The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17

In the first place, different ingredients
are fused into red hot molten mass.
The molten mass is not a religious serv-
ice, though it has the same temperature
as the doctrine which was taught me as
a child by my pastor, who was rigid
man and loved to scare me with his
wonderful and gifted pictures Of he'll.
Quite a lot of ingredients are used in the
manufacture of glass, and | would love
dearly to tell my readers all about it, but
just before left the works l promised
the owner of the factory that l 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 to 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 sort of table covered with
oil or something Of that sort, meantime
standing at a respectable distance from
1t, 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 a
mold which he can open and close by
pressing lever with his foot.
Opening this mold he let's the rosy COB
fall into its open jaws, closes it with his
foot, blows gently into it through his
long tube and 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.
1t 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
mutual understanding SO that wages re
main good, and very likely always viii,
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 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 mora
SO, it is said.
l put up Jar Of strawberries one year
myself, according TO a 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 l 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 low,
kissing sound like that made by steam
radiator that has been cornered; then
l noticed a strawberry halo around the
chandelier.
Once, also, 1 read 4 receipt in the same
paper telling how TO preserve eggs for
winter so that they would taste like
new warm summer day IN g clover hay
NOW. was TO pat the eggs in bran. |
believe, either with the large or the small
end down. after vanishing them with
shellac or gum copal, and then sec in
dark place.
Where the man who wrote the receipt
erred, think. was IN neglecting to tell |
how 10 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 1t Is the custom of the |
youth TO attend the various entertain |
ments at the opera house without pay /
ing any admission. / spoke there TO q |
large and intelligent audience. Most |
every one was spellbound and delighted |
beyond measure. The speaker went on /
at soma length to speak to the audience
IN a terse way, expressing himself n |
wonderfully beautiful language. soma OF |
which conveyed ideas. Every enc was |
pleased and delighted.
In the midst os yhe speaking there was
a slight noise heard overhead and a boys |
leg was seen 70 suddenly burst throagz 4
theceiGng and agitate itself through the /
brilliantly lighted atmosphere. The IN
cident attracted great deal Of a-ren- /
tlon and made 2sUccess of the entertain
ment. It was heartily enjoved by one
and all. with the exception OF the boy. /