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Show " k U WOOL raderful Process and a More Wonderful Won-derful Produot of Very-Great Very-Great Yalue, FAITHTUL DOS OF ANGHEIM. largeon's Skill in Eepairing Wrin-lod Wrin-lod Beauties-Bibles Written in Shorthand Notes, Etc. ! wool is formed by causing a Jet am to impinge upon the stream of a slag as it issues from the furnace. ias the effect of dispersing or break-P break-P the slag into countless small bead-wticles, bead-wticles, each of which, as it flies carries behind it a delicate thread e'y drawn or "spun" slag. In or-1 or-1 collect the slag filaments thus ere-'d ere-'d to separate the fibers from the or heavier portion of slag, tho jet is arranged at the mouth of an (?lmder of sheet iron, in which a ? air current is induced by means utional jets of steam. The tube or " furnished with a shield or Btrik- which detains the heavier par-tta par-tta i lighter slag wool being carried is draught upwards and onwards lare chamber like a gigantic meat wjng its walls formed of wire net-itt net-itt about sixteen meshes to the e inch. Here the steam condenses scapes, and .the slag wool, which appearance of flakes of snow, is ''f on the floor and round the l"e lightest portions being carried 'Skater distances. ' filaments of slafc formed this way. "M considerable length, are of -eiicaoy and fineness that thoy are 11 into numberless fragments ;! together into a substance much !j'")g cotton wool. This mineral 9 extremely light and absolutely ' ; it is a marvelous noh-conduc- i at ani of sound, and it is so ;"wtitwill absorb large quanti- w'a'er and retain the same for a lpbletime. ., been found extremely valuable ,.fnnS for boilers, water pipes and '"-owing to its relatively low , '"S Ppwer and for fire curtains '-atr. its lightness and resistance fM sound rendering it an excel 'Stance for such a purpose. It is, ' , ' an antiseptic, and this prop-, prop-, . witi its extreme porosity, ' ' applicablo for medical pur--wcastle Chronicle. |