New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-10
NeD11ork DaiIp gribuire
INDUSTRY AND NEW INVENTIONS r.
EUROPE

La Bonrse, the Exchange Of Paris offers during the
hours of regular business unique and curious spec
tsele. According to law all the transactions At the
Bourse must be carried publicly, every sale must
be ade known viva voee and recorded, and as there
are only two hours of the DAY allotted for the principal
transactions il requires great dispatch and prompt
ress on the part of the brokers 20 get through with
the ae of so many millions of stocks Of all description
Iuaeiue about 90 or 20 men, all anxious 20 sell or
buy all crying and hAlOwing at the same tine at the
hishest nj ch of their voices, and when the lungs do
not suffice the most vehement gestculatons sddei
fusers are thrust al each other and held Up to denote
the sums offered, heads and arms join in, and every
muscle is strained to comprehend or to be eOmpre-
Lended Luckily they have to keep within circular
railing or they would push each other out through one
Of the windows Besides these 90 or 40 officially ap
pointed raying brokers, there are hundreds OF bust
ness nen grouped about the hall, talking as loud as
they can, going and coming all apparently IN an I'M
common state Of excitement The slightest rise or
fall of stocks is noticed with eagerness as If life itself
was depending en- it, When some telegraph news Is
announced it produces a connection like the bursting
of boubshell and all for the love Of money, which
proyes that the people on this side OF the Ocean
also afflicted with that passion Since the lntroduc-
ten of railroads. the transactions at the BOurse have
much increased and daily thousands and thousands OF
railroad stocks change hands The enormous amount
of money invested in TslrOads Oblges capitalists 20
study every improvement by which any saving IN the
construction or keeping in repair of the road aud gen
era xtuIes is produced AL such improvements are
received with enthusiasm; they become the theme
of conversation among business men and the society OF
tie salons and the ladies' take interest IN new
Improvement in ear wheels or spark catcher new
Improvement for fastening the rails TO the erosses has
of late excited much interest at the Bourse and in the
salons snd we have lady who explained this new
in proven another of her sex in the most graceful
manner using her fan to represent the rail and her lit
tie hands ben geHtees matter OF course, to show
the manner of fastening the rail 10 the crosstles Ia
BaTbGTaf Barbarat the inventor, uses no ralLchars
or any other kind of metal fixture 10 secure the rails
he places them directly upon the erostIes and secures
them bv means of two short wooden braces each bear
inc with one end against the rail and with the other
against shoulder cut into the crOsses; the braces
are fastened with wooden pins or iron ikes We have
examined portion of the Strasbourg Railroad where
this new mode of fastening rails has been applied and
from persCna examination and the statements obtained
from the Engineers of that railroad judge that IL is SUI
peror in many respects to any known mode OF fastening
The rail Ii is exceedingly cheap it secures the rail
In the most perfect manner 1t Is easily kept 10 repair
the rails much easier laid down and adjusted we
whole fastening being Of wood il affords consequently,
more elasticity produces Earring and the deafenlng
Iattpc noise caused By the friction OF the rails upon
the iron chairs is entirely avoided Being more firm
and elastic il has less upon the cars and IN short
this mproyement is in every respect admirable It's
cny to be wondered that il has not been thought Of
before II is the very thing for our railroads ahordng
An enormous saving in the first construction OF tho
road and in keeping it easily in repair the material for
the braces every where at hand and any aborer can
undertake the repairs. IL is applicable to any de-
scIiption of rails We understand the inventor has ap
piled for letters prtent in the United States,
According TO an Imperial order the State Printing
establishment of France is instructed to furnish work
containing all the latest Improvements IN Typography
Of eyery description which will be admitted at the
Exhibition of 1862 held at Paris, 10 compete for the
prize. Commissioners have been appointed to superin
tend the work. among which are practical printers Of
repute and artists Of celebrity.
NJ d. Brainard Professor of surgery at the Medical
College of Chicago, Illinois, has addressed to the
Academy of Science OF Paris, a highly interesting
paper on the poison of the ratte-snake; which was
read before the Institute at its last meeting Nov. %
Several scientific and other papers have published ex
tracts from Professor Brainards communication
The Chamber of Representatives OF Belgium has at
present bill under consideration, eecting some mOd
fcaon in the present Patent lave. The bill proposes
10 proong the term to twenty years and the fees to be
pay able annually and at progressive rate the hrst
year So the second g. thethlrd So and so on IN the
twentieth year the fee amounts to $40 IL also pro
poses TO publish the patents four times year The
Belgium pate Mt laws the most liberal IN the world,
andif this bill is to become law, the poorest in
yentor foreign Ratirc will be enabled to bring his
mental productions TO light. There is no country in
Europe which shows parta8ity to foreigners or
natives all pay the same amount and all ENJOY the
same rights and privileges. But It Is aot so IN the
United States the very country where the greatest
lberality is to be expected The United States taxes
an Engishman with $500, Frenchman or the sub
ieet OF any other country with $500 Prussia charges
nothing for patent, be it for American or Prus-
sian inventor and yet the Prussian subject has to pay
$500 for patent in the United States All the mon
archica governments of Europe facilitate the payment
of patent fees requiring only portion of them every
year during the term of the Patent-e privilege en-
loved BY every foreigner, American or Chinese The
United States demand the whole amount at once,
which prevents many important inventions from being
transplanted to the New World, deprives our fellow
citizens of many useful Improvements, and retarts the
progress of many branch of industry. Three hum
bred dollars seems perhaps small amount ior some
of our legislators but this side Of the ocean 10 Is
fortune especially to inventors who are like all men
Of brains, generally poor.
-Berdans gold crusher has been subjected TO very
severe trials by the English The Mining Journal of
London Of the latest dates contains number OF art
Giles in relation 10 il. We noticed one from ProL
Ansted enc of the first authorities IN mining matters
Who confirms all the statement already published The
English mining companies expect great results IA the
mines BY means Of Berdan's CFusher understand
the Austrian Government is in treaty with Befdans
agents for the right Of using his crusher IN the famous
Hungarian mines of KrennItz, Posing Maqurka, In
Transylyania, saIzburg, Tyrol and other places.
France has no gOld-bearing rocks worth working
AT the last Scientific Congress held at Toblngen,
in Nuremberg, Prof Karnat stated that Germany
possesses coal sufficient to supply the whole world With
fuel for at least $50 years Ii Germany were one coun-
trv one ma on and not already half Russians, If
.be had navy TO protect her commerce, England
would have much to fear from the German industry
ard the newly discovered eOabeds, might cause her
much uneasiness: but Englands peridious policy VIII
Lcsn Cerr,anv crirrIed fOreyer and she will rather