Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-09
POINTS.

The Kankakee paper mill is going
to make band-boxes.
Printing paper has been made
successfully in Scotland from reeds
grown ON thebanks of the Tay.
A steel yacht, which will be pro-
PEELED by steam, and is intended to
run eighteen miles an hour, is being
constructed at Buffalo.
The iron industries of Troy, NY,
particularly the manufacturing OF
steel rails, is reported in a flourish
ing condition.
The demand for railroad iron is so
slight that the principal mills in
Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky are
idle, and have not a single order to
execute.
The Chicago & Alton railroad
shops at Bloomington, commenced
working full time May l, but with a
reduction of 20 per cent. in force
The proposed glass works at Pc
oria are not likely to be built. The
projectors have gone home, and
will try some other point for a lOca-
ton.
The four thousand carpet looms of
Philadelphia continue idle, owing
to the strike Of the carpet weavers.
Six thousand persons, directly and
indirectly connected with the indus
try, have now been out of work for
nearly two months.
The Schuykill Iron Company of
Pottsville, Pa, are about to locate a
blast furnace at Hackettstown with
a capital of$200, 900, of which $780,
600 is to be in stock, and $4,000
in bonds, half each to be taken by
the company and one-half to be
subscribed by the friends of the en-
terprise in Hackettstown.
The Printers Pension Corpora
ton, of London, contemplate pub
lie exhibition of antiquities and Gu
riOsities connected with the art of
printing next June, to celebrate the
10th university of the introduction
of the art into England.
The Chamber of Commerce of
st. Paul, Mimi, is organizing a
stock company with a capital of
$2sO, 600 to $4,000 to encourage
the establishment of important
branches of manufacturing there.
The production of sugar in France
in 1873 was 1862 tons, i'm $40
manufactures. In 1868 there was
456 manufactures, with a produce
ton of only 257,6S2 tons. The ex-
port in 1873 was SO, 276 tons. The
influence of the enormous duties
which are levied upon sugar in
France is seen in the fact that Eng
land consumed i'm 1873 the amount
Of $4,000 tons, while France, with
its much greater population, con-
sumed only 2S5, 400 tons.
Some of the newspapers have
published lengthy and laudatory
accounts of the new system which
proposes to substitute vapOr-power
for that Of steam, and which, 1t is
claimed, can be applied to any en-
CINE, with a saving of twO-thirds
the amount offuel at present requir-
ed. The whole popularity is said to
be in the boiler construction, the
vapOr being conveyed to the cylin-
der Of the engine just the same as
steam. The boiler is an upright one,
and is really a double boiIer-that
is, it has two heads at each end,
n a few inches from the other.
The two chambers thus formed, one
at each end of the boiler, and filled
with water, and are connected by
tubes, which are for the eircula-
ton Of the water between the two
chambers. The second or inner
boiler, that between the two inner
heads, is filled with a preparation of
bisulphide of carbon, the vapor
from which is the motive power.
Beneath the boiler Is a small fire.
box, from which flues run up
through the two boilers to the
smoke-pipe. These flues pass inside
Of the tubes already mentioned, and
the fire In passing through heats
the chemicals. BY this arrange
ment the bisulphide i'm the inner
boiler receives the requisite amount
OF heat without coming in direct
contact with the fire-fiues, as the
water is kept in circulation through
the tubes. The chemical prepara-
ton is used Over many times.-S.
Louis Republican.