The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-20
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

ulN f,o''b ilIuiiItit'NeNiiNS -
Cincinnati.
The New Braunfels, Tex, woolen
manufactory turns out $1,000 yards of
cassimeres monthly.
THERE were 1O,O05,5l9 bushels of
coal mined in Perry County, Ohio,
during the year ending April, 1876.
SEALING-wAX is not wax ut all nor
does it contain single particle of wax.
1t is made of shellac, Venice turpen-
tine and cinnabar. Cinnabar give it
the deep red color, and turpentine ren-
ders the shellac soft and less brittle.
THE London IrOnmonger says it is
of no use to blink the fact that Ameri-
can edge tools are mostly superior to
those made in England. 1t says that
wherever the two are offered it is sell
dom that the preference is not given to
the transatlantic tools.
BROTHER JONATHAN commenced
business in 1776, with thirteen States
and S15,615 square miles of territory,
which was occupied by about 5000, 900
of civilized human beings. He has
now family of $4,000, 900 who occupy
thirty-eight States and nine Terrific
ries, which embrace over 100000 of
square miles. He has $4,000 miles Of
railroads, more than sufficient to reach
twice and half around the globe. The
value of his agricultural productions is
81, 500, 900, 900, and his gold and silver
mines are capable of producing $780,
900, 900 a year.. He has more than a
thousand cotton factories, $50 daily
newspapers, 4,30O weekly and 625
monthly publications. He has also
many other things too notorious to
mention. -PhjladeIphia Trade Jour-
nal.
IT is one of the facts best known to
science that when Il part of the outer
surface of the body has been exposed
long to cold, the risk is run in trying
suddenly to reinduce warmth. To be-
come thoroughly chilled and then pass
into a very warm atmosphere, such as
is found near a fire, results in a dam
gerous reaction, which, a few hours
later, may cause pneumonia OF bron-
chitis, OF both diseases. The capillia-
ries of the lungs become engorged,
and the circulation becomes static, SO
that there must be "a reaction of heat
Inflammation before recovery can Oc-
cur. Common colds are taken in the
same way: the exposed mucous sur
faces of the nose and throat are sub
iected to a chill, and afterward they
are subjected to heat. Then there fol
lows congestion, reaction OF heat
pouring out of fluid matter, and th'
other local phenomena of catarrh.
Pomeroy's Democrat.
THE question whether there is dan
ger from the use of lead pipes for th'
conveyance of drinking water is dis
cussed by NJ. Belgrand from a rathe
different point of view from that whicl
has been usual lie calculates TIN
length of lead pipe used for this pur
pose in Paris, and shows that tn
water remains in contact with the leat
much too short time to be acted upon
AS interesting specimens, he som
time ago exhibited to the Frencl
Academy two pieces of lead pipe, tn
one laid down more than two centurle
back, the other at period sOmeWha
later. The inner surfaces of thes
tubes, Notwithstanding the fact tha
one of them had conducted water for
period of two hundred years, wer
both completely intact. The direc
| experiments with reference to thl
same question, made with such care b
MN. Dumas and Leblanc, are OF sim
lar import; that is, distilled water wa
found slightly to attack the lead, Will
river, spring and rain water had II
appreciable action on the metal.