Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL.

It Is said that dry rot may be prevented in new buildings and stopped in old ones by filling up the space between tliv floor Joists with “tank-waste” from si kali works. - A firm in Treves, Germany, manufactures fire blocks of refuse tan, Just as it is taken from the pit*. They are said to equal in flaue-neating power the best stone coal. The demand for rubber tires for omnibuses and carriages is again revived, and rubber manufacturers in London and Berlin now offer what is claimed as a strong, durable abd silent tire that will outlast iron on the heaviest traffic. The sanitary advantages of using rubber tires are so great that it is to be hoped this most desirable substitute Is really made practical. Dunrao the exhibition the following are tbo official rates which will be charged at the places named for railroad excursion tickets to Philadelphia and return, over the Pennsylvania Railroad: Chicago SB9 OOlLcavenworth.... $56 00 Cincinnati... 90 00 Loulivllle ....... 35 00 Cleveland 90 40 Memphis 40 95 Columbus 35 3.'. Milwaukee 86 50 Crestline... 93 75 Omaha 56 00 Detroit 98 40 Peoria 80 50 Indianapolis 30 to Ht. Louis 80 50 Kansas City.... .’. 66 00 Toledo 25 95 Similar tickets may be obtained at intermediate points at a reduction of about twenty-five per cent, from the old rates. Wool dyed black according to - the following recipe, it is said, does not rub off in the least, while the fibers remain loose and open, and it has a desirable reddish cast: Boil the thoroughly-washed wool well for on hour and a hair in a bath composed, for 100 pounds of wool, of 2% pounds of chromate df potash, 2% pounds of alum, pounds of blue vitriol, and two pounds of commercial sulphuric acid, and dye it, without rinsing in fresh water, with twenty pounds of log-wood and twenty pounds of Brazil-wood. It is advantageous for the color to allow the wool to remain in the mordant for twelve hours.— Exchange. The following statement of the valuation of the New York dailies, from the correspondence of the St. Louis Olobe-Democrat, Is probably as near an approach to accuracy as could be made in such a list: Herald $3,500,000 Time* ' 1,2 0,000 Tribune 1,000,000 World 950,000 Sun • 500,000 Journal ot nnmiM TOf? , 500.0)0 Evening Post .7777! SQOJNO Commercial Advertiser 150,000 Evening Express.... 250,000 Graphic 300,000 -Evening Midi sftooo Telegram ... 100,000 Evening News 70,000 ■ —Chicago Times. - Recently there has been discovered in Kentucky a vast deposit of marl, covering, it is stated, an area of some 1,000 square miles, The marl is found most extensively in the tobacco-growing countries, and on this account is of vast importance to the tobacco interest. The State Geologist says it is perhaps “ the most important discovery ever made by a geological survey.” This marl-bed is described as being of thicknessvarymg TFbm twelve te thirty feet, veiy rich in potash, soda and phosphorus, so exposed and easily dug that at several points it can be loaded into wagons or carts at about twenty-five cents per ton, accessible by open digging over an area ot about three thousand square miles, and by deeper mining sure to be used in time over twelve thousand miles.