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Show What Becomes of Pins ny a series of experiments conducted conduct-ed In his garden, a gentleman has discovered dis-covered tho answer to tho conundrum, "What becomes ot plns7' Ho has found that pins are resolved Into dusL Hairpins, which ho watched for 161 daya, disappeared by rusting away at tho end of that tlmo Urlght pins took nearly eighteen months to disappear: polished steel needles nearly two and a half ycara; brass pins bad but little endurance; stool pens nt tho end of fifteen months hsd nearly gone, whllo their wooden holders were still Intnct |