96 MODE OF CUTTING GLASS WITH A RED-HOT IRON. 



No image of this cold world's care, 

 No semblance of its crimes' excess 



Can ever cast a shadow there, 

 A cloud to dim its loveliness. 



AGE. 



; Twas that bright world, beyond the tomb, 



Which sent a pure prophetic ray 

 ( ) ! Glorious Spirit, through the gloom 



That sometimes gathered round my way. 



And led me, like a beckoning star, 



Or Israel's pillared line of light 

 That streamed its guiding radiance fur 



Over Memnonia's desert night. 



In sacred hope ; whose soothing power 

 . Quelled eveiy woe and still is ni^h, 

 Expectant, in my latest hour, 

 To smile upon me while I die. 



MENTOR. 

 Stoke. 



MODE OF CUTTING GLASS WITH A RED-HOT IRON. 



In Answer to a Query, we have received from " A Young Expe- 

 rimentalist/' respecting the mode of cutting glass with a red-hot 

 iron we submit the following : 



Take a piece of half inch iron bolt, twelve inches long, let an 

 inch of one extremity be tapered nearly to a point, make this end 

 red-hot, then take the glass to be cut, for instance a phial bottle 

 which is required to be converted into a test tube; place the 

 sharp end of the wire on the rim, at the mouth of the phial, let it 

 remain a few moments and, if the glass do not crack, touch it 

 with a wet finger, and a small crack will immediately be made, 

 place the red-hot point, at the extremity of this crack, and draw it 

 slowly down the neck and side of the bottle, the crack will imme- 

 diately follow it; conduct this as far down as is required, then turn 

 the point, at a right angle, and conduct the crack completely round 

 the bottle, keeping it upright to prevent the top from falling off 

 before the operation is quite finished. 



If the glass be already cracked the wire may be applied at that 

 part; if not it is necessary always to begin at an edge. By this 

 means broken glass vessels, which are apparently useless, may be 

 very frequently turned to a good account. 



ED. 



