PHOSPHORUS    ORE    AT    MOUNT    HOLLY    SPRINGS,  PA.  483 
parlor  matches,  certain  European  countries  have  forbidden  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  the  white  variety,  so  that  amorphous  phos- 
bhorus  and  safety  matches  are  coining  into  general  use.  The  newly 
rliscovered  crystalline  red  phosphorus  is  not  only  nonpoisonous,  but 
Is  suitable  for  ordinary  matches. 
Phosphorus  is  sold  in  the  market  in  round  sticks  molded  through 
glass  tubes  and  is  usually  stored  under  water.  Its  uses  other  than 
lor  matches  are  for  fuse  compositions,  rat  and  insect  poison,  phos- 
phoric acid,  and  other  compounds  used  in  medicine  and  the  arts. 
[It  is  also  used  in  the  precipitation  of  precious  metals,  electrotyping, 
knd  in  phosphor-bronze. 
