The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-05
INDUSTRIAL.

UMBRELLAS are now manufactured of
paper.
PORK packing stands as the third
American industry.
A THOUsAND-ACRE plantation near
Natchez, Miss, recently sold for 5000.
FOURTEEN years ago there was only
one Bessemer steel establishment in The
country. Now there are eleven.
In Newark, N. j., every mandatory
working in iron is said to be buster
than at any previous period in several
years.
Ir is estimated that the total produc-
ton of petroleum in Pennsylvania will
be increased by midsummer to $4,000
barrels daily
THE farmers of California complain
that all agricultural enterprises in
that State are improbable, because Ia
Dor is higher now than fifteen years
ago.
IT is estimated that in the manu-
featuring establishments of Taunton,
Mass, nearly one thousand more men
are employed than were on the pay
rolls one year ago.
The prospects Tor fruit along the
Hudson River Valley are excellent,
both for peaches and small fruits. The
apple crop will be below the average of
1876and 1873, this being the "off year,
for that fruit.
The Philadelphia North american
says: The quantity of cheese made in
the United States and Canada the past
year was the largest ever known. and
our export demand has increased CORE
spondingly. Prices, however, have
ruled low the entire season, which,
with several sharp declines, kept bust
ness in this line quite unsatisfactory,
both to the producers and middlemen.
This branch of industry is no longer
confined to the States of New York and
Ohio, as in former years, but has been
extended over the entire western graz
ing country, and is now considered the
second branch of industry of the United
States.
A METHOD of producing from oak an
imitation ebony, of great beauty, is
thus described in the Revue I,sdustrteLte:
The wood is immersed for forty-eight
hours in a hot saturated solution OF
alum, and then brushed over with a
logwood decoctiOn. To this end, one
part of best logwood is boiled in ten
parts of water, filtered through linen,
and evaporated at a gentle heat until
the volume is reduced one half; to every
quart of this are added ten to fifteen
drops of saturated solution, neutral,
of indigo. After applying this dye to
the wood, the latter is rubbed with a
saturated solution, filtered, of verdigris,
in hot concentrated acetic acid, the
operation being repeated until q black
of the desired intensity is obtained.
Oak treated according to this method,
it is said, presents very close as we'll
as attractive resemblance to genuine
ebony.
The great Hindoo festivals take
place every twelve years. and always
commence on the 18th of April. The
danger of the co"v y ance of cholera to
Europe and this country is largest at
these periods of the greatest outbreak in
India. Cholera never originates at
Mecca, but is always conveyed from
Hindostan; but fortunately the Mecca
festivals rarely coincide in date with
those Of India. The Mohammedan
wear consists of twelve lunar months of
overweight days each, or of 1856 days,
instead Of 365. Hence the great Mo-
hammedan festival at Mecca varies in
the time of its occurrence thirty-six
davs in everv year, and cholera only
breaks out there when Hindoo pilgrims
with cholera arrive at Mecca when the
festival falls in the latter part of April,
or in May, or perhaps in June. At all
other periods the great Mecca festivals
take place comparatively harmlessiy.
Cholera can be conveyed from India by
way of the Red Sea to the Mediterra-
mean very rapidly; but is transported
through Central Asia very slowly. II
the English obtain and retain posses
sion of Cabul, the advance of cholera
though Central Asia or Persia may be
forever stopped.--C Chicago Times.
CALAIS is to become again an inn
portant place of arms and a fortress of
the first class. The ramparts now sur
rounding the town, which are of an
antiquated type, are to be leveled, and
a new enceinte, with a girdle of de-
tached forts in front of it, is to be con-
structed, resting on the citadel. and in
closing the Towns OF Calais and St.
Pierre. By law signed by the Presi-
dent of the Republic the construction
of the enceinte and detached forts
round Calais is declared to be q work
of public urgency, and sum of &c.
800, 600 is set aside to defray the ex-
penses incurred during the next four
years in building the new Notifications.
An amateur singer frightened
pair of canary-birds to death. 1t was
. case of killing two birds with ones