Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-24

10 ll0nt anu dark SnaOeS
of gold leaf the metal is alleged with
g fslyer and copper.
- ia man in Pittsburgh, Pa, has in
Invented a potato-digger which, it is
rsss cksimed, will do the work of twenty
:. The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk
s,. Company, founded by United States
- Consul Page in 1866 with $4,000, has
sss.,now capital of 50, 000, 900, and turned
out &c, 00O. 900 cans last year.
sss.. The Norfolk Vngintan estimates
that there is coal enough in the mines
s sSft recently opened in Pocahontas County.
i-esWest Virginia, to supply the demands
= : of the North for two hundred years to
tssAcome. sso7 -
The London Lancet concludes that
sewers must not be ventilated by street
gratings, but only by pipes reaching
above the houses, SO that the gases may
= p1ipgle withthe higher strata of the at
mosphere.
-. Saving is too wasteful process to
be used in the manufacture of veneer.
$50 The logs are. first steamed till they are
soft and then put on a machine and a
: 3 knife shayes off strips as thin as the
X thinnest tissue paper.-Detroit Post.
" "A new way of stopping horse cars
- has been introduced on the Sixth avenue
+ Z STallrOau III NEW 1oIhs ClEdpS
3 against each window sash, and when the
: = passenger who wishes to alight pulls
,sss oneof these awhistle is blown. The con-
F. tiuctor then pulls the strap, which runs
! = along the roof of the car, and the bell
e.. sounds to stop the car.
Sslso A Turin jeweIer has made a tiny
boat formed of single pearl, which
hos shape it assumes in swell and concav-
me. It's sail is Of beaten gold, studded
"a, with diamonds, and the pinnacle light
..,9 at its Prov is n perfect ruby. An en-
81 ,.erald serves as its rudder, and its stand
sa'h Is Slab of ivory. 1t weighs less than
80 half an ounce. Its price Is $4,000.
i,s4" An embroidery company has been
=. :. organized at Salamanca with a capital
8. of $50, 600. 1t will be the only one of
the kind in the United States. The
citizens OF Salamaiiea will be asked to
s-.s. appropriate So, 900 and exempt the fac
= tory from taxation for ten years. which
=" s5theyswiH probably do. The machinery
,,s. for'the factory has already been ordered
-. in Switzerland. Rochester IN. ~ En-
press. sr
Mr. HAYDEN, of Washington, is the
inventor of an apparatus for burning
..- petroleum as fuel, which is claimed to
, - be the only one in the world that will
perform the work for which it is con-
structed. Some years ago woman,
Miss Amanda Jones, invented an APP
paratus for burning petroleum under
steam boilers, which has been continu-
pusS and successfully used in the oil
regions. ....- f4.r-.r
.-Mr. II. W., L. Lewis, formerly
u master oftfie Mississippi State Grange,
ia tkflds tea-raising profitable. A gentle
man who visited his place writes: His
tea shrubs grow luxuriantly. Two
..,plants throw out side branches enough
to cover space of ten or twelve feet
Square. They are loaded with green
leaves He can pick the leaves
four times in one season without
go serious injury to the plants. The first
i''5 pickings make the best tea Mr.. Lewis
from two plants can make enough tea
ri to supply his family year. BY wilt
81. ing, rubbing and beating the leaves in
thin copper or iron pans, and working
the waxy substance out. tea can be
made here on the Jackson Railroad far
better than most of the finest tea we
get from China"