Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1916 — Where All the Pins Go. [ARTICLE]

Where All the Pins Go.

Scientific curiosity has led a French investigator to look into the old question of the fate of the ordinary brass pin. By a series of experiments conducted on his own estate he discovered that pins, like human beings, go their way and are resolved into dust. Hairpins, which the experimenter observed for 154 days, disappeared at the end of that period, having been converted into a ferrous oxide, a brownish dust, which was blown away by the winds. Bright pins took nearly 19 months to disappear; polished steel needles nearly two and one-half years; brass pins had but little endurance.