The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-18
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through fourteen pairs of fhands in the
operation of Strengthening the wire, point
iing, cutting into pin lengths, twisting wire
Tor heads, cutting heads, annealing heads,
stamping heads, cleaning. pins, whitening,
paper picking, and finally paperine up
Adam Smith, arguing on the advantages of
the division of labor, can find no better il
1ustration than that afforded in the making
of pin. "Not only the whole work is a
peculiar trade, but it is divided into a
number Of branches, of which the greater
draws out the wire, another straightcns it,
. third cuts it, o fourth points it, fifth
grinds it at the top for receiving the head !;
to make the head requires two or three dis
tinct operations; to put it on is peculiar
business, to whiten it is another and it is
even trade by itself to put them into the
papers: and the important business Of
making pin is, in this manner, divided
into about eighteen distinct operations,
which in some manufactures are all per-
Termed by distinct hands, though in others
the same man will sometimes perform two
or three of them. 1 have seen a small
manufactory of this kind, where ten men
only were employed, and where some of
them consequently performed two or three
distinct operations. But though they were
poor, and therefore but inditferently ac-
commodated with the necessary machinery,
eeAOJ SSsAtoS "bOh tACy CACItCu tucmScIVeBs
make among them about twelve pounds Of
pins in day. There are in a pound up
wards of four thousand of a middling size.
Those ten persons, therefore, could make
among them upwards of forty-eight thou
sand pins in day. Pin papers are gene
of wood, the molds corresponding to those
portions representing the small folds
through which the pins are passed and held
The paperer. usually girl, gathers two
Of the folds of the paper together, and
places them-a small portionsprcjecting-
between the jaws of a wise, having grooves
channeled in them, to serve as guide for
the placing of the pins. When filed the
paper is released, and held SO that the
light strikes upon it, when the eye at once
detects every defective PIN. and the ready
hand removes it. One house consumes
ducing these ever-wasted utilities, the con-
sumption of which in this country alone is
calculated at fifteen millions per day.
The Highest Flight Erer Made by Man.
The most remarkable balloon ascension on
record was made in 1864, by Blot and Guy
Lussac, in Paris By this enterprise they;
endowed science with u series OF new and
important facts, questionable before that
time, as they carried with them a complete
set of suitable apparatus, and, moreover.
an unsurpassed knowledge of observation
and experiment. They assembled to n
height OF IL, 900 feet, and observed that at
the height of 5000 or 5000 feet the animals
they had taken with them, in order to OBJ
serve the effect of the rarefied and cold air
on them, did not appear to suffer any in
convenience. In the meantime the pulses
OF the two experimenters were much &C.
tolerated; that of Guy Lussac, otherwise
always slow, 81 beats per minute, was 80 /;
and that of Blot, naturally rapid, 70 beats
per minute, was Ill. At the height of H.
600 feet a pigeon was liberated !; It dropped
down whirling through the air as if it had |
been stone. The air was too thin. too
rarefied for it to fly. Three weeks later |
Guy Lussac went up alone, and attained |
the height of %, 900 feet, four and one sixth |
miles, or 1000 feet higher than the top of
was only thirteen inches high, the thermom-
eter eighteen degrees Fahrenheit below the
freezing point, while at the surface Of the
ground it was eighty degrees. He left the
court yard of the COnservatoire DIES Arts ct
Meters, in Paris, and, after an aerial voy-
age of six hours, descended near Rouen,
one hundred miles distant. The result of |
this ascension on Guy Lussac's health was
very Injurious, partially by the want of air
for respiration, combined with sudden cold,
but chiefly by the absence of the accustom-
ed pressure. At the extreme height of 3d.
600 feet, his face and neck were swollen
his eyes protruded from his |
head, blood ran from his eyelids, nose and !
ears, and also came from his lungs by
vomiting; in short, his sy stem received u
shock from which he never fully recovered
the rest of his life.
The Aurora Borealis in England.-A cor
respondent of the Pail Mall Ga=ctte. who
had the good fortune to get view of the
recent magnificent display of Aurora Bo-
reaiis from the top of one of the hills, says
:. What interested me more, however, than
the Aurora Borealis, was the view taken of
1t by the inhabitants of the little village
through which I passed. They were ali
standing outside their houses gazing at the
heavens. There is France for you,' said
ONE of them to me as l approached him.
requested an explanation, and found that
not only he but all his neighbors attributed
the blood red light in the sky to. the burn
ing of paris. Cad, how it sblazes!' I
heard a man remark. 'They 'rea gettn, it
hunder now said another; and so on
through all the village. At the garden gate
OF the last house observed a respectable
looking man with q telescope, with which
he was rolling the sky: 8 1t is rum,' he said
to me-. aud very sublime but the id
asses, L can't make 'em believe it's only the
Southern Cross l rather think he was
the scheelmaster of the parish"
A Strange Mode of Captre.-The sea
eagle is extremely shy, and therefore cap
tured with great difficulty. In Norway
small stone huts are erected for this pur-
pose, outside ofwbich apiece offlesh, fasten- |
ed to a string, is laid upon the ground; the |
other end of the string is held by a man