Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — How Screws are Made. [ARTICLE]

How Screws are Made.

The process of making a screw is very interesting. The rough large wire in big coils is, by drawing Arongh a hole smaller than itself, made the size needed. Then it goes into a machine that at one moment cuts it a proper length and makes a head on it. Then it is pnt into sawdust and “rattled” arid thus brigetened. Then Ae head is shaped down smooAly to Ae proper size and Ae nick pnt in at the same time. After “rattling” again in sawdust, Ae thread is cut by another machine, and after anoAer rattling*and thorough drying, Ae screws are assorted by hand (Ae fingersof Aose who-do this move almost literally like lightning), grossed by weight and packed for shipping. That which renders it possible for machines to do all Ais is a little thing that looks like and opens and Ants like a goose’s bill, which picks np a single screw at a time, carries it where needed, holds it till grasped by something else, and returns for anoAer. This is abont Ae most wonderful piece of automatic skill and usefulness I have ever seen, and it has done its distinctive work at the rate of 31 screws a minute, although this rate is only experimental as yet. 93 gross per day, however, has been the regular work of one machine. The span of life is from a nurse'to an ’earse. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has a badly sprained ankle. Her “Gait's Ajar.” Ladies will never succeed as railway conductors. Their trains are always behind. No matter how many snoe-bnttoners a lady may lose, Ae always hairpins to have one. Mrs. Partington says Aat her minister preached about “Ae parody of Ae probable son.” A Chicago inventor claims to have discovered “water as a fuel.” Fuel believe it, Aough. What Ais country appears to need is a few more societies for meddling with other people’s business.. The battle of life —courtship is the engagement or siege, Ae proposal is the assault, and matrimony the victory. A young man by the name of Neck was recently married to Mias Heels; they are now, therefore, tied neck and heels together. The difference.—“Ah, yes,” saida cabinet maker to a crockery dealer, to whom he was introduced —“A, yes; you sell tea sets, and I sell settees.” When Ae affectionate feAer of five grown daughters calls at a hardware store for an extrastout pair of gate hinges, it means that Ae spring campaign has opened. A shrewd little fellow was intrusted to Ae care of his ancle, who fed the boy very poorly. One day, he happened to see a greyhound; whereupon he asked the boy if he knew what made Ae dog so poor, and Ae reply was, “I expect he lives with his unde.” “Ten dimes make one dollar,” said Ae school-master. “Now, go on, sir. Ten dollars make one—what?” “They make one mighty glad these times,” replied Ae boy; and Ae teacher who hadn’t got his last monA’s salary yet, concluded that Ae boy was about right. An editor down in Amador county has purchased a safe i a. which he intends to keep an account of his diseased subscribers wi A Ae expectation that he will be able to collect Aem in the sweet by and by. Holy Mooes!—where does that editor A ink he is going to when he dies? The editor of a Western amateur journal having been criticised by one of his contemporaries for writing fiercely on politics in his little newspaper, defends himself by saying: “Our attacks upon Ae Democracy have vastly benefited us without materially injuring that party.” ,

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