The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
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: for school of applied science, proper
valued at 81 800, 600.
An electric locomotive has been man
= factured and successfully operated on t
. :, street railway of Berlin.
For use in telegraphy, aluminium is sa
to possess double the conducting power
= iron, and can be made into extremely tn
wires.
; The Italian government offers thr
prizes, amounting to 81 800, for vines rails,
from gratis of American yarities capable
resisting phyloxera.
The longest submarine cable in Il
world, is that along the east coast of Af1ic
from Natalto Alden, it being 1000 miles
length.
a Railway has just been finished for IL
ascent of Mount Vesuyius. It is 900 me
tres in length, and enables tourists to aacen
by il to the crater in safety.
The deepest well in the world is the on
recently finished at Buda Pesth, Hungary
being 5000 feet in depth. The temperatur
| of the water it yields is nearly l65 Fair.
The electric light is coming into genera
use on board Of steamships, and passenger
and seamen alike express themselves a
highly delighted with the new method O
illumination.
An exhibition of the arts and science
will be held at Nashville, Tenn, in cele
bration Or the hundredtt anniversary of tn.
settlement of that city, beginning on Apri
23d next and continuing until May 29th
The very bright star now to be seen neal
the horizon, about due south, is EsSirius, }
the dog star, and it is estimated by astron-
omers that it gives four times as much light
as any other star visible in our latitude.
A new comet was discovered last month
by Astronomer Gill. at Cape Town, South
Africa. The new clestial visitor is ap-
preaching the sun but will not probably be
visible in this country, without the aid of
telescope.
The reasons generally given by scientists
for the phenomenon of hearing sound
farthest just before storm, is that the air,
being moist, has more than its normal con-
Quoting power, and that the low living
sratas of clouds confnc the sound to the
earth.
DIR. Gould, of the Cordova University,
South America, reports the discovery of a
new and great comet in the neighborhood
Of the sun, passing northward-one which
it is stated that nations north of the eoua
tor may be treated to a sight of, at an early
day.
1t is estimated that about 5000 miles of
new road are now under contract, and it is
thought by men in a position to know that
more miles of railroad will be built during
1880 in the United States than during a1rv
year before.
Prof. M. Gamard, of France, it is stated,
has completely modified the form of the
phonograph, and claims to have
an instrument far superior to Mr.. Edison's
patent, and one that will become of practi-
cal utility, and come into general use.
An artesian well was completed at Day
enport, Iowa, last week, att depth of 500
feet. The pressure it is said carries the
water twenty-five feet above the surface of
the earth. The stream is six inches in di-
ameter and flows at the rate of 400 gallons
Of water per minute.
The preliminary steps have already been
taken for the holding of a worlds fair, in
New York city, in 1888. At a recent meet
ing ofprominent citizens and capitalists in
that great metropolis, a resolution was
adopted asking Congress to take measures
to give the proposed fair stotficial sanction
md aid commensurate to its importance. y
The manufacture of Glucose is becom-
ng one of the most extensive industries
n this country. Corn sugar is now used
or all the various purposes for which any
sugar is used, except for first class. con-
ectionery, and is not only used largely in
his country but great shipments are con-
tantly being made to Europe, where it is
II great demand.
In the five cent nickel we have the en-
ire metric system Of weights and meas
res. The diameter is two centineeters,
is weight is five granunes. Two Of these
;oins will weigh II 6ecagranD9e, and five Of |
hem placed in row will give the length
# the decimeter. The key to the measure
# length is also the key to measure of
apacity, as the kjzoliter is a cubic metre.
Scientists have adopted the theory that
he duration Of animal life should be five
ines the growth Of the animal Or being.
'hus, man gets his growth in twenty years
nd should live to be one hundred years
Id. The camel is eight years in growing
nd lives forty years. The horse reaches
natlfrity in five years, and seldom lives
eyond tWenty-five: and so with other
nimals.
The physical consequences of death con-
inue to battle scientists, and instead of the
rogress of science adding anything of
to what has always been known,
; has rather rendered to deepen the dis
nction between the visible part, which
eFishes before our eyes, and that which
re are ourselves, and to show that this
ersonality, with respect to its nature as
sell as to its destiny, lies quite beyond the
ange Of science.
The best copying pads now in use for
opying letters, etc., quickly, is made as
SLOWS: Take gelatine, 1 ounce, and
1ycerine, 81 fluid ounces; soak the gela-
ne over night. In the morning pour off
Il the water and melt both ingredients to
boiling heat, after the manner of melting
lue. Pour off in a shallow pan and allow
) stand ten hours or more, protected from
ust, when it is ready for use. Over one
undred impressions may be taken from a
ad made in this manner. 10 change the
orn, sponge off the face Of the pad with s
PONCE and little water.
Ravages Of Consllmption.-Cer ap-
alling statements were recently made by
physician TOT; medical class, in Buffalo,
{. Y. He announced that one-fifth of all
aankind die OF consumption alone, and +
ne-third of all from the raYages of taber-
les upon the bodily organs. including the
lngs. Comparing this mortality with that
rom yellow fever during the epidemic of t
87s, he said that it would require 40
ears of such epidemici Of yellow fever to
quail the devastation wrought by consump-
ION in q single generation in this country
lone, and $50 years of such work to equal I
he mortality caused by.tubercles in one
eneration in this country
More wonderful than the Telephone in
IS magic workings, is that Of the <Dia-
hote, a newly invented instrument by
7hieh people are enabled to see BY cleo
rieity. It's inventer, Dr.. E. E. Licks,
+ Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, calls it by
ais name, from two Greek words, dial