The Washington bee., 1893-03-18
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

England uses $50, 1000, 900 brick q
year.
Our paper output is s175, 900, 900 a
year.. 81
We make s17, ,os1, 700 in ribbons q
year.
New Orleans leads in banana i'm
ports.
A machine picks 1000 pounds of
cotton day.
A new method of manufacturing
glass vessels which will not break under
sudden changes of temperature is an
nounced from Germany.
Rice paper is not made from rice nor
from rice stalks, nor has it any con-
nection with rice. It is of Chinese
manufacture, and is made from the pith
Of tree resembling the elder.
A lasting machine that enables one
operator to last 5000 pairs of shoes a
week is one of the latest things in Ia
bor-saving machinery. 1t tackles any
thing, from light feminine footgear to
the heaviest brogans.
Seven -eighths of all the Holsters
caught on the Atlantic coast of the
United States are taken in Maine waters.
The shores of New Hampshire, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut and Long Island
furnish the rest.
AT three large London railway stations
-Charing Gross, Canon street and Lon
don Bridge-as many as $1,000 move
ments for signal and point levers have
to be made every "a hours, quite apart
from the telegraphic operations.
Wealthy Chinese merchants are send
ing their sons to England and America
to be educated. Last year America
had more Chinese students than Eng
land had. The correct length of time
for thorough education is considered
to be about five years.
Joseph Schiesser, of Oakland, Cal.
thinks he has solved the problem of
Arctic travel by means of a device
which puts a petroleum engine on a
sled and makes the engine drive series
of spurs which take hold of the ice
and force the sled forward.
Pitch pine beams will shrink in thick
ness from 1Ss inches to 1S4; spruce,
from 81 inches to 50; white pine, from
u inches to 11s; yellow pine, trife
less. Cedar beams will shrink from
a width of IA inches to 131; elm, from
II to 10a, and oak, from IL to 11s
Cold lengthens wood and heat short
ems it. The building of the ends OF
joists and girders into newly laid
brick OF stone walls, where they are
subject to absorb the freshly burned
lime in liquid state from the mortar,
greatly hastens their decay at these,
vital points.
The largest artificial stone in the
world forms the base of the Bartholdi
statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island,
New York harbor. This immense stone
was made from broken trap rock, sand
and American cement. Five hundred
carloads of sand, and over 20, 900 bar
rels of cement were used in manufac-
turing the monster.
The site of Melbourne, Australia,
now city of more than 400, 900 popu-
lation was sold by certain native chiefs
to John Batman and others, less than
sixty years ago, for go pairs blankets,
80 tomahawks, 100 knives, SO pairs
scissors, 80 looking glasses, 200 hand
kerchiefs, 100 pounds of -four and six
shirts. -
The most famous of ancient houses
was the Golden House, erected by
Nero. It's whole interior is said to have
been covered with gold and gems it
was adorned with the finest paintings
and statues that the world could fur
nish !; it had triple porticoes mile in
length and circular banquet hall
which perpetually revolved in imitation
of the motion of the sun.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Sa:adard tells "of new inven-
tion which claims absolutely to do
away with smoke from the combustion
of coal. It has the great merit of sim
plicity. The coal is ground into pow
der and injected into the boiler by
means Of current of air, when it i'm
mediately becomes ignited from a small
fire near the mouth. Other currents
supply the air necessary for combus-
ton. The dust burns in one continu-
Gus intense fame, and not an atom es-
capes as smoke.
Modern cutters despair of repro
ducing the ancient sword blades of
feudal Japan, as modern artifcers in
iron despair of initiating the artistic
sword guards of that country. Accord
ing to tradition the test of the ancient
Japanese sword was even more rigid
than that of Saladin's blades. 1t was
enough if the latter would cut in twain
at single blow down pillow, thrown
in air, but the japanese blade suspend
ed horizontally beneath tree, must
sever any leaf that, falling, should acci-
dentally light upon the edge of the
weapon.
Professor Morse of Salem, Mass, has
solved the problem of house heating in
a curious fashion. He has built house
with all it's rooms fronting southwark,
and only passage on the north. AL
most the whole southern front of the
house is made of glass, and by means
of refectors, Professor Morse is en-
abled, on sunny days, to heat his
whole house with sunshine alone. At
night and on cloudy days he has hearth