Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-07-13
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

| pODuHllOll Ol 10 Itt1 StI
than in any other New England State,
being rather over one in every twenty.
LIKE the Illinois Penitentiary, the
| State Prison at Auburn, n. Y. con-
tains more prisoners now than ever be-
FORE. the number at the latter place be-
ing ABB.
A METHOD recommended for renloV-
ing moths from carpets is to pour
| strong alum water on the floor to a dis
lance of half yard around the edges
before lacking down. Then occasion
ally spread dry salt over the carpet be-
fore sweeping.
A NEW cement for uniting metallic
to non-metallic substances is composed
of thin-made glue mixed to the con-
sistence of thick varnish with wood
! ashes. The ashes should be added
gradually to the glue during ebullition,
with constant stirring, and the cement
should be used hot.
CARE should be exercised in hand
| ling carbOlic acid, as in certain cases it
is an active poison. A saturated solu-
ton of carbolic acid in alcohol, with
an equal quantity of water, rubbed
into a scratch on a cats nose, has
killed the animal almost as promptly
as prussic acid would have done.
IT is rather remarkable that Roman
iron slags are always fond on the tops
of hills, and never in valley, where
water power could have been utilized
to effect draft. Hence it is inferred
that the Romans never used bellows,
but that they employed the natural
draft of the wind in some way. The
indications are that hOlloWs or shafts
were dug out in the hill top, to which
a long tunnel was driven from the side
of the hill, against which the prevail
ing wind blew. Through this open
passage way to the bottom of the
furnace there would be a strong draft,
which could have been utilized for
blower purpOseS-7a very inefficient
process, and attended with great loss
of iron, which must have been left in
the slag.-N. Y. Sam.
ONE of the easy things of this world
which are not often found in these
times, is the lampblaclz manufacturing
establishment near New Cumberland
in this State, where the carbon is
formed by burning numerous jets of
natural gas against slabs of soapstOne,
suspended over the flame. The firm
have five lines of pipe containing two
thousand gas burners, all supplied from
a gas we'll that presents no indication
at present Of failing. The collected
carbon is scraped off every twenty
minutes by a sliding knife under which
hangs car to receive the substance,
the whole operated by small engine
requiring the attendance of but one
man. AS about two hundred pounds
of product are secured daily which
sells for seventy or eighty cents a
pound, the concern may be looked upon
as small bonanza Wheeling CIV.
Va.) Standard
THE strawberry season has been a
little longer than last year, and has
been of some profit to the growers.
There have gone into market from the
Delaware peninsula, over the Delaware
Railroad, about 4,71O,OOO quarts of
Strawberries since the opening of the
season on May 20. In the transpOrta-
ton of these berries three daily trains
were required the greater part of the
season. Of carloads there We're about
7S5, OF which 552 were consigned to
Jersey City, 35 to Boston, and 1913 to
Philadelphia, the latter being esti-
mated; the others are official. Re-
duced to quarts, the quantities deliv-
cred to these cities were: To jersey
City, 1912, 900; to Boston, 100000; to
Philadelphia, 1,168, 900. New York
was also largely supplied by the Old
Dominion Steamship Company from
Lewes, which carried probably not less
than 1,0O0,000 quarts, giving 5,71O,00O
II udIlS DIS Tie enUlI6 uldIk6IdDIo product
of the peninsula, exclusive of the
quantities sold in the local markets.
Seven cents per quart is thought to be
a fair average of the prices obtained,
and if we deduct from this four cents
| as the actual cost of the cultivation
and marketing of the crop, we have
left margin of three cents as the net
profit to the growers. Applying this
figure to the quantity shipped, we have
as the net profit of the strawberry
yield, for the season now closing,
S171, 300. In other words, the straw
berries have brought to the peninsula
farmers this quantity Of money. the
effect of which has been perceptlbly
felt in all the rural districts, as the
crop was abundant everywhere.-W5t-
ningtOn CDel.) Commercial.
SuperStitiOns.