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How the Corks are Made.
Largest Manufactory in the World is in this
State.
While business was liveliest in a well-
patronized drinking saloon the other afser-
ed man, who did not look as though he
bad the price for a drink nor the wis to
get one without it. He was not after re-
freshment, however, for he went with
quick confidence to the end of the bar and
from the floor behind it picked up a box of
old corks and dumped them iuto a bag he
was carrying. Then he made for the door,
nodding to the barkeeper as he went ont.
* '“What’s that for?” inquired a patron
with partially-quenched thirst, who had
noticed the incident.
*‘Ob, he's an old fellow who comes in
regularly after our old corks,” replied the
barkeeper. ‘‘Guess he uses ’em to hostle
up something he makes.’’
But it turns out on investigation that
the busy barkeeper was wrong. The old
cork gatherer sells what he colleots to cer-
tain small manufacturers of cork, who trim
them down and make them look like new
before disposing of them again. Ma-
chinery is used for this purpose, and the
buisness is an extensive one, yet it is quite
distinct from the regular manufacture of
new cork, and it is the kind of trade
which is carried on without any undue
publicity, for the made-over corks, while
in many cases harmless and of good ser-
vice, are not considered sanitary nor other-
wise desirable. The incident serves to in-
dicate the vast extent of the business of
in connection with it is that the largest
cork manufactory in the world is located
in this State, with factories in Pittshurg
and Lancaster and offices in Philadelphia.
Anyone who has ever tried to trim a
piece of cork down to fit a smaller bottle
knows what a perverse substance it is; how
bard it is to out it without tearing, no
matter which way the grain runs, and how
nearly impossible it is to shape it properly.
The cutting machine used in making corks
only does its work becanse it is sharpened
and kept sharp. An official of one com-
pany explained that the saving of labor
and cheapening of product by the use of
machinery as employed by Americans,
where other nations work by hand, are
better illustrated in the cork business than
inany other he knows of. ;
CORK COMES FROM SPAIN.
In Spain where the cork tree principally
grows and whence comes the entire supply
used in this country, all of the cutting is
done by band, and even in England the
: machinery is not nearly so advanced as
i here. More than one cork manufacturer
in this country has, indeed, his own spe-
cial machines for certain operations, invent-
ed by himself or his workmen, which out-
sideis are not permitted to examine too
closely for fear of duplication of the idea.
The tree from the bark of which corks
are made is a species of live-oak. It grows
in Southern California and at other places |
where the climate seems about the same
have not been successful, the product be- |
ing inferior. A tree sometimes lives to be
150 years old, and its bark is taken off at
noon there entered an old and poorly-dress- |
20 yearsand about every 10 years there-
| after. The first barking is nearly worth-
| less, and it is not until the tree has been
| stripped a second or third time that the
| product is available for cork of good qual-
ity. The elower the new bark grows the
better its quality is, and this quality im-
proves with each stripping.
The bark, after being taken from the
' tree trank from the ground up to the first
( fork and sometimes from the larger
branches, is dried in the sun and air for
several weeks to rid it of its sap, then
boiled and softened, so it may be flattened
out. In this condition it is carried on
! donkey’s from the cork groves to the sea
coast and loaded on the ships which
bring it to this countr:. The trees vary
in size up to three feet in diameter, and
the bark is from three inches at the trank
to less than half an inch in the branches.
The same tree gives widely-vary ing qual-
ities of cork, so that there is a sorting for
quality as well as for thickness, and yet
still more sorting and grading after the
corks are fully made. The bark on reach -
ing the factory is cut into long strips,
slightly wider than the diameter of the
desired cork. hy a slicing knife, which
is a rapidly-rotating disk something like a
circular saw, except that instead of the raw
teeth it bas a razor edge.
All the cork-cutting machinery is hail
80 that the blade slides as well as presses,
which is the only wav in which the cal.
ting may she done without tearing. The
special! strips are then fed to the punching
machine, which, with hollow punches of
the het steel, cuts ont the round cork
0 the desired size. The necessary sliding
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the punches can bardly be distinguished
by the eye as they move back and forth.
