The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-12-14

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words 10 an hour.
The common 60.seAt American rail.
way passenger, car costs from y, 900 to
u, 900 zach. while the Engiiah style Of
railway coach introduced on a few OF
our roads cost about 1900. H.,
when o New York editor says
"stalaGtltes OF unconsumed carbon" |"
he means SCOT. The popular editorial
scientihc way OF mentioning coal
cllnkets In stoves, u to cali them
'stalagmites OF uneousumed oarbon.n
a little learning goes much farther
thana great deal.
Alter some experiments with the
old musket In 1888, the committee Of
ofticers drew up a table OF ginstruc.
tlons for soldierap Ii firing with Il.
Among other thihgs the soldiers are
told, Sin Airing alta man at 600 yards,
always always aim $50 feet above him.v
"A telegraphic dispatch from Lon
don, dated December 1, at two O'Clock
n. M, was received al ST. Paul, Mimi,
Of half past ten o'clock on the night OF
November 30. This apparent impossi.
bility presented 1nthis TACT plained
by the difference between "nean" and
"absolute" time. .157755I r.
The gold yield for the country for
the present year is about us follows /:
Montana, Sl2,OOO,OOO; idaho, 5000, 900;
Oregon, $1,000, 900; Colorado, 5000 600;
Nevada, SIS, ,OO0. 900; California, $25, ,O0O,.
600; and miscellaneous, $1,000, 900; total,
"A California horticulturist dIscov-
cred that petroleum would kill the
borer that infests the orchards OF that
State. Many fruit growers ayalled
themselves OF the valuable discovery.
BY thelr experiments, the fact was un.
fortunately established that petroleum
not only killed the borer, but the treel
The coal deposits Of Russian
America are pronounced valueless, be-
Ing found only in small contorted
seams. Iron is found In worthless beds
Of clay. Gold may be obtained, but
under such circumstances that IL Is also
valueless, being only workable two
seaSaatAAS 80 tAAS JVhAt
"A scientific gentlemen has been
striving to give tot committee from the
House Of Lords a Just conception Of
this extremely minute ubdIvIslon OF a
linear space. He uses this illustration:
"You have only TO rub a piece OF soft
steel lew times TO diminish its thick.
ness milllonth, OF an ninch."
In Europe horse cars are heated by
a tube which runs lengthwise OF the
car and alled from time to time with
hot water; and on this the passengers
can put their. cold feet; aud this heat OF
the tube will be sntlicIeut TO molly the
air OF the car enough for comfort. The
experiment can be made at a triIllng
expense. s'F-'- riE'T'
Mr.. Krupp, the great gun.maker of
Prussia, Is constructing steam ham.
mer whose head Is TO weigh 10 tons
$40, 600 pounds. It will far exceed In
size anything yet made In the hammer
line. AT present the largest hammer
In NJ. Krupp's establishment, Is one
with a 90 ton head. falling nine feet,
six inches.
"A train Of thirty cars was loaded
with railroad iron at the Cambria iron
works, Johnstown, Pa, recently, the
destination OF which is point on the
Pacific Railroad, over i've hundred
miles west Of omaha, Nebraska. The
distance 10 be traversed Ii fifteen hun.
dred miles, considerably y more than half
way"aeross the continent, y and without
transhtpment OF the iron."
The Medical Journal, OF Paris, says
that NJ. Lauganterie has been very sue
cessful in the cure of Group by mixing
teaspooniul OF sulphur In a glass OF
water, and giving teaspoonfut of this
mixture every hour. This effect is
described ~ wonderful. The disease
is cured In two days, the only symp.
tom remainiug being u cough arising
from the presence OF loose pieces OF
membrane In the treachea. Those
mothers who treat Group without the
aid ola physician may find this remedy
OF great use,