The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-15


ADMIRAL PORTER is said to devote the
proceeds of whatever writing he does for
reviews or newspapers to clearing away
the debt upon the naval monument to
Peace, at Waihineto ton. He is now pre-
pairing for the Moth Aaerican an article
on q ToFpedo,s rae .dmiral himself
drew the design for The monument, which
costs s35 900
THE .ension cffioe in Washington
gives notice TO whom it may concern
that the services OF pension lawyers and
claim agents arc OF no value whatever in
advancing the interests oi applicants for
pensions. Tne bureau furnishes blanks
that cover the whole business on appli.
catloIi AID they car be flied by any
notary pubic without help of the pro-
fessed expert
The 7.30 notes were 20 called because
they bore interest az the rate OF seven
and thirty-huudredths per cent per an
mum. The 5 pos were SO called because
they we're redecmable in FIVE years and
payable in twenty years, and the 10-4O's
were so called because they were redeem-
able in ten years snd payable in forty
years. The Z. 30's were, by the terms of
their issue, either payable in greenbacks
or fundable into 5-20's in three years
from the date of their issue. The most
of them were, in fact, funded into 5>20's
before the end of 1868
THE swinging melton of railway cars is
now ingeniously utilized as an indicator
of the velocity Of trains, the arrange
ment of this end being as follows with>
in a case clcckwork is fixed, which causea
large horizontai.p to rotate once
in twelve hours. On the plate disc of
paper is held by 2 spring, the border be-
ing divided into hours and minutes. The
point Of pencil, which is attached to
two springs and pendulum, so that the
pencil makes zig-Eag line around the
paper; on removing the latter, the rate
of travelling may be studied.
a NOVEL discovery in deer hair has
been made. Experiments prove that
il is mere buoyant than cork, and can
be used for life-preservers. In 1876
Government Commission made expert
menis with the deer hair, and reported
that enc pound of it would sustain a
weight of ten pounds fer three days.
The latest test was by board of naval
officers, who reported that after the deer
hair bad been saturated for seven days
it sustained in water twelve times its
weight, thus showing buoyancy five
times greater than that of cork.
SoUTHERE Russia threatens to become
a rival of Pennsylvania in the product OF
petroleum Tne persons who some time |
ago found oil near the shores of the Cas-
pisn sea, are reported to have turned |
their discovery to profit. From one of
the wells stream, free from gas and |
froth, is forced to a height of seventy
five feet, yielding at the rate of 10000 |
barrels a day. 1t is believed that oil |
abounds in Circassia, Georgia and Astra- !
chan, and that, when improved methods |
of drilling and pumping tho wells have
been devised, oil viii be got in immense
quantities. Companies are slready form
ing, 1t is reported, at Odessa, Novo |
Fcherkosk, Astrachan, and other cities |
for the purpose of obtaining oil. Il
TIE dried-egg industry appears to |
have proved an undoubted success, and |
the number OF eggs now used in this |
manufacture has come TO be immense |
the eggs are carefully candled" by
hand-that is, examined by light, to
ascertain whether good or not-and are, |
then thrown into an immense receptacle, |
where they are broken, and, by centri-
fugal operation, the white and yolk are
separated from the shell, very much as
liquid honey is separated from the comb
The liquid is then dried by heat, by
special process, and the result is SUBJ
stance much resembling sugar, which is
put into barrels, and is ready for trans
portation to any point, preserving COM
pleteiy all its good qualities. Indeed,
it has been taken twice across the equa-
tor, in ships, and found equal, for the
ordinary use, TO eggs freshly laid.
NEW WORKERS still groan undes the
nuisance of the noise caused by the ele-
waited railroad trains the efforts to deaden |
the din having thus far met with but in
different success. The latest experiment |
has been made over the portion of the |
road between Twentieth and Twenty
second streets. The road bed has been
taken up, and between the cross-ties,
under the rails. have been placed blocks |
of wood that fill up all the open spaces.
Upon these blocks of wood thin strip |
OF oak is laid, and upon that piece of |
leather; upon the leather strip of lead. |
and upon the lead strip of rubber.
Over all is placed fat iron rail about |
six inches broad. Bolts OF iron hold |
the bands together. The rails are wedged |
together, instead of being placed end TO /
end as before This arrangement has |
resulted in very perceptible lessening |
of the noise.
PRoF. w. III. BREWER, of Yale, has
been studying the features of the Wal
lingiord tornado and giving his views of |
tornadoes generally. Nobody, he says, |
can tell what makes tornado. There |
are many theories concerning the cause.
Lightning always plays a leading part
IN the disturbance In some tornsdoes
the exhibition of electricity is grand. |
There Is no particular hour at which
they are formed, but they usually take
place in the afternoon, for it is then chat |
a hot day becomes most suItry. In
northern latitudes the rotary motion il
always from the right to the left. The
column is funnel-shaped. the small part
being on the earth. It sways from side
to side frequently, and sometimes
bounds like ball. The movement ia
either ts the east, southeast, or north
east. The Wallingfcrd tornado does nat
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