American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
INDUSTRIAL.

Coal is being discovered in about ev-
cry county of Kansas.
THE yield of the Ohio coal mines last
year exceeded 5000, 900 tons.
The hosiery mill at Ashland, N. H.,
was sold by auction, recently, for 10 per
cent of its cost.
| BANGOR (Me.) lumbermen are paying
from eight to sixteen dollars per month
for workmen, and get more help at those
figures than they can use.
| QUITE a number of hogs have died in
and around Wallingford, Conn, in the
last few weeks, from a disease which the
farmers call black tush.''
! THE trial of the moving and reaping
machines at the Centennial will require
| fifty acres of grass and standing grain,
and the agricultural bureau of the com
mission has put the land in the best
| possible condition.
A MAN living in Clay, N. Y, has in
vented snow pillow which is So con-
structed that instead of crowding or press
ing the snow from the tracks it carries it
up an inclined plane or apron to the
height of twelve or fourteen feet, where it
| is received by a slide shute and carrier,
which throw it from the track as far as
may be desired.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says
there is no valid reason why Georgia
should not be one of. the greatest sheep
raising countries of the world. Its eli
mate corresponds to that of Spain and
Australia, and land is exceedingly cheap.
Yet the census during the last five years
shows a loss of over 100, 900 sheep, which
is almost entirely owing to the country
being overrun by dogs. The whole sheep
husbandry of the State is crippled by the
presence of over 900 dogs, which, dur
ing last year, killed over 5000 sheep.
NONE but earth colors should be used
in painting floors, and the rapid wearing
off of a coating of oil paint on floor is
a sure Indication that white lead has been
mixed with the paint. This is generally
the case, since it causes the paint to cover
better and spread easier. Even the en-
ployment of varnish that has been
boiled with lithrge should be avoided
and one boiled with borate of magnesia
preferred. 1t is also very important that
the first coating should be perfectly dry
before a second is laid on.-OH and Paint
Journal.
BRooMs were first manufactured by the
Quakers at Watervliet, n. Y, in 1871, but
it is only within twenty five years that
much importance has been attached to
the business. The annual crop of broom
corn now raised in this country is esti-
mated at $4,000 tons, while twenty five
years ago it was only 500 tons. Broom
corn is native of India, and the honor of
its introduction into the United States as
an agricultural product belongs to DIR.
Ben. Franklin. While examining an
imported whisk of corn he saw seed,
which he planted, and from that small
beginning sprang the enormous growth of
broom-corn in this country.
THE Scientific american has an article
on powerful explosives, in which nitro
glycerine is rated as the most dangerous,
gunpewder next, such preparations of
nitro glycerine dynamite third, and
gun cotton last The mixtures of nitro
glycerine and sawdust or earth may be
safely transported when first made. but
soon become hazardous. A method of
making pulp-compressed gln-cotton, in
vented by Prof Abel, of England, has
been adopted by the German, English,
and French Governments. The material
is saturated with water and compressed
into cylinders of various sizes. In that
condition it can only be exploded by ex-
perts provided with the proper appliances.
Fire, heat or friction will not affect it.