Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-16

In the first place, different ingredients
are fused into red hot molten mass.
The molten mass is not religious serv-
ice, though it has the same temperature
as the doctrine which was taught me as
1 child BY my pastor, who was rigid
man and loved to scare me with his
wonderful and gifted pictures of hell
Quite alotof ingredients are used in the
manufacture of glass, and would love
dearly to tell my readers all about it, but
just before l left the works ! promised
the owner Of the factory that would
not reveal the process of making glass
under penalty of being boiled in soap at
low tide and afterward used in a Chinese
laundry. so think it is better to simply
describe the making of bottles as briefly
as possible.
At the proper moment the glassblower
inserts long, hollow brass tube into the
molten mass of salt, soda, sand, ETC.,
which goes % make glass, and turning it
about in the midst of it withdraws the
tube, on the far end of which is COB of
red hot glass. The blower now rolls
this COB over a sort of table covered with
oil or something of that sort, meantime
standing at a respectable distance from
it, for it is quite hot. Then when it is
properly shaped he drops it by means of
the tube, but still attached to it, into
mold which he can open and close by
pressing lever with his foot
Opening this mold he lets the rosy COB
fall into its open jaws, closes it with his
foot, blows gently into it through his
long tube ano then removes it at once a
complete bottle with the exception of
the rim or nozzle, which is put on the
top of the neck by another man.
It is quite trick to obliterate the seam
made ON nodded glassware, and work
men who can do this get little better
price for it, am told. As the reader
knows, perhaps, the glassblowing fra
ternity is better equipped for controlling
wages and prices than any other trade in
the world. Only SO many apprentices
are admitted each year, and the foreign
and domestic glassblowers have a
mutual understanding so that wages re
main good, and very likely always will,
and yet there are no strikes necessary.
This factory also makes the various
kinds of fruit jars used in putting up
fruit. l bought dozen and a half of
these fruit jars, hoping this season to
put up some berries for home use and
possibly some for the market, also a jar
of jell for the pastor.
| There is new jar, sort of self sealer,
which works on the principle of the beer
bottle, with rubber stopper and iron
fastener, which by pressure with the
thumb opens or closes the top SO that
when closed it is as air tight as the best
old fashioned fruit jar, and even more
SO, it is said.
put up jar of Strawberries one year
myself, according to receipt which l
read in The Gallded Plowman, paper
which | have taken for years. / noticed
as the glad Yuletide approached that
the corner of the jar seemed to have a
convex appearance, but / rocked not.
had some difficulty in starting the lid
of my fruit jar, as the pressure from the
inside was greater than / had VOTED of
By and by, however, there was a low,
kissing sound like that made by a steam
radiator that has been cornered; then
| noticed a strawberry halo around the
chandelier.
Once, also, ] READ receipt in the same
paper telling how to preserve eggs for
winter so that they would taste like a
new warm summer day in clover hay
NOW. was to put the eggs in bran, l
believe, either with the large or the small
end down, after vanishing them with
shellac or gum copal, and then set In a
dark place.
| Where the man who wrote the receipt
erred, / think. was in neglecting to tell
how to properly open the eggs for use in
winter. He should have said that they
ought to be opened on deserted fair
ground by means Of a revolver at thirty
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from the city.
| At Newark it is the custom of the
youth to attend the various entertain
ments at the opera house without pay
ing any admission. i spoke there to a
large and intelligent audience. Most
every one was spellt ound and delighted