Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-28
CONCERNING NEEDLES
View Of the Many Varieties lGanufaeAu
ured In This Country.

A View Of she Many Varieties Ma,.ease
ered In This Country.
A needle is . little thing, hardly
worth mentioning. in fact but the
daily consumption of them in the
United States. is 4, POO. 900 About one.
sixth of these are made in Brooklyn,
but the greater part of the needles we
use come from Redditch. Eng.
There are needles which all wig.
makers use. They are delicate a =
hair and shaped like . fish-hook. There
is the tambour needle and the needle
for stirring machines; the great sail
needle. which has to be pushed with q
steel palm; the knitting-machine
needle. with its little lachet; the aracene
and crewel needles. and the long in
strument which the milliners use.
Then there is the surgeons cruel
out6t-the probing needle made for
hunting after bullets or internal sores,
the post-mortem needles of various
curves and sizes, the hare-lip needle,
the long accupressure pins for pinnins
gaping wounds in place. all the needles
for eye, head and body-long. short,
curved ones. twice or three times
Then the veterinary surgeon has his
case of needles. too.
The upholsterer is a favored man.
He has needles on the hall curve
and on the quarter curve, round points
and sword points, long eyes. round
eyes. egg eyes and counter sunk eyes.
The cook is not left out of this
trade. but has a curious trusting
needle. made for carrying melted but
ter or savory sauce right into the very
heart of foul or roast. being hollow
and large at the end where the butter
is poured in. There is also the Harding
needle. which sews large pieces Of
meat together or fastens bit of fat
deep in lean piece of meat One OF
these was invented by French chef.
The other was made to meet the de-
mands of butchers who cook large
quantities of meat for the free-lunch
restaurants. and who wish to sew their
meat into good shape. so that it will
cut we'll.
The collar-maker's needle is not I'M
like the upholsterers'. The netting
needle has little branch at each end.
and with them goes broad "mesh''
of ivory or polished wood.
The knife-point ham needle. with its
broad blade. was invented to suit the
men at the Chicago Stock Yards. The
broom-maker's needle, like the sailors,
has to be pushed with a steel palm.
That which the millers use has spring
eye. which the heavy thread enters
when the side of the eye is pressed.
A novice could never guess how to
use the needle made for sewing the
soles on shoes. The glove needles
are marvelously fine affairs. though
even the daintiest of them have three
cornered points. The knitting and as
trachan needles want no mention.
The needle for filling rugs has
given place to an ingenious machine
which does four times the work. The
beading machine is slender and long.
The rag baler's needle has a blade
like a leek. and is another invention
made for Chicago.
The weaver's pin for picking up
broken threads, has an open eye in a
hook, which catches and holds the
lost thread firmly. The making of a
needle is very laborious matter in
Germany. France and England where
it is done by hand. The polishing there
requires sixty or seventy days. But in
America it has called forth some Of
most interesting and delicate inven-
tons in machinery of which this coun-
try of machines can Chicago
NeWs.