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Two companies are announced, one for London, the other for connecting 

 India, Australia and China. 



YANKEE LOCOMOTIVES IN EGYPT. 



On the railroad between Alexandria and Suez, there are four locomotives, 

 two of which were built at Mason's Works, Taunton, Massachusetts, on a 

 difference between the English and American locomotives. The American 

 told the Pasha, that instead of being weak, as the English had said, he 

 would haul as many loaded cars as would reach from one end of the road 

 to the other. The Pasha, to try it, had all the cars he had, 75 of them, 

 heavily loaded, and his own car hooked on. The American locomotives 

 hauled the whole of them Itvo hundred miles to Suez i?i twelne hours., 

 stopping for fuel and water. This being done, the Pasha cried, " Grod is 

 great. A Yankee is very near perfection." The Pasha now uses the 

 Taunton engines altogether. 



The first patent for making coal oil was taken in England by James 

 Young, of Manchester, Oct. 7, 1850, and here March 23, 1852. 



The Chairman called for the report of the committee on the new Chicago 

 churn. 



Mr. Stillraan reported that the two rollers are set so closely that paper 

 hardly passes through, one roller moving with double velocity. The power 

 (hand) strong ; paddle beneath in rapid motion. The milk, after being 

 warmed to about 75° Fahr., was poured on the rollers, and butter was 

 formed in two minutes and a half. The machine is not as perfect as it may 

 be made. 



Mr. Shepard, of Chicago, said that he had the churn under his charge. 

 It was invented by Daniel Johnson, of New York. 



Mr. Seeley. — Why put warm water into the churn ? 



Mr. Shepard. — To keep the butter as it forms from sticking to the sides 

 of the churn. 



Mr. Veeder. — The subject is interesting. Let President Pell be added 

 to the committee, and the examination be continued. Carried. 



Mr. Pell had ascertained by 'his microscopes that each globule of butter 

 was contained in double sacks, the inner one very delicate, the outer one 

 casein., as he thinks. 



]Mr. Seeley. — I have examined globules of mercury in soap-suds. They 

 will gather into small piles resembling piles of shot. 



The President called up the regular subject, coal oil. 



Mr. Tillman. — This subject has not yet been examined, as it must be, by 

 our most able chemists. The late Professor Ellet had made much progress 

 in the analysis of the products of coal of various formations. 



Mr. Veeder called on manufacturers of coal oil who were present to give 

 us information. 



Mr. Palmer. — I am now engaged in it, and came here to obtain more 

 knowledge, for I am deeply sensible that we lack a great deal thtit may yet 

 be known in the extraction of the valuable products from coal. As far as 

 I know now, there are no successful works as yet. 



