Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — Kaleidoscopes. [ARTICLE]

Kaleidoscopes.

Kaleidoscopes are made to sell at from five cents to five dollars each, the latter being used a great deal by carpet designers and for like purposes. In a factory in New York a reporter found eight girls at work before a long bench, this being the system of operations: The first young woman wraps black paper about the glass reflectors which produce the optical delusion. These strips of glass, when thus arranged and fastened together, form the body of the kaleidoscope. The next girl simply inserts the united reflectors into the pasteboard cover, and then passes the octagonal pasteboard tube to her neighbor. Number three adjusts the brass ring which secures the glass disks in the end. Between the disks or plates are placed the scraps of colored glass, the beads and various trinkets which tumble about as the kaleidoscope is revolved, and when reflected by the mirrors form themselves into ever-shift-ing, fantastic forms. The other young women are armed with hammers to break the colored glass into fragments. The colored glass is obtained from the waste scraps, purchased very cheap, at stained-glass manufactories.

Mr. A. Fuf.ger, GOG Walnut street, St. Louis, Mo., suffered for two veari with lumbago, and was confined to his bed for several months. He was entirely cured by the use of St. Jacobs Oil, which lie says is also the best cure for sprains and all other pains.