American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-09
INDUSTRIAL.

CACTCS-LEAF is 10 De uSeU IN the South
in paper making, as substitute for rags
HAIR should never be put in mortar
until a few days before the material i.
used, as the lime will soon destroy it.
MAINE actually imports lumber for
building purposes, that is, the better
grades of pine, which are received from
Michigan by rail-
MArTER-oF-FAcT item from Springfield
(Mass.) Republican "Over 900 boxe.
of new German cologne have been shipped
from factory at New Canaan, Conn.
since July 90"
THE Hartford Times says the Connect
cut apple crop Will not be over one-tenth
of the abundant total of last year; and the
same thing is true, it believes, of Massa
chusetts and Vermont.
THE manufacture of sewing machine
needles is carried on extensively in Brock
ton, Mass, and in the past year the prod
uct of two manufactures has been nearly
5000, 600. At present they are finishing
about 20 600 needles day.
The Berliaer Centralbah mentions that
there are at the present time 1853 cotton
mills, with z, 059, $50 spindles, in Switzer-
land, which are divided amongst the can
tons as follows: Zurich, IL mills; Berne,
5; Luzerne, 2; Schweiz, 8; Glarus, 10;
Tug, 4; Soleure, 1 Bale, 9; Schafihausen,
l st. Gall, Is; Grisons, 5; Aragon, 20;
Thurgan, s; Canton Vaud has cotton
mills.
In 1850 Col. Arthur CHM, of Georgia
settled near Mellonville, Fla, on Lake
Monroe, and planted grove Of4OO orange
trees. In 1860 he planted 800 more, max.
ing total of 700 trees, covering an area OF
ten acres. For several years these trees
have yielded an annual income of from
$40, 900 to $4,000, and recently the pro,
prietor has refused an offer of 800, 900 for
his ten-acre grove.
THE way to make good dentifrice is 10
dissolve two ounces of borax in three
pints of boiling water. Before quite cold
add one tablespoonful of tincture of myrrh
and one tablespoonful of spirits of cam
phor. Bottle the mixture for use. Add
one wineglassful of the solution to half a
pint of tepid water and use it daily. II
preserves and beauties the teeth and ar
rests decay.-Erchdn0e.
QUITE an industry is now carried on in
the manufacture of white wood into what
the true ebony the wood is of light
color, but after awhile it begins to turn
black and takes on the very dark color
which is peculiar to it, and to which il
has given a name. The genuine article
blackens in the center, and from the cen.
ter outward, becoming finally OF a deep
jet black.
THERE are now eighty American made
locomotives in Russia. They are coal
burners and much larger and more power
full than the small wood burning locomo-
tives heretofore built in Russia or import
ed from Germany, France or Belgium.
The American locomotives cost 25 900 sill
yer rubles each, and the German locomo
tives $4,000 to 20,000rubles, but the Amer
lean locomotive is 80 per cent. more pow
erful than the German.
IT appears by the returns of one of the
principal railways in England for the last
year that their locomotives average a run
of about ID, 900 miles year, and that the
usual term OF service of a set of chilled
wheels is about seven years, or run OF
some 100000 miles, being little more
than four times around Tie world. Pas.
senger cars, it is stated, traverse about
three times the distance each month or
year that an engine does Firstciass
cars are not subjected to such continuous
wear as is the case with inferior ones
more rest is given to the wheels. Such
cars are heavier, and consequently bear
harder on the axles and hence are more
liable to heat.