The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-25
FACTS AND Fl6UREs.

"A European lady in Japan has col.
iected 700 teapots of different varieties
and kinds.
The semi-annual dividends payable
In Boston in August aggregated 3d.
698, 675.
The average man measures about
five feet and one half inches, and weighs
14O pounds.
During June four steamers reached
San Francisco from China, bringing
1886 passengers, the largest number
for any time since 1874.
The experiment drumming a locomo.
tive without brakes has just been sue
cessfully tried by the Delaware,
Lackawanna Il Western Railway Com
pany. The locomotive is of ordin-
airy pattern, but has an extra pipe
leading from the boiler to the steam
chest, by which power can be applied
against the piston. checking the engine
and enabling the engine to reverse
without hauling overs
"A new locomotive on the Boston
u Providence Railroad has no coun-
ter-balance in the driving wheels, but
has double cylinders. double cranks,
and double connections on each side.
The cylinders lie abreast, instead OF
over each other The steam is admitted
and exhausted into both cylinders by a
single slide valve. The inventor ex-
poets to make high speed without
as much strain and wear and tear as
with the old way of connecting; his
idea being that the shackle-bars,
connecting rods and pistons will
absolutely balance each other.
and, admitting steam as we'll as
exhausting it by the cylinders upon
either side simultaneously, will keep
the whole thing from sailing or weav-
ing.
1t Is estimated that nearly 2, OOO,-
600 pounds of paper is produced annu.
ally; one-half of which is used fol-
printing, sixth for writing, and the
remainder is coarse parer for packing
and other purposes. The United States
alone produces yearly 2OO,O tons Of
paper. averaging seventeen pounds
per head for its population. The En-,
glishman comes next, with about
twelve pounds per head; the educated
German takes eight pounds, the
Frenchman seven pounds; while the
Italian, Spaniard and Russian take re-
spectively three pounds. one and-a-hali
pounds and one pound annually, the
consumption of paper being roughly in
proportion to the education and intel
lectual and political activity of the
people.
The most important industry ir
New York City is the manufacture o
mems clothing, a branch of bushes!
which has grown wonderfully since the
introduction of power for cutting as
we'll as sewing. The production il
this line is valued at $50, 1913, G97, EN-
ploying 64,056 hands, while women
clothing figures for $l8, 500, 487, EN-
ploying 17,267 hands. In boots ant
shoes, 1913 factories make goods to tn
value Of S4,799.371, and TIC custom
shoemaking shops produce 81, 1863, Oh
worth. The products of Strengthening
and meat packing were valued at $29,
297, 537, in :luding 244,275 beeves, 1872,
500 calves, and 662, 600 sheep. In ma
chinery the product was S5,O77.O4
a I'd in engines and boilers, 50. 2l3.3 81
car Building and repairing. $547 ,O37
metal goods and metal spinning, $445,.
473; steam fitting and steam heating
81, 2S9, 259; iron casting and finishing
$5, 4S9, 251; tin, copper and sheet iror
ware, S2,347, 1872; furniture, $9,605, 779
wood brackets, molding. turning, etc.
Sl.37l, 038, and drugs and chemicals
50, 1913, 178.