TOUGH GRASS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1984, 14 May 1875, Page 3

TOUGH GRASS.

„ TJpox the authority of the electrician ' Siemens, we learn that a French' gentleman farmer has -made a di?cqrery which ■will probably hand his name down to posterity, and-cause a revolution in theX manufacture of glass. This'fortunate agriculturist, when not engaged in breed- i ing cattle or raising beetroot, has found , leisure to study the process of annealing glass. His labors have been rewarded by" the discovery that when glass is heated to redness and cooled in oil, it is rendered- wonderfully , tough' and infrangible. Should this discovery prove correct, it isimpossible' to fully calculate the effect it will have upon the glass trade. In future street,rows or .election riots, we may*.expect to see the stones and missiles of the rioters rebounding from uninjured panes as though they had struck the brickwork of ia wall, instead of hearing a crash ,of fractured glass so familiar ia the present dayfinder similar circumstances. / The" publican may look on with^unrufßed bosom as *he hears the drunken customer using his tumbler upon the table for a; hammer to call up the waiter, or sniile 'oomplacehtly as he sees some drunkard hurl?a glass at a companion's head;iri,a fit of,bibulous frenzy L How ealmlyj too, a mistress wili be able to listen to falling Vases as her maid dailyrolls them .off the 'drawing-ropm mantelpiece during her-matutinal foray. The fortunate proprietor of a -greenhouse will listen with complacency to the rattling of stones, shied bypassing school boys on to his glass roofing. _'„ ; ;