The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-01-17

the pine product of North Carolina was
suppressed by the civil war, we have
missed our old convenience for paint
and light, and come into possession Of
one still more disagreeable in its odor
and effects. But recent scientific ex-
periments in England, it is said, have
proved that turpentine can be extracted
from petroleum by safe and cheap
process, at one third Of the old price Of
the Carolina article. Perhaps the manu-
facture of turpentine from the pine may
prove to be one of the things perma-
nently abolished, though Indirectly, by
the war.
MAKING STEEL RAILs CHEAPER.-A
method has been adopted of uniting iron
and steel in the construction of rails. SO
as to obtain the advantages of steel on
the faces, while making the stem mainly
of the cheaper metal. It has been
found impracticablo to weld the two
satisfactorily, and this difficulty is now
faces by thin plate, like the letter H:
thus making complete rail of steel,
except that the stem is slight-.a sort of
skeleton stem--reinforced with q suffici.
ent thickness of iron rolled ON each side
to give the necessary strength and
stiffness.
A LONG SPEEcH.-Messrs. Little.
Brown & Co., of Boston, are now pub
fishing the works of Edmund Burke-ten
volumes having been issued. Two of
these volumes are filed with the char
ges and speech against Warren Hastings,
Governor of India. The charges en-
brace 325 pages, and the speech covers
els pages, and appears not to have been
concluded in the volume before us. The
orator must have tired out the patience
of his hearers. The trial, however,
lasted some seven years.
DIRECT EXPORT OF PEIRoLEUM.-It il
manifestly cheaper to export petroleum
by itself, in vessels where it can neither
endanger nor injure less hazardous and
more delicate merchandise. So the
Erie exporters believe. and have formed
a company for direct transportation of
the oil from that port to Europe A
feet of vessels Of four hundred tons is
to be employed, carrying two thousand
five hundred barrels each, and making
three trips year. The saving in freight
is estimated at two dollars per barrel.
A SIMPLE device has heen patented in
England for disinfecting and deodorixing
the ef1uvia from sewers, drains and
sinks. It consists of . wire screen
filed with charcoal or other disinfectants
and placed so as to occupy the only out
let for the noxious gases, and compel
them to pass through it The same
continuance may also be placed in the
rain pipes. SO as to pass all the rainfall
from the roofs through the disinfectant
50 ~ -
Works adopted this plan during the late
visitation of cholera; with what effect
has not been reported.
THE ssGRkAr EAsrERx."-The French
company who. Lave chartered the Great
Eastern as a tender to the Great Exhi-
bition. are to pay, it is said, about S57-
900 for the year, beside q share OF the
fitting up amounting. to about S133, 600.
- one hundred and ninety thousand
dollars in all. Six hundred men are
now employedon this work, and the ship
is to be ready to proceed to New York
on the 9Th of March, and TO return ON
her first trip early in April. The price
Of passage for the round trip viii be
one hundred and ninety dollars; so tina.
the first thousand passengers-one third
of full load-will settle the ..rent-''
She win run from Brest or Cherbourg
EDUCATION IN NEW YoRk.-The am
CUNT of money appropriated In this
State to public schools, during the year
past, was 1888, $50. Four and . half
millions of dollars were paid to 1864
teachers. OF 9S1, 600 children in the
State, between and II years. 9l9, 900,
or nearly 90 per. cent, attended the
schools portion, however, being
outside these ages. The average atten-
dance daily Was oxer IS per cent the
largest ever reported It 10 proposed
and expected to create in the Legislature
this winter . Metropolitan Board Of In /
struction for the city Of New York, to
replace the ignorant. corrupt and dis !
graceful body into which our elective
commission has degenerated.