Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-10

THE manufacture of gloves is among
the growing industries of San Francisco.
Two large manufactures are employing
several hundred persons, many OF them
being young girls, who earn a handsome
income thereby.
A NOVEL and efficient apparatus for
cutting veneer has recently been contrived.
There has long been in use, rs is well
known, a machine for cutting veneering
from round blocks, but it is essentially
different from the new device. In the for
mer the knife is parallel with the log, and
in some kinds of wood the beauty of the
grain is thus lost, while with the knife set
at an angle it is preserved; this latter is
the merit of the new apparatus, which has
a conical-shaped cutter like pencil-sharp-
ener, and commences cutting at the end
of the log, the log feeding into the knife,
or the knife to the log, on lathe-the
veneering coming off in the shape of a
SCROLL The machine cuts the veneering
One-twenty-fourth Of an inch thick.
THE Bessenger metal process, in dis
pensing with the pudding process, and in
utilizing the carbon contained in the pig
iron to effect the fusion of the final metal
has given a vast extension to the applica-
boiler plates, etc. A drawback, however,
to this method is, that it is limited in its
application to superior brands of pig iron,
containing much carbon and no sulphur
or phosphorus, which latter impurities are
so destructive to the desired qualities of
steel. Indeed, the pudding operation has
still to be resOrted to- unless the new
process of decentralization is substituted,
TO inf nj xyhi al,
constitute the bulk of production, and the
puddled iron cannot be brought to the
condition of cast steel except through the
process of fusion.
A JOURNAL says that goods made en-
tirely of cotton are called merino, and
have the look of merino, owing to the
woolly surface impaired to them. Such
goods are sold both in the United States
and in the Spanish South American mar
kets in large quantities, especially in the
form of mems undershirts and drawers.
To cause the cotton to resemble wool 1t is
scratched and the surface raised by par
ticular process A thread or two may be
drawn out and burned in the flame of
taper; if the material be cotton it will
consume to light impalpable white ash,
cotton being a vegetable fiber; but If, on
the contrary, it is wool, and therefore an
animal fiber, it will twist and curl in the
flame, and show black ash, accompanied
with smell which will speak as to its ori-
gin. Cotton is now so cleverly treated
that it is frequently taken for silk, also an
animal fiber, and this simple test is always
resorted to when there is any doubt upon
this point.
An improved hydraulic motor for run
ming light machinery is said to answer an
admirable purpose in many of the small
er industries. The apparatus consists of
an oscillating engine placed within per-
fectly water-tight outer casting into which
the water enters at one side and leaves at
the other The oscillating engine cylin-
der, driven by the water, swings in bear
ings, suitable entrance and exit ports of
the bearing permitting alternately the en-
trance and discharge of water from the
cylinder The piston rod of the cylinder
is pivoted to crank disk of the driving
shaft, and the power is transmitted to the
machinery by friction cone and betting,
and can be arranged to run the same at
different speeds. The regulating air
chamber secures uniformity of motion
under various pressures. The casing is
attached by screws at any suitable point
near the machine to be operated, and the
water can be conveyed thereto by rubber
pipes. No Oiling is necessary, as the ap-
paratus works entirely in water, which
forms a sufficient lubricant. This kind of
motor must prove very useful, as it is said
to be capable of making from 1870 to 500
revolutions per minute, with an average
water consumption of forty gallons.