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Show The Bastie Glass. Tho B.istie lump chimneys which we have tried do not seem to be a 8-iccesp. White you can throw them around without danger so long as they do not strike a nail orarock.il one does happen to fall upon an iron sub-t'auco sub-t'auco ii crumbles into tho smallest fragments. You can sprinkle water upon it when hot without danger, yet when it takes a notion it explodes without reason or warning. Lust Mnnd.iy night one of the chimneys b.irst over the case ofa compositor in this oflice with an explosion like a p:stul shot, filling the ciso with innumerable minute crystals. The B islio process through which thu glass passes seems to change its structure struc-ture entirely and while strengthening it in some respects weakens it in others. It is probable, however, that the manufacture of this glass has not ye reached the perfection which further experience '.fill give it. |