The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-29
SCIENTIFIC INTRLLIGENCE.


engine, which may be worked with compressed air
or steam. The cylinders are ten inches in diameter
With and half inch stroke The power ID used
to drive series OF cogwheels which communicate with
smaller cogs connected with eleven pairs Of augcrs
These auge three feet inches long and two and
three quarter inches In diameter EACH At the end OF
each Is dI which tapcrs from diameter Of two and
half inches to double point The width OF the whole
set OF augers is four feet inches When IN The
mine the machine rests upon small track, along which
II is propelled by its power Above this track is
pair Of trans which the machine slides backward or
forward the augers penetrate the rock, with
drawn all the motions being performed by the machine
itself II is calculated that nifty per cent Of the labor
now necessary take coal out Of the pit win DO per-
formed by this digging machine It's bearingn pow er
will be from five thousand to eight thousand bushels Of
coal In ten working hours.
The Social Science Congress Of England met in session
at Birmingham on October 4 when Lord Brongham de-
lvercd lengthy and very able inaugural on the progress
of mind and scientific development in the Old and New
Worlds.
Tho thirty session OF the Scientific Congress OF
France has been held in Rouen Archaeology and his
tory formed the subject of the fourth section, IN
which wers read papers on g The Intrenched Roman
in The Time Of julius Caesar " The Religious and Mil
itary of the Thirteenth Century "The History OF
Ceramic Art; Tho Nationality OF Joan OF Arc, &C.
NJ Millet a member of the Paris Institute has re-
ported to the Emperor Napoleon the result of scientific
mission to Greece, undertaken by him last year, IN
obedienc, to imperial order The Island OF Thasos Wis
ibc from Mount Ahos, contains vast number OF uncx
pored remains Of towns, theatres and temples and NJ
Ncl fortunate enough Go find there several works
of art which had escaped destruction at the hands
of tho peasants, who, seeing Europeans so anx-
iols about large stones marine them 10 con-
tin treasures, and. therefore, not requntly break
them into small fragments in the hope OF finding some
This the with splendid relief representing
a woman in sitting posture and holding casket IN
her hands On the reze the words "Philis, daughter
Of
broken this beautiful work OF art into ten pieces and
Tn n havlng found no in tn hoped had
fortunately thrown them nto corner of warehouse
where NJ Milict discove red them The fragments, put
together revealed tho beauty of the compostion and
tho head having es aped injury the whole was shipped
of 10 France together with three bas reiefs represent
Ing Apollo Mercury and ght OF the MUSES. each bear
Ing articles with toilet and dressed in long
robes with small folds, and dadems q pearls on their
heads the pearls represented by grains OF some metal
Tn has eics abont three feet high ana eight IN
length and bear ms rptions in the old lonian aect
Besides these Met sent over five bas relies two OF
which represent funeral banquets, and the three Others
heroes horseback also forty marble slabs bearing
blades. T
great aaucduct has EN- built In France In order to
supply tho ofthc Dhus to the new reservoir
constructed the heights OF Mcnilmontant Paris. The
has been let into the basin and is now distributed
The aqucduct takes its rise in the Commune OF Parquy
Asne) and The departments OF Asne, Seine ct
Marnc Seine Disc and Seine the length OF its course
being eighty -four miles, thusPortions constructed Ia
masonry with uar inciinatons Of one in ten thou
sand in length sevcntyfour miles symptoms, or forced
conduis or cast iron, crossing the valleys with ail OF
"a & nchos per mile ten miles About six miles OF the
naucduct in masonry have been executed In tunnel
The principal syphons are those OF Petit Morn Grand
Morn the Marine and ylcmoabc, which arc from eleven
hundred TO forty nine hundred yards in length, with
from one hundred and eighty to two hundred and ten
fec, OF saga. Tho works we're commenced on June TO-
1913
The term shorse powern as appHed to the motion OF
mach merry Il, We may presume becoming hackneyed In
Europe for a Scotch gentleman has be N at pa ms to
Utilize what may be called mouse power he has trained
n ,x,ia nf mir nd nv mi
them to spin yam Tho work is done on the treadml
principle. The machinery is so constructed that the
common house is enabled TO tw st and reel from
100 40 threads per day To complete this the little
pcde has TO Ten and half miles per day This
Journey il performs every day with ease An ordinary
,n"usc weighs only half an 0, nee For food haIpcn
ny's worth OF oatmeal at Is 3D. the pe'k serves ono OF
these trcadmill cuiprts for five weeks In that time ~
makes ITO threads per day. being an nv rage or $3.50
threads Of So inches which is nearly nine lengths oil the
reel penny Is paid to women Tor every cut In the
ordinary way AT this q earns 3D. every Ave
weeks which is one farihing per day. IS Cd per
mum. Take 3D. OF for board aud Is for machinery,
there will arise o. clear profit from every mouse yearly
The mouse employer about to make application for the
lease Of an empty house, tho dimensions Of which are
100f by SOFT and SOFT in height viii i Will hold TO- 900
lowing GOO and askmastcrs fl0 600 TO erect
machinery and $500 for the interest, there will be left
he says, balance OF f2, 800 per annum.
