Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-11-17

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Important gold discoveries are re-
ported from Oregon Some mines
found few weeks ago and sold to
some Omaha parties for S7o,ooo have
since yielded ore enough TO pay for
them
The fifteen rubber-boot concerns in
the United States turn out 10000, 900
pairs annually, and foreign markets are
now dcing industriously sampled to
extend the sale abroad; but clumsy
style is wanted
The big Woods Of Minnesota are
rightly named, for they cover 5000
square miles, or 3.aoo, 900 acres OF sur
face. The woods confzin only hard
wood govths, including white and
black oak, maple, hickory, Eastwood,
elm, cottonwood, tsmarack and enough
other yarifies to make an aggregate Of
over thirty different kinds.
A mass Of granite estimated to weigh
At least 100000 tons was placed re-
Gently on the line Of the Iron Mountain
Railroad, Missouri, by a single blast.
A shaft si1ty-fve feet deep was sunk,
with lateral chambers, in which FIVE tons
Of powder were stored. After the shaft
had been nearly filed to the top, an
electric spark from battery half a
mile distant fred the magazine, with
the resulred indicated
The fbrous bark Of the sugar palm
(Arenga zd1eda,Ja) proves to be good
sustitutc for brisiles and animal and
human hair. The treatment is simple.
The bark is frs; immersed in water and
boiled for some time in alkaline solution;
the fbfes are then soaked in an emul.
sion Of fat, alkali and water for about
twenty-four hours, after which time they
are sufficiently hard and elastic for the
sbove-named use
The most extedsive linseed oil mil
in this country is said to be located at
Amsterdam, N. Y. 1t uses sixteen
presses, run by power equal to z75
horses, and nuns night and day the year
round without stoppages Nearly
100000 bushels Of fax seed are con
srmed annually by the mill. and tens
Of thousands Of barrels Of oil are pro.
duced yearly, while from 10000 to I2,-
900 tons Of oil-sced cake are annually
exported for consumption in England.
According to rhc d,Is0na GaSefte. a
new tanning agent has been discovered
in that Territory which bids fair to be-
come Of considerable importance. The
statement is made that a tanner at
Temple, Ariz, two or three years ago
d'scover-d plant which carried a
large propotion Of tannin, and which
when use in the manufacture Of leather
gave extra weight to the product The
plant is ofan annual growth, indigenous
to the deserts and dry uplands, and is
known to Mexicans and Indians as
"gonagrs." II has a root somewhat
longer and more scrsggy than the cult.
yatcd beet though resembling It in ap-
pearapce. 1t is said to contain a very
large per cent OF tannin; and to make
q substitute for oak bark.
In the now widely-extended field OF
utilizing matters hitherto regarded as
worthless, the mineral wastes play an
important part. Among these is tin
dust which is really the scum from the
tin pot, but when separated from the
waste is adyantageously used for but
ton-making and for various other pur-
poses. Pyrites, formerly a neglected
mineral, is now made to yield sulphur.
The waste Of glass furnaces is used
again, by simple processes, serving a
purpose in the manufacture Of glass ST.
milar TO rags in papermaking; broken
bottles though on being rcmelted make
an inferior quality Of glass, the latter is
made up into a variety Of use4y and
expensive article it is also made into
cheap jewelry, mantel ornaments and
the like. The utilization Of Stag from
blast furnaces is also an industry of con-
siderable importance, in addition TO its
longtime employment as a material for
road making. II is not only converted
into bricks and other useful building
stock, but is likewise applied to the
manufacture Of artificial stone and
nodded into chimney pieces, window
heads, balustrades and outside orna-
ments generally. Large quantities OF
mortar, cement and concrete Of very
serviceable character are also produced
from this substance.
The cry that is going up from club.
men and indignant husbands (says the
New York SIM about the matter OF
the Ladies' Club, which is now reco-
nized and established fact, would be
amusing il it did not belray gross igno.
rance. Why in the world Ladies'
Club should not exist in great city
like New York, and come to be a very
useful institution, it would puzzle any OF
its advcrsaries to decide. That il will
be IS hot "bed ofsandal 7isalmost imposi.
sible. the mems cllbs HAVING already ca