The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-22
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mento Or. Logan states that the fall ct San
Francisco was at the continuous average rate
Of 0.3S6 inches pershour for twenty hours-a
greater rain than he has been abb 70 6nd Oh
record in any part Of ths world j yet vlich
sinks into mediocrity in comparison with
rain reported at Nevada City week later
(Dec. 2Tth) when three and .seven-eighths
inches fell in less than three hours. The
course of the storm was east-north- east until
it reached q certain point, where it turned
nearly At a right angle and proceeded . shewt
distance, after which it made 3 second turn
and resumed its former direction. In dis
lance Of less than 100 yards, 10 or 80 large
trees were counted that had been Frustrated
by the storm. A cedar four feet in diameter
was twisted into laths.
CHINESE IxMIeRArIoS.-The opposition to
the Chinese on our Pacific coast is giving
way before the consideration of commercial
amity with China, and the growing impor-
tance of cheap and plentiful Chinese labor in
the manufacturing and other industries Of
that region. The wooden mills, it is admit.
ted, could not have succeeded but for the
Chinese, and railroad building has similar
need of them. The leaders of public senti-
ment in California now advocate fair treat>
ment Of the (fallen) celestials, and take pains
to show that their tenacious attachment to
their native country, from which they never
transfer their political relations, and to which
they never fail to return, alive OF dead, is
scthcieut guaranty against their entering as a
further corrupt element into our governing
population.
CHEESE FOR MKAr.--We remarked not
long since upon the superior nutritive quali~
ties of this food, as evidenced by the expert
enee of laborers in certain countries, where
it forms the strongest staff of life. We have
since observed certain researches of French
chemist. NJ. Charles Meme of Lille, from
which we learn that certain cheese, specified
as Dutch, Gruyere and Roquefert contain
from Is to 40 per cent of nitrogenized mat
tiers, which are considered the most highly
nutritive constituents of food. Consequently
these cheeses are from twenty five to humid
red per cent more nutritiye than bread or
meat, which is set down at ~ per cent of nj
trogen. In the combusttble or fatty elements
for heating the body by respiration, cheese
yields only to butter or other fats. Again, in
point Of mineral nutrition, cheese is found
kre eminent, containing to s per cent Of
ashes, whereas meat and bread contain only
one per cent. The very richness ofthis arti-
Gle, uONtNtF. pFtlu1lcts It's utility III delicate
stomachs. where il is often found indigesti-
bic. The strongest food suits only the strong
est digestion. The attention now given to an
improved, economical and iacreased manus
tacture OF cheese, is justified, and will natu
rally be stimulated, by these facts.
AMERICAN MANpgAcTgREs ~ EuRaPs.-
Dir. Ross Ninans has received a contract from
Russia to baild cars and locomotives for that
Government. Messrs. Smith, Hall & Buck
land. cartridge makers Of Springfield, Mass,
have just shipped 50 900 cartridges for the
Austrian Government, through the firm of
Baumgartner 4 Co., Bucharest. II satisfac>
tory the firm expect an order for not less
than a million.
: AMERICAN INDUSTRY. The value in gold
OF the annual products of the people Of the
United States for the year 1856 was in round
numbers us follows: those engaged in agri>
cuinre 81 .e0s 900, GOO; manufactures, in>
Guiding all processes between The raw mate
rial ana eonanmphon, S9lt 900, 600; mining
Sloo,uoo .00e; fishing, Sl3,oo0,o00; hunt
Eng, ~. o00 900; wood cutting, ETC., S25,
oO0oOu: domestic commerce, s. 500. 0o0,
600; foreign commerce, 500, 600, 900 net
ANIMAL earnings or gross increase of money
value derived from exchanging products with
foreign countries, engaging in improving the
face of the country and subduing it to the
purposes of society, 50, 400 600 600; total in
gold value, SIS, 100, 600, 900, the same reduced
to currency, 50, 45s, 100000.
INpA is endeGviag i spin lis own cotton
in modern fashion. Among the earliest
countries in the primitive growth and utiliza
hon of this staple, is thus coming in among
the latest, though by no means the last, in
economzing it by machinery. The Goosery
Cotton Mills, lately started by company in
Calcutta, contain or will contain when fully
furnished, $4,000 spindles and IA looms:
the surplus of the spinning to be sold as
twist. 1t already gives employment to some
$50 women and Boys, and its products meet
with ready sale at prices fully equal to In.
dian cotton goods manufactured IN England.
TIE French PlyE WooI-This curious
novelty in manufacture, lately noticed among
our patents, is said to be already in active
manufacture and sale in Paris. As waddlng
il is recommended as adding to those usually
demanded III that article highly medicinal
qualities for catarrh, bronchitis, sore throat,
rheumatism, etc. KS mattress stnffing, 1t is
but half the price of wool and hair, and better
STILL it, resiuous principle gets it the abhor-
renee of bugs. As flannel for all purposes, it
peculiarly promotes the functions OF the
skin. The CELEBRATED pine oil prepared at the
same time, IS hlghly pralseu as an sPppiica
ton for ineipient paralysis and apopiexy,
recent burns, worms, fits, etc, etc.
INCREASED TELEGEArHIc FAcILITIEs.
Cyrus W. Field has gone to England, on the
business OF the Newfoundland Telegraph
Company, to order submarine cable from
Placentia Bay to Sydney in Cape Breton, or
to some point nearer on the coast, where it
will meet the Western Union lines, thus
saving the risk the long land lines in New
foundland. These lines, however, are to be
kept up and as spring opens, new line is to
be built over the old road cut through the
forests by the Newfoundland Company ten or
twelve years ago. There will then be three
perfect lines, which should prevent any fail
ure hereafter in the prompt transmission
of news. With these improved land lines,
aud TIE new submarine cable TO Cape Breton,
the chain OF electric communication with
Europe will be complete.