The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-21
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.
A MASSACHUSETTS firm has an Or
der for $1,000 barrels of picked fish
from Germany, the Androscoggin Pulp
Company, of Maine, is filling an or
der from London, and the Cont
mental mills are making sheetings for
China
THERE are 800 paper-mills in the
country, valued at $4,000, 900 of cap
ital invested, with a total production
of so, 1000. 600. These mills give en-
ployment nominally to 10000 peo-
pie, whose earnings are footed up at
$4,000, 900 annually.
THE Little Wanderers" at Boston
had great Thanksgiving feast OBJ
tanned in Il novel way. Superintend-
ent Toles sent out $4,000 large paper
bags and as many envelopes to the
churches and Sunday-Schools of Bos-
ton and vicinity, with request that
they be filled with provisions and
money. Every one of them was re-
turned full. There were carloads of
pies, cake, confectionery, etc, $50 bar
rels of apples, three bins of potatoes,
500 head of poultry, ETC., and par
tial count of the money reveals 81, POO.
THE first Pennsylvania Railroad ex-
cursion train for the Centennial
grounds left Jersey on the 10th of
May, and trains were dispatched daily
until the 10th of November. 1t is es-
timated that the entire number of pas
sengers carried during these six
months exceeds $780, 900, and to ac-
comodate this multitude 22,542 trains,
composed of 144, 264 cars were dis
patched. During May the passengers
are placed at 300, 900, and during the
, following three summer months at
1000, 900. The greatest days receipts
came in on the oath of October, when
$500 persons were transported over
the road, and S5S, 200 were received
for tickets. The company had to en-
plOy over 5000 attendants, and was
compelled to borrow cars from other
lines, many of which have been but
just returned.
DR.. DONKIN, who has recently come
before the public in connection with
the Slade case, records in the British
UedicdI Journal another case of arSen-
ic poisoning from wallpaper. The
symptoms of the patient were serious,
but not sufficiently pronounced to per-
nit of diagnosis, until the patient
mentioned that her husband was SINH
larly affected. Another question re-
vealed the fact that a bedroom was
hung with light green paper, and, Il
sample being afterWard produced, it
was found to be highly-charged with
arsenic. If wallpaper makers will
not take the hint conveyed by these
repeated notices, which must have met
their eyes, some steps must be taken
to make them. Perhaps the best way
would be to do without Wallpapers al
together; they are unhealthy, especial
ly with arsenic in them, and undOubt-
eddy form a resting-place for contagia
-Eaptdnge.
NJ. MAUPERIN, of Paris, has invent
ed an ingenious apparatus for enabling
one to determine instantly the name
of any star or constellation, by simply
pointing in its direction with the indi-
Gator provided by this instrument
The apparatus consists essentially of
a tripod stand supporting circular
table, which may be inclined at any
angle to the horizon. On this table is
engraved map Of the stars, and its
circumference is divided into degrees
and the divisions of the year. From
its center there stands up column
which revOlves about its axis and sup
ports at its top pointer. This pointer
is movable about its center in plane
perpendicular to the table. while in a
horizontal direction it carries a second
pointer, fixed at the base of the column,
and therefore in close contact with the
map of the stars. 1t Of course follows,
that when the upper pointer is directed
toward any stars, and the star-map is
properly Oriented for the day and
hour, the lower pointer will then
cover the star in question, and its name
may be read on the chart, with the ut
most readiness and convenience. A
lantern attached to the table Eliminates
the chart sufficiently, SO that the
whole stand may be carried out of
doors and used there with advantage.
The indicator may also be employed
for the inverse process that is, for
making charts, and may be used, too,
by observers of shooting-stars and
aurOraS.
INVESTIGATIONS of the most thor
ough character into the chemical char
acteristics of dynamite have lately
been made by eminent scientific men
abroad, and are said to have proved
that the article in frozen state is as
safe to handle and transport as in an
unfroZen state-a fact which is of pc
culiar practical Importance. In the
first OF these experiments, several
cartridges, in frozen state and in
some parts beginning to thaw, were
thrown one by one from the hand
with great force, against an iron plate
without an explosion. In the second
experiment, a block of iron, of about
400 pounds weight, Was allowed to fall
from height of about twenty feet on
a light wooden box containing twenty
pounds of dynamite cartridges in a
frozen state, and with slight signs of
incipient thawing in spots more ex-
posed to the warmth of the air. The
box was smashed and the cartridges
were crushed fiat and pounded to-
gether, but there was no explosion.
The cartridges thus crushed were
next made up into two heaps to
be exploded. The ordinary detonator
skaters, but does not explode, the
frozen dynamite; the explosion was
therefore effected by inserting, in each
heap, small unfrozen cartridge, with