The Osceola times., 1876-08-12
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
swessen-Sspepese siIk Wsrk-1he Medi.
cal Department Japemese straw
WOrk-Chinese Mattfng-sake
and Soy - Mts~~Ilnmy
From our Special Correspondent.

WOrh-Cbamese Mating
and Soy - Mis~~sinny
From Special Correspondent
SWEDEN.
Swedish table OF weights, measures and
coins, l fot 0974i2 foo. 1 mil: 6.6i.i7i
statue miles kubk fot equals O.62,435
cubic foot I skalpund equals O.93,7i3
pound avoirdupois equals l krona equals
100 or, POS dollars gold There are
three hundred Swedish exhibitors. Ancho-
vies is specially from Sweden. One half
barrels are woth in Sweden 81 n in gold;
one quarter barrel, 1922 gold kegs, forty.
two cts. gold, duty thirty-iive per cent
People fond Of an anchovic, and who esteem
sardnes, yet dread the high price of these
snail fish, can import their anchovies much
more economically. A chair is exhibited
from Sweden made Of oak from the Swedish
line of battle ship Applet" sunk the 5th
OF June, 1876, and party risen 1870. Stock.
holm sends basketwork from factory that
consumed last year $4,000 pounds Of willows.
The workmen in this establishment receive
as wages thirty three and a half per cent OF
the wholesale price of the fabric. In The
copper works of Sweden sick and burial
funds are given for employees, schools are
furnished for children Of workmen, and the
workmen assemble two evenings during the
week and attend lectures IN natural philoso.
ply, history, geography, writing, arithmetic
and drawing. This is another foreign idea
that might be advantageously initiated In the
United States.
The pay oil employees in a Swedish manu-
factory is, foreman 800 gold per annum;
book-keeper, 1915; engineer, xl95; work
men, seventy, forty-two, twenty-one, and
fourteen cents per diem. And vet they seem,
from life Of thrift 10 live easier than the
workmen 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
under the head of metallurgical. Swedish
iron is justly celebrated, 80 is their copper.
Their gray pig iron contains about two per
cent. OF manganese, and has been used with
advantage for the Bessemer process, and
their white pig iron as material for malleable
pig iron, iron Tor blister steel and wire AS
well as for steel made by the Semens. Mar
tins process. The steel and wire-iron is man.
ufactured by the Lancashire process, and
the welding is done in hearth, (not a weld
ing furnance)a new invention, blooms, bill.
lets, blast furnance 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, 30 liberal, that they are simply won
dcrful. "A factory producing $4,000 gold
pays government tax, $S3; community taxes
1850 gold.
Tool steel. They also show a series Of
broken one hall inch square steel, showing
the different fractures ON account of differ
ent degrees Of carbonization, steel bars of
various temper, welded together and broken
10 show the fractures. a series of products
from the Bcssemer converter, taken out at
different periods OF the blow, with samples
OF Stag taken at the same time. A complete
series of experiments made for investira.
ting the strength of the material nv tension,
elasticity, compression and torsion. To pro-
duce pig iron in one factory represented,
two blasting furnaces are used, and for con.
verting the pig iron into steel, two Bessemer
converters of u capacity of three and half
tons each. The steel is made by the direct
process. Iron is taken in a ladlc from the
blast furnace 10 Che converter, and the steel
is always blown without the addition of
spiegeleisen. An exhibit of Swedish indus
try is that Of matches. One firm who have
| specimens, employ thirty-fve men at forty
six cents gold per diem; seventy women at
twenty-eight cents per day. fourteen bows
and seventeen girls under fifteen years, at
nineteen cents. This factory turns out so 600
| boxes Of matches a day; 2i,OOO.O 900 per
annum valued at 100000 gold The matches
are worth in Sweden 1851 gold per thousand
boxes, and for the impregnated safety
matches $i.03 gold per 200 boxes. Here is
a speculation for some American 10 import
matches.
JAPANESE SILK WORK.
| Weaving in Japan was commenced $50 A.
d. In the town of Kinli, Province of
Joshnauhar, with the town of Kiyoto, there
l ..rT.. - =
about nine yards. In Japan, the spinning
and weaving, with the apparatus for reeling
silk, consists of a small portable clay oven
with cast-iron basin, and Of a wooden reel
| placed TO the left of the reeling girl, who
turns it with her left-hand, while the right
hand is used for tending the cocoons in the
basin, generally making two threads at the
same time. The latter are guided by eyes
made af hair, aud the uniform spreading of
the thread upon the real is effected BY u
combination of swinging rods AM spiral
groove in the revolving cylinder which regu-
latcs their motion >the tilaments pass to the
| reel without crossing. The loom used is the
| old draw loom. The dressing of the warp is
done with gluish decoction of the Z" "Fu,"
akind of fucus. Grape is produced by using
for woofng alternate threads twisted in op.
posite directions, and is of a much closer
twist than ordinary threads. When the
piece is finished il is dipped in cold, then in
hot, and again in cold water, in rapid sue
cession, and afterwards rolled and dried.
| The Fdiferent effect of these operations
on the two kinds OF wool thread produces
the craping.
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT..
This important branch of the working Gle.
ment Of the exhibition, was conceived in
| judgment and far-seeing thought, and has
been practically utilized with energy and
ability. Without its perfect arrangement
| much suffering would have ensued from the
| dangers and diseases incidental to n sight
| seeing, imprudent, in a majority of cases,
population of from 5000 regular 10 float
| ing population Of seventy-fve TO 100000
men, women and children, who stuff with
pies and cakes, who drink ice.water
| or who swil lager, who lose calmness
tions and attendant excitement, who eat
irregularly, who think they never tire nuti
tagged out, who carry a'steaming condition
Of one hundred and eighty, when their normal
may be one hundred. So il is, and hence
the medica. department has been a blessing
and its competent staff public benefactors
JAPANESE Straw WORK.
The Japanese exhibit basket.work. dyed
straw from wheat, the last OF the "Wisteria
Chinensis." They also use split cane and
bamboo. The latter material is easily split
into this, round or fiat strips, presenting
brilliant surface and of great durabil,ty
The "Japs" show the model Of country
house all made of fine strips of bamboo,
roof, sliding doors, windows, etc. Each room
domesticates n chirping insect which are
supposed to jump, as the grasshopper or 10
sing as the cricket, for the entertainment of
-. al ,..E L..
| for their insect friends. ] have no doubt
liz. ,.u.nl ahiIiIicS Of Tho