Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1913 — Glass-Making an Old Trade. [ARTICLE]

Glass-Making an Old Trade.

Each country has its distinctive types of glass, but it requires special and well-traihed perception to tell the difference between some of the English and Irish specimens of the last century, and the careful copies which are now being made of them in European factories. The latter, however, can. gererally be known by their greater whiteness and lightness of wegiht. Waterford glass is now the most sought after by collectors, but equally beautiful pieces were made in the Cork and Dublin glass houses. Glass-making cm be traced back for about 2,300 years to the people who lived on the .eastern shores of the Mediterranean, but its origin has never really been fixed. Its Ingredients are still the same, and their proportions seem to have varied very little. Silica and an alkali, that is quartz, or flint, and potash, or soda, are still used.