GUN-FLINTS, ARROWHEADS, ETC. _ 573 
ooo pounds. Taking the home consumption into consideration, which has been 
quite large this year, it will be seen that the estimated production of the local 
works (20,000 tons) is not far out of the way. — Age of Steel. 
PRACTICAL ART SCHOOL FOR WOMEN. 
The question of teaching women in America the Arts of Design has been 
solved by Mrs. Florence E. Cory, herself a practical designer. Mrs. Cory is a 
graduate of Cooper Union, and in 1877 taught in that Institute the first class in 
practical carpet designing ever established for women in this country. After 
leaving Cooper Union Mrs. Cory took a thorough course of instruction in prac- 
tical design at the largest carpet factory in New York City. Afterward she visited 
a representative factory of nearly every art industry in the United States, study- 
ing in each the technicalities of the machinery and the practical requirements of 
design for these various industries, thus qualifying herself to be the best, as well 
as the first teacher in practical design for industrial purposes in America. 
In 1 88 1 Mrs. Cory established a School of Industrial Art for Women, having 
seventy-five pupils, at her residence, last year. She has now taken a large suit 
of rooms in the Grand Opera House, New York City, and proposes to establish 
free classes for women and girls in Industrial Design, the only requirements for 
an admission being a fair amount of intelligence, a taste and appreciation of the 
beautiful, and the need of such benefit, with the expectation of becoming self- 
supporting. Pupils have the privilege of selling their work made while under 
instruction, (several hundred dollars were so earned by the pupils of last year,) 
the only requirement being that one fourth the amount received for such work 
shall be retained towards a fund for an Art Library, samples, drawings, etc., 
needed by the school; also each pupil, at the end of the year, shall leave one 
drawing as the property of the school. 
GUN-FLINTS, ARROWHEAD ^ Etc. 
Articles occasionally appear in the periodicals of the day purporting to de- 
scribe the methods of manufacturing the ancient arrowheads, knives, and other 
flint tools and weapons. 
These accounts so far as I have seen are not only very indefinite, but often 
contradictory. As these implements must have been in common use on these 
western plains within the last half century, there should be many persons now 
living who have personal knowledge of the matter. 
Again, it is but a few years since the old gun-lock flint gave place to the 
percussion cap. By whom, when and how were these gun-flints made ? 
I well remember they were very plenty and cheap (one cent each at retail,) 
