Show it 13 from the cindle factories abit the enormous enoi supply of glycerine comee which 13 now a very important article of ti abc A few years aeo it was wit ed now it is chemist who purifies it bv distillation filtration th ronah hone charcoal chir coal and puts it upon the market it 13 put to a preat variety of uses many of which upon its peculiar pi oper ties ot non volatility and absorption absorb tion by atmospheric moisture harness bakera and leather workers ue it in making ecith er pliable it is put into aras pras meters be cause it does not breze except at a ci ienir temperature modelers keep their clay studies moist with it tobacconists sweeten chewing tobacco with it and ladies apply it to their hand and cices to soften the skin much of it ROCS into the manufacture of the terrible ex plosive nitro glycerine which is made by it with a mixture of sul and nitric acid or concentrated acid not less than pounds of glycerine are produced bv the candle factories and aveo kann chii country and the year it wai counted as worthless and ft as run off into the elci ew ci i |