Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — Powder and Shot. [ARTICLE]

Powder and Shot.

Gunpowder is a compound of niter, or saltpeter, charcoal, and sulphur. By consulting Our Curiosity Shop book for 1881 a detailed account of the process of its manufacture'will he found. Shot is made in high towers. Bars of lead are carried by machinery to the summit of the tower, and are then melted and poured into perforated pans or colanders. The melted lead failing in drops is cooled in a spherical form, and at the bottom falls into a large vessel of water. Taken from the water, the shot is assorted into various sizes, and is then polished by being put with some pulverized graphite in a rapidly rotating cylinder. The most of the gunpowder in use in this country is manufactured in Pennsylvania. New York produces the greatest proportion of shot. —lnter Ocean.

It is believed that Oscar Wilde will now have the sunflower nonsense taken out of him in short order. He is a daddy.