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",’ASNET MARVELS
Tillamook Headlight, January 18 1912.
MAKING GOLD PENS.
Th« Metals That Ar« Usad and th«
Precess of Manufacture.
Tbe tiny tip of white metal seen on
tbe under side of tbe point of a gold
peu may be of platinum, but it 1» more
likely to be iridium, iridium is a very
bard metal, and it is expensive. It
costs about four times as mueb as gold.
Tbe purpose of tbe iridium tip is. of
course, to give tbe pen a more durable
point
Tbe gold pen maker buys bis gold at
the assay office in bars of pure 24 carat
gold, which be melts and alloys with
silver and copper to the degree of fine
ness required. Gold of 14 carats is
used in the manufacture of tbe best
American gold pens, that being tbe de
gree of fineness deemed most suitable
for pen use. but good pens made tn
this eountry for sale In France are
made of 18 carats, the French govern
ment requiring that all articles exposed
for sale In tijat country as made of
gold shall be of not less than 18 car
ats.
The gold from which the pens are to
be made is rolled and rerolled until
what was originally a thick, heavy bar
of gold has been rolled into a thin gold
ribbon about three feet in length by
four Inches wide. Then this gold rib
bon is put into a machine which
stamps out of it pen shapes, all still
flat. Then on the top of each of these
pen shapes is fused the iridium point,
and then the shapes go to a slitting
machine, which cuts the slit In the
pen. From the slitting machine tbe
pens go through another, which gives
them their rounded, familiar ¡ten form,
and then tbe pens are ground and pol
ished and finished ready for use.
American gold pens in fountain pens
or as dip pens are sold In every coun
try in Europe In competition with pens
of British or of German manufacture,
and under the same competition they
are sold throughout the world in South
America. Africa. Japan. China, wher
ever pens are used.—New York Sun.
MOSLEM HOLY WARS.
Once Ordered They Are Waged Till
Either Sid« Is Wiped Out.
When a jihad or holy war is pro
Modern Giants That Raise Tons
claimed by tbe Mohammedans it
mean» that every male Moslem from
of Metal at a Time.
eight years old to eighty most take
up arms and fight to tbe death, if need
be. tn defense of bls faith.
LIFT BILLETS HOT OR COLD.
When a holy war is proclaimed tbe
sacred green banner of tbe prophet,
A Single On« of Th««s Monsters With
kept furled nt all other times. Is loos
ened to tbe breeze, nnd tbe Moslem
Invisible Magic Fingers Will Do the
who does not follow it is held to be
Work of Half a Hundred Men—The
forever accursed. Anybody may kill
Magnet In Medicine and In Surgery.
him with impunity. His wives, his
Those who have watched a toy mag
children and his property cease any
net lift up plus and needles and mar
longer to belong to him. He Is cut off
from all communion with the faithful.
veled not a -little at tbe unseen power
The man who engages in a holy war,
that causes tbe bits of metal to jump
on tbe other band, is called “sbehld,”
might well be excused for standing
which means “martyr” or "glorious
aghast nt the sight of a modern giant
one." His sole alm and object hence
magnet picking up several tons of iron
forth is to kill as many Infidels as pos
and steel from the scrap heap and can
sible. If be himself is killed in his
keying it with ease and rapidity M
turn it does not matter in tbe least
the melting furnace beyond.
His religion teacher him that be goes
So great has been the commercial de
straight to paradise, where bright eyed
velopment of the magnet that It can
bouris are watching to clasp him in
lift five and a half tons. These giant
their arms and acclaim him as “bravest
magnets used In Iron and steel mills
of tbe brave.”
can pick up hot as well as cold billets,
It was because of a holy war, pro
auil a single one of this character will
claimed against England by Gaylau.
displace half a hundred workmen.
sultan of Fez. that England gave up
A further improvement may be not
Tanglers. For twenty-one years this
ed in tbe combination of skull cracker
particular holy war was. waged, and
and magnet. Tbe skull cracker Is a
during that time no quarter was asked
bW iiear shaped ball of Iron suspend
or given by either side. To England
ed by a chain to a hook and steel
it was one long series of disasters.
nines This skull cracker Is dropped
The worst was that which befell the
. great t’orc<\on scrap metal to be
West Surrey regiment. Ambushed and
broken up lor remelting. It breaks the
surrounded, this corps was practically
metal Into conveniently small pieces
annihilated, only uiue men out of more
and is lifteil up and down by tbe mag
than 500 escaping with their lives.
net until the scrap is reduced to prop
In 1842 again a holy war was pro
er size. Then tbe invisible fingers of
claimed against England by Akbar
the magnet gather up the small pieces
Khan, the favorite son of Dost Mo
and carry them to the melting furnace.
hammed, ameer of Afghanistan. whom
The entire operation Is accomplished
England had deposed. The savage hill
in one-hundredth of the time formerly
tribes rose to a man at his bidding,
required by manual labor.
and tbe entire British army of occupa
More recently magnets have been
tion—about 1C.000 men. including
employed in the milling Industry to
camp followers—was wiped out of ex
pick out small particles of metal that
istence.
