Year: 1875

| hardening, each particular metal having


lts own form, and it happens that lead
| crystalllzes into cubes instead of globes.


So that unless the drops can be made to
| form into spheres as soon AS they leave


the colander they will harden into cubos
| and comets and all sorts of things before


they reach the bottom; so it was neces.


sary TO search around and find something
else which crystallizcd in a different
form IN order To counteraCt this tenden-
Cy. 1t was found that arsenic was the


very thing. SO now small quantity of
arsenic is mixed with all the lead and
| the little drops form into globes as soon


as they leave the colander and most of


them harden in that shape. Some are
imperfect, however.


They are lifted from the water in lii


tie cups fastened to a revolving shaft


which also empties them upon metal
plates, where they are dried hy steam.


and then the good and the bad are sepa.


rated from each other. In order to do


TINS polished iron plate is tilted At a


certain angle, and the little balls are


made To roll down it. The perfect ones


roll SO fast and So easily, and get such "A
momentum, that when they come to tn.


umping-of place they make bound
and 50 clear over into bin fixed for
them about foot away. The imperfect
ones, the comets and such like, find
their tails in the way, and 20 So much
slower that when they come To the end
they have only lust force enough 10 drop
down into receptacle at the bottom.
and then are melted over and 90 through
the same process again.


But the good ones are not finished vet.
They are next put into kcg-likc cylin-
der along with some plumbago-and by
the way this rlumbago comes all the
way from the island OF Ccvlon on pur-
pose-the cylinder is set to revolving
very fast, and in a short time they come
out beautifully polished and all ready
to be screened. The screening is To sep
arate the different sizes from each other,
for several different sizes are made, rang
ing from buck shot down to a tiny little
ball no larger than "A cabbage seed, and
of which it must take several to do much
execution.


They are now ready TO put up for mar
ket, and this is not the least interesting
part of the whole. Little bags. large
enough to hold twenty-five pounds, are
hung just below some long iron tubes
through which the shot runs and falls
into the bags, and when just twenty five
pounds have run in Il valve closes, and
not another grain can get through. so
you see they weigh themselves. Then
they are piled into heap and are
ready TO he sold, and to go cut into the
world upon their mission of destruction.


Upon the lower story of the building is
the immense engine of three hundred
horsepower which turns all the ma
chinery and does large part of the
whole work, mighty servant that labors
night and day, only stopping to rest for
Il few minutes once in u while, never gets
tired nor out of humor, never Crunblcs
nor sColds, never strikes for higher
wages, and only asks to be fed and at.
tended IL with proper care.


This is very imperfect description of
Il very curious and interesting process.
To understand it thoroughly one must
have some knowledge OF machinery and
of chemistry, and then he can spend Il
delightful day in going over the immense
building and searching out its intricaCic'
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