Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — Where Cold Goes. [ARTICLE]

Where Cold Goes.

A dentist In a good practice uses over SSOO worth of gold a year In filling teeth. Some prepare their own gold: others get it from the gold beaters, but the greater part obtain it from dental supply firms. This gold is put up in eight-ounce packages, packed in small glass phials, each containing a fraction of an ounce. The cylindrical pieces of gold in it are gold-foil of a very soft and spongy kind. When pressed into a hollow tooth, one of these cylinders will not take up onetwentieth of the space it occupies in the bottle? About $10,000,000 is now concealed in the mouths of people in the world.—Boston Traveller.