The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-11-24
THE RIVER PRESS.
OUIEN sABE.

QUEEN sABE.
a chick en- lived a chicken died;
His drumsticks and his wings were fried;
His feather by a dealer dried,
And, very shortly after, dyed.
Soul he had none; admitting that,
How comes it? There, upon her hat,
His plumes-a mortal chicken's-rise
A glorious bird of paradise.
The Detroit Public Library, which re-
opened to the public on November 1st, con-
tains about az, 900 volumes. The ''fxed To-
cation" system for classification and number
ing has been adopted.
-Nordenskjold has ordered a vessel TO be
built at the mouth of the Lena, whence he
will set out IN 1882 on another voyage of dis
covery in the Arctic seas. By going over
land through Siberia to the mouth of the Lena
he hopes to ''steal q march" on the brief,
open season.
The sarcophagus of Roger of Tuscany,
| Bishop Of Lausanne, who was buried in Lau-
same Cathedral IN 1920, was opened q few
weeks ago. The body was almost intact, the
features were perfectly recognizable, and the
| six and a half centuries had not suficed to
destroy the texture of his episcopal robes.
Targets representing portions of the sides
Of the armored vessels-of-war are shortly to
be constructed, for experimental practice
with the new Nordenfeldt shell gun and the
Hotchkiss gun, with which competitive trials
will be made, as recommended by Captain
Hopkins. Fifty more Nordenfeldts have
been ordered, making 900 in all.
"A Wurtemberg inventor has recently ex-
hibited some toothed gear wheels made OF
leather instead of metal, the advantages
claimed for them being that they have a much
quieter and more elastic run, are extremely
durable, and require no fabrication whatever.
These gear wheels are prepared from raw
buffalo hides, thoroughly cleansed from all
hair, flesh, etc., and glued together in as
many layers as,are necessary to produce the
breadth of wheeErequired. The cementing
is of course effected under very heavy pres
sure, as in a hydraulic press, this being kept
up until the glue has completely hardened.
From the sheets or plates prepared according
to the methods thus described, the teeth are
| cut out, of uniform size and pattern, by saw
and chisel.
Prof. Wolf, in q paper on solar spots and
terrestrial phenomena, expresses the opinion
that DR.. Koppen's theory of there being q
perfect parallelism between the changes in
solar spots and the changes in terrestrial
temperature, though perhaps correct at GER
tain epochs, at other times presents some re-
markable discrepancies. His conclusion is,
that though there has seemed to be really no
close connection between temperature and
sun spots. it is known that precisely in those
years where the temperature ceases to follow
the solar spots, there also the curves OF mag
netic variations exhibits u remarkable dis
cordance; and, further, in respect to the be-
havior of these phenomena in the years 177S
and 1889. Prof. w. characterizes it as one of
the most remarkable enigmas in terrestrial
physics.
The Committee or Abstract Philosophy
made their monthly report as follows:
sDoorin de past month dis committee has
bin able to accumulate some valyble inform
alton to de world at large in gineral an to ois
club IN particular. We has diskivered cat a
bar'l of new cider has an attraction equal to
a pressure of 500 POUNDS to de squar' fat.
We has diskivered dat de objective pint of
life am purity ebenly divided between becoaa-
in a preacher, becomin o Congressman an
becomin a champion. A lame dog does net
limp to favor q lame leg, but to favor hisself.
Women talk to get rid OBJ dar foolish
thoughts. Men do not hate as intense fur an
injury as dey 90 fur a favor. If de charae.
ter of a nan kin be read by de bumps on his
head, de naturv of a boss should be known
by the puffPs on his hind legs. A sick mans
generosity lasts no longer dan he am able to,
mil IN hia own b,1&aa 2,