The cork is thrown out of the punch at the
same time. Here unles the desired cork ie
to be tapered, is the end of the operation,
and nothing further is required than a
careful sorsing of the corks for quality.
Before its acquaintance with the wine bot-
tle the champagne cork is simply a straight
cylinder, like all other untapered corks. It
gets itsswelled head and otherwise dissi-
pated appearance by heing forced iuto the
hulging neck of the bottle while in a soft
and yielding condition and held there by
wire laced across its head.
The waste in cutting corks to be used as
Stoppers is 65 per cent. of the raw material,
: but, though this ie in the shape of small
in Spain without any special care or |
cultivation, but attempts to grow it here |
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sbavings and chips, it is really not wasted,
but used after grinding to make linoleum
or, in slightly larger chops, to line refrig-
erators, cover pipes, pack eggs and for
similar purposes. Bicycle handles are
made out of cork granulated and compress-
ed into sheets or blocks, Another well-
kuowu use of cork chips is to cover the in-
terior ironwork of battleships to prevent
the accumulation of moisture upon it.
Niue willion pounds of cork bark a year
goes to one factory in Penpsylvania, yet
no manufactured cork is exported. On
the contrary, with all that is made in this
country the importation of manufactured
cork is large.
Chinese Children’s Holiday.
Except at the Chinese New Year, which
comes in February, it is very hard to
catch a glimpse of children in China.
Little beggars will run beside you for
miles to earn one ‘‘cash,”’ a copper coin
with a square hole in the middle of it,
worth the twentieth of a cent; bus child-
ren who have parents to care for them
seem to be kept indoors all the time, or
only allowed to play in walled yards and
gardens. We used to say to each other,
‘‘Why, where are the children® Haven’s
they got any?’’ Bustat New Year's, says
a writer in St. Nicholas Magazine, we
found out that they bad. This 1s the great
holiday of ‘all the year in China, when
everybody havgs out flags and colored
lunterns and sets off firecrackers. (We
borrowed our enstom of firecrackers for
the Fourth of July from Chinese New
Year’s.) All the people put on their very
best clothes and the children the best of
all, jackets and trousers of bright blue or
green or yellow or purple, the boys and
the girls so much alike that you can only
tell them apart by their hair. The boy's,
of couse. is braided in a pigtail, and the
girl’s isdone up on her head with silver
pins, or, if she is a very grand little girl,
with gold or jade. Thus decked out, the
children go walking with their proud
papas and mammas, and often go to the
theatre, which is a rare treat for them.
Perhaps Chinese children have romping
plays together, hut they always look as if
they were horn grown up.
——First Physician—Sn the operation
was just in the nick of time ?
Second Physician—Yes ; in another 24
hours the patient would have recovered
without is.— Chicago Journal.
Some woolless sheep have been newly
brought to this country by the depart-
ment of agriculture, says the ‘‘Saturdayg
Evening Post.” They are fawn colored,
go mewbhat 1esembling cattle in hue, and
quite small, not exceeding 100 pounds in
weight. Some sheep weigh over 400
pounds.
These animals are of a very peculiar
breed, which is known nowhere except in
Barbados. It was from these thas the
specimens imported by the government
were obtained. The general belief is that
the variety was orginally brought to Bar-
bados from Africa, but nobody knows
with certainty. Though lacking wool,
they have very superior meat, it is said.
The imported specimens bave been
placed on the Arlington Farm, which is
an experimental farm conducted by the
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Meanwhile, there bave been obtained a
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under observation as the departments’ ex-
perimental farm. To the casual observer
they would not seem to be unlike any or-
dinary goats, but if one approaches them
suddenly they fall to the ground and have
a sort of fis. In afew moments they get
over it, and seem to beas well as ever,
but it is noticed thas they ‘‘throw’’ one of
these fits every time they are startled.
The “‘fainting goats’’ come from Ten-
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cality in the State.
Their complaint, which appears to be
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ter, and they are trying to find out some-
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animals from a scientific standpoint.
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