Show HOW NEEDLES ARE MADE MAUR A hd hado of a hair arom a queen queens clr head it noodles arc ard made faint soft stool wire which ie to od from tho manufactory in colla coils tho the wiro wire ie is cut by axed bod shears into length to r mako a a ke two needles aleso blanka blanks bo be lag ing bent rosuro which Js dono done by placing several of them beacon two brood broad hoay tings rings and heating beating them to in a fur nace they are then removed within tho the rinse rings on a flat iron plate and by means of a curbed od bar termed a smooth file tolled rolled back and forth until perfectly etral cht each piece ie is then sharpened at both ends the workman taua takes up a number nt at a timo time and holds the ends against a grindstone grinde tono forming tho the points by moans men ns of a dio or counter dio two grow es aro are stamped by a press rass on each eido side of a wire which Is next pierced under a pross with two holes forming th tho 0 0 eca CL A number of pieces aro are then strung on two fine wired wiro and broken two by filing and bending tho ile rough noes about the head la Is remo removed ed b by y filing several at a time bein being pir col I 1 in a email small vice during these proC the needles ha hay ing become somewhat bent aro arc straightened by rolling on a flat plate As before they aro are now brought to a rod beat and tempered by plunging them into oil I 1 fifty thousand at n a time aro are then put in a canvas bag with gmery oil putty powder and soft soap and rolled two and fro under prout pr tsUro ira until they become bright bri ht the better class of needles havo have their ca a es drilled tho the final pro process ces Is ng tho the points which Is effected first by a rotating hone bone and afterward by a buff wheel of late years machine machines have been boon introduced trod by which needles are formed from the roll of wiro inthout the intervention of hand labor during her recent stay in england the queen of roumania carmen S alva iva paid a visit to a manufactory of needles noodles while thero there one of the workmen whose duty ditty it was to make the holes in the needles begged the queen to give him one ono of her haira hairs the queen smilingly milin gly gave it to him ho he placed it on hie his machine mady a hole in it parsed a thread of silk through the hole and then returned it to the astonished owner tho the comans womans news |