The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-06-08
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND
TECHNICAL.

FIVE HUNDRED Indians are still living
in Florida
The frontier telegraph line in Texas,
from Denison, eia Jackson, Concho, San
Antonio and Eagle Pass, to Brownsville,
a distance of 1000 miles, is now COM
plete,
TuE latest report from Alaska is that
vegetation is luxuliaut, the Iucon River
navigable for l,400 miles, the seal fisher
les practically inexkaustble, and the min
erals enormously valuable.
The French oyster plantations have
proved wonderfully successful. Those
at Morbihan, which in 1872 yielded only
5, 92S, 600 oysters, last year gave 2l,eS6,-
900, and have produced this season a.
2l4,0o0.
To ORNATE the dangers arising from
| dampncSs in brick buildings a French
architect, NJ. Sebille, has patented SIM
pie and inexpensive process for injecting
( brick, tiles and other esrthen materials,
with the tarry residue from the mauufac-
ture Of Illuminating gas. Brick thus pre-
pared is said 10 be rendered absolutely
waterproof.
FROM a recent published statement it
| appears that so far as can be gathered
from statistics, the exclusively sea-going
American tonnage is as follows: i,450
sailing vessels of 2,512,s16 ions; S95
steamers of 10i SO tons making a total
o; s, l35 vessels and S,22O. 45l tons. Add
to these the lake and river tonnage, and
the figures would be nearly doubled. The
aggregate number of American vessels on
the ocean, our lakes and rivers, is esti-
mated at 81 1923, with a tonnage of about
| 5000 900 tons. New York is supposed
to have the most tons of shipping, his, :
000-Maine next, Massachusetts next and
| Pennsylvania next.
| An experiment is being tried in New
| Zealand, to determine how long an eel
will live without eating. An injured
specimen was placed in tank along with
others, for the convenience of keeping
The tank was perfectly tight, with the
exception of the fnely-pertorated bottom
The injured eel, from its unsound condi-
ton, was always left when a draft was
made upon the contents of the tank. The
supply of eels was kept up by continual
additions, and, as time went on, the indi-
vidual exceptionally spared, growing
thinner and thinner, was still allowed to
remain uncaught. 1t is now seven years
since the eel has been fed, and, though
perfectly transparent and quite white, it
is to all appearances, healthy and lively
enough"
SEVERAL foreign naval powers are d.
recling their attention to the practcabiity
of establishing telegraph stations in mid
ocean, by which messages can be sent
from one part of the sea along the line of
the cable to the terminal point on shore,
and rice CerSG, so that communication
with iron-CladS, mail steamers and other
vessels when out at sea, may be eStab-
lished. one invention for carrying out
this scheme consists of hollow sectional
column with base plate attached by ball
and socket joint, which column is low
cred into the water and anchored rig:dly
to the ground. The branch cable is
coupled to the main cable and carried
along the column to the surface of the
water, to be there connected with inslru-
mens on board the vessels. By this in
venton it is proposed TO control naval and
stratcgical movements, while ship in
distress could communicate her exact po-
stiOn, the nature It her disasters, and
thus procure assistance.