULAR TRADE IN BOSTON.
| The Boston Journal remarks that but few per-
| sons except the victims know TO what extent
pOcket-picking is carried on IN that CITY, 1t has
| become a regular branch of business, and there
| are large number of persons who depend upon
it tor their living. They not only intest depOts,
places OF amusement and rail.cars but are con-
tinually prowling about the large dry goods
stores. The police find empty wallets by dozens
| which have been thrown over fences or behind
| old buildings. Fifteen were found by an officer
| few mornings ago in one place.
AN ITEM FOR THE CREDULoUs.-The Memphis
(Tenn.) Bulletin has a story TO the effect that the
! body of man was found lately in Memphis in
| such a condition as to leave no doubt that he
| had been murdered. The police, finding no
| clue, determined on trying photography and
| accordingly on the day of the murder with the
aid of microscope, images left on the retina of
| the eye of the dead were transferred 10 paper,
| and curious facts developed. A pistol, the
| hand and part of the face of the man who
| committed the crime are perfectly delineated.
| A GEORGIA SFNsATION.-The Augusta (GaO J
| hov nf Ann,