The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-08-17
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
sweden -Jnprncsc SiIk Worh The NChi.
cal Department - JHponcsc Nirnw
WOrL chinese Mating sake
aud So, Miscellany

From our Special Correspondent,
SWEDEN.
Swedish table Of weights, measures aud
coins, fot O,N7il2 foot ! mil 66i,l7l
statue miles | kuhik fot equals Od2, l3i
cubic foot skNlpund equals Oo3,7l3
pound uvoirdupois equals ! kronn equals
loo or, POS dollars gold, There ARE
three hundred Swedish exhibitors, Ancho
yes is a specially from Sweden One halt
barrels are woth in Sweden 81 II in gold
one quarter barrel, t2,22 gold kegs, forty
People fond Of nm anch0vic, and who esteem
sardincs, yet dread the high price of thcSC
small fish, can import their anChOyicS much
more economically. A chair is exhibited
from Sweden made Of oak from the Swedish
line Of battle ship "Applet,' sunk the 5tl
of June, 1876, aud party risen 1870, stock
holm sends haSket.wOrk from factory that
consumed last year 80 GOO pounds Of willows
The workmcn in this establishment receive
~ wages thirtytmce and half per cent, O
the wholesale price OF the fabric, In the
conner works of Sweden sick and burin
funds are given for employees, schools ar,
furnished for children of workmcn, and the
workmen assemble two evenings during tn,
week and attend lectures IN natural philOSO
ply, history, geography, writing, arithmetic
and drawing. This is another foreign idea
that might he adyantagcOu,ly initiated in the
United States.
The pay Of employees in II Swedish manu-.
factory it, foreman 800 gold per annum
book keeper $275; engineer Slaj work.
men, seventy, fOrty.twO, twcuty.one, and
fourteen cents per diem. And YET thcysccm,
lroma life Of thrift to live clsicr than the
worimcn Of other countries whose pay is
greater. Judging from the Swedish com.
mission employees at the exhibition, the
greater portion Of the Swedish exhibits come
undcr the head of metallurgicHl Swedish
iron is Justly celebrated, SO is their copper.
Their gray pig iron contains about two per
cent. Of manganese, and has been used with
advantage for the lIcSscmCr process and
their white pig iron rs material for mallcabc
pig iron, iron tor blister steel and wire, as
well as for steel made by the SicmCuS.Mar
tins process. The steel and wirC.iron is man
uiacturcd by the Lancashire process, and
the welding is done in Il hearth, mot n weld
ing furnance) a new invention, blooms, bill
hts, blast iurnancc slags, roasted iron ores,
bar iron, nails, are marked interests of the
Swedish exhibit, and show to the advantage
of country, that can sustain itself from
taxes, 50 liberal, that they are simply won
dcrful. A factory producing $4,000 gold,
pays government tax, SS3; community taxes,
$3.50 gold.
Tool steel. They also show series of
broken one half inch square steel, showing
the different fractures on account Of differ
cnt degrees of carhonlNton, steel bars Of
various temper, welded together and broken
| 4, Il, Al frn, A ,I M :
from the Rcsscmcr converter, taken ont at
different periods Of the blow, with samples
of Stag taken at the same time. A complete
series Of experiments made for invcstirN'
ting the strength Of the material by tension
elasticity compression aud tOrsion. To pro-
ducc pig iron in one factory represented
two blasting furnaces are used, and for con
},ning the pig iron into steel, two I}CsSemcl
cOnvcrtcrs Of Il capacity of three and n hall
tons each. The steel is made by the direct
process. Iron is taken in n ladlc from the
blast furnace TO the converter, and the steel
is always blown without the addition Ol
spiegccsen. An exhibit Of Swedish indus.
try is that Of matches One firm who have
specimens, employ thrty-tivc men Mt forty.
six cents gold per diem; seventy women at
twcnty.Cight cents per day: fourteen boys
and seventeen girls under fifteen years. at
nineteen cents. This factory turns out 10000
boxes of matches day; 2iOOO,OO0 per
annum valued at 100000 gold. The matches
are worth in Sweden $3.6l gold per thousand
boxes, and for the imprcgnated safety
matches fiO3 gold per 900 boxes. Here is
Il speculation for some American to import
matches
JAPANESE SILK WORK.
Weaving in Japan was commenced 80 A.
y. IN the town Of kirlli, PrOYncc oI
Joshinauhar, with the town Of kiyOto, there
are manufactured 225,53G pieces containing
about nine yards. In Japan, the spinning
and weaving, with the apparatus for rceIlhs
silk, consists Of a small portable clay oven
with cast-rOn basin and Of Il wooden reel
placed to the left of the rccIng girl, VIII,
turns il with her lcft.hand while the right
hand is used for tending the COcOOns in th,
basin, generally making two threads ut the
same time. The latter are guided by eye
made ai hair, and the uniform spreading q
the thread upon the real il effected by
combination Of swinging rods an n spr,
groove in the revolving cylinder which rcgu
latcs their notion the tilaments pass to tn,
reel without crossing. The loom used is tn,
old draw loom. The dressing Of the warp i
done with gIuish decoctiom Of the Flu,
u kind Of fucus. Grape is produced by usnt
for woofng alternate threads twisted in op
pOsitc directions, and Is 0t much closer
twist than ordinary threads. When the
piece is finished it is dipped in cold, then II
hot, aud again in cold water, in rapid sue
ccssiOn, and afterwards rolled and dried
me HinerHnt '"cy' y" ,ne"o ,h opr'",,on p'I,on
on the wv" klllu' oi ""oi UREA" Pio'"''
the craPhS'
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
This important branch of the working cle
mont of thc exhibition, was conceived il
Judgment and far.sccIng thought, and ha
brrn practically utilized with energy an'
p ability. Without its perfect arrangement
murh suffering would have cnsued from tin
I Jnnrcrs and diseases incidental to a sight
seeing imprudcnt, in a majority of cases