Omaha daily bee., 1891-10-04
n or INDUSTRY.

There will be no cut in the rates Of Ameri.
can cut glass.
The daily output Of American platc-glass is
about $4,000 square feet.
The green glass factories at Atlanta, Ca,
have opened for the season.
Electric soldering irons are extensively
used in canning establishments.
More than one million pounds of rubber
are used annually for bicycle tires.
The United States imports more gum fol
making varnish than any other country.
The locPl Board of Underwriters of Kansas
City maintain an electric light inspection bu'
reau.
The European demand for American-mad
carts and light vehicles has greatly in.
creased.
Butter made from cocoanuts are rapidly
taking the place of the ordinary butter in
Germany,
1t is estimated that one-fourth of the street
railways of this country are operated wholly
or in part by electricity.
The Tecumseh furnace at Tecumseh, Ala,
will shortly go into blast. The furnace has
been idle since the irst OF the year.
An arc lamp of about 2,000-candle power
will, when placed about thirty-five feet above
the earth, light up an area of 400 feet radius.
Pennsylvania makes fifty-two out Of every
hundred tons OF rolled iron in the United
States, and sixty-nine out Of every hundred
tons of steel rails.
Making wrought pipe direct from bars is
the process recently started in n rolling mill
at Steubenville, o.. If it works it means q
complete change in pipe manufacture.
A direct steel producing plant for the Ian
caster process will be added to the industries
of Cumberland, Md. A syndicate composed
of New York. Boston and Cumberland mer-
chants is at the head Of it.
In consequence of the success of the cleo
trio road between ST paul and MinnepnOlis
the steam road between the two cities has
been unable to obtaip.it its share of the traffic,
and has discontinued from fifteen to twenty
trains daily.
The new compound ten wheeled engines
built for the Mexican Central railroad by a
Rhode Island concern were found too large
to pass the Ration tunnel of the Santa fe
road, and they had to be shoru of every pro-
iecting part. Even then they just managed
to pass through.
The variations in the electrical conductiv-
lty OF selenium when exposed to light is tho
basis Of a Yankee invention for automatical-
~ ~extinguishing gas in stores where 1t has
been allowed TO burn all night. at the first
gray streaks of dawn the selenium is acted
upon and the result is that the gas is turned
off.
During the last week the big, now lap-weld
furnace recently completed at the Duquesne
tube works, McXeesport, was put into opera
ton and the first 3l3-inch pine started
through it. BY the addition of this furnace
the capacity of the works is doubled. Other
Improvements and additions are also under
way.
A new mineral is said TO have been dis
covered in Texas in large deposits in the cen
trail and southwestern parts of the states. 1T
is called litho-caobon and is found mixed
with sand, shells and earth, from which it is
separated by being dissolved in benzine. 1t
is said to be the most perfect electric insula-,
tor known, a wire coated with it having a
resistance of 1000 megohms per mile, against
! 900 attained by the best insulation known
hitherto. The slightest film of II coating a
wire insures a perfect insulation. 1t is also
said to be waterproof aud practically fire.
proof and susceptible of use as a paint or
varnish. 1t is unaffected by the weather and
entirely odorloss.