American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-20

until it takes the shape of a shallow finger
| glass with a rim. As he goes on whiring
the glass goes on getting tlatter and Nat
ter, until at length il is a Hat round shield
of glass with a boss in the middle, and i.
carried off to the annealing oven
| Glass for windows made in that way
| one of my closet-fricnds (who was NOR,
civil than the clay-digger) told me- is called
crown glass. But there is newer KIND
used now-sheet- glass. 1t is shaped and
blown into big cylinders, which are spill
| up with a diamond and flattened in a fur
mace as you might open and spread out 8
roll of music Glass shades are the cut
off round tops of these cylinders.
When had gained SO much knowledge
about glass making, the kitchen clock
struck one-the closet became the closet
again-I heard the gas in the lobby sing
ing loudly, and came out to turn the gas
down before it cracked its globe, or the
bell-glass hung over it.
But when | came out into the room
had left, according to my recovered no
ton of the clock, just an hour before,
was mysteriously compelled to look at the
mirror over the mantel-piece. l did not
jump through it, but was forced to look
into it.
And what do you think I saw?
More glass -makers-"lots," as you say,
tell the others how we make it." Then
the lots scampered off right and left, and
began to dig up stuff, and hide it under
their coat tails.
''What means this mystery, my
friends?" l asked of the chief man of
one lot.
eve are going to make plate glass;" he
answered solemnly.
MAY see, if you please?" 1 asked.
''Gou may see, if you like. because you
don't know anything about such matters, ~
tell even you exactly what we use, be-
cause you might write it down, and go
and tell"
Then for a time there was confusion,
and then l saw clearly melting-po
hoisted out of a furnace, wheeled up to a
table, and tilted over it, by men who held
their breath. The melted glass ran freely
out at first, but was kept from running
over the sides of the table by two iron
bars laid upon 1t, whilst steel rolling
pin rolled the cooling metal out like
cool, it was lugged off the table by pin
GERS on to machinery, which soon sent it
on wheeled table into the annealing
overwhelming and gradually cooling oven,
of course, you understand When the
plates came out of this oven they were
next polished on both sides by putting
one on the top of another, and rubbing
the upper one against the lower with sand
and water between, and then women pol
ished them with emery-powder, and after
that wooden polishers, with leather and
wooden gloves on, polished them off
The kitchen clock struck two as was
looking into the looking-glass at some
men who were melting fia for flint glass
and lens-glass in the bottletit pots. Twas
just being told by man, who poked his
head between the mirror and its frame to
tell me SO, that the covered pots were
used to keep the metal pure and another
man, looking out on the other side of the
mirror, was shouting that if 1 would
come along with him, l could see how
glass was colored for church windows,
and SO on, when-I d,coke.
I was still nodding in my armchair.
had been remembering glass-works 1 had
visited, book about glass was open be-
fore me, the kitchen clock, found, had
struck two, and the cat had been in the
closet. At any rate, found the floor lit
tered with the fragments of black bottle
Good Words for the Young.