The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-12-18
THE INDUSTRIAL woRLD.

-All the cannon foundries of Europe
arc overrun with orders and working
day and night. .
The Smethport (Pa.) Miner esti.
mates the amount of bark peeled in
Mexican County the past season at
10000 cords, and the value of the bark
and logs at o., 900. 600
1T is said that the contract for
twenty-six miles of cable railroad in
melbourne, Australia, has been given
TO firm in this country, and that the
cars will probably be made here also.
The use of asphaltum in building
Is said to be largely on the increase,
principally employed as a preventive
against damp cellar walls and mason
work underground; also for water-tight
cellar floors, cisterns, vaults and the
like.
The division of labor and improved
machinery are doing away with the
thorough learning Of trades. When the
present generation of shoemakers and
blacksmiths are dead it will be hard
work to find man who can make a
complete boot or make horseshoe and
nails and then shoe the horse properly.
-Never-ending hurry is but rhetor-
icai expression for haste that leads to
decay and early death. Look at him
whose diligence is sustained BY skill
and tact, interchanging with rest, and
You will see the worker who has no
need of haste, yet he will accomplish
more than another whose hurry is
waste.
A lady in London. standing almost
alone. has succeeded i'm SO rousing pub
lie interest that it looks as if very soon
her demands would be accorded. name
ly: A day of twelve hours, and every
other Sunday off, for the drivers and
conductors of horse cars. At present
eighty per cent of the men have a day
of sixteen hours.
Tho american Manufacturer pitts
burgh) says that the tendency to use
iron instead of steel is shown in many
ways, one of which is the disappear
ance OF pudding furnaces. At the
new Bessemer plant of Jones 4 Nc
Laughlin. the annual capacity of which
Is 0S,Oo0 net tons and $50, 900 kegs of
nails. six pudding furnaces were torn
down.
AT Summer Hill. lightweight miles
from Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania
railroad, an iron bridge weighing $50
tons was moved thirty-two feet in forty
eight minutes to permit the erection of |
. stone arch bridge. A similar substi-
tuition will be made in the case of all |
the iron bridges on this road, in order
that heavier engines can be used with
safety.
The american journal of Railpau
Appliances says that little is positively
known of the increase of atmospheric i
resistance to moving bodies with in
crease of speed. At low speed, press
ure is thought to increase as the speed.
and ut high speed to increase as the
square of velocity. Hence the difficulty
ofincreasing the speed of express trains.
May not locomotives some time be
built with prows like those of ships to
obviate this difficulty?
Stone that is quarried one day and
built into wall the next day IS in
green state and unfit for durability. 1t
is at ifs weakest point of endurance
either OF pressure or of atmospheric in
liuences. Its pores are open and ready
10 absorb not only moisture, but ali the
gaseous and disfguring influences
which tend to its destruction. Every
stone-mason knows that to get pol
shed surface on stone the same must
have lain for some time out of the
quarry and exposed to the drying in
luences of the sun and weather. This
s a sufficient hint to the builder to see
% it that the stone of which he would &
ear permanent structure must be {
thoroughly seasoned before it is placed {
ntO q wall. IL