The number of Scotch furnaces in blast at the close of December was 100, cr eight more than at ti.a corresponding period last year. Each furnace produces about 195 tons per week. In a lecture on the utility of electricity. Dr. Werner Siemens, of Berlin, recently prophesied that the energies of the solar rays, manifested in currents of air, or in falls of water, may by and by, through the electric current, furnish all’necessary heat and tender us independent of ordinary fuel. In round numbers the trade of the port of Sydnev for the current year is at the rate of upwards of £20,000,000 an n wally,
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1930, 1 May 1880, Page 2
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107Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1930, 1 May 1880, Page 2
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