Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-08
Industrial.

Several of the jewelry establishments
| in Attleborough, Mass, have discharged
some Of their workmen, and others are
running only four days in the week. 1t
| is claimed that this condition Of affairs
| is not due TO lack of business, but to lack
Of funds. 1t is not believed that this
condition of affairs will last long.
The cultivation of olive oil in the
South, so far as the experiment has been
essayed, has proven entirely successful.
| 1t is said that a single plantation in
| Geor gia, in which olive trees have been
almost exclusively planted, has not only
yielded an abundant supply of oil, but
the same is pronounced excellent in
quality.
| -Foucault has invented an apparatus
| for measuring the velocity of light, which
| includes small wheel that can be run al
the rate of 10000 revolutions a minute.
| The wheel carries diminutive mirror,
which at first was Of the ordinary kind /;
| but the great speed quickly stripped the
amalgam from the glass, and metallic
mirror had to be substituted.
M. Klein, Russian chemist, has sue
ceeded in electrotyping with iron. He
used bath consisting of concentrated
solution Of sulphate OF iron and ammonia,
and four Meidinger cells. For an anode
he used an iron plate having surface
about eight times that Of the cathode, and
connecting this also with copper plate,
he found by this means he could get a
perfect coating of iron.
Some animals-frogs, for instance
may be frozen stiff, and still retain vital
| ity. In that condition respiration APP.
pears 10 be suspended, and the animal
may be placed with impunity in irrespir-
| able gases. Richardson some years
since reeounted at a meeting of the Brit.
! ish Association his experiments upon
| this subject, and in the course OF his adj
dress stated that he had seen kitten re-
vive after severe freezing, and even i'm
merson in ether.
The production of beet sugar in Cali
| fornia is succeeding well, and the San
| Francisco Bulletin thinks that with the
! decline of cane sugar manufactured in
the Southern States, it will ultimately be
the source Of supply of the sugar con-
sumed in the United States. We import
| from foreign countries more than $50, 600,
| 900 worth of sugar and molasses in year,
every dollar of which might and would
| be paid to American farmers If they
would establish the beet sugar business
in their respective States.
Mr.. Frederick w. Schneider, of the
Troy Press, set and distributed from De.
cember IL, 1872, TO December II, 1873,
| 1894 203 ems. This amount divided
among 312 working days gives 1896
ems per day, averaging in round num-
| beers 10000 per day, with little margin
of ia 1872. The highest number set in
any one day was II ,4S5. For thirty eight
| DAYS Mr.. Schneider set 10000 ems per
| day, and for five weeks averaged 10000
per week For thirty -four weeks he set
| 10000 ems. The matter was Of general
nature, and outside of any department.
"A cranberry field in Burlington
County, New Jersey, containing 100 acres,
has employed 800 hands, who picked by
| the bushel, clean as they go, making good
wages. Fifty acres picked over 1000
bushels--four acres of which produced
| 900 bushels, twenty acres more gave
| 5000 bushels, and the remainder made up
the quantity to over 1000 bushels; yet the
| owners complain of the shortness of the
crop. They hope, however, to improve
! their prospects by gathering from the re-
naming fifty acres 10000 bushels more.
| They expect to sell all to one dealer at "a
per bushel.
The manufacture of brick from ocher
| is now acknowledged success, and is
destined not only TO work a revolution in
| the brick business, but to become bust
ness of great commercial value to the
State of Kansas. The first kiln was burn
ed in September last and now they are
turning out from 100000 to 300, 900 bricks
per month. Three permanent kilns with
| a capacity of $4,000 are required TO keep
the press, now in use, running Submit
| ted to the intense heat OF these kilns, the
bricks come forth almost as hard and
durable as blocks Of steel. These bricks
| are put on the cars at $3.50 TO $40 per
thousand. About one mile of the yellow
ocher, ranging from eight to twenty eight
feet in thickness, is known to exist and
| NAV be manufactured into paint, pottery,
thing, chimney flues, and many other
| articles of commercial value.
Miscellaneous.
The model woman lives in DesMoines.
She is now getting her fifth winter out OF
the same bonnet.
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