The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-11-05

unsafe building, and it will be taken
down; meanwhile, the city officials
and courts will find other quarters
Other city buildings not injured to
any great extent. The damage to
school-houses trifiing-schools open
as usual. On Monday next the United
States Marine Hospital building, con-
demned by the proper authorities, will
be demolished. The patients are at
present encamped on the grounds adj
joining the hospital no proper accom-
modations as yet being provided for
them. The Custom House is wrecked
to-such an extent probably it will not
be occupied again. The officials have
removed temporarily to .Haywoed's
building, ON California street. 51 j
An army of laborers are at work
to-day on the shattered buildings and
removing the debris from the streets,
Merchants show no disposition to
abandon property or location. Some
structures are being taken, down and
| others repaired. The shock at 10
this morning did more damage to the
injured buildings. Some chimneys in
different manufactures, which suffered
considerably by the first shock, will
now have to be demolished and re-
built. No definite estimate of dam
Eage to property can be made until a
I proper survey of the entire city is
made, Some places the losses at three
hundred thousand, others attwo mill
lions.s The latter figure is probably
nearest to the true loss, as quite num-
Der of buildings have been torn down
for reconstruction, and extensive re-
pairs made in many more. 5yIi .6sa.
PINs-How THE LITTLE THINGS ARE
4 MADE-sTORY OF wITCHCRAFT. +.
% The pin machine is one of the clos
4 est approaches that mechanics have
made to the dexterity of the human
hand. A small machine, about the
height and size of lady's sewing
machine, only stronger, stands before
4 you. On the back side light belt
descends from the long shaft at the
ceiling that drives all the machines,
ranged in rows ON the floor. On the
i left side of our machine hangs on a
i peg small reel of wire, that has been
Strengthened by running through a
combined system of small rollers.
This wire descends, and the end of
it enters the, machine. This is the
food consumed by this snappish, vo-
racious, little dwarf. He pulls it in
i. and bites it off by inches, necessarily,
one hundred and forty bites to the
minute. Just as he seizes each bit a
| saucy little hammer, with a concave
face, hits the end of the wire three
taps, and .npsets tito head, while
he grips it, in eountersunk hole be-
tween his, teeth. With an outward
thrust of his tongue, he then lays the
= pin sidewise i'll little grove across
the rim of small wheel that slowly
revolves just under his nose. By the
external pressure of stationary hoop
]'these pins roll in their places as they
are carried under the series of small
} files, three in each. These files grow
; finer toward the end of the series
They lay at a slight inclination on the
points of the pins, and by a series OF
= cams, levers and springs, are made to
play "like lightning" Thus the pins
are pointed and dropped in little
shower. into; q box. Twenty eight
: pounds of pins is a days. work fol
one of these jerking little automatons
: Forty machines on this floor make
e five hundred and sixty pounds of pins
q daily. These are then polished. Two
< very intelligent machines reject every
: crooked pin, even the slightest irregu
larity of form being detected. "
gI Another automaton assorts half {
d dozen lengths in as many boxes, all a
S once, and unerringly, when careles
operator has mixed the contents o
boxes from various machines. Lastly
# perfect genius of machine hang
is the pins by the heads in an inclined
G platform through as many slots" a
r. there are pins in row on the paper
y These slots converge. into the exac
Y space spanning the length of a row.
e Under them runs the. strip Of pin pa
N per. A hank-like part of the machin
1t catches one pin from each of the slot
is as it falls, and by one movement stick
l. them all through two corrugate
ridges in the paper, from which the
E. are to be picked by taper fingers il
Is boudoirs, and all sorts of human fin
sot gers in all sorts of human circum
s. stances. Thus you have its genesis
r1>ia "Tall and slender, straight and thin,
Pretty, little, useful PIN -,-... ..,
OF A beautiful Yankee trick was ono
exposed by these modern Yankee pin
p A not over scrupulous antiquary ws
>e displaying the relics. of "Salel
10 Witchcraft" " to the wondering thron
to at shilling a head. Among the re
IS. les was saucer full, more or less, {
u pins taken from the arms, stomach
m &C., Of the bewitched victims. TIL
St, was rare chance for one of the asto1
IN ished, who was pinmaker. He gay
ut a close squint at the pins, and opene
a his eyes very wide. "Do you So
nd that these pins were taken from tt
OF unfortunate victims of Withcraft
al Salem?". solemnly inquired the p
yn man. "Of course they were; VIII
e; do You ask that question for?"
m sponded the Snowman. Because
'ds find one little obstacle to my faith
At the story" rejoined the pin man.
all "SoIid-headed pins were not invent
OF until two hundred years after. the S
ty, lem witchcraft!" .-........
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