Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1881 — Plastic Metal. [ARTICLE]

Plastic Metal.

A very useful material, which may be described as a metal paste, has recently been invented. It resembles ordinary white metal in appearance, such as is used for lining the bearings of axles in railway carriages or machinery, and it has a hard, close texture, capable of taking on a high polish. Nevertheless, it can be readily pasted on and spread over another metal by means of a hot soldering iron, and it adheres to its baso with great tenacity. It fuses at a temperature of 450 degs. Fahr., and can therefore be readily melted over an ordinary fire. Containing, as it does, neither lead nor spelter zinc, it may be melted over and over again without deteriorating in quality, and this combination of useful poperties must render it a very serviceable article in the colonies, where casting furnaces or c ther foundry appliances are few and far between. A druggist in New Richmond, Ohio, Mr. E. J. Donham, writes us the following : “I consider Dr, Bull’s Cough Syrup one of the very best things m&de. I use it altogether in my pwa family and oan therefor# reoemmend it.”

gocHATKS, at an extreme old age, learned te pUy Jtudy of Latin. Dr. Johnson applied himself to the Dutch language bat a few years before bis death. Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham was nearly fifty yean es age when she diaooverod her Vegetable Compound. By these facts we see thah it is never too late to learn. , , * Some persons are born with * strong natural instinct to be just. But it is also a habit of mind, which may be increased and improved bv study and reflection, and which should be sedulously cultivated. r— % A Connecticut mother learned of her daughter’s contemplated elopement, and on the flight appointed for the flight sh# fmt some laudanum in the girl’s tea. Theatter fell asleep and did not wake up until next morning, and in the meantime Borneo got tired of waiting and went home disgusted. Be goes with anothei girl now.