SILENT MEN.
frequently get Into flour and cause ex
The worst of a holy war is that, once
plosions through friction when they
come In contact with the big rollers. Wallenstein, Who Never Smiled, Wat begun, it can only be ended by one
side or tbe other being exterminated,
the Most Dramatic of All.
Not a particle of metal can escape the
Washington’s reserve made him so that it is liable to drag on almost
powerful magnets suspended over the
chute through which the grain passes. stiff, formal and 111 at ease In compa indefinitely.—London Answers.
In mining and metallurgical work ny. but it also prevented his plans
Blackbuck’« Extra Nostril.
tbe magnet has become an Indispensa from being betrayed to the enemy and
Two visitors to the menagerie were
ble labor saving agent. The magnetic the country from being deceived by
discussing the why and wherefore of
separation of ores has saved thousands his promises.
William the Silent was frugal of an opening on tbe face of an Indian
or dollars to mining companies. When
the rocks are crushed and pulverized words, because h reserve that conceal antelope or blackbuck halfway between
powerful magnets gather up the in ed his designs, even from those acting tbe eye and nose. One visitor said it
finitesimal parts of metal released from with him, was necessary to the inde was due to an injury; the other opined
it led to the tear duct.
their beds anu convey them to the pendence of the Netherlands.
The most dramatic of silent men
"You are both wrong.” said tbe keep
smelting furnace. Quantities of ore
can thus be saved from old tailings was Wallenstein, the antagonist of er. "That 1« an extra nostril for the
that were formerly considered pure Gustavus Adolphus and the comman fastest running member of the ante
der of the emperor’s armies in the lope or deer family. He runs so fast
waste.
Recently commercial magnets were Thirty Years’ war. He Insisted that that his ordinary nostrils cannot supply
employed for tbe novel purpose of rais the deepest silence should reign around enough air to bls lungs nature came to
ing sunken treasures. A big cargo of him. His officers took care that no the rescue with the extra air channel.
nails was lost In twenty fathoms of loud conversation should disturb their No other animal that I know of is so
water, and the loss seemed Irreparable general. They knew a chamberlain well provided. The blackbuck is the
until some enterprising genius raised had been hanged for waking him with fastest thing on hoofs. On favorable
them easily and cheaply by means of out orders, and an officer who would ground and spurred by fear the black
a magnet suspended from a derrick by wear clanking spurs is the command buck could make sixty miles an hour.
er's presence had been secretly put to —New York Sun.
steel cables
In the most improved commercial death. In the rooms of Wallenstein’s
magnets hollow steel castings are used, palace the servants glided as if phan
Ths Lessening Death Rats,
in which magnetized coils are placed. toms, and a dozen sentinels moved
gome of tbe greatest advances
Tbe latter are built up of alternate around his tent charged to secure the civilization are made silently. They
layers of copper and asbestos and In- silence the geueral demanded. Chains escape tbe flourish of trumpets, while
r.uluted from the cast steel frames by were stretched across the streets and other much less Important advances
thick sheets of mica. A magnet of roads in order to guard him against are accompanied by Incessant drum
this construction Is proof against heat the disturbance of sounds. Wallen beating and pyrotechnics. The diminu
and cold and free from tbe danger of stein's taciturnity and love of silence tion of the death rate is one of lhe
short circuiting. There Is nothing com that caused him to be irritated at tbe signal triumphs of modern enlighten
bustible used in its manufacture, and slightest noise was due to his consti ment. It is also one of tbe most po
He never tent checks on economic waste. Tbe
it can gather up a ton of hot scraps tutional temperament.
smiled, he never asked advice from average age of each generation Is be
of steel with comparative ease.
But the Invisible fingers of the mag any one, nnd he could not endure to ing materially lengthened, und that re
net can pick up the most delicate lie gazed at, even when giving an or sult is chiefly being reached by stop
splinter of steel no larger than a sew der. The soldiers when be crossed ping the excessive loss of infant life.
ing needle as easily as It lifts a huge tbe camp pretended not to see him. Yet few persons realize the extent of
Iron or steel beam weighing a ton or knowing that a serious look would tbe beneficent progress thus made or
two. The small magnets have there- briug them punishment.—Exchange.
what it has meant in the way of in
fore found ns great a field of useful-
creasing tbe sum total of human hap
Concrete Stays Put.
ness as the big ones. In all trades
piness and efficiency.—New York Trib
As concrete gets older it becomes
they are employed for handling pieces
une.
harder
and
more
durable
—
that
is.
of
of metal too small for fingers to pick
course,
if
the
concrete
Is
properly
up easily.
