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Rubber Balls

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
March
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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The procesa of making thehollow i ber balls used by children as playthings Í8 quite curious, and may be interesting i tothose not familiar with it. A Holyoke writer thus describes it: ( "The upper room of the building is prepared to push this branch of the business for a few months, and it will probablv turn out some 50,000 dozen of these balls between January and June. , These balls have a solid surface, are made by a different process from that of , making the soft rubber balls wnich are perforated by an opening, and, of courBe, are much more firm, durable and elastic. The sheets of rubber prepared for the balls are cut into strips of doublé convex shape. The edgos of the strips are moistened with a preparation of rubber anci naphtha, by which they aro joined fixmly together, tlïree of the strips being used for one ball. " This part of the work is done by girls, and a skülful girl can earn about $1.50 per day. When the strips are joined together, the ball is very nearthe shape of a Brazil nut. Before the last opening is closed a small quantity of carbonate of ammonia is put inside, which, when subjected to strong heat, will make the rubber expand and fill out tho ball mold. The opening is then closed with the adhcsive mixture, and it is placed in an iron mold of the size and shape of the ball desired. The molds are packed into frames, in which tuey are snbjected to the heat of the vulcanizer. "They are kept in place in the frame by iron rods along the side, and when the frame is full iron plates at the end are screwed down tightly upon the molds to hold them in place. These iron plates aro about three-fourths of an inch thick, and so strong is the expansivo forcé of the rubber in the molds that they have bent this thick iron into a curve. If one of the molds should work out of place while vulcanization is in process, the molds will fly out with a noiso like the repQrt of a dozen pistols, and the work is spoiled. The action of the heat ! does the rest. When the molds are opened they contain the perfect round balls, with no mark of the places where the pieces were placed. The slight ridge made by the mold is gromid off by a stone used for the purpose, and the ball is done. This is but one process of rubber work. Besides the hollcw balls are made solid balls of rubber, etc." The Postal Sarings Bill. The bilí for a national savings ssheine agreed upon by the Honso Banking and Currency Committee provides for deposits at every money-order postofïice in the country of sums not lese than 25 conts nor more than $5 in any one week, which shall be entered upon a passbook ; whenever the account reaches the sum of $10, the depositor may demand a postal-order on tho United States treasury, free of charge. These postalorders are made transferrable on indorsenient, but it ia provided that there shall not be more than five indorsements on any one order. These orders themselves do not draw interest, but they are exchangeable on demand for " Postal-Savings bonds" in sums of $10 and múltiples thereof, which shall draw 3.65 per cent. interest for the term of ! three years, but no longer. Pending ! the three years, these bonds may be ! changed on tho demand of the holder at the United States treasury or any subtreasury for United States notes in an amount representing the principal and accrued interest, and they can also be exchanged at any time for the 4-percent. refunding bonds of the United States. Do Hens Beason ; A hen made a nest in a box in the j gage car, and in the course of time had i fifteeneggs, and sfruck to them througli thick and thin, night and day, except to step off the train occasionally to get food and water, and hatched thirteen chickens, notwithstanding the rambling, rolling process the eggs passed through. The baggage-master says that, after tho settiDg proceBs began, she would frequently, when off the nest in search of food and water, get lef t by the train at Shelbyville and somctimes at Wartrace, and on such occasions she would quietly wait for the train to return and fly into the baggage car and get on the nest immediately. When the train stopped for wood she would sonietimesfly out to get something to eat, and when the bell rang ' she would fly back immediately. She would sometimes manifest her joy at the appearance of the train by cackling at a high rate. Mother and chickens are all doing well. A Four-HaiMled Duel in Texas. A terribly fatal shooting affray and four-handed duel recently occurred at Bryan, Middle Texas. ■ Four men met in the street armed with six-shooters and guns. Their names were Hodges, Bush, Irwin and another party. The cause of the difficulty is snpposed to have been an old feud. All four began shooting simultnneously, and persons near the sccne fled. Spectators say it iooked like a small skirmish. Two men were left on the field, one mortally wouudcd, thiï other dead. Fifteen shots wero fired. Kush was struck in tho hip by a pistol-ball, and feil early in the action dangerously wounded. A man naniert. Morrison, a citizcn who drove up in a buggy at the commencement of the row, and who was merely a spectator, was shot aiid, it is supposed, was mortally wounded. Irwin was killed. Tho aft'air created intense excitement in and around Bryan. N ilion il -Bank Kedemption. The following is a statement of the opcrations of the national-bank rodemption ngeucy for the month of February, and the eight months ending Feb. 28, as compared with the corresponding periods last year : Natioiial-Baiik yjt&i IHtsposedo. Month. Eight Month NotCB fit f jr circulution aaBortei and returncd to banksof issue $ 11,246,400$ 103,372,200 Notes unftt for circulation atisorted and delivored to Comptroller Of Currcney for destruction ;ui'i replacomeut witb ucw noten 3,731,500 31,9S6,200 NotoHof failed,liqui(ialii)g aud reduciug banks depoaitcd in tieasury 608,100 7,210,760 TotalB for 1878 $16,586,000 142,669,15(1 Totals for 1877 18,976,200 147,378,000 Decrcaae.. $ 3,890,200 t_ ,808,8S0 Beath of a Noted Character. A late letter from Londou saya: "Oapt. Schenley died a few days ago. He was, with the exception of ïrelawney, who is still living, the last survivor of tbe party of friends, inÖkidipg Lord Byron and Leigh Huut, wiio burned the body of Shelley on a funeral pile nfter the anaient fushioD, and lie was present when the poet's ashcs were deposited in the Protestant burial-ground at Rome, near the grave of poor Keats." Capt. Schenley was it Waterloo, and nearly forty yrars ago caused great excitement in tuis vicinity by hia elopement with Miss Croghan, a noted heiresp, of Pittsburgh, Pa., then at school on Staten island. He leaves an estáte valued at from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000, and a large family of daughters. Thk wheat crops in the Soitb will be very large.

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