The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-08-05
TIMELY TOPICS,

machine recently imported from Ger
many which is under contract TO make
ton of ice-or to produce cold equal
to ton of ice-for ninety cents. The
plan is to station the machine in a side
building, and to send the cold air or
water through tunnels in the street into
the cellars. In the fermenting cellars
cold water is sent by pipes through the
tubs, having coil pipe inside. Into the
storing cellars, where the beer is in
casks, the cold blast is jected full into
the cellar, turning it into monster
refrigerator. The estimates are care
fully made, and confidence is expressed
in the success of the plan.
The rapidity with which the railroads
from the Indus valley to Sibi, at the
mouth of Bolan rass, have been con-
structed exceeds that of any similar
work in the United States, the country
of fast railroad building. The distance
from Lakken. in the Indus valley, to
Sibi is l34 miles, and the railroad over
this distance was finished in l01 con-
secutive days. The last sixty-two
miles occupied exactly one month-from
noon of December IL to January IA.
The last ninety miles ran through
desert, and all food, water and means of
shelter had to be transported by tr,Iin.
The consumption of water by the men
and animals was 10000 gallons day,
and in some cases the engines had to
run 200 miles without stopping to take
water.
A writer on Australian life in the
Boston Commercial Bulletin tells how a
sick man was found by his mate at the
diggings murdered, and his gold gone.
The culprit was found, but contrived
that night to escape with the money,
which, for safe keeping, had been placed
in the place of detention. Nothing
could be heard of him, but few days
later came the following: Mr.. Mag
istrate: Jim Bell (the murdered man)
was orce a mate of mine. He was a
good man. You will find his murderer
at the head of Dead Horse gully. I
have kept the gold for rd.-KAN-
CARGO BILL, captain of the bushrang.
ers." They found the murderer's re-
mains "a fleshless skeleton, every bone
picked clean. He had been staked down
on the ground, with his back to an ant
hill, and left for the ants to eat him
alive. A more awful retribution can
scarcely be conceived.
At recent meeting of the Dulwich
(England) College Geological club Mr..
B. G.. jenkins read n paper on The
Origin of Waves of Cold" The object
of the paper was to show the very re
markable effect of the planet VI Venus upon
the earth. Many years ago the present
astronomer royal proved that the dis,
turbing effect of this planet was so great
hot ha a "a
of its orbit. Mr.. Jenkins shows that
it is TO this disturbing action we must
look for an explanation of the cold waves
which roll through the atmosphere on
an average every eight years-as in 1929,
1887, I845, 1855, 1860, 1871, 1879 and
that for the next forty years the tenn.
perature will be below the average, as
it has duri' the past forty years been
above the average. With regard to high
temperature, he stated that for the last
fifty years heat wave has been OBJ
served to pass over the earth every
twelve years, nearly and contemporary
with the arrival of the planet Jupiter
about perihelion, and that we are on
the eve of the next heat wave
In one of several suits in the United
States circuit court, recently brought
| by the Adams and the Southern express
companies against certain Sautbecn
railroad corporations, it was stated that
these two companies cover 81 200 miles
of railroad, employ 4,300 persons, and
make 900 daily trips over "a, 500 miles,
aggregating nearly 20, 100000 miles of
| travel annually. For the transporta-
ton oftheir freight, they pay the railroad
companies over $2,G00,000 Il year. In
| 1878 they carried for the government
81, 200 600, 600. In 1879 they carried
1861, ,O0O,00 for the government and
Sl,0S0, 100000 tor the public. In
New York city Adams express COM
pany receives and delivers an average
of $4,000 packages daily, and uses 9lS
horses. The invested capital of all the
express companies in the United States
exceeds 30000,0 900. The express busi-
ness has grown to these enormous pro-
portions in about forty years. 1t was in
1889 thatWilliam f .Harnden made trip
from Boston to New York as Il public
messenger, having in his charge some
packages, commercial paper and
orders. In 1910 rival EXPRESS line was
started between the same two cities by
Alvan Adams and P. B. Burke. In l8il
| Mr.. William B. Dinsmore became part
ner, and took charge OF the New York
branch of the business. The success Of
these pioneers led to the formation OF
other lines between other cities.
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