American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
INDUSTRIAL.

THE leather business of the United
States represents a working capital of
$40 900, 900.
SOME greedy workmen in Jersey City
sugar refinery who were making absO-
lutely sixty cents day have struck.
ALMOST 1,OOO,O 900 paper collars are
made in this country every day. The
stock on hand is SO large that men can
wear three collars at once if they want to.
In an interview with a reporter of the
Boston Herald Boston broker said the
prospect for making money in legitimate
banking business is as good as ever, and
that the loans of the Boston banks are
| very large, and do not indicate very
great poverty of commercial and indus
trial transactions.
A HINT at the reason why so many
large concerns fail, with assets so small
in comparison with their Indebtedness, is
afforded by these expenses which were
reported at recent meeting of the cred
itors of one of the largest dry goods job
bling houses in Boston: Rents, SIT, 900;
salaries of statesmen, bookkeepers, ETC.,
$44 900; travelling expenses, SIS 900; a
total of $40, 600, or about 10 per cent. of
the gross amount of sales.-SprinQ1fel
(lfass.) Republican.
IT would appear that the efforts at util-
izing cinders for building purposes have
not realized the results anticipated, and
attempts TO burn them have also proved
unsuccessful, on account of the melting
Stag which chokes the draft in a short
time. 1t seems, from these attempts, that
when condensed air is passed over glow
ing cinders in furnace the carbOnic
oxide formed affords a flame several feet
long, suitable for heating boilers, ETC.,
and the experiments, so far as they go,
indicate heating power in the cinders-
from which the larger pieces of Stag have
simply been separated by hand-equal to
that of half their weight of coal.-Er-
change.
A SIMPLE and efficacious plan of re-
storing to steel which has once been burned
its usual valuable qualities, claiming that
this can be accomplished by the use of a
fluid which leaves scarcely anything to
he desired on the score of cheapness, has
been brought forward by an English in
ventor. The process consists in the use
of resin oil, with which is intimately
mixed about one-fOurth of its weight of
the residue of paraffine stills. Chisels
that have become useless may thus, it is
stated, be completely restored and made
as valuable as ever. The burned steel is
first heated red hot, then plunged into the
LIQUID for few seconds, and then reheated
and cooled in the ordinary way.-1He
Mechanical Journal.
The best KIND OF paper IS the class
known as wove, and not, as is commonly
presumed, the laid paper, as it is termed.
1t is found that varniSh formed of Cana
dian balsam, dissolved in turpentine, sup
plies most valuable means of making
paper transparent. The mode by which
this is most satisfactorily accomplished is
by applying a pretty thin coating of this
varnsh to the paper, so as to permeate
it thoroughly, after which it is to be
coated on both sides with much thicker
sample. The paper is kept warm by per-
forming the operation before hot fire,
and third or even Il fourth coating may
be applied until the texture of the paper
is seen to merge into homogeneous
translucency Paper prepared according
to this process is said to come nearer than
any other to the highest standard of per-
lection in transparent paper.-N. 7. Sun.
Instead of being "a little, weaZen-