. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing taper shanktools. The oil feeding sockets are:miillicr important and feature is that the earthquakes have so disturbedthat strata that the oil and coal have beendislodged from their respective places andthrown together to a certain extent. Thisfact has caused considerable dissatisfac-tion among coal consumers, who claimthat the hard coal which they used to buya few years ago for about half the presentprice of the product was fully twice asgood as what they get to-day. The oilyc
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing taper shanktools. The oil feeding sockets are:miillicr important and feature is that the earthquakes have so disturbedthat strata that the oil and coal have beendislodged from their respective places andthrown together to a certain extent. Thisfact has caused considerable dissatisfac-tion among coal consumers, who claimthat the hard coal which they used to buya few years ago for about half the presentprice of the product was fully twice asgood as what they get to-day. The oilycoal of the present day is also dusty andsooty like soft coal, and when burned dirties up all the rooms in the-house.—Mihvaukee Sentinel. , Self-Closing Water Gauge. .\t the American Museum of NaturalHistory, in New York, there was heldlast month an exhibition of safety ap-pliances, and among the devices for useon railroads was an automatic self-closing safety gauge glass mountingand we understand this appliance isbeing tried on the New York Central. The device is made bv the Northern. \ . lUUk-L\ U.\ 1H iv L. 1. which only require to be seen to beappreciated. It may be remarked thatwhile the use of twist drills has beengeneral for many years, the Cleve-land Company has strikingly empha-sized the proper use of these tools sothat full efficacy of the operation of thetwist drill can be obtained and the lifeof the • drill prolonged. Cataloguesmay be had on application to the com-pany, Cleveland, Ohio. CatalogueNo. 32 furnishes nearly 200 pages ofillustrations and descriptions, whileCatalogue 34 has the particular meritof presenting brief and lucid instruc-tions. Oil in Coal. One odd feature of the seismic dis-turbances of the last decade is the effectthey have had on coal, said Hobart John-son, of Scranton, Pa. All the coal minedthis year has been so heavily charged withoil that it burns like pitch pine and %villlast only about a third
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