Nut-head

The boards we use are attached to the permanent stone copings by bolts and nuts 4 feet apart ; iron bands, which are used to strengthen the boards, afford firm hold for the nut-heads.

In such a device the riveting may be effected with proper riveting-tools, and the nut-head afterward screwed on.

The machine is commonly rated at 800,000 pounds, but the last experiment approximating three-quarters of that amount ended by shearing off all the nut-heads at the recoil of the machine, and I found my labor was in vain.

The rails are bolted to these (the nut-heads being filed off if necessary), and the line thus forms a continuous whole.

Speaking of nut-heads reminds me of the shrunken head trophies which head-hunters sell as souvenirs in the interior of Ecuador and of a specimen I later saw in La Paz.

Dried plants make equally good raw material for toymakers, and vivid little personalities may be born of nut-heads with moss or corn silk hair, and peanuts or seedpods for feet; stitched leaf skirts and tiny bouquets of dried flowers, built on a foundation of pipe-cleaners and posed against a painted background.

Although dense stands of tall nut-heads are sometimes present after flooding, the plant more commonly occurs as scattered individuals.