New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-07

water which Ia apt TO be tainted with mineral subsisn
ces and also to have lees than the proper amount OF
air. In seIatng it, ihsee IL danger OF losing its mpid
ty and its cooness both of which Of importance in
Paris where ice ia comparatively dear. Filtration by
general filters is pronounced npracticable from the
experiments made in London where after the exPen'
diture of millions of pounds, il has been given up. IL
is decided that the beat method Of filtration is by pr-
vae filters; and THAT ltering adds Is per cent TO
the Of water it is not worth while to filter 1t for
ordinary purposes TIE cooling of the water is great
problem in Paris; the cheapness of ice in New-fork
resolves it for us.
Meteorological observations made by Catholic
missionary Father r. r. Jacques Netzveof, at Ikoe-
NUT in Siberia, latitude Go A. 14, longitude l6lo ~
507 East, have been reduced in St. Petersburg. The
mean temperature in winter isle Fahrenheit in spring
90, in summer l5o, in autumn 2So, of the year 25'
The temperature often sinks to 40o below in the
winter The general movement of the atmosphere is
toward the northeast except in summer, when it is
toward the southwest.
"A Sociedad de la Lengu0 Universal has been
formed in Madrid where it il meeting with much at
tention. The project Of universal language has been
renewed by Senior Sotos Ochando who has enlisted in
it many of the beet minds in SPAIN Committees have
been formed and rules made, and by the payment Of
about 81 each member will be entitled TO receive
gratis the statutes grammar and dictionary of the uui
versal language and the journal and all the other pub
locations of the Society. preliminary publication is
full of faith and hope in the enterprise the honor of
which is to belong entirely TO Spain But it is tardy
protest against the confusion of Babel.
DR. veIa, an Italian physician of renown, has
cured one of the conquerors of Magenta of severe
case of tetanus by the use of curare From many ex.
peiments he has determined also, that Is the
antagonist of strychnine he has poisoned dogs with
st1ychnine and cured them by injecting into
their vens He has also injected into the veins Of
dogs mixture of sryehnne and curare in such guam
tv that either without the other would have been
fatal.
Mr.. Alfred G. Hocomb has made an improvement
in electromagnetic which promises to enable telegraph.
c res to lie worked with considerable less power than
now. 1t consists in connecting the poles Of perna-
nent steel magnet with the soft iron of two hell
ceR In front Of the poles of these is placed the
armature. The steel wire spring used by Mr.. House
is sso used This is 90 strained az just to counterbal
auce the power induced in the by the
msgnet. The electricity thus be applied to the he
ices 80 as t add its power 10 that Of the permanent
magnet by reversing the Mt TO subrac. it
from that of the permanent magnet Ia this way, the
power used in both directions whereas in the ordina
ny MAG netc machine is used 10 only This of it
self doubles the effect Of the battery
increased by extraordinary and unexpected addition
By the combination Ct the steel magnet with the hell
ces the positive power of the helces is found to be
nearly doubled. Mr.. Holcomb has shown us the very
accurate apparatus by which he has measured this In
crease. 1t demonstrates the instant that with bat.
tory power Of S. and power Of the permsnent magnet
of 90 the combined power is not 25 as would be sup
posed but 30 with battery power OIL the combin
ed power is 80, and with battery-power of 20, 3d.
This again very nearly doubles the power 80 that with
the pew machine Geographic line can be worked with
only one fourth the power which is now required