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To Make Glass Paper or Cloth

Powder the glass (that with a greenish hue is the best), and sift it through a very fine large scale by taking a quire of paper and opening it flat upon a table, and then going over it quickly with a very hot smoothing-iron, against which is held a piece of wax, which, melting, runs down upon the paper and is absorbed by it. A little practice will soon determine the amount of wax that should be melted off from time to time. When the upper sheet is saturated it is taken off, and the one below is treated in a similar manner.

Any excess of wax applied in the first instance readily penetrates through to the lower layers.

Useful for making water or air-proof pipes, for chemical experiments, also for tying up wire sieve, to separate the finest portion of the necks of bottles, covering preserve jars, the powder; this is for the smoothest degree and for enveloping tobacco and other substanof glass paper; sift the remainder successively ces that require to be kept from the air, rethrough sieves gradually increasing in coarse- placing generally tin-foil and similar subness, to suit the different degrees of the glass stances.