Year: 1874




Needles, to prove the finest quality,
require to be manufactured of the very
best steel wire that can be produced. A
coil of the wire in its soft state is cut by
a large pair of shears into lengths of -four
or five inches. The bundles length is
first to be made quite straight, which is
done by putting ring over each end,
laying the bundle on an iron table, and
rolling it backward and forward by flat
piece of iron placed upon it. The pieces
cut into the proper length for needles are
next pointed. which is done by the opera
tor holding two or three dozen at a time
upon a dry grindstone, each wire revolv-
ing while in contact with the stone. The
eye of the needle is generally perforated
by female operators the end of the wire
is fiattened by the blow of hammer, and
the perforation is made by steel punch,
the groove where the eye is placed being
made bya particular file. The needles
when perforated, again require straighten-
ing by process similar to that already
described. They are next hardened, as
hitherto the steel has been in soft state.
For this purpose, several thousand of
them are placed in cast iron receptacle.
in which they are covered with ashes to
prevent oxidation, heated to cherry red.
and afterward tempered to blue color.
Again they require Strengthening, and
then are secured bright; this is perform
ed by collecting them in regular tiers in
strong cloth, each tier being separated
by fine emory, oil and soft soap. The
parcel being then tied around with strings,
is placed under a loaded box like a com
mon mangle, by the motion of which,
backward and forward, for two or three
Gays, the needles are rubbed against one
another, and the whole come out clean
and bright. Lastly, they are picked and
sorted, the heads Tor eyes) all one way,
ready for sale.


On there's nothing to me so cherished and dear,
As the time when my heart was peaceful and


light


When the skies overhead were golden and clear
And my HES young day knew no clouds and no


night.


The most romantic Of all numbers Is
the figure nine, because it can't be multi
piled or got rid of anyhow. Whatever YOU
do it is sure to turn up again as was the
body OF Eugene ARMS victim. One re-
property of this figure (said to
have been first discovered by Mr.. Green.
who died in 1794) is. that all through the
table the product nine
comes to nine. Multiply by what you
like, and it gives the same result. Begin
with twice nine are Is; add the digits to-
gether, and and s make 9. Three times
nine are %; add the digits together, and
: and make 8. So it goes on, I'D to II
times 8. which gives 90, very good add
the digits, 8 and 0 are js. and / and 8 are
y. Going in to any extent it is impossible
TO get rid of the figure nine. Take a
couple of instances at random: three
hundred and thirty nine times nine, are
5O5l; add up the figures and they arc 9
Five thousand and seventy one times nine
are 1868; the sum of these digits is q:
and and makes nine.


FORGET AND FORGIVE.


There exists very beautiful custom in
Germany, which it would be we'll TO
initiate everywhere. On tie first day of
the New Year, whatever may hsve been
the quarrels or arrangements between
friends and relatives, mutual visits are
interchanged-kindly greetings given and
received-all is forgotten and forgiven
1t may be that it does not in many cases
continue; but who can tell when the long
frozen flood gates of affection are thus
thawed by the genial influence of kind
words, how soon the first step toward
reconciliation may follow, and be the
means OF reuniting hearts so often separa-
ted by mere trifes or Misrepresentation |.


something light as air-a look


word unkind or wrongly taken:


Oh! love that tempests never shook,


A hraafh q tcuch l;la th;. h.xl .lu,