Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
ODD THINGS OF GLASS.
Collins, Mouse traps, Bricks, Fish
Bait.
We May Live in Houses of Glass, Sleep in
Glass Bsdsteads, Women Wear Glass
Gowns and Baby Play with Glass Blocks.


last few years he has secured patent for
a surprising number of devices in glass.
, Among these is a glass coffin, which is
guaranteed proof against decay and rats.
So long as no deliberate attempt is made
to smash it, it ought to last forever. An
other continuance is a stair case made
wholly of glass-steps, landing and new
ell posts being all made OF that material
Yet another is glass barrel. But per
haps the most remarkable invention of
the Glass Man is a billiard table made OF
glass.
The day may yet arrive when people
will live in glass houses. A patent has
been secured by another inventor for
glass bricks of peculiar pattern. The
material of which they are composed be-
ing a first class non-conductor, these
bricks will keep the cold out of a dwell
ling built of them while admitting the
light. 1t is claimed that they will ex-
clude noise, being hollow. Furthermore,
he inmates of glass house need not be
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IN by neighbors, inasmuch as it is not
requisite that the bricks shall be trans
parent. They may be of Opaque round
glass, or of any color that may be suita-
hIe for decorative effect.
Thus before many years have passed
it will be considered the height of luxu-
~, perhaps, to occupy glass dwelling.
Glass bricks, of course, are expensive,
People who live in glass houses will be
able to afford to wear clothes of glass.
Nearly twenty years ago there was
shown at the centennial exposition in
Philadelphia a bonnet composed entirely
of glass. 1t was love of a bonnet. The
flowers were glass, and so were the rib
bons, which looks like the finest satin.
The patentee of this process describes it
as suitable for the manufacture of neck
ties, shawls, table covers, etc.
In fabrics of this kind a very fine
quality of glass is used. 1t is spun in
til eads of exceeding delicacy, and of
these several colors may be produced at
the same time. They are woven in a
loom of ordinary pattern. Anybody
may observe that a thin sheet of glass is
slightly elastic. The threads employed
IN weaving are of such fineness as to be
perfectly pliable and not at all brittle.
With gown of glass would naturally go
a pair of glass slippers. Not like Gin
derella's. Oh, mol Cinderella did not
wear glass slippers. Her slippers in the
original French story were of "vair,"
which means fur. Vair and "verre"
meaning glass, are pronounced exactly
alike. Hence the corruption.
A Pittsburg man named Smith has
invented process for making glass slip
,ers in molds. They would not dc very
we'll for dancing. There is no reason
Why glass gown should not be woven !
If iridescent glass, and its wearer would
ook like an animated rainbow on ball /
DOM fioor-one dazzling simmer of
hues.
Until recently the manufacture of iri-
descent glass was set down in the list of :
ost arts. But in 1873 it was rediscover-
d, and now it is a common commercial
rticle 1t is made by exposing the melt :.
d glass to the vapors of sails of sodium.
1t the Metropolitan Museum of Art are
Inhibited great numbers of bottles, plates
nd other articles of glass which were :,
lade and used long before Christ was
orn. They were dug up in Cyprus and
lsewhere Many of them have a beau
full iridescense, but it is the result of (
ecay. Glass will rot like anything
se, and decay has split the structure of I
lis ancient glass in laminae or flakes,
hich interrupt the light so as to pro-
uce brilliant red, green, purple and :,
her rainbow colors. r
The window blinds of the glass house -
the future will be of glass, of course. nj
hat Is another patent, and the inventor GO
Iggests that such blinds may be made r
whatever colors are desired. Baby in -
e nursery will perhaps play with glass "a
Hiding blocks, and at a suitable age he -
IN receive Christmas gift of pair of p,
Her skates with glass rollers. Both of w
csc ideas have been patented. 60
When he is old enough to so fishing -,
will not dig worms in the garden,
t will be provided with arf bait
the shape of hollow mil " of glass
ated on the inside pay tn lu- go
nous paint. The 9 of this