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Show Due for Refuge Tin. For years and years I have been accustomed ac-customed to the sight of carta loaded high up with scrap or refuse tin, on their way to the southern part of the city. When 1 was a boy and played about dumps these irregular pieces of the shiny metal were always thrown there. I supposed that this was still the case, but feeling curious the other day I stopped the driver and asked hitn where he was taking his load. He mentioned the name of a South St Louis- manufactory. "But what do they do with it? It Is no good." "Do with it?" he replied. "Why, tills stuff is put into a heavy machine while hot and pounded into sash weights for windows. It is cheaper, of course, than iron, and answers the purpose pur-pose better, I am told, as when the weight conies out of the molds it is heavier than a piece of cast iron of the some size, and the saving of space in the window sash is a big thing." I left I the driver, and recalled my old school- day lessons about tlie indestructibility I of matter- " |