Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — The Tea Drinkers. [ARTICLE]

The Tea Drinkers.

Statistics lately published in India show that the Australians are the greatest tea drinkers, the average annual amount of tea used by each person in their country being nearly seven pounds and three-quarters. In Great Britain the average is nearly five pounds, and in this country only a pound and a third. Holland is the only country in Continental Europe in which the consumption per individual exceeds one pound a year. In Russia, generally regarded as a land of excessive' tea drinking, only three-fifths of a pound per head is used. Crackle glass is produced by covering one side of a piece of plate glass with a thick stratum of a flux, or readily fusible glass, mixed with coarse fragments of glass. The flux (or fusible glass) under this treatment cracks and splits, leaving innumerable fine. 1 nes of fracture over its surface, having much the appearance of scales in irregular crystals, which cross and intersect each other in every direction, producing the most striking and beautiful effects when the light falls upon its surface. The rapid cooling of the fusible coating is effected by exposing it to a current of cold air, or by cautious sprinkling with cold water.