Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


for Egypt to spend the winter. Paris has
too much snow, hail and sleet. e.s
New BRUNSWICK now owns S04 vessels,
of 272, 054 tons, valued at ~, 600, 000-an
increase Of about so per cent. since con-
federation in 1867,
A PAupER INMATE of Holsham Work
house, England, died in the union on
Christmas Day from the. effects of glut-
tony. He,attacked his Christmas dinner
so raYenonsly that in o few minutes he
was chollcd. IS -'tr
In Canada, as we'll as in the United
States, the year has been marked by a ma
tcrial decrease In immigration. In 1878
266, 354 immigrants were entered, and in
1874, 140,33T.. This year not more than
$1,000 have been registered.
THE 'Flying Dutchmar,' train run
hing from London TO Ply.i1rl1th, makes
about sixty miles an hour, and Sir Daniel
GoOch, the manager Of the road, hopes to
reduce the journey by an hour, and is ar
ranging to run special trains at the rate of
seventy miles an hour. .a4
NJ NJ. ALBERT and CASTOR TissanQier
made balloon ascent from Paris, lately,
and after three hours trip aliGhted near
Iliers, about SIX miles from Paris, At
800 meters above the gforns"they entered
a solid stratum of cloud 700 metres thick,
the Temperature being four degrees (centi-
grade) below zero. AT 500 metres alti-
tude they passed through a succession. of
ice crystals, a galaxy of little shexagonal
stars which danced round the car and
sparkled in the. SUM- These did not exist
In the lower stratum OF cloud, but were
suspended In the atmosphere overaan ex-
panse from. $50 10000 metres thick The
temperature here was at zero, and higher
still it was at six degrees, the masses of
white cloud below, appearing like Alpine
glaciers Culnuli. eIouds@were tperceived
overhead at $500 metres altitude, but the
aeronauts sdidanot go higher than /, roo
metrcs..' - IS
IT is the opinion of some scientific men
that the limit of capablity' of micro
scope, in showing thes STRUCTURE OF Tissues
and the character of minute objects, has
nearly, If pot entire1Y,ss Been reached,
higher powers than, those now in use civ
ing rise to optical phenomena which are
likely to completely mask the structure
and character of the Object under exalnI-
nation. Thus it.may happen That while
different structures give the SAME micro
scropical image, like structures will give
different images; and while systems
of fine lines, and the like may appear
ever so distinct and we'll marked in
the microscope, such appearances are not
to be. regarded asof morphological sfgnifi-
canoe, but merely as ply steal phenomena,
from which nothing can be inferred eX-
/ cept the presence of such structural con-
ditions as are capable of producing the
diffraction effects obtained. It is asserted
by the most eminent. experts with this
wonderful instrument that by no micro
scope can parts be distin guished if they
are so near to each. other that the first
bundle of. light rays, produced by dihrac-
ton, can no longer enter The objective
simultaneously with the undiffracted cone
of lightly. Y. SAM 1ftfg ma Z.
ONEof the most interesting addresses
at the recent meeting of the Massachu-
sets Teachers Association was by Col.
7. W. Higginson, of Newport, r. l., on
Common Sense in Teaching History. F."
He said e Is there. any reason in the
world why history should belso hard to
teach, should be so difficult to convey to
our children? Great energy is brought
to bear upon it, and teachers complain
of the indifference-of pupils in this i'm
portant branch Time alone and re-
newed experiments must answer the
question and explain the failure. / am
perfectly sure that one great cause of
failure proceeds from the false demand the
teacher makes upon himself at the outset,
and makes consequently upon the pupil,
the demand, that is, that, at all hazards,
by every sacrifice, by the, use of tile most
powerful hydraulic press that can be
brought to bear the maximum of facts and
dates must be crammed into the lclffid's
head without reference to the ideas, the
feelings, and the emotions that history
should create. And include all the text
books brought down to this date, the
smallest of which contains, in my judg-
ment more than twice the nun Der of facts
that any child ought to be called upon to
learn or to remember. ~