St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-12-11
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

-Plasterers in Butte City, nj. T., re-
ceive from four to six dollars per day.
1t is estimated that eighteen mill
lion pairs of boots and shoes are an
nually manufactured in prisons.
The Connecticut river and its trib.
utaries furnish power to 2,29S mills,
which represent 1lS,026 horse power.
The foundations are laid for three
more large cigar factories al Key West.
These will employ one thousand opera
tives.
The sponge fishery at Apalachi-
cola. Fla, has Welded less than one
fourth the usual amount this season,
owing to high and constant winds.
"A St Louis popcorn man is going
to England to introduce the great
American luxury, and will take over
five thousand bushels of corn in the
spring.
Two Pittsburgh manufacturing
firms have bought land on which to
erect two or three hundred houses
which their workmen will be encour-
aged to purchase on easy payments
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
1t is claimed that the new Mann
licher repeating rifle, now being man.
ufactured for the Austrian army, is the
most perfect perfect rifle ever invented.
1t fires forty rounds minute.
If boys are raised in way to i'm
press on them that labor and industry
is discreditable, luxury and idle habits
will follow and vice comes as certain
as night succeeds the day.-N Y. En-
aminsr.
There are 555, ,S55 persons in Great
Britain outside of those having agricul-
tural holdings who have from one
fourth of an acre to one thousand acres
OF these 1875. 1856 have from one to five
acres. and 148, ,S05 from five to twenty
acres. Only Sos have over one thou
sand acres.
The New Jersey silk industry is
growing rapidly. Plans are completed
for new silk null at Paterson and for
several extensions. A number Of COM
panies have decided to increase their
capital stock. In several European
silk centers the demand is chiefly for
low grades, which manufacturers do
not care to make.-N. Y Herald.
Oil from pine wood is now manu-
factured on considerable scale in the
South. The material is subjected to
intense heat in sealed retorts, and one
cord of it is said to yield fifteen gallons
of turpentine, eighty gallons of pine
wood oil, fifty bushels of charcoal, $50
gallons OF wood vinegar and quantity
of inilammable gas and asphaltum.
In one of the Hudson River railroad
shops there is a teothless steel circular
saw thirty-eight inches in diameter,
three-eighths inch thick at the edge,
which is run at high speed with a
stream of water pouring overit to keep
it from cracking. and will cut off bar
of railroad iron in a short time. Three
thousand can be cut before a saw is
worn out. The ends get battered by
use before the body of the rail, and
when sawed the remainder can be used
On side tracks.-Aibany Journal.
Andrew Carnegie is building on the
summit of the Alleghenies, near Cres-
son Springs. q house, or castle. which
will cost Sf,000,0OO. The entr- walls
will be built up altogether of the un-
dressed surface stone which is to be
found on the place, and they are not to
show in any place a single mark Of the
ehisel or hammer. Mr. Carnegie's or
ders are positive on this point. he hav-
ng expressed wish to have as far as
possible even the moss on the rocks
used i'm the walls undisturbed.
burUh Post