Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-07-20
NDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

THERE are 4,693 manufactures in
Cincinnati.
THERE were 10,0O5,519 bushels of
coal mined in Perry County, Ohio,
during the year ending April, 1876.
Mr.. SAMPSON, the North Adams
shoe manufacturer, denies the pub
ished report that he intends to dis
charge his Chinese workmen.
SEALING-wAX is not wax at all: nor
does it contain single particle of wax.
1t is made of shellac, Venice turpen-
tine and cinnabar. Cinnabar give it
the deep red color, and turpentine rem
ders the shellac soft and less brittle.
THE London Ironmonger says it is
of no use to blink the fact that Ameri-
can edge tools are mostly superior to
those made in England. 1t saws that
wherever the two are offered it is sell
dom that the preference is not given to
the transatlantic tools.
BROTHER JONATHAN commenced
business in. 1776, with thirteen States
and S15,615 square miles of territory,
which was occupied by about 5000, 900
of civilized human beings. He has
now family of AZ, 900, 900 who occupy
thirty-eight States and nine Terrific
ries, which embrace over {, 700. 600 of
square miles. He has 1876 miles of
railroads, more than sufficient to reach
twice and half around the globe. The
value of his agricultural productions is
$4,000, 600, 900, and his gold and silver
mines are capable of producing $780,
100000 a year. He has more than a
thousand cotton factories, $50 daily
newspapers, 4,300 weekly and 625
monthly publications. He has also
many other things too notorious to
mention. philadelphia Trade Jour
nal
IT is one of the facts best known to
science that when a part of the outer
surface of the body has been exposed
long to cold the risk is run in trying
suddenly to reinduce warmth. To be-
come thoroughly chilled and then pass
into a very warm atmosphere such as
is found near q fire, results in a dan
gerOuS reaction, which, few hours
later, may cause pneumonia or bron-
chitis, or both diseases. The capillia-
ries of the lungs become engorged,
and the circulation becomes static, so
that there must be a reaction of heat
Inflammation before recovery can Oc-
cur. Common colds are taken in The
same way: the exposed mucous sur
faces of the nose and throat are sub
jected to a chill, AMI afterward they
are subjected to heat Then there fol-
lows congestion, reaction of heat,
pouring out of fluid matter, and the
other local phenomena of catarrh.-
POneerOy's Democrat.
THE question whether there is dam
ger from the use of lead pipes for the
conveyance of drinking water is dis
cussed by M. Belgrand from rather
different point of view from that which
has been usual. He calculates the
length of lead pipe used for this pur-
pose in Paris, and shows that the
water remains in contact with the lead
much too short a time to be acted upon
AS interesting specimens, he some
time ago exhibited to the French
Academy two pieces of lead pipe, the
one laid down more than two centuries
back, the other at period somewhat
later. The inner surfaces of these
tubes, Notwithstanding the fact that
one of them had conducted water for a
period of two hundred years, were
both completely intact. The direct
experiments with reference to this
same question, made with such care by
MN. Dumas and Leblanc are of SINH
lar import; that is, distilled water was
found slightly to attack the lead, while
river, spring and rain water had no
appreciate action on the metal.