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Show How to Etch Glass. A simple way to etch glass is to warm it carefully; if heated too rapidly rapid-ly It will crack. Rub paraffin or beeswax bees-wax over the warm surface of the glass, and then with a blunt instrument instru-ment print the desired wording. To some fluorspar (calcium fluoride) placed in a metal dish, add enough con-, . centrated sulphuric acid to moisten the powder. Place the glass, with the marked side down, over the metal dish containing the above chemicals and leave it over night. In the morning, scrape the parallin off and the desired de-sired words will be etched on the glass. .. .!,:'-,,-t L,' . Somewhat Different. i The circus was in town, and on a prominent corner Bunko Pete was trying try-ing to initiate an old farmer Into the mysteries of the three-shell game. "Here, you!" exclaimed a policeman who happened along just then ; "don't you know it's against the law to operate op-erate a game of chance on the public thoroughfare?" "Dat's all right, partner," replied Bunko Pete. "Our friend here ain't got no chance." |