Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1871 — Corking Bottles from the Inside. [ARTICLE]

Corking Bottles from the Inside.

A new kind of soda water bottles is now rapidly taking the place of the ones hitherto commonly in use, and will by next season, no doubt, be generally adopted everywhere where soda water is bottled. It is a fact, to which all in this business testify, that one of the principal expenses in bottling soda water, eta, is the, cost of the cork. The expense of corks fora bottle ase£ thexwirage number of times during one reason, largely exceeds the cost of the bottle, as the cork serves but' once, and is then lost Besides, in consequence of defective corks, much leakage ensues, causing loss oflabor and material. Securing corks in ihe bcttleby means of wires or strings also adds largely to the cost It has, therefore, long been a desideratum with the manufacturers and bottlers of soda water, to find a substitute for corks which could serve more effectually than these, and then remain attached

to the bottle, and serve to close it a number of times, or, in fact, as long as the bottle lleelf should last. After many ex peri manta, this was at last practically secern pliahed by having a stopper made of glass, or some other material, which closes the bottle from the inside, and is of such a size that it cannot escape with the liquid through the neck of the bottle, but must always remain insideready for use. Thia new patent bottle is, therefore, closed from the inside. The stopper, being somewhat longer than the internal diameter of the Ifottle, cannot turn over, and the proper end of it is thus always presented io the uiouth of the bottle. This, while in an inverted position, is filled by a machine invented for the purpose. Being chiefly composed of hard wood or glass, heavier thau the liquid in the bottle, the stopper falls readily to its seat and is here sustainad by the inside pressure of the water, when the bottle is full. The greater the pressure, the tighter the stopper (its, and leakage is thus rendered impossible. Besides, this bottle has the advantage over [the olid style, that no Instrument, knife, etc., is required to open it and remove the cork. A smart blow with the hand upon the top of the stopper, which protrudes about half an inch over the nfoutl\of the bottle, causes it to f&ll to the bottom, sad the in closed liquid is st ones liberated, without auy failure or tedious effoits to ret the cork out. To prove its practicability, we opened quite a number of bottles filled with soda water and wines impregnated with carbonic acid gas and corked in this novel manner, which seemed to us ly successful.— Appleton’s Journal. In the summer of 1832 a merry party from New Bedford, including two gentlemen who are now distinguished residents of New York, met at Potomska, nine mites below that p’ace. While dipping water from tbe-old Indian spring, one of them drooped a valuable diamond from his shirt ruffle in running water about three feet deep, but made no effort for its recovery, deeming it irretrievably lo*t. In the Succeeding summer, July 4, 1833, a party of nearly the same persons met at the same place, and as a matter of joke stirred up the Bauds of the spring, wnen, lo! the misting jewel appeared, to the delight <|f the astonished owner. It is a great thing for a young man lo find out early that he is of the minimum of importance in the world; that while it demands of him everything that he can do, it can get on admirably without him. In all its bußy, pressing forces he is not missed—bless you, he never has bsen recognized ! Don’t forget the mistake made by the fly upon the coach wheel, nor the disaster that overtook the ambition of the frog. Do all you can; sink all selfish thoughts of sell; jind compel out of j/ou. the best that ia in you. • a » Mr. Beecher thinks it high time girls were tatfght a little practical natural hictory, and so shamed out of screaming and half fainting at the sight of a worm, toad or snake. 'i ■»- » ■ -- - —Newark, N. J., manufactured *5,500,000 worth of patent feather last year. Penetrating to thb sourcb of disease in the secretions and the circulation, regulating every organ, and bracing every nerve and fibre of the body, Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are effecting the most astonishing cures of indigestion, biliousness, nervous weakness, rheumatism, scrofulous disorders, and chronic constipation that the world has ever witnessed.