New-York tribune., 1873-12-24
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

The degree Of risk in travelling on English rail.
ways is evidently not very great. Last year tbers
were i00000.0U passengers. and Of these only lyUJ
suffered from accidents.
II is found in England that ordinary mechanics
who know nothing OF iron working are easier
trained 10 operate Dank's pudding furnace than Old
puddleTs, Tor they have nothing to unleam. .
Nineteen large houses. intended for light manufao-
turing purposes have been built on plst of ground
in worknens district in Paris All combine
dwellings and workshops, and are supplied with
motive power from one steam engine They ars
constructed on the most approved sanitary prinoi-
pies, and have light, pleasant aspect
A German named AusterItz has recently observed
that considerable saving in tannin in dyeing can
he effected by combining II with glue before using
it, 80 as 10 employ both glue aud tannin stimuli
taneously mordant. Under these circnmstances.
much less tannin is required to produce given
shade with fuchsin iodine green or any anlIino
color; in fact, the same results may be obtained
with half the quantity OF tannin required when no
glue III used.
Mr.. T. Braseey, NJ. p. an extensive employer. and
an authority upon industrial Matters recently oh
served in an address delivered in England. that
strike against falling market was never success
ful. ard that tradesunions. az an organization Tor
the purpose of raising wages could never do moro
than assist the workman to obtain an dyauce AZ
somewhat earlier date than that at which the corr
petition among employers wonld have brought
about the same result.
An enormous distilling apparatus, consisting Of
set of csterns. and about 1000 feet OF galyanzed
iron pipes for dstillrg and condensnR sea, naish.
and bush wafer, 10 MAKE III iirelul
and cooking purposes, has been sent by the British
authorities with the Ashantee expedition: Ih3
largest of the cistcrns will hold 5000 gallons OF
wafer The effect of disting sea and marsh water
in this apparatus is to draw off the pure portion IN
yapor and leave the salt or organic impurities ~
sediment in the cistern, tersulphate Of alum being
added TO the water to render the organic matter
precpiae so that it cannot pass through the still.
Beverlys words written in 1705, are now quoted
TO stimulate enterprise among the Virlnians. Com
planning of the dependence of the colony upon other
nations he said NAY, they are such abominable
ilI-husbands that though their country be over
run with wood yet they have all their wooden-wara
from England their cabinets chairs, tables, stools.
chests boxes cart-whees, and all other things.
even so much as their bowls and birchen brooms-
to the eternal reproyal of their lazlness."
Persons having been fined in England for selling
as mustard mixture of mustard aud Hour, Dr. New
ton of London holds that the eondiment Is rather
improved than otherwise by the addition OF hour.
He says
the flour OF which largely into the composition OF
the coDdIment call mustard, contains an aciid and
pungent volatile OIL noxi0us to the taste. and uneS
peutraZed in some injurious 10 health In conse
auence of the presence of this OIL miistarS cOnpooea
only OF pure mustard -four after being mixed Tor use
turns In short time dark brown color and Decouios
deeomposed and unfit for II requires IN iact 70 DC
mixed aresh day. aud this alone forms an oocc
on i'm the ewes of most consumers both on account oi
the ncon yenience and the extra expense 10 mlhn]e
this III effect nearly all mustard manufacturers h h,
certain proporton the finest wheat Hour Wncn neiPs
To absorb the essential oil and has Also the ehect
enabling the mixed condiment TO retain its swee'hes'
and color twice rs long as the genuine pnus'"i"