The Red Cloud chief., 1879-09-11
Science and Industry.

-lmnenSe lOueS Oh r1cn copper ore
have been discovered in Ashe County,
N. C.
"A cotton factory is soon to be built
in Summit, Miss, which will be the
10th in the State.
One farmer in Norfolk County, Va,
has raised and shipped 1900 barrels
of potatoes this season.
The telephone, after being in use
only two to three years, pays interest
upon an invested capital of $780,
600.
Rhode Island clans are more plen-
tiful than ever, Notwithstanding the
great consumption of them which has
been going on for 20 years and more.
The wear and tear of operating
railroads necessitates the use of strong
and heavy materials in cars. To take
them along rapidly the locomotives
must be very heavy and powerful.
Thus it is that in order to transport
people at railway speed tDo and a halt
tons of dead weight in rolling stock
must be drawn over the road for every
passenger carried.
The experiment of sailing cars,
rugged with canvas, on railroads seems
to be a new departure, and the uccess
attending their recent trial was well
marked. Mr.. John Mcmillan, the road
master of the Sioux City and St. Paul
road, has used n for two months.
The q gives perfect satisfaction, hav-
ing made, with moderate breeze, up-
ward of eighteen miles per hour, and
with its "leg of mutton" sail can sail
close up to the wind.
"A novelty in the way of railroad in
ventions is now at the depot of the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in
Petersburg, Va. tits what may be very
properly termed a railroad velocipede.
Its weight is about one hundred pounds,
and it is destined solely for the SUPER
visor of the road, to enable him to trav-
ell from point to point for inspection or
other purposes. The vehicle has three
wheels, two of which run on one rail of
the track and one on the other. 1t has
a seat for one man, though it might
well carry two. 1t is very easily op-
Grated, and is run on almost the exact
principle of the ordinary v~elecipede.
With a strong muscular man to move it
it will make a speed of Is to Is miles an
hour.
School and Church..
Gymnastics are nov regarded as a
necessary part of education in the
Italian schools.
The Rev. DR.. Alexander Clark, who
recently died, left his family in such cir
cumstances that q subscription is being
made to raise funds for them.
The Rev. DR.. Harris of Chicago,
who was recently elected Episcopal
Bishop of the diocese of Michigan in
place of Bishop McCoskrey, will be
consecrated at Detroit on the 18th of
September.
The Wesleyan Conference of
Birmingham, England, has adopted a
report in favor of the Ecumenical Con.
ference proposed by the American Wes-
leyans, and appointed a committee TO
make arrangements.
superintendent Peaslee of Ciucin-
natl is echoing the complaint that
throughout the country the public
school pupils are ignorant of language,
and says that of the thousands who en-
ter the high schools comparatively few
have ever heard the most familiar names
of the greatest poets and historians. He
described q proposed Improvement in
school literature, which provides for
giving the pupils first extracts and then
biographical studies.
President Parker of the Ohio
Association spoke at the
meeting in advocacy OF the
establishment of school shops in con-
with the seventh and eighth