New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-15

&c. 81 il for repairs. If vessel be ssnk IA .sse,
at moderate pt' she % in THE way be FLIED with
air aud IsoS, and In case OF danger she may b. pre-
verted from being orivsn 10 the breakers by being
Ii'ae distance from the Oh 'rs the deck being
made s-,igbt ant ling gutts-psrchs tube conosc.si
with the hold being allowed to float, as'acbed 70
| buoy In csse Of fire sink the vAsss sufficiently 10
drown it out and then raise her ain by 70 Cingi air.
The same apparatus be says could be made 70 furnish
| plntjul ventilation.
In a cave on the banks Of the river Cbarente N
france, IN The department Of Yenae, NJ Jolly has di.-
covered couelomerae Of q recsnt geological forms
'oh' "hich contains among the pebbles and ia ursl
cement winch compose it q c1nsidsrsble quantity If
o'F06 WORKED ny the hsLd Of man /, flint or ia boss
sucn az hn'Ves snd arrow-hesds. On a ffagmen. 81
pohsneo 'ohs broken ont Oft msss he has found de-
Signs OF Two qus'ruPeds IN profile thsy APPEAR TO be
uter' ihis 10 certainty tbs most aDceat specimen Of
oeseo Jet ioono 10 Gan and If We may jadgs by the
very cruoe insure OF toe fjund la tha sam.
place ard by the aheence OF mstsi in any form in the
cODeomerate msy be attributed to the very rst .y.
Of civilization All 'h'se specimens have boon deposit.
ed in the Museum at Clupy.
The Alden type-se'ter and distributor, which We
DICED year or two ago. has been considerably iu-
proved and simpIifed OF 1870 levers 10 the sohins
lji have been dispened With; the machine no shoh.
tw ice az much type az before and better method Of
advancing the lines type to the machine is used.
pair Of fingers have been substituted for the hook in
gripping the type, that they seized fs wise in
stead Of tdge-wise as fore. The general form sad
appearance of the machine are also improved is in
tended TO set and distribute two thousand ems per
hour.
We have been shown patent safe'y-ttuck the in
vention of Charles Moore, the master. Of
the Orange and Alexandra Railroad in Virginia, by
which the trucks supportiI the cara held n stir
rups, so that if a csr-wbeel axle breaks, the car Ia
not thrown off the track. The invention has been test
ed on the o. ange and Alxsndri. Road, where car
has been run several miles with broken axle without
ronuDg off the track.
Large adjustable mirrors have been placed by
wa, ofexpeIiueDt, on LOGON olive 10 Eoeaod reject
ing to the engineer view Of the whole train behind
him. This arrangement would prObsbl, have prevent.
ed the great Camdea and Am Oy slaughter ia which
twenty five lives were lost by backing train over
wagon that stood scross the ira k
-Proft ssor Ways electric light in which the light
ia produced by stream of electricity applied 10
ring stream of mercury fine the int Of needle,
is meeting with much favorin England. IL i: said that
there lie DO actual mbusou Of the 'cury the only
expense being for the ACIDS supplied to the battery.
The light is exceedingly brilliant.
The population Of China, according the censuses
taken by the Chinese, has Increased a. follows
17s7.... 10 ,3<8 s2sl 51s
1TgO 548 49, Last Ala SO ~
1891
Mrs Mirel, Of London, has found that by passing
current of electricity through water in which clothes
are bleaching there great economy of time and sha
secures extraordinary results.