American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-09-04
INDUSTRIAL.

| SAYS the Sacramento Record: Orange
trees in this country are bearing an un
usually heavy crop this season, theil
branches bending undef We weight Of tn.
| THE sand-blast has recently been APP
piled for producing lusterless, very fine
| ly-grained surface termed by the trade
| satin-finish) upon plated-ware or silver
! This finish has heretofore been accom-.
| plished by the use of rapidly-reyolvine
| brushes made of fine wire. A Connect
cut manufacturing firm have lately found
that the sand blast performs this stippling
work much more rapidly and effectually
and have introduced the necessary appa-
ratus for its employment upon large
| scale.
SOME interesting and significant exper-
iments on the influence of certain COM
| pounds on the termination of seeds have
recently been made by Hacked, the results
OF which appear to confirm views add
vanced by observers years ago. Certain
seeds which, when exposed to the action
of pure water alone, began to terminate
after eight days, when kept moist with
lodine-water terminated in five days.
With brOmide-water the same result fol-
lowed after three days, and when chlorine
creased to two days. These experiments
belong to the order which anybody can
try"
A Boston paper thinks it curious il
lustration of the uncertainties attending
business operations, especially where fash
ion has voice, that one of the prominent
causes of the failure of cotton-mills to paw
dividends of late is the change in the
fashion of shirts. Colored shirts of vari-
Gus kinds and other garments have sud-
denly become all the rage, and as a conse-
fhn Oh,
only plain white goods, have been serious
ly affected, their market being materially
cut off, and their white cottons being left
on their hands,
A RECENT number of the Houston TEX
Telegraph says: "a shipment of Texas
ig-iron was made yesterday Is the last
place one would imagine possible to En-
gland. Some time since lot of Texas
iron ore was sent to the iron manufactur-
ers of England for assay and test as to
quality. The result was so satisfactory,
and the quality was found to be so excel
lent, shipment of pig-irOn was ordered
ore can be profitably obtained and manu-
featured large trade will soon spring up,
and a rapid development of our iron
mines result. Speed the day, say WEI
THE great American inventions, which
have been adopted all over the world, are
the following: 1. The cotton-gin, without
which the machine-spinnera and the pow
er-loom would be helpless. 2 The plan
ing-machine. 3. The grass-mower and
grain-reaper. 4. The rotary printing
press. 5. Navigation by steam. g. The
hotair (caloric) engine. Z. The sewing
machine. 8. The india-rubber industry
8. The hine-manufacture of horse
shoes. 10. The sand-blast (for carving)
II. The gauge lathe. 10. The grain ele-
vator. ID. The artificial manufacture of
ice on large scale IA. The electromag-
net and its practical application, by Hen
ry and Morse. 10. The only successful
composing machine for printers.
ONE of the odd industries the nature
and extent of which are comparatively
little known, is the manufacture of sand
paper, the amount Of which article annual
ly produced in the United States is es-
timated at not less than zoe, 900 reams, in
GLIDING the various grades and qualities.
Formerly it was made of ordinary brown
paper, glue and sand. At present, for the
most part, the paper is made of old rope,
the best quality of glue is used, and, in
stead of sand, pulverized quartz or flint.
BY this means superior fabric is pro-
duced, of a constantly uniform grade, and
at so low price that the use of it has be-
come greatly extended, large quantities
being exported to Europe, South America,
the Pacific Islands and elsewhere For
emery paper and emery-cloth a large de-
mand has been created by the finished iron
work in steam-engine shops, the sewing
machine factories and other similar indus
tries which require them for polishing
DurDOses