New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

ures and though their sensation materials not asa
rule equal TO "A HoustOn.st. murder or Iammay pa,
IL is evident from the beauty OF MS comparisons nu @
broad philosophy Of his deductions that the local enron
clcr would be perfectly competent 10 grsppe VII" 1we
II they were. "There Is house at turkey I'M W.
quote from his thrilling story so overun win r
and mice that the family occupying tho mouse aIo arod
the other night biting Of the chldrens hands An
other child bitten on the head ana q
taken by the rats-hats dresses, cotton AWNING .ey
get hold OF for nests Last SATURDAY hso on ,,, tV
his skill on the nose OF tho lady Of the house Oithg
hole Through when she awOke she was bleeding from
the bite like butcher
George A. Barber of Cincinnati, the printer
who lately challenged any man in the world to set type
with him for 81 900 side writes to THE TRIBUNE that
W. Belknap OF Dubuque. Iowa, has accepted his OFFER
and that the contest VIII take place in February IL
will therefore be impossible for him to meet Mr. Arens
burg of The Times at present but he proposes TO nave
trial with him some future time, after the match NO"
on hand has been concluded
The Senate of Louisiana recently passed
bill revokng licenses and providing heavy fines and i'm
prisonment for gamblers and gambling houses, oneha
the fines go to the normer The effect exceeded the
antlcipations of the friends of the measure. Every
establishment OF the kind In New-Oreans was hnme-
datey closed few days later the Senate OF California
passed bill which egalizes the opening on SUNDAYS VI
"any theater. me odeon dancecear or other plaee %
musical theatrical operate performance, speclhcite'
or representation" excepting crcuses horseraces COCK
fights &C., provided only that liquor Is not s1d on tho
premises The legislation of Louisiana Is haied by ts
friends of progress as forward step IN the INTERESTS
morality and good citizenship III is unlCult " cEu
that OF California otherwise than retrograde move
ment.
Judge Alexander C. Morton of Columbus, Ga,
friend and executor OF Thomas Paine has in prepare
tion life of the celebrated freethinker The ground
taken upon the mooted question Of Panes belief Is de-
fined in the following extract:
He was not atheist or an infidel, nor was ne q
scoer Of religious views and teachings but he had MS
owni He promulgated them in his Age Of Reason
when he wrote, j believe in God, and nope Tor q
The key Of Heaven is not IN the keep
by any, To Samuel Adams, in 1903, he wrote trouble
not myself about the manner OF future existence con-
tent myself with believing even TO positive CONVECTION
that the power which gave me existence IS able 10 con-
without this body; and it appears more probable 10
that shall continue to exist hereafter than tha
should have had existence | now have before that
existence began. / consider myself in the hands OF my
Creator, and that He will dispose OF after this life
consistently with his goodness and Justice"
In the two grand requisites of lightness and
compactness petroleum would evidently be vastly su-
peror to coal as fuel steam vessels but the nsuper
able obstacle has been that the petroleum. when sub
jected furnace temperature throws down portion OF
its carbon solid state, in sufficient quantities to close
the tubes Of the boilers and make them useless BY re-
cent experiments method Of burning the oil has been
evolved which avoids this difficulty and bids far 10 De
complete BY this process steam raised 10
temperature OF from 800 to POO degrees passed INTO
cylindrical tubular generator holding so gallons In
the about the tubes is petroleum, which is gener-
ated a vapOr by the heat from the steam
The gas fast generated passes to receiver whch
stands the side OF the generator ana Is about Two
thirds IT'S capacity thence by pipes INTO the reboX OF
the boiler IL is introduced by Jets IN such volume
as 10 produce fame which diuses itself the fun length
of thirty FIVE foot boiler and several 1eet INTO e
with the apparatus only working at onefourth It's
capacity.