The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-09

who is beyond Q d0ubt the oldest In
habitant Of the parish" and % such in
spires al the respect which y, or ought
TO be, commanded by age.
Industrial.
"A factory for the manufactue Of.
chemicals, grape sugar and dextrine il to
be built in Milwaukee.
The manufacture of wrapping paper
from rice straw is now successfully car
RED on at new factory in Savannah.
"A Mauch Chunk man has invented
machine for separating coal from slate,
Tor which he has been offered $4,000.
Alexander 8. Wilson states that the
ash of diseased potatoes ID deficient in
lime compounds. The remedy il, there
fore, selfevident.
.-Experiments are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain
whether steel tubes can probably replace
those OF copper and brass in locomotives.
"A curious feature of the Texas cattle
trade 10 that many who are engaged in it
90 not own an acre of the land. They
brand and mark their cattle, and turn
them loose on the uninclosed prairies to
multiply and increase.
The following patent has been recent.
" granted for hardening steel: The oh.
1ect Is heated to red heat by any uf the
ordinary methods for uniform heating. It
u then chilled by the action Of strong
blast OF air or gas BY suitable variations
IN the strength of the blast and the tenn
perature of the air any required degree Of
hardness may be attained. After this the
substance Is tempered as ID desired.
Reports from various sections of New
England exhibit little improvement in
the boot and shoe business-which has
been dull for long time. The Conclusion
L. forced upon both large and small man
ufacturers that there are too manv goods
on the market, and that the production is
ahead of the demand. This NAV be a
correct conclusion, but the increase of
heavy boot and shoe manufacturing in the
Western States has swallowed up q por-
ton Of the business that was formerly
supplied by New England. -
| Fat beeves are sold at Fulton. Tex,
for three cents q pound, net, and the
largest portion of the cattle are slaugh.
tered there merely for their hides and
tallow. The hide IL removed in unique
fashion. The animal is knocked down.
the skin cut around with . knife. and q
horse Is hitched to the edge Of the hide
and in minute it is whipped of. and the
whole carcass thrown into an immense
steam caldron. It is boiled into q seeth.
ing mass and the fat skinned of. This
Is poured into hogsheads, and the bones
ana Mesh are thrown out About 600 an.
finals are boiled per day at Fulton, meat
enough being thus wasted to keep q good
portion OF New York city supplied.
"A writer in Natays, speaking of the
fact that the defamation Of gun-cotton can
be carried along line of any length, the
force being as powerful and violent at the
end as it was in the beginning, states that
this property of the article may be put to
various valuable uses in industrial and
other operations. In any case where it is
OF importance that series of blasting or
mining charges should be fred simultane.
ously, their connection together by means
OF gun-cotton would insure such q result,
For cutting down palisades or stout
wooden walls, line Of gun-cotton discs
exploded in this way would be most efa.
cacious; and more ready plan of telling
timber DOES not probably exist than thai
OF placing around the stem of q tree q
chain OF necklace of this explosive in the
form Of compressed cakes, the defamation
Of these dividing the trunk as sharply Al
the keenest AZ.