The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-05
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An English shipbuildng arm is about to lay down an
experimental vessel called water chariot Ii de-
scribed the light draught roller ship. The invention
consists in supporting car or vessel above the water
lave, on axles or shafts passing through rotary hollow
drums or cylinders, which ara made to revovs their
axes by steam or other motive power This car or yes.
ssI constructed tocany passengers and freight is sup.
ported by the buoyancy Of the drums and kept sus.
psnded above the level The advantages OF the
hvention said 70 consist in increased speed At much
l expenditure Of motive power and fuel and from the
q should the theory prove successful on rs nracca
application, will II Is thought be highly useful for the
navgation Of creeks and rivers where requiring
- considerapie deptn OF water cannot be used
THE CIGAR SHIP.
was expected IN England, on the 18th Of October,
knst the cigar snip, SO named from her peculiar
0Ape would DC launched on the 10th Of that MONTH
NEW STEAM ENGINE
new steam engine, on the rotary principle,
hibtted before the British Association at Birminqbam
LAND lately The boiler is vertical, having cylln
" three ieet IN diameter by six feet In height the
thermal IRE surface consisting OF hemspherical bot
Aem with the heat spreading all it by leading
- one side of this boiler attached the engine which
sncws externally as horizontal cylinder about twelve
ne pistons revove the entpancs and exit OF steam
Deng provided for by the action Of external eptica
sotn whecs liked the revolving shafts which, a-sng
ernate faster or slower movements Of the pstons past
ecn other, opens and closes the passages. drum
wheel on the axis Of the cylinder carries strap, which
v1u put IN motion any required machinery The whole
supported one pair OF wheels with pair of shafts
n1t.ched, and can be moved by horse The machine
. shown stated be the equivalent Of ordinary
sight horse portable engine and that the relative weights
verc thirty hundred weight the rotary engine against
Afty-nve hundred weight on the ordinary plan No fy-
wheel is needed it was said to keep up the movement
md there is absence Of all the vibrating motion
Auced BY the reciprocation Of ordinary engines The
ig n hnao
locomotive engines The actual consumption OF fuel for
Usrk done was not given to the meeting.
THE PERIoDIcITY OF STORMS.
4r F0urnet has transmitted to the Academy OF Sci
snoe Paris paper on the subject of the perodcity OF
soems II contains of the results he has
snued unnterrapedy for the space Of thirty years AS
result OF 800 observations he finds that the winter
yebruarys singalarly free from electrical meteors II
known that what are called the blank days ljos,ee
nsstes abound in these months; but it is known
= the I'd or Sd OF December, and that
sa the 18th another storm recurs AT the
storm as II began with one. In March the stormy
yod Of sprngs moderately introduced, and it is not
ssndency This tendency increases rapidly and about
ne ga OF May we reach the period Of intensest evou
90 Of storm Summer opens placdiy, and even the
9TH OF June is free from electric disturbance the
anary days OF winter; but Immediately afterwards the
sauses cumuate and the sth 18th and 18th Of June
toeraby certain storms The 10Th OF June is gene
rally stormy day July is period which contrasts by
ts quiet with the turbulence OF and August Up to
nah something q sa aaS which
period OF the year ceases on the 1Sththat to say,
10 composed Of six days, divided by moment o. pro-
sound calm After its rains the temperature dminshes
md the rest Of the season. until winter, presents few
chances Of violent disturbances For autumn he notes
Me critical days September ], O. 49, 80, followed by
che crins Of October TO II.
THE DISEASE IN sILKwoRMs.
me Minister Of Agriculture of France having request
"a n Pasteur his attention to the disease Of silk
m tad n nan IN N
Academy the subject On the It'll Of June last he
lived at Alas, whore he selected kokh, silkworm
nursery for his observations BE had been particularly
struck with the fact that in the body of the diseased silk
worm the microscope reveals certain particles considered
sospuscles exist in profusion in certain that
ut spin their COCOON and especially in the adipose
situated under The skin din and IN the silk producing
saane appearances The worms afflicted with those
nlAck spots, from which the disease has derived
number Of these corpusces In OF the Of the
kokh Japanese slkworms, received from the Societe
GAcclimation had been reared with such success that
che eggs obtained from thirty five kilogrammes or the
oocoons spun had been collected for propagation In
seoond room on the contrary there were indeed Japan
- skworms also bnt bought by private dealer these
we're All diseased In examining the chrysalides and
batsres Of the successful brood NJ Pasteur found
cry OF them affected with the corpuscles while the
worms OF the bad lot had scarcely any. Hence no
gves It the conclusion that the disease properly affects
eonssqnenty the efforts Of entomologiss and physioo
ns should be particularly directed towards finding
ses against the disease not in the arva but In the
: .nH MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
me Project Of the Pas de Calais has established in
eognational exhibition OF fish at Bouogne- sur er,
rnnce under the patronage the Minister OF Marine
- object Of the project is 70 give the fishermen in his
apartment an opportunity Of learning the manner in
which fish are caught in other countries both in salt
end fresh water.
the French National Congress in its third meeting
. Bordeaux, NJ Henri Giutrac proposed that an inter-
national congress Of medical should be held Paris
N 1857. The proposal received with unanimous
plause and on motion Of M Jeannel provisional
Wttes was appointed to make the necessary arrange
1ents
Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer arrived at Bonn
ny September H. for the purpose Of making arrange
ens for another expedition TO the interior Of Africa