Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
INDUSTRIAL DRIFT.

PIasKIS is now used for gloves and chill
dren's shoes.
SIX different patents were secured on
chewing gum last year.
THE total value of vegetables of all kinds
imported in 1888 was 81, 0S1, 1886.
HALF million dollars worth of canned
goods were shipped from this country to
tropical regions last year.
STATISTICS of the revenue department re-
veal many remarkable things. In 1883 we
imported of toothpicks Sc, POI IA worth.
WE imported iu 1883 s12,304, 42S6 5 worth
of tobacco in various shapes, and then will
fully and deliberately burned most of it up
Four million shoe boxes were used by
New England manufacturers last year
They cost from twenty-five to fifty cents
each.
A NEW watch factory has just been built
at Otoy, ten miles down the bay from San
Francisco. Twenty watchmakers and their
families were shipped from the East
SEAMLESS boiler tubes are now made from
solid ingots Of metal by a process that
twists and stretches the fbers, and is said
to make tube much stronger than the or
binary ones.
TIE making of creosoted timber is one of
the most promising new industries of the
Southern States. Their soft "fat" pine is
full of the oil that mahes good timber well
nigh indestructibe
AMERICAN manufacturers are supplant-
ing the English in exports TO Australia of
stoves, locks, cutlery, steel ware, axes,
plated ware, tools, ranges, lamps and agrl-
cultural implements.
f. L, H.
out new fabric made of the fiber of rarnie,
and called rauie linen. that is said 10 cora-
bine the qualities Of linen and silk, with
double the strength Of linen.
CARRIAGE manufacturers are predicting
that in the not distant future wooden wheels
will be done away with, and steel wheels
substituted on account Of the increasing
scarcity of lumber for wheels.
A CHICAGO genius announces through
reporter in local paper that he has sue
oeeded in making serviceable shoe out Of
paper, and with considerable gravity an
nounces that leather has had Its day.
EXTRACT of bark is also coming into favor
for preserving wood. a concern in Chicago
makes special business Of putting railroad
ties into tank where extract is forced into
it The process seems TO give much sst4s-
faction.
THIRTEEN miles from Cheyenne Ii what
Is said 10 be the largest horse farm Ia tie
world. There are 10. 900 acres Of Land,
where roam ), 900 horses, which require the
constant attention of sixty-iye Een. One
hundred miles Of wire fence keeps the All
mails il bounds.
THERE has been Q great development OF
numbering II tha South since 1850. There
are l60 per cent more saw mills now than
then, 1G7 per cent more hands employed
and 100 per cent moro capital INFESTED
Syncicates are rapidly buying Up 81 the
Southern timber lands thas tEeT can get
their hands c.
"QUAgTERgo" osx, Of which so much was
heard during the early part CT the ceiling
investigation a. albany, Is made By Saving
the oaklog crztirto quarters and tie laying
tbs round side DOWN and saving ZACH quar-
ter Up into tosr6A This method Of work
ing Up TIE lag gives 70 the boards : peculiar
figaro L Ike grain TIA. Is lacking in oak
prepared In tie ordinary way By cut.slg
.he whole log up tseo st1u.
rLlx for rendering paper as soagh a.
wood OF leather has besc Ysc>..ly intro
duce5 ca the continent. I. consists Of zir-
ing Chloride Of rsRc With tie pzlp IL THE
course of manufacture Il has been foGzd
that the greater TIE csgres CT coEocz,rA-
t5oz Of the zllc so.l.soa the greater Ill -
the toughness OF lie paper. II can os Ess3
for Eakarg huxes, cou5s, Ger roaS1S. ard
even Tor MAXIM eo4ts