Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-02-27

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immaterial to me, sir, what Job says"
William Lowery, J. Ross Stewart,
and Robert Hayes Mitchell, Ku-Klux
prisoners, have been released from the
Albany Penitentiary. There are fifty
such prisoners in the institution.
The Pullman palace cars have COM
menced running from Lynchburgh to
New Orleans, without change, by the
Kennesaw route, via Mobile, Mont
gomery and Atlanta, thence by the
Western and Atlantic railroad to Dali
ton, Lynchburg and Washington.
Carpenters great painting Of the
Cabinet scene during the consideration
Of the emancipation proclamation, has,
at the request OF the committee on the
Library, been placed in the old Hall of
Representatives, in order that it may
be judged in a good light. A PROPOSE
ton to purchase it is now pending.
Three converts were recently baptis-
ed in Osakis lake when the mercury
marked twenty-three degrees below
zero. If they are no more afraid of
heat than of cold the future can have
no terrors for them.
The London Times considers that no
census is equal to that of the United
States in interest, whether on account
of the character of the facts or of the
fullness with which they are collected.
This in review of the first volume on
population and social statistics.
There is not a dollar in the Florida
Treasury. The bonded and floating
debt, according to the report OF the
Comptroller, is $5,S44,S2 AS there
are but $4,000 voters in Florida, each
voter, according to the showing, is sin
for" 1924 on a general average.
Daniel Webster, in his last days, said
to Professor SiIliman: 1.-THE law is |
uncertain, and politics are utterly vain;
but there is a nobleness of certainty in
science which commands my admira-
tion-and l would willingly pass the
rest of my life in studying its truths"
Massachusetts has not only a larger
population per acre than any other
State, but she has one mile of railroad
to each 1 704-100O square miles of ter
ritory TO every S79 inhabitants, which
is not equaled in any other section of
this country, and is above the average
of any country in Europe.
During the ripening of fruit in the
air, or in a jar of oxygen gas, oxygen
is absorbed and an equivalent proper
ton of carbonic acid given off.-(M.
Berard).
De Barry estimates that the number
of plants that live on matter already
and do not decompose car
bonic acid, is about equal to that of the
green or chlorophyll bearing plants
which possess the power of deconpos-
ing carbonic acid.
Mr.. w. T. Barret states that the
spheroidal condition of water may be
shown by emersing a red-hot ball OF
metal in a vessel of water to which
little soap has been added. The ball
enters the water smoothly, and glows
beneath its surface, the contact of the
fluid being prevented by a layer Of
steam of considerable thickness.
A French farmer has discovered that
the use of tan is an efficient preventive !,
against potato disease. For three years
he has introduced small quantity of
the residue Of the bark used in tanning
into each hole on planting his potato
crop, and each time he has been COM
pletely successful in preserving his
fields free from the annoying disease.
The Lancet gives an account of a mi
mute active worm, 7-75 inch long and
35-100 inch in diameter, that has been
in the blood of certain pa
tients that had lived in India. So nu-
were these parasites in the cas-
es in question, that six excellent speci-
mems were seen in a single drop of
blood obtained from the lobe of the
ear.
English experience during the last
twenty years proves nothing more con-
than the absolute feasibility
Of consuming smoke in the furnaces of
More than two hundred
trains per day pass the Kings Cross
station of the London Underground
and yet no one has ever been
heard TO complain of smoke in the
tunnel.
Having devised an arrangement for
the number of the wave
lengths in given tube, Professor A.
M. Mayer has applied it to the deter
mination of the temperature of the air
in the tube, by measuring the varia-
ton caused in a number OF wave
lengths by the action of heat. An
new method of pyrometry is
thus introduced, which promises to
give very important results.