The Old Press Gang.
In a medical way they are used suc- made. The usual means of wrecking
Desperate means were sometimes re
c . .fully for extracting iron or steel a house have not the slightest effect sorted to in order to get men for Brit
c’nders from the eye and also for on concrete. Tbe sledgehammer, tbe ish warships. A chronicler writes that
.vine out of the body needles and drill and dynamite must be used. in the year 1738 “a fleet of ships be
•ces of metal that have found lodg Acids might be used to disintegrate ing required Immediately to be man
ment there. A dressmaker who had tbe concrete, but the expense would ned, the press gangs placed a live tur
Inadvertently swallowed a dozen nee- be enormous. Tbe only thing to do Is key on the top of a monument, which,
tiles was operated upon in this way to loosen tbe material with explosives drawing together a great number of
wtth entire success. For several days and then break it free from the steel idle people, they bad the opportunity
she was placed under a powerful mag re-enforcement with sledgehammers, of selecting as many men as answered
net until every needle had been drawn and that is a long, tedioua Job.—Boston tbe purpose of their Intended scheme.”
Advertiser.
from her body.
Tbe acene so enraged a citizen that be
In a therapeutic way magnets have
Bred a ahot at the bird, “which occa
Durability of Steal.
proved of value in destroying ulcerous
sioned it to fly away.” But the mis
Nearly an tbe failures of steel occur chief had been done.
and cancerous growths, and even
blood diseases of some kinds have very early in its history. A bar or a
yielded to their curative effects. A plate of steel that lasts a year In serv
**8t. Wapniac.
man with the point of a dagger broken ice may be regarded as perfectly dura
A person dealring to keep In mind
off tn bis body bad it removed by a ble. Continual bending backward and Which members of the cabinet would
magnet. Another patient had been forward, as in what Is called “panting" ■occeed to the executive office may
suffering from a painful ulcer on the a boiler's end. Is tbe most trying for ■«member tbe name 8t. Wapniac.
< liln for many years without finding I steel which, according to an expert, is ■ach letter suggents tbe secretary or
relief. He was finally cured by front “tumultuous in youth, trustworthy In Mead of department next in succession
ment with a magnet, which drew from middle age and beyond reproach In fcr president of tbe United State»— for
his chin a lot of steel filings that bad old age ’’
llntance. state. treasury, war. attor
caused all tbe trouble. The filings had
ney general, postmaster general, navy,
Th«
Running
G««r,
found lodgment in a cut In his face
“You say you have a new musical teterlor, agriculture and commerce and
one day when working before a tam
comedy?
” asks tbe manager. “Have iBfcor.—Leelie'«.
ing lathe. No immediate trouble had
followed, and the man had forgotten you a scenario of ltT*
Ending His Suspense.
“Yea I brought It along." answers
lhe Incident until tbe magnet drew
"The widow promised to give me her
tbe
author,
producing
a
collapsible
t rn out and gave the ulcer a chance
1 don’t see
to iieal.—George E. Walsh in CMcagu evening bat. a seltzer bottle, a set of
sleep
eccentric whiskers, pink silk tights, an
Record-Hern id.
"Go to sleep and don’t worry, old
artificial nose and a German dialect
chap She told me when I introduced
Joke —Life.
A P«rtin«nt QuMtien.
feu to her that she was going to mar
There are great men who m—nt
ly you.”—Houston Foot.
D««p
8«s
Life.
•;«eil. and small people who obfaet to
Animal life, existing under a pm
them. "Spell ’cat’" said tbe taocker
to tbe boy nt tbe tail end of tbe eta is rare of five and a half tons to tbe
“K-a-t.” replied the boy.
ne square Inch, has been found in tbe
tt ed tbe teacher
"Can't yea ^eil Tonga basin, near New Zealand, at a
.-atT “Well.” replied tbe seasflbta depth of fonr and three-quarter mile«.
hoy. "what does k-n-t spellY’—lMBffieu The greatest ocean depth known Is
lees than a mile deeper.
Chronicle.
■ Avoid greatness In a cottage there
1 diene«« Is only tbe refuge ef amok
My be found more real bappinses
ro'.nd« and tbe holiday of foeta.
a-1
than kings or tbeir favorite« enjoy In
terOeld.
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