Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Flints Still in Use. [ARTICLE]

Flints Still in Use.

It may surprise you to hear that in spite of the millions of modern guns and rifles nowadays turned out the aucient flintlock is not quite a thing of the past. There is still in England at least one manufactory of flints for this use. The flints are all made by hand, being placed on the operator's knee and chipped with a hammer to the proper shape. Of course, a number of these flints are used for fire-making. These go principally to countries like Spain where the duties on ordinary matches and wax matches are so high as to convert them from the absolute necessity they are in Great Britain to a positive luxury, so that flint and steel are used.—New York Herald.