Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1884 — The Oldest Match Factory. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest Match Factory.

At Jonkoping, Sweden, is the oldest and largest match factory in the world. It wa/ established 100 years ago, and there are now to be seen specimens of the matches used at the beginning of the present century, consisting of big fagots of wood furnished with a handle and a tip to dip in- a bath of sulphur. The wood from which the present kind of matches is made is taken from the adjacent forests, which are divided into fifty sections. Every year one section is cut and then replanted with young trees. The trees are hewn into flanks in the forest and cut into slivers in the factory. The boxes are made of the outside of the trees. The factories are on the banks of lakes which are con- • nected by wide canals. - What we call miracles and wonders of art are not so to Him who created them; for they were created by the natural movements of His own great souh Statues, paintings, churches, Soems, are but shadows of Himself.— ongfellow.