The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-17
Industrial.

1t is estimated that Kentucky dogs
kill 100000 worth of Kentucky sheep
every year.
The shoc-string mandatory in Ran
dolph, Mass, employs fifty hands and
turns out $4,000 pairs of lacings day
1t does business of $4,000 Il year.
Col. Forney mentions the fact that
there are no telegraph poles in English
cities, and says he is constantly asked
why they are allowed to disfigurc the
streets of our American cities. Does
anybody know?
Hitherto WORKOUT straw hats have
been considered things utterly beyond
utilization. The world advances, how
ever, and now profound American
economist proposes to chop them up by
machinery and feed horses with them.
The principal lumber mills on the
kennebec and PcnObscOt are shutting
down and discharging their hands. 1t is
reported that this is the result of an un-
Outstanding among the heaviest lumber
operators Tor the purpose Of increasing
the price of lumber and reducing the
wages of workmen. Another cause as
signed is the dullncss of the lumber
market.
| The observation and study of four
teen years have brought distinguished
Spanish savant to the conviction that the
sap in growing vegetation not only has
the same cbb and flow as the tides of the
sea, but that these sap-tidcs correspond
exactly in point Of time with the ocean
tides. The practical value of this curious
discovery is, that trees felled at low tide
make far more durable timber than those
cut at flood and the cbb is also the time
for pruning to the best advantage.
The latest and most plausible plan
brought forward for running street cars
in cities without the aid of horses is a
foreign device, in which the motive
power used is an arrangement of power
full springs incased in cylinders, like
watch-springs, of course on a very large
scale, and the application of which to
the cars now employed is said to be ex-
tremely simple and easy. These springs
are wound up 10y small stationary steam
engines at each terminus of the line, and
when SO wound up will propel the cars,
even with stoppages, for a longer dis
lance than any existing line of this kind
extends. The action is reversible, the
application of the brake-powcr in every
respect satisfactory, and the working of
the whole thing is pronounced success.
~ y. Sun.
1T seems a curious fact that, nOtwith-
standing the number and ingenuity of
scientific processes which have been
brought into requisition in the prepare
ton of leather, science has thus far failed
to satisfy the demands of this important
art. Chemists have certainly indicated
specific substances in lieu of oak bark,
containing greater amount of tannin,
and these, as for instance, terra !iaponica,
clutch, catechu, dividivi, etc, produce
their effects in greatly less time; but the
leather, after all, cannot be said to be so
durable. With sumac, too, light skins
can be tanned in twenty-four hours, and,
with the aid of alum, even in one hour /;
but the resulting manufactures do not
equal those by the old methods: Atmos-
pheric and hydrostatic pressure have been
used to hasten the absorption, heavy
rollers have squeezed the solution
through the pores, but these and other
processes have had, at best, but a doubt