New-York tribune., 1877-06-02

The range of the Whitehead fish" torpedo
has been extended to 900 yards, To drive to that
distance the compressed air which actuaes the mach
nery of the FISH, has pressure Of 5000 to $500 pounds
If the fish is out from the tube quite horizontally
keeps the depth till the end Of its course, when
1t gradually rises.
While the results do not vary very largely.
there is in general slight discrepancy between the es
mates OF different eXperimeutcrs the speed OF sound
in air at 800 Fab Mr. t. H. NJ Bosanquet discusses these
estimates The Philosophical Magozine lie concludes
that 1912 meers or 0s7 feet, per second. may be ac
copied nearly representing the mean o experimental
results.
Father Secchi, writing to friend in Bel
cum alludes in striking terms to the remarkable con
ncction between the magnetism Of the earth and the
changes Of the weather. He says that the variations
shown by tie magnetic instruments themselves suf
hcent TO indicate the state Of the sky. Even where
there is no great movement OF the barometer following
such magnetic disturbances, there arc especially in
sumner changes OF the wind aud sometimes storms
The next annual meeting of the American
Pathological Association viii be held AZ Baltimore in the
hall o; the Johns Hopkins University beginning July 10
at p. m. The Committee Of Arrangements and Becei
ton includes tho Mayor of Baltimore the Superintendent
of Public Schools Of that city, and the President Of It's
School Board, the Superintendent OF PuDc Schools o
MARYLAND the President of the Johns Hopkins I'M
versity, and several other Bahmoreans of eninence
New evidences are now quite numerous of
the connection between disturbances in the solar at
mosphero and in the earhs magnetism. For the last
wear or two there have few remarkable displays Of
the aurora and that period has been also one OF sngu
larly few sun spots. On the morning after the great
auroal display in the beginning Of this week Prof C. A.
Young made an examination Of the SUMS surface, and
found the prOtuberanccs IN the chroosphere more ac
tive than they had been previously Tor Tour years
AT the meeting of the American Medical As
sociation in Chicago there Will he several women del
ecates one from Rhode Island and a number from West
e States few years ago OF the subsidiary socic
ties was suspected Of intending to send woman rs
delegate and ,hcreupon the association by an almost
unanimous vote resolved not TO admit any delegates
from that society But times changed, and doctors
changed with them and last ye ar the assocation(e
solved admit women delegates bY vote nearly as
uuarnnOus the previous one which was Intended to
exclude them.
Another claimant for the hOnors of telephone
discovery This time it is Indiana that is heard from
Mr. c. e. Ilavens " Of the Louisville, New-Abany and
Chicago Railroad" is the inventor. He makes his tele
phone 10y wrapping wire around common Tin can such
"a is used for preserving fruit The is set upon
block Of wood Near the bottom OF the can is piece Of
brass attached to another wire The description is not
very clear but the sounds produced said TO he and
the latter by OF tin cans at each end were sent
over 92 miles of wire, and included several pieces OF nu
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sweet Home" which seems TO be the staple material OF
most telephone trdnsmissOns. Improvements on the
tin are promised by the inventor
As vet the center of disturbance which pro-
duced the wave in the Pacific that destroyed Iquque
the 10Th ult is not ascertaned The direction from
which il came may perhaps be determined by calculations
from its time OF reaching different places the Peru
vian Californian, Sandwich Island coasts and from
the hight which It at different localities especially
on different sides of the Hawaiian group where the vaii
alton of hight was to 80 feet Prof Dawson Of
san Francisco keeps record OF Tie hight OF the sea at
that mort by instrumental means, and he finds that the
dis,rrhuucc lasted for three and half days after II
began ON the lOs ut and that there IN part ocular
second shock 10 or il hours a ci lLc Hlt AbOu Or
8 A. NJ. on the llth shock OF earthquake was felt in
Perthshire. scotland.
From time to time stories have been brought
from certain tropical islands in the Pacific that there
we're races men in the unknown interior
who possessed vcritable tails But no Trustworthy
traveller las yet certified to the statement. Latterly
the locality OF these with tails has been shifted IN
vague rumors 10 New Guinea The announcements have
been rarely than brief sentence ~ some OF the
foreign Journals aud authority has hitherto been
gwen. Bat last they take more definite form. The
Rev W. g. Lawes Of the London Missionary Society ac-
knowcdges having received "circumsantia reports" OF
with lot very flexible tails" said to live IN the
this II viii never do to let the missionaries discover
tie " missing link" and compel Mes-rs. Darwin and
Huxley 10 ask odds OF the patrons o. Exeter Hall
The proverb that "they do these things bet
ter in France does not always hold good. even In
regard TO the products of art The French postage
stamps are the subject Of severe criticism the
pen OF the ADb6 Mogno. in Les MoHdes The design
the stamps represents two half-draped figures whose
arms are extended altar; the position Of their
lower limbs pronounced fantastic and ridiculous. The
printing Of the stamps said to be very bad The eoors
are muddy aud not decided enough 10 be distinguish
able The Able thinks that the stamps OF any given
denomination cannot DC recognized quickly as such,