Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
Reported for the Grant County HLRALD
Popular Science Notes.

Reported for the Grant County HERALD
Popular Science Notes.
That scientific and notably practi
cal man, Mr. Eads, who planned aud
80 successfully engineered the con.
struction Of the famous st Louie
bridge, the iettes at the mouth of the
Mississippi river, and the mproyised
iroTclads Of the late American war.
now lays before ne world a plan of
ship railway for the American Isth-
mus, at or near Panama, NIcarauga
or Gehuantepec, over which to trans
port, bodily, ships of all sizes, inolud
lng cargo ana passengers from tht
Atlantic to tho Pacific ocean and
wee versa The maximum cost Of
the road at Panama, including lar.
bors, is estimated by Capt. Eads OF
$4,000, 000, a much less sum than
would be required to construct can
Oh Not few Of the abest and
most experienced engineers and
shipbuiiders Of the world have pro
uounccd this plan Of a ship railway
entirely practicable and much more
economical than a canal for the sans
purpose. In a careful estimate OF
trOllic, with q charge Of two dollars
per ton, it is stated that q revenue
would be derived sufficient ia yitla d
net profit of 10 per cent on the o4pi.
talinvested.
Nj Bel, the well known iuyento,
% The Telephone announces uew
sud sli,l more remarkable dscov +,
than that which las already mad.
lis meme so famous. 1t is taat u
producing and reproducing Of sauu3
by The uudn'atiors of simp', ray u
heht. Mr.. Bells new instrument +.
calls tho 'photophone," and unlk,
tae telephone, which, il is WI
known conveys sound from one vi
brs,'n2 dlsk to another by means oil
wires charged with electrjcitv, The
sound is conveyed from one vibra,
iag disG 60 another ~ simple r9\
at light without any CONNECTING
wires whichever Wall the experi.
wen,- TINS far made have been con
juctcd over short distances only
they have been very satisfactory
and there il every reason to believe
ths, similar results may be obtained
as tar as beam o. light can be n
Quoted. The practical value of thl,
discovery may well be imagined Ia
be very great, and the world will
doubtless wait with impatient curl
esijy tor further Developments
The wonders of the telegraph are
shwn in ,be recent sending of a dis
patch Of sixty nine words from Aus.
tfalia to London, distance of 49,.
SOS miles, the time occupied in lis
transit being ihirty-three minutes
The message was dispatched at l p
ii and reached It's destination at 3:4G
NJ. on the same day, or Q hour.
aud : minutes before the hour of is
dispatch The route of the message
wa. over the lines of the Victorian
snd South Australian colonies, the
eAblss the Eastern Extension, Aus
tralasja ana China Telegraph com
pauy and the hines Of the Egyptian
ana French Governments.
\ novel method tor the taking NJ
sud putting of OF passengers without
the stopping OF trans is proposed by
VI. llarerl, OF Paris, and railwa,
of that section ia preparing TO pat the
operation to practical test. \ wait.
ING car is provided at every station,
into which the passengers gathei
before THE arrival Of the tram. 4.
the train passes the station the real
car, when contains only passenger,
for such station, is cut loose anl
s.le-traeked, while the waiting ca,
Of Che depot is gathered up by a sim.
pie device aud coupled on, to act az
rear coach to the train TO the next
station, where the same cutting of
end grabbing up process takes place
-tae motion OF the train being bur
iltlle clicked at each point.
\ new telegraph line has Just been
completed by the Signal Service,
across tits northwestern terrltories
from Bismarck, Dakota, to Daytop,
Washington Territory, crossing the
Rocky Mountains by Sohon Pass.
Offices for the transaction Of Gem
nercial and other business have
been established at the following
points Bismarck, Rapid CITY aud
peadwood, Dakota; Bozeman, Hell
eoa and Deer Lodge, Montana Spo.
kane Falls, Colrax, Almata, Pomeroy
and Dayton, Washington; and Lew
iston, Idaho
With view of encouraging a SCI.
entifc agriculture aud the promotion
OF agricultural improvements, IN.
Bengal Government has created two
annual special scholarships 81 $1,000
each, 10 be he'd by scteuee graduates
of the Calcutta University 81 Cyren.
cester college.
Professor Peters, of Clinton, al
ncuuces to the Smithsonian Instlta :
The discovery by himself Of planet
Of the ninth magnitude, ~ one hour.
twenty six minutes aud twenty sec
ends right ascension, eight degrees,
flty'three minutes north declenslon,
with daily motion of fifteen min
ntos south.
a mandatory in Germany is
turning ont over q ton day of glu-
eose made from old linen rags The
article produced is said TO DO chemi.
eally identical with grape sugar, is
ehesp, and enters largely into the
Manufacture OF corrections and
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