Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-11


Of the lot will b about $500
The great steal furnace in the National
mill at McKeesport, Pa, VIII Oh was take 4
down some time ago, has been rebuilt with
modern changes, and Will be operated regu-
Iarly. TIE furnace is one Of the tinest in
the country, and has an immense daily
output.
The expectation Of coke fiom England
duriog S,p'em6er was 50, 279 tons COM
pared With 81, 955 tons exported during the
corresponding month Of last year. Amerl-
ca should have TIE coke trade of the world,
inasmuch as il produces at less cost than
any other country.
The American Engine Co, of Cedar
Rapids, Is, and the American Nail Ma
chine Co., of Fiudlay, o., have CONSOLE
dated and fUmei c}mpsny with capt.
tai stock of $3.50, 900 The works now
Being built in Fndlsy will BIS doubled in
size, and 10 connection with nall ma
chimes, high-sTead engines from 100 to 3OO
b, rse 20 ser will be built.
An experimental lot Of cruc be c3st
steel made by answ process known az the
Kiugslard-Siuclsir process, was recently
turrei out by Howe, Brown 4 c., Linn
tied. The point Gained by the inventor
for his pr ocess ia that a ciuCible steel equal
10 the ell brsted brands of @u?hen steel
can be :oduced fJr about one fifth the
COS, of the above -3auei brand. Recent
tests are said to hive been very sat
factory.
Reports to the Chattanooga, Tenn /,
IT hak q 10
usw industries were estsb ished in the
South during the three midsummtr months
eaSei S psember 80 than during either Of
the two quarters CT 1888 Among Tres
we Sc cotton and wooden mile, 19 cleo
tric light works, 10 -four grikt mills, 81
T undries and machine shops. Is furnaces,
% ice factories and 156 wood working e.
adjustments.
The westiI ghouse Electric Company
hes been awarded thu contract fer Ce1 raj
station plant in the city Of LoudOo, EGG
land, havirg a CsIacity OF %. 600 sixteeL-
clLdl IOwer lamps. Tois will be the
llrgest central station p'a2t ever erect %.
The Westinghouse Electric Company re-
p,y.s that it has closed 81 far this month
orders for over 20 0C0 siXteeG-candle power
lamps, capacity Of new central stations.
The outlook for businCsI is said to be bit
ter than at any previous time.
J.H. Eyeleth, of Greeuville, Me is flo
ishirg cns IO)m in his new house at Shlr-
lev MlIlin ! rogel way. 1t is plastt red
with mortar made with common spruce
sawdust in the plsce of sand, which - sp'
D led as cdeaply and adheres to the laths
a. we'll as common mortar. The same ex-
pertinent has been tried ia another house
at Gceenv lie, and the mascps il thst part
of the State think this Use CT sawdust may
become general. People are just beglonlng
to 6ni out what can be done with what
has b. en- wasted.
A process has been perfected aud patent,
ed for drawing upon wood by mans OF
fine II I. allie point kept ed-hot, 80 that
tie lines are actually burned into the sur
fsce A powerful Oxyhydrc g n or other
lame keeps tie point slEays at high
Temperature, aCd yet the apparatus Is SO
compact taat it may be used with the ease
and freedom Of o pencil. Il il, farther
more, so adjusted 50 as to produce at vii!
all shades OF brown, from the lighse&t to
that yerE lag en- black.
According TIE Essen Zstuag Chief Ea'
giIesr Tdeir, of Ecfurt, Germany, after
batting f)r months to tild lubricant
which woald prevent iron surface welding
together WhSa subjected to Tapii ficGo ]
under heavy pressure, at last found one 10
mustard Gil mixed with q small quantity
of petroleum, which comIl t:ly overcome
tbs difficulty.
Tue canal through thu Isthmus of Coz
NTH, in Greece, is just approaching COM
pletioD. Is wsS FIRST planned , $50 years
ago, ard work was actually btgun on it
uncer the Emperor Nero ovec l 100 yeaIs
ago. When completed it will ba fOuI
miles ioug and dep euoagh to float the
largest vessels that navigate the adj AGENT
seas.
; An oil expart of Pennsylvania ia Of the
opinion that thee is more oil under the
soil of California than in Pennsylvania
ITSELF, He finds ttos the ledge Of oil-p-o
ducirg rocks begins at Perue, crops ~ at
/ San Dtg), then pa and resPp avs at Sar-
ia Barbara, and again appears at SIN Fran
cisco snd further Forth.
In Western New York tie eyaroratsd
fruit Industry is Of great importance.
within a radius of forty miles aToGnd
Rochester there are estimated 20 he more
tlsn 500 eyap Drators. Daring toe early
autumn and winter months at least 30, OOU
people are employed.
SIX gears $50 all the carbon bu:ncd in
the electric lights of the country we7e
made IN one room in Boston By ten men.
There are now $50 tons coatumed daily,
and Of this number $50 tons are turned
out in The twenty CarEOa furnaces Of C!eye-
land.
Experiments are being made in England
with Few safety" guu, viii II is said to
bs capable of 6isch argiDg sixtv shtps 8
minute silently and ingisibly. TIE gun Is
discharged by steam or vapOr at pressu; c
OF 2CO pounds 70 the square inch.
There are in North America about 3O0,-
600 re sons keeping bees. Toe annual
nor ey product IS about 10O, Gee. OJO pounds,
its value nearly SIS co., O0O. The annual
wax product is about 5Op, 900 pounds, and
its value more than 100000.
According to The JslriA Gazette, Of the
PAL clothing mSnufic ,urers IN the city OF
New York 23l are HebyeT firms. The
Jews are also largely engaged in cigar
making emp, yiog over 5000 hands and
producing over 6J10C0CO) cigars yearly.
TIE rage for handsome veIesriug has re
suited in the invention of machine VII !
cats into 90 ordinary straight-grsined log
in such zig gag fashion IS to produce a
sheet OF Yeneering with decidedly wavy