Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-10-19
INDUSTRIAL. STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

THE Geological Garden at Cincinnati
has been running behind badly. The
expenses of the past year were SIS, 900
more than the receipts.
II is said that there are in the United
States over 10000 idiots, estimating
the population at $1,000, 0O0-one for
every thousand For the care of these
daft ones there are ten asylums,
none of which have been in existence
over thirty years.
REPORT says there are seven hun
dred workingmen's clubs in Great
Britain, with membership which
averages 10000. They are opposed
to the liquor traffic, and their club
| rooms, of which there are many, are
kept open on Sunday to induce men to
visit them instead of patronizing the
gin shops.
AN invention which will revolution
| iZe the tinware trade of the country
has been perfected, after some years
Of labor, by a young Bostonian. 1t
| consists of series of dies by which
| boxes of all sizes, from the salve-boX
| to the preserved fruit and oil-cans, are
pressed from single piece of tin, the
corners being doubly folded in the
process, and no solder being required,
though the cans are perfectly air tight.
Flared ware, as dripping pans, are also
made. They are durable, very pretty,
and, as some dozen minute are manu-
featured, very cheap, and in these
days Of solder poisoning will be espe-
cially acceptable to Gamers of pre-
| served meatS.-Bost0n Globe.
THE Journal Of applied Science
announces that a simple process, de-
pending on the use Of acetate of lead,
and which renders every kind of paint
ing applicable to sheets of zinc, is
among the recent German inventions.
BY mixing black lead, for instance,
with the salt, very agreeable light
brown hue is obtained. 1t is by this
means, it appears, that the cupola of
the synagogue at Nuremberg has been
painted, q sufficient length Of time
having already elapsed, it is asserted,
to show that the atmosphere has had
no influence on the zinc sheeting of the
roof-thus showing the peculiar adapt
ability of the process in such cases. By
| the addition of other colOring matters,
the lightest or darkest shades of gray
or yellow may be produced. For
| writing with dark ink on sheets of
zinc, solution of chloride of copper
is employed. After a few minutes,
the zinc sheet is washed and then
dried. Various useful applications of
this method have been suggested,
among them that of making labels for
the names of plants, on account of it's
readiness, simplicity and resistance to
atmospheric Influences.
In 1926 was established the cele-
brated stage-ceach, the Shrewsbury
| Wonder, which maintained it's charac-
ter for punctuality, safety and speed
| for thirteen years. It was the first
that attempted to perform so long a
journey as 154 miles in one day, The
Quicksilver Mail ran from London to
Exeter, IT'S miles, in eighteen hours.
| The Telegraph used to leave London
every morning at half past five and
reach Exeter at half-past ten the
same night. In 1886 the fastest
coaches, known as the crack coaches,
were running between London and
Brighton, fifty-one and one-half miles,
in five and three-quarter hours Shrews-
bury, 154 miles, in fifteen hours; Ex-
eter, III miles, in seventeen hours;
Manchester, 157 miles, in sixteen
hours: Holyhead, 261 miles in twenty
six hours ffty-five minutes; London
and Liverpool, 203 miles, in twenty
hours fifty minutes. On May-Day,
1880, the Independent Tallyho, which
ran between London and Birmingham,
performed feat altogether unparal-
leled in the annals of coaching, having
| travelled the distance of 100 miles in
seven hours and ten minutes. On
May-Day. 1888, the Shrewsbury Grey
hound, with no passengers except
friend or two of the proprietor &C
complished the distance from London
at the rate Of twelve miles an hour, in
Guiding stoppages. -Montre0l Herald.