The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-09
rious effects of draughts Of cold air upon
the boilers there will be no contamination

rious effects Of draughts OF cold air upon
the boilers; there will be no carbonization
OF the tubes, necessitating their beng
worn out by scraping; and the smoke being
consumed. the vessel may be kept cleaner /;
there will be no danger from sparks.
Mr.. S. G. Salisbury, the inventor, proposes
to equip the three hundred blast furnaces OF
Pittsburgh as soon as the experiments
are concluded which he Is now making
before the Government commission. the
results OF which Engineer sherwood Will
incorporate in his report to the Navy De-
partment. Should bis proposition be ac-
cepted, OF which there seems but little
doubt, it will involve permanent contract
with the oil producers and with persons
who will pipe the oil to Pittsburgh. This
will greatly benefit the producers. whom be
will relieve Of daily surplus production OF
about twelve thousand barrels, which they
cannot sell, the market being SO depressed
that oil cannot be pumped without loss.
Should his plans be successful, this inven-
tiou alone will secure him an enormous in
come from royalties.
"Of course, this is something to be proud
oi," he said; "but 1t doesn't compare with
some other things am getting ready. In
fact, it sinks into utter insigniicance
and he snapped his fingers at the flaming
spray.
"They talk about heating buildings
thoroughly with common steam," he con-
tinued; sit won't freeze, they say. Now,
let swapping cold day come-how much
does. the upper part OF a large, high build
ing benefit from heating by steam-ppes
when the furnaces are in the cellar? why
do we hear so many complaints about de-
fectiye and offensive steam apparatus? /
have remedy for it all; can heat whole
block perfectly by an underground appa-
ratus that will furnish heating-gas so
quietly that no one will know where the
apparatus is located, aG cost much less
than that for coal, TO say nothing about the
cost for labor, and the dirt that must attend
the use OF coal.
"Then Twill produce, also under ground.
and furnish to an entire block at a time, and
noiselessly, an aqueous yapor for cooking.
I will cook "-Mr. Salisbury smacked his
lips and his eyes gloated over imaginary
ribs OF beef and streaming game" meat,
without fire, so that the outside will be
coated with a brown, crisp crust, and all
the Juice will be preserved inside. There
is nothing in the culinary department that
1 will not bring to perfection. Epicures
have eaten at my table, and they say they
had never dreamed OF such food before ;
it's the finest thing in the world. I took
them out to my cooking apparatus, and
they were still more dumbfounded; it
was perfectly clean, and there was no odor
about it. Dumbfcunded is a mild word to
express what they looked. felt, and said
about it,"
"Don,t you cook in stoye?" was asked
timdly.
"In a stove? Well-yes-perhaps you
had better call it so just now," said the
jolly inventor in reply, "but it is made OF
wood"
"When did you get all these notions?"
"oh, Pye been working them up since
studied chemistry with Michael Faraday,
twenty years ago. My head was full OF the
theories which am now beginning to re-
duce to practice"
Your appliances, then, are all at hand?"
"Yes, and always have been. The whole
earth furnishes me with appliances. II
took me years of labor and thought to dis
cover them, but now / have but to COM
mand and everything becomes subservient
to meD