The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-23
THINGS MADE FROM MILK,
Factories in Austria for Turning o,

Factories in Austria for Turning Out
 Useful Objects From Galaith.
 The writer received something of shock the other day, when, after mak- ing what he considered very fine break in local billiard match, he was informed by an interested on-looker that what he had been playing with was not billiard ball, but quart of sklmmed milk. There was no disputing the fact either, for the intelligent gen. tleman was able to prove his assertion on the highest scientific authority, says the London 'Tit-Bits. He had, more- over, given the subject careful study, and was prepared to state the process through which a quart tor it might have been a gallon) of milk from which the cream had been abstracted passed before settling down in the useful ca pacity of a billiard ball.
 'Milk-stone, or galatith, or petrified milk he said, ifs milk subjected to chemical process, by means of which the casein is preeipitated as a yellow ish brown powder. This powder is mixed with formalin, and thereby a hornlike product is formed called milk stone. With various admixtures this substance forms substitute for hum dred useful materials, such as ivory, celluoid marble, hard rubber, and even amber. There is no limit to the num- Der of useful articles which can be made from galalith, and they include almost everything from cigarette hold CTS to fantel-pieces. When you next play a Chopin norturne on your much prized grand do not imagine that your fingers are wandering over what once formed part of an elephants tusk for ten to one the keys have been manu- factured from few gallons of that class of milk which is usually retailed at penny quart. As matter of fact, piano keys are now seldom made of real ivory except in the case of the fore expensive instruments. This is rather remarkable when one remembers that from single elephants tusk no fewer than ninety-six sets of keys have been cut, However, galalith Is. now the best substitute for ivory that we have, for it is smooth to the touch, retains an excellent color and, unlike celluloid, is proof against fire.
 Perhaps you are unaware that every year in Vienna there is held kind of festival that Is called Creamery Day and which has its usefulness in domon- slu9meAeIqos lselBI GIeA eql SuneIls in dairy products. A couple of years ags on Creamery Day Maximilian Ripper, assistant at the chemical agri- cultural experiment station, delivered a lecture on skinned milk which was attended by scientists from all parts of the country.
 "Mr. Ripper stated that skinned milk is now used for thousand differ ent purposes-for the manufacture of sugar of milk, as food for many ani- nals besides pigs, and for very deli clous beverage poetically called milk champagne, which is skinned milk mixed with fruit juices and impregna- ted with carbonic acid. A rather large percentage of skinned milk is also sep- arated into its component parts, which are then worked up. The 'casein' serves for the manufacture of cheese, also for glue, putty and other sub SldllG6Ss Dul ctlA LllCGC hAlASLSA4N bpSo 1A skinned milk did not solve the ques- tion favorably until the invention of galalith, which is just the material sci- entists have been waiting for during the last quarter of a century. The in- solubility of galalith, Its easy working, elasticity and proof against fire make 1t a very desirable product.
 "In Austria something like one hun dred thousand quarts of skinned milk are used daily for the purpose of mak- ing galalith, and the industry is largely on the increase. Factories have been erected for turning galalith into all sorts of useful objects, and its great strength even allows it to be used in nlace of stone and marble. You could build house of milk if you liked, and it would be as strong and lasting as though made of Aberdeen granite. Moreover, all the fittings could be made or the same substance, and they would outliye the finest ordinary material that was ever constructed"