The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-16
INDUSTRIAL

" AeAoo/ SoAAPeslAJ htso oOOil
organized for the purpose of manufact.
uring silk-like goods from flax.
BURNET, Tex, has a profession ant.
killer. The Unborn propensity to kill
something, that springs eternal in the
Texan breast, must be satisfied, yor
know.-Boston Transcript.
ENGLISH iron ore will be new feat.
ure of our imports this year, American
ores having risen $3.50 per ton, owing
to the great demand from our blast fur.
naces. Orders for nearly $4,000 tons
have been sent to mining companies on
the west coast of Great Britain.
formers Progress says there are
women who make business of going
from watering place to watering place,
at the close of the season, and buying al
less than half cost the cast-off clothing
of the bellies of society. This they take
to the great cities and easily sell at a
profit.
In Baltimore there are forty peach.
packing establishments. Few, if any,
of these houses employ less number
of hands than 200, while several OF
them reach 800 or 1000, and these arc
exclusive of those engaged in the man.
ufacture of tin cans and the packing
cases.
WOLvERHAMPTON, England, is a
great center for horse-shOes, yet the
Wolverhampton Tramway Company
and certain of the London and Liver
pool Tramway Companies use Ameri-
can shoes, saying they are cheaper and
better. The aforementioned company
have entered into atwelve-months' con-
tract with a New York gentleman fol
supplies of shoes. The nails are sent
with them, ready tipped.
A SIMPLE device is within the reach
of every one having an ordinary win.
dow in his room, by which fresh outer
air can be admitted in small quantity
with such an upward current as will
prevent its being felt as an injurious
draft by the inmates. 1t is particularly
adapted to sleeping-rooms when the
weather is too cold to admit of an open
window. Thus, start both top and bot
tom sashes of the window half an inch,
which is not quite enough to clear the
rebate or stop-beads at top and bottom,
but which leaves an opening of an inch
between the meeting rails, through
which current enters, but diverted up
ward by the glass, as it should be, so
as not to fall directly to the floor, as its
GOODNESS might otherwise induce it to
do. 1t thus becomes well mixed with
the air of the room without being felt
as a draft. Pstnaber.
The Sheik-ul-Islam does his best to
make disagreeable business look pleas
ant. In his "fetwa" to his fellow
countrymen and Acknowledgements in
Thessaly, apologizing for the approach
ing concession Of a portion of the Turk
ish dominions to the Greek Kingdom,
the highest ecclesiastical functiOnary of
Islam expresses himself as follows: IAN
ancient and small State in our imme-
date neighborhood has during the late
critical times lived beside us in peace
and concord. Since the Almighty com
mands His faithful servants to give aims,
especially to the deserving, our sublime
ruler, the Padishah, penetrated by de.
sire to conform to the divine law of
has condescended to tear off a
little slice of the enormous empire of the
Ottomans, and bestow it upon the above
deserving little Nation of the
Greeks, in order that they may continue
in that peaceful mind which they OBJ
served during the recent troublous times,
and also may be the better able to en-
joy their earthly existence"
The question sometimes arises wheth
er a patent can be obtained for the
mere substitution of special material
for another in the manufacture of a
well-known article. In reply we may
state that if the Patent Office is satisfied
that in consequence of the substitution
a new and important result is obtained,
the patent will be allowed. A recent
case in point is that of an applicant who
asked for a patent for making shoe
patterns of glass. TWAS alleged against
the applicant that glass patterns had
been previously used for cutting out
photo-print ovals; also that sheet-metal
were in common use; and
that there could be no invention in
merely substituting therefor such we'll
known substance as sheet-glass. But
the Commissioner decided that the use
of glass shoe-patterns was useful nov
city, sufficient to support patent, be-
cause such patterns enabled the cutter
to see any defects in the leather and
move the pattern to avoid them, which
he could not do with the ordinary pat
terms. So the patent for glass shoe
patterns was allowed Scientific liner
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