Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-16

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The various labor unions Of New
York city are estimated to comprise an
aggregate membership Of 10000.
A good and chssp method Of pre-
serving wrought iron from rust after
milling is to first dip the article in hot
sods-water, to cleanse from oil, then 10
hot lims-wster, and dry.
The formal steps for the dissolution
Of the European stsel-rsil syndicate
have been definitely taken. The makers
OF Germany are taking the lead in
thrusting down prices, snd war to the
knife is looked for.
Sunhowers are used in Wyoming
Territory for fuel. The stalks when
dry are as hard as msplewcod and make
hot fire, and the seed-heads with the
seeds in are said to burn better than
the best hard coal. An acre Of sun
flowers will furnish fuel for one stove
year.
A railway is to be built up Mount
Pilatus. and future visitors to that Alpine
height will undergo few Of the hard
ships that taxed their predecessors.
The line will start from Alpnsch and
rise 10 an altitude Of 1000 feet. IL
will be less than three miles long, and
will include . visduct over the Wolfor-
bach, and four tunnels. The cars will
be raised by cables and stationary en-
gines.
The famous South Metropolitan Sta
ton gas.holder Of London, 2l4 feet in
diameter, over $50 feet high, and
$500, 600 cubic feet capacity, long held
its position as the largest in the world.
1t has now been eclipsed by pair Of
holders erected at the Birmingham
(Epg.) corporation gss-works. Each Of
these is contained in tank $40 feet in
diameter, is said to be $50 feet high,
and to hold $500, 900 cubic feet.
The exports o, machinery from Ger
many have been falling off during the
last two years. In the first ten months
Of last year locomotives were exported
to the extent Of 5,747 tons, as compared
with S,497 tons and 10, $50 tons in the
corresponding periods Of 1884 and 1888
respectively. Other machinery was ex-
ported to the aggregate weight Of 55,-
033 tons in the ten months Of last year,
as compared with 60, Sl4 tons in corre-
spending period Of 1884, and 63.946
tons in the correspondingperiod OF 1888.
Walls laid up of good, hard-burned
bricks, in mortar composed Of good
lime and sharp sand, will resist q
pressure Of $50 pounds per square
inch, or $4,000 pounds per square
foot, at which figures it would require
Loo feet high Of l2inch wall to crush
the bottom courses, allowing 1875
pounds as the weight Of each cubic
foot. Walls laid up in same quality of
brick and mortar, with one third Port
lard cement added, will resist $500
pounds per square inch, or 5000
pounds per square foot, which would
require a height Of wall Of 200 feet
10 crush the bottom bricks.
The work of laying bare the great
buried Mecca, or holy city Of the Toll
tees, at San Juan Teotihuacan, is soon
10 commence in dead earnest, under the
direction Of the enthusiastic archGolo-
gist Leopold Bstres, the government
inspector and collector Of antiquities.
Careful sketches Of the present condi-
ton OF the historical spot drawn by
Mr.. Becceril. Of the School Of Mines,
are on exhibition at Pellandini's art
store. President Diaz finally refused
to allow the troops to engage in
the work of excavation, presumably
because the soldiers may be needed
for the work Of the drainage Of the val
ley. but arrangements have been made
TO hire 300 poems laborersl to do the
work. Mr.. Batres says that in about
twenty days the spades will be flying
lively, and that within three months
time be expects to lay bare the great
Pyramid of the Moon. lie still insists
that great city lies under those Sandy
stretches, above which the pyramids
lift their gray heads. A switch is being
laid from the track Of the Vera Cruz
railway for the transportation Of mate
rial and men to the scene Of the interest
irg operations.