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Show Makes Casks of Cordwood. A resident at Guelma, in Algeria, has taken out a patent for tho manufacture manu-facture of casks in corkwood. An interior in-terior coating isolates the contents from contact with the cork. A barrel of eleven gallons weighed thirty pounds instead of eighty pounds, which is the weight of a wooden cask of the same capacity. Cork being a bad conductor of heat and cold the necessity of adding alcohol for the preservation of wine would be unnecessary, un-necessary, and the liquid would no linger be subject to the fluctuation o) temperature. In warm climates the3 casks might be useful for conveying ice, meat, fish or fruits. A great saving sav-ing on the freight expense would also be obtained, considering a cork barrel bar-rel weighs two-thirds less than a wooden one. The influence of heal can not warp the staves, consequently consequent-ly the hoops remain in place. |