GLASS JJOTTLES Labor And Care It Taket To Make Even The Cheapeit Kind. While tho oldest bottles known were of skin, glass bottles containing wine nro represented on Egyptian monuments dating back 4,000 years. Bottles of porcelain, alabaster, gold, silver and bronze were made ns early as the time of the Pharoab of th? 1 odiu. Their elegant design nnd superior su-perior workmanship furnish evidence that even nt thnt period tho art of bottle mnklng was by no means In its Infancy. Thf early history of the bottle If, as a matter of (net somewhat shrouded shroud-ed In mystory, for tho roison doubt lerfs thai tho true bottb hns never bon a thing of great beiuty except in tare Instances, but rnther a liurnblt vessel of no particular Intrinsic value. In these days glass bottles are turned out In enormous, quantities. They aro of nil sorts, sizes and descriptions. de-scriptions. In the manufacture cf tne ordinary glass bottle of commerce sand, soap boilers' waste, brick clay or other material, according to lo-cality( lo-cality( Is used. When run down Into a molten mnss the product Is skimmed and the first operator, known ns the "gntherer," takes a little of the glass on the end of n heated pipe. When this has ccolcd somewhat he again dips his pipe Into the glass, having "gathered" In the two dips sufficient mnterlal wherecf to make n bottle. ThlB ho hands to the "blower," who, ns ho blows through the tube, rolls the product on a stono, thereby fashion-Ing fashion-Ing the ' bottle neck. The roughly shaped mass Is then placed In n mold nnd the operator continues to blow until ho hns brought It to the required form. The bottle Is now pressed to tho finisher, who by touching the neck with n small bit of Iron dipped In water, wa-ter, completely severs It from the pipe. He nttaches the pontce, an Iron Instrument tipped with molten glass. to the bottom of the bottle, thus giving giv-ing It the usual rounded shape. The next step Is to wnrm the bottle at the furnace. Tho finisher takes a small quantity of the product on what Is known ns n ring iron nnd, turning It around the mouth, forms the ring seen nt the top of the neck. He trims tho neck with shenrs. In tho center ot one blade of the shears Is a piece of brass tapered like n cork which forms tho Inner mouth, while I the other blade has a piece of brass 'fastened to It for the purpose of shaping shap-ing the ring. An assistant lifts tho completed bottle on a fork and It Is then taken to tho annealing nrch, which contains nbout ten or twelve gross of bottles placed In bins one above the other. The above processes are those cm-ployed cm-ployed In the making of even the cheapest and most ordinary bottleB. It may be Imagined with what care and labor the workers operate to produce pro-duce bottles of the finest grade. Harper's Weekly.