The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-10-12
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IN VI9C0yo1U " GQAt HMks-Ht EPF
lam, of'Ssn' Frxncisho, iHs letter 10 eeeretnfy
Seward, states that BY vessel from Kodiac,
he received lettsr from Assers, Az g.
Marsh, stating thas khcy hsd dfsco1sr1d 9
Russian American sessh Of pure snthrscits1
local. over thirty feet deep. and had traced It
Ifor mile. ns45 = ebod bsEbor, whore there
are abundance Of oak and fr timber.
THk expansion Of the rafis Of Railroad
| 500 mules, long amounts in . bot summers
day to Aers quarter ofs milo from the point
lof The extreme contraction In wipter. o.
course this expansion Is all takea up BY the
STrsr boilers, Il Is said, are coming into,
use on French locomotives. Twelve exprcss
engines, with strfl boilers, are employed on
10 e railway leading out Of Paris, fifteen on
another, and several on other roads. .s'
J. A NEW explosive powder has been invented,
called hsloxglin. --
\ ! Gus nearest planetary nelghbor Is bsing
\ n&pped DOT for our inspection and study,
on . scale OF two hundred iaehss-to the
moons diameter The work has been I'M
fiertaken by an English scientific body, and
two sections rust completed comprehend
1.-TWO areas Of enty-four superficial degrees
each, which are equal to II, sos square miles
i. in tive. On these sections the plains, era
II tiers, mountains, valleys and other objects
u are laid down in outline, each known object
being referred too in the text accompany.
y ing the map.
II THg Kmsington Musuem is to be the re-
y eipient Of measuring machine demoristfa.
Ting the one miili6nth part OF an1neh. tTAas
instrument and three original true planes,
] are 70 be perpetually preserved, anda sefilr
Gent endowment has also been made for
, providing funds for the delivery Of lectures
explanatory of sa1eh instruments The cr-
/ nor, Nj. Whitworth, OF ordnance notoriety,
Il Gays their importance will be manifest when
it is considered that The value of every ma
chine, when made OF the best material, de-
tpends on the II nth Of its surfaces end the
4 accurate measurement Of its parts a.
II Mr.. CRooks, Says the Medical Tnes hss
shown that the favorite disiufectant, cholor.
& lide pfihrhe, Is Ahput the kast efficient 81
} any Of Those Substances rtpnted 10 p6ssest
disinfectant quantities Chlorine itself 10 very
lttle better, for if used in large enough qasa.
titles it will in time destroy the virus, but -
{ it acts by way Of soxy datior, and is liviee
virns resisted this longer than dead oxydi
e. fable matter, before the. gas caR attack Z
viruS every thing elsethst Il can oxydize will
he pky dized first. And il when pure, chlor'
. inc b 80. slow&of actingy whsnr adssterate6
with eighty per cent. OF. lime, its yslus 4
prOportionally less. IN sulphurous and car
bonic acid, on the other hand, there are sub
stances absolutely 'iestucsvesof ssery 'kind
, Of living thing Of low organization, such al
cattIe plague virus is supposed to be. Thest
7 substances besides destroying the, virus
: attack a. Ut once and Arrest IL phtfefYiug
II nndency.
II Mr. WEBER, one of the sapdas Of Zurich
5 Switzerland, reesntly examinedlths stomnehE
: Of number Of moles caught in different To-
e calities, but failed to discover therein the
, slightest vestage Of plants or roots; whereas
: they were filed by ths remsips of,rartt
, worms, He shass up several 81 these sbi
I mats in box containing earth ano sod with
, grxss growing and small case Of grub OF
: earth worms. 10 nine days, two ,moles de
D voured 34l white worms, 1873 earth worms
T % caterpiliars, and dead mouse. Fed Will
, IN mixed diet Of rev meat and vegetables
! the molss ate-the meat, and eft the plants
) and when vegetables exclusively were deal
: out to them, in twenty-four hours both died
. of starvation. Al XII H