Mr. r. Brodie r. X. A. s., writes concerning the
ssspos, which were visible the England during
the latter end OF September say ng:To those who are
not nmi nr with the nature OF these SO called "sun
unhappy one; gives the impression OF being mark on
a nai surface. II is really an enormous hollow, with
sopng Sides penetrating entirely through the photo
sphere OF the sun-the black part umbra being at
the botomand is supposed 10 be the real body OF the
sun. On September % this black part OF the spot was
rather more than nine thousand miles in length, while
the greatest length OF the opening formed by the op
ing sides, penumbra, was about twenty nine thou.
sand miles. These sides were very deeply furowed
from top 10 bottom very similar TO watcrcouscs cut by
the torrents in descending sleep slopes OF mountain
The sdes terminated at the bottom In long, narrow pro
Iv,,iu M
something like comb having thick teeth One Of these
promontorcs measured fully one Thousand miles long.
changes were taking place with great apidity much
80 that three hours tho shape OF the spot had
Eo% s IN, pa1s miles IN cas while
tho pcnumbra had shortened to about twcnyour thou
sand miles
r. H. AIinatt, the Sussex England me,eorolosIst,
during foggy nights the result OF which conclusion
that in hIs neghboihorhood At all events the amount
Of dew deposited in four nights was eqra to ton and
half por acre.
BY order Of tho King Of Sweden experiments with sub
marnc Internal machines about TO be tried on the
old ship-ofthe-line Charles Kill
The silver mines Of Konsbsrs in Norway are re-, 70 far
not sunico 70 cover the expenses Of working.
The annual nesting Of the American Antiquarian SO;
coty has boon held In boston The report OF the council
WAS read by Rev Edward T. Hale. II showed that the
for reference the materials Of history not Of locality
steadily DISCHARGED in the careful administration Of the
library They notice regular increase Of students, who
consult II for the material which tho past and present
generations have successfully brought together
An sntouar1sn discovery Of much interest has been
made In Fife Scotland. On the wall Of cave were
found scupsured the forms Of elephants birds and FISH,
supposed that In the early ages Of Christianity the
used as place OF worship by anchortes, ana
that st. Adrian dwelt In IT,
Professor snell Of Amherst Mass states that he has
not during twenty seven years recorded 90 small an
fxntu fnF r mol mon n
Of September last The water measured only thirty
eight hundrethe OF an inch.
The new bridge about 70 be suspended over the Ohio
river Cincinnati will be the longest structure OF the
kind In the world being than two thousand fees
longer than that the Niagara river and vo hundred
and forty feet longer than the Mena Bridge Englsno
Its total span will DO thousand and nifty ioes
The stone piers rise hundred and ten feet above
floor OF the bridge and two hundred feet above sner
foundations. One year In allowed for BUILDING IL
An immense bridge Is being built over the Kline Do q