Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL.

The tinners of New Orleans recently struck against a4O per cent, reduction of their pay. The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad managers prohibit the shipment of potatoes in barrel or bag. By the suspension of ISO collieries in Pennsylvania, recently, about 25,000 persons were throw out of employment. Brass wire should be softened before being used for rivets. To soften, heatand allow to cool, or dip in water.— Trade Journal. It is stated that over 13,000 tracts of land, embracing 2,500,000 acres, remain unpatented in Pennsylvania, upon which there is due the commonwealth $750,000.

There were fifty-three suicides in Maine during 1875. Of these, eighteen were by hanging, twelve each by shooting and drowning, six by cutting the throat, four by poisoning, and one by choking with a garter. There were also nine futile attempts at suicide, Of which jhree were by taking poison, two each by drowning and throat-cutting,; and onp each by hanging and shooting. , - s . . In a carefolly-prepared paper on “ The Daily Newspaper Press,” read by Mr. Hubbard before the American Social Science Association, at Boston, were given the following interesting statistics as to the circulation of daily newspapers in various cities of the United States: CitiM. Population. Circulation. 805t0n250,000 205,000 New Y0rk.986,000 440,000 Philadelphia674,ooo 2no,COt Baltimore267,ooo 66,000 Chicago29B,ooo 80,000 Cincinnati. 216,0 X 00,000

ban Francisco SO,GO St. Louia 310,600 - 60,000 LouiavUle 100.041 78,000 A NRW process for preserving wood from fire and decay has been invented. It consists first in kiln-drying the wood, which deprives it of all moisture and much of its volatile turpentine and other inflammable matters. It is then put into suitable cylinders, in which lime and water, with sulphurous acid gas, are forced into the pores of the wood under considerable pressure. The wood is removed,dried, and is then ready for use. The chemistry of the process consists in the formation of a soluble sulphate of lime by means of the sulphurous acid and the lime; thiscrystallizes as a bisulphite, which oxidizes and to converted into the sulphate of lime or gypsum. As this is an exceedingly insoluble salt, it to not easily removed from the pores of the wood, and not only by its presence protects it as a non-cOnductor of heat, but deoxidizes all matters which are likely to prove objectionable as ferments.— N. Y. Tribune. . ' r Oub native walnut wood to, according to the Cabinet-Maker, one of the best materials in the world for furniture—when oiled, approaching very near the color of dark old oak, and finishing much finer. The American walnut, however, requires the grain to be well filled with a composition to resist the action of . the heat in most dwellings, and to this effect mere oiling is not adequate, as it leaves the pores of the wood so open that it absorbs the heat; thus, in a room al a temperature of some seventy-five degrees, the oiled walnut will absorb the heat to within five degrees of the heat of the room, while varnished oak will reflect the heat and will not "reach over forty-five to fifty degrees. On this account the wood should be well seasoned and the grain filled with shellac or other material, to prevent the shrinkage. Linseed oil hardens wood, and well-made walnut work, finished with It and shellac, will in a few years acquire a polish almost like bronze and, it may be ftdtJed, a# | beautiful ip appaaranc?.