Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-11-06

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never near the needle.
Our of thirty eight men employed on
the Memphis Appeal only two escaped
the fever, and out of forty-four employed
on the Avalanche, only two are left;
twelve have died, twenty-four are sick
or convalescing, and eight have left.
Each paper was at one time reduced t.,
one editor and single compvsitor.
A GRANITE company in Maine naa
quarried piece OF granite said tv be the
largest ever turned out in the United
States. 1t is sixty-five feat long, ten
feet square, and weighs eleven thousand
and twenty-one TONS It will form part
of a monument in Ohio which will cost
$15O,OOO.
The British military authorities in
experimenting with balloons have dis
covered method BY which they can
prevent leakage of gas. It is proposed
to compress the gas to about one-third of
its volume, and TO convey supply of it
in cylinders, which can be used in emer-
gencies as pontoons.
TIE Cremation Society of Great
Britain are erecting a crematory
near London on scientific princi-
pies, which will altogether eclipse DR..
LIE Moyne's oven. 1t will be fashioned
after the model of the one at Milan, and
is expected to cremate the most fastidi.
GUS British with neatness and dispatch.
THE tallest and most miserly man in
Memphis has died of the plague. DR..
Nelson had not practiced his profession
for many years, but had accumulated .
fortune Of over s25O,OOO. His dress was
always shabby, he lived in the suburbs
like pauper, and Stunned intercourse
with his fellows, and in the end he died
with yellow fever, and was buried in the
Potter's field.
AN English paper says one of the
principal reasons for the success of
American manufactures abroad is the
adaptability of American mechanics.
They are not only competent to make
anything that is required, but they can
also design tools for any conceivable
purpose. They can make machinery for
any work whatever, and they are always
ready to learn. They do not think that
theirs is the only way which thing can
be done, and they are ready at any time
to make any sort Of tools or machines
that their customers call for. It is the
versatility of American mechanics that
pushes their products on the foreign
market.
1T is said that engineers are not gen.
orally long-lived, even if they escape ac-
cidents, particularly those who have
charge of express trains, fo- the reason
that the constant strain upon the mind,
great anxiety, as we'll as the constant
shaking and jarring they receive while
the engines are running, have tendency
to bring on ailments which shorten life.
This general shaking up that engineers
receive can only be appreciated BY get
ting upon locomotive that runs forty
miles an hour. Though there are springs
upon the huge machine, one would
scarcely imagine that such is the fact.
The engineers of freight engines fare bet
ter, because there is less responsibility
and the trains move much slower.
THE Mikado of Japan having decreed
that all his subjects holding official situa-
tions shall dress like Europeans. they
and their wives, the japanese milliners,
who had not seen fashions change for q
thousand years, have consigned to Paris
the thousands and thousands of native
dresses which they had in stock, and
Partisan ladies are now wearing them as
dressing-gowns. They are said to be
very becoming, and the bright dyes in
them-a secret we ought to learn-will
stand any amount of washing. Chinese
silken skirts, 50 fine that you can
pass them through wedding ring, are
also being sold in quantities; but the At
tempt to introduce Chinese peaked straw
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ANNOUNCEMENT il made that new
contrivance for using petroleum ss fuel
has been successfully tested. The test
was made at the Brooklyn navy yard in
the presence of naval officers and other
scientific gentlemen. The fuel, which
consists of mixture of petroleum and
coal tar, is supplied through pipe, and
is atomized by coming in contact with .
current of superheated steam. In this
way the necessary amount of oxygen ID
obtained, and the result is said to be .
heat far more intense than any blast fur
mace fed with coal can supply. With
this heat it is said that pig iron can be
melted in ten minutes instead of two
hours a. ID done with coal, and the time
for melting glass can be reduced from
sixteen hours to two. =.
The Coast Wrecking Company, Of
New York, have commenced making
experiments with the telephone ~ ap.
piled to salt water use. This use was
first made on French man-of-war tow.
ing ship for = torpedo circuit. Awire
was attached to towing cable with one
end ON either vessel, and it was found
that the action of the sea on the copper
established an electric current. Tele.
phone communication was established,
and conversation was carried on between
the ships This suggested the idea Of
using the instrument in the diving ser
ing service. One OF the glasses of the
divers helmet Is replaced BY copper
piate, and In this h inserted . telephone
wlfe, and it becomes very easy to hold
communication with the diver ut what
sver depsh he may be. The device vii
0e OF great practical value in difficult