American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-22
INDUSTRIAL.

THE California wool clip of 1876 is es-
timated at sc, 900 pounds; with good sea-
sons in two years twill amount to 60, 00O,-
600 pounds annually, and in three years
to 70, 900 900. California is now the first
wool growing State in the Union.
LUMBERMEN In Ottawa, Canada, are
said to be sending up lots of teams to the
woods for the winter at seventy-five cents
to one dollar day. Choppers are crowd
ing to the offices for work and are taking
| whatever is offered. Wages are not within
SO per cent of what they were last year.
GOOD girls for household work can be
secured at wages lower by about fifty cents
per week than the prevalent prices paid
before the hard times began. They are
still well paid as a body, and no class in
the community are more Independent, and,
it may be added more ready to assert their
Experimentation rdoeller.
THE Boston & Albany r. r. Co. have
begun to weigh the coal and measure the
wood and oil issued to each engine. This
has been the custom on the Connecticut
River and other railroads to ascertain the
minimum cost of running each individual
locomotive under various circumstances
of travel, weather, etc.
A CALIFORNIA inventor has patented
continuance for driving sewing machines
which does away with the treadle. A
number of springs are moved by clock
work and governed by lever so nicely
that the needle may be made to move at
any desired rate of speed. The machine
will run for about an hour and quarter
with one winding up.
THE annual importation of Bath bricks
into the United States is estimated at
about 10, 900 boxes, there being twenty
four bricks in each box. These bricks are
manufactured from the deposits OF the
River Parrett, Bridgewater, Somerset,
where millions are made annually. No
where else are these deposits found, so
that Bridgewater supplies the world, and
Bath bricks are as well known in AmerI-
ca, China and India as in England.
So-CALLED camel's-hair brushes are
made from the hair of the tails of squir-
rels, the demand for which is increasing
very rapidly. 1t is a question, however,
whether the tails of the California squir-
rels-animals extremely destructive to
the crops in California-will not answer
ths purpose, as they are not true squir-
rels, but spermaphile, or ground SPUR
rel. The hairs on the tail of this animal,
although long, are coarser than those of
the squirrel and, probably, less de-
sirable. There would, however, be no
difficulty in obtaining a sufficient supply
of the e-squirrels, such as the red, the
gray, the fox-squirrel, ETC., throughout
the various parts of the country, to meet
very large demand. -CHic0go Tribune.
In nothing has the advance of practical
science been more clearly evidenced than
in the extent to which substances formerly
wasted and lost are now reclaimed and
made to constitute an important element
in the profits of the manufacturer. One
of these applications consists in the re-
covery of the soap suds from the washings
of wool in wooden factories. These were
formerly allowed to run down the sewers
and into the streams, to the great pollution
of the latter; but in Bradford in En-
gland, they are now run from the wash
ing bowls into watts, and there treated with
sulphuric acid The fats rise TO the sur
face in mass of grease foot or more IN
thickness, which is carefully collected
and treated in various ways, mostly by
distillation. The products are grease,
used for lubricating the cogs OF driving
wheels in the mills; oleic acid, which is
worth about S160 per ton, and used as a
substitute for olive oil; stearin, worth
$500 per ton, etc. 1t is said that some
large mill owners are now paid from 81
800 to 81, 600 year for these suds, which
a few years ago were allowed to run TO
wastc.-N. Y. Tribune.
HERE is rule which will hold good
for all dates in the present century since
1852 as well.as for those in the present
year. In order to find out the day of the
week upon which any event fell 100 years
ago count forward two days from the day
of the week upon which the centennial
anniversary falls. For instance, the
4th of July, 1876, will fall on Tuesday;
the 4th of July, 1776, was Thursday. The
centennial anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill was celebrated Thursday,
june II, 1878. The battle was fought
Saturday, June II, 1175. This rule mus
not be used for dates III the eighteenth
ceUtury earlier than 1852, because that
was the year when Tie change from "old
style" took effect in England and her col
Republican.