Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-07-07

OF peas SteW1ng III TWO q uartS OF water,
with sprig of mint; when done, pulp
them through a sieve, add the liquor
they were stewed in and the other in
gradients. This will make nice dish.
-GernaantoWn Telegraph.
A New Mode of Ventilation.
The London Times recently gave a
valuable account of a mode of ventila-
ton adopted by Mr.. Tobin, retired
merchant of Leeds, and which rests on
the principle that a narrow stream of
air can be sent up through lighter air,
like Jet of a fountain through the or
binary atmosphere, by atmospheric pres
sure from outside, and that when it
reaches the ceiling it will be reflected
off in all directions, just as the water
falls back into number Of intin1tesimal
rills, and SO melt away very gradually
into the less pure air OF the room, be-
fore reaching the persons who need it.
The modus operandi is to introduce
vertical tubes, communicating with the
outer air, in parts of large room or
public building, where people are not
likly to sit or stand, tubes rising. say
or 5 feet above the floor. Directly the
air in the room begins to be rarifed.
the pressure of the air outside sends
streams of air up these tubes, which
continue to rise in narrow streams, just
like jets of water, and without dispers-
ing till they reach the ceiling, where
they are reflected back IN spray, as it
were, of pure air, spray which mixes
very gradually indeed, and SO as to
avoid all draft, with the rarifed air OF
the room, and gradually expels all the
bad air by way of the chimney. the
system seems to have worked almost
miraculously In the Leeds Borough Po-
lice Court, whose Stipendiary Magis-
trate, Mr.. Rallies, has borne the most
grateful testimony to the results of the
experiment, and Mr.. Tobin is now en-
gagged in introducing it into London.
Increased Exports of Manufacturers.
The statistics of our diminishing for
comments from the newspapers. It is
pleasant to be able to call attention to
one bright thread In the ''embroidery
of gloom The New England CONNER
cial journals are congratulating their
readers on an increase of the exports of
the manufacturers of the Eastern States.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin finds
that the exports of manufactures of the
first ten months of 1875 are So, 806, 600
against 1874, 512, 900 in 1874. This growth
Of the foreign demand for our products
has been visible for the last two years
It is due to variety of causes, such
as the natural development OF
our industries, and the fall in
prices. This trade enables Boston to
be an exception to the general exhibit
of declining exports, and makes its ex-
ports for the first five months of 1875
greater than those of the same period
of 1874 Some of the items Of the in
crease In exports are in cotton goods,
which have amounted in the last ten
months, for the whole country, from
So. &c., 900 to So, 38O,00O; and steel
goods, which rose from So, 1856, 900 to
$500 600. The London papers openly
avow that their iron manufacturers have
lost command Of the American market,
and have good reason to fear the COM
petition of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Hi
nois in English markets.
Lightning Conductors.
A paper read before the Paris
Academy of Sciences on the subject OF
lightning rods goes to prove that the
metallic roof of building, whether
uniting with the lightning conductor or
not, does not preserve the metallic
plates below it from the electric in
fuence of the storm cloud-each OF
o1o4o ,f ~ I>o I,
/ the conductor which receives the shock,
sending off sparks to the neighboring
conducting bodies. In order, there
fore, to ensure safety from accidents, it
is indispensable that each conductor be
placed where it will be perfectly shell
tered, at all times and under all cir
cumstances, from any electric shock, a
position which is found to be obtainable
by very simple arrangement, de-
veloped in the following experiments
At an explosive distance from a
disc representing cloud, and in con-
nection with the electric machine, was
placed metallic wire connected with
the earth, representing the lightning
conductor to be attacked Parallel to this
disc, and at little distance from it, were
Q1SDOS6Q SEVERAL mStdllIC icdfcS VI SAOo-
ings. separated uniformly from each
other. These, designed to represent
the roof and the metallic plates beneath
it may be connected with each other or
with the conductor. These leaves be-
| ing insulated from the struck conduct
or, the spark and the commotion felt by
the hand touching them are not very
perceptible; but if one of them be put
in connection with the conductor, 1t
will, to the exclusion of all the others,
give rise to powerful spark Of tonmo-
ton. The same will occur with each
leaf, and with all if connected with the
conductor. each time that it is struck.
SIR CHAR1Es LYELL bequeathed te
| the British Geological Society 92,W
as fund for the promotion of geologic
al research. The award is to be accom-
panied by "Lyel medal, and is te
be open to biologists without distinc
ton of nationality or of sex.