Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — The Jinglet in the Bell. [ARTICLE]

The Jinglet in the Bell.

Lewiston Evening Journal. “The making of sleigh bells is quite an art,” says an iron founder. “The little iron ball is too big to be put in through the little holes in the bell, and yet it is inside. How did it gefthere? The little iron ball is called the jinglet 1” When you shake the sleigh- bell it jingles. In making the bell the jinglet is put inside a little ball of mud, just the shape of the inside of the bell. Then a mould is made r just the shape of the outside of the bell.- This mud ball with the jinglet inside is placed in the outside, and the metal is poured in, which fills the space between-the ball and the mould. “When the mould is taken off you see a sleigh bell, but it will not ring, as it is full of dirt. The hot metal that the bell is made of dries the dirt so that it can be shakep out. After the dirt is all shaken out of the holes in the bell, the little iron jinglet will still be in the bell and will ring. It took a good many years to think out how to make a sleigh beU