Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-12-16

nected with an electric battery
When the balloon has assembled to
the proper height, the explosive 10
stouched Off by means of electricity.
The terrible shaking up" and con.
cussions of the cloud region that
will follow these explosions, will,
the inventor thinks, change the
clear MONDAY sky into bIackened
clouds and bring down copious
rains at his bidding.
& good suggestion is made by q
San Francisco gentleman, es a
means of preeaution and certainty,
and to prevent the too frequent
practice of repeating at elections,
and of fraudulent registration. 1t
is that Of photographing each voter,
and on the back of each portrait to
write so much of the individuals
history as relates to bis birth, patu.
raliz.tion, etc. The cost would be
no greater than the present system
of registration. Voters could be ar.
ranged alphabetically and when a
vote has been deposited, the voters
photograph can be taken down,
numbered to correspond with the
number On his ticket, and laid away
in box prepared for that purpose.
A man subscribing himself as "a
Common Sense Engineer" writes
the Scientific american, in lengthy
communication, proposing plan by
which he holds it possible to trans.
port freight and passengers by rail
from New York city to San Fran
cisco, distance of some 5000 miles
in ten hours. His plan is to divide
the distance into thirty parts, with
statIone at every 100 miles. The
track which is movable, is divided
into sections and is put into and
continued in rapid motion by sta.
tionary engines at each station.
Thus locomotive under full head
of steam on the rapidly moving
track is carried forward at lightning
speed, while the wear and tear Of
machinery is no greater than upon
other railways. The writer fails to
tell US what the passengers and
freight would be good for when de.
livered at the end of the journey.
Parties engaged in the excava-
tions commenced a short time ago at
Villagrande, (Sardlnis) report the
discovery of SOM remarkable in
struments, if as belived by oompe.
tent persons, they belong to the
bronze epoch. Among these ins tru-
ments are two bronze saws and a
four pronged fork said to hav 9
been found in the same repository.
In some new excavations opened in
the vicinity of former one, near
laramie. there have also been re.
comfy discovered, not far from tn 9
surface of the ground, several am
cient tombs of unique and peculiar
structure. In one of these were
found twenty-five skeletons in var
ious positions. The tombs are all
dug in the rocks and covered over
with slabs of stone.
The statue of Joan of Arc, whose
history, many of our readers are
familiar With, as being the glorious
peasant girl who became so famous
in France. during the reign of King
Charles VII, was rec emily erected
at Compiegne, France, with a grand
ceremony. The statue is the hand
work OF the celebrated sculptor, Nj
Leroux, and is said to be one of the
finest pieces OF workmanship of its
kind in all Europe.
While workmen were excavatinp
recently near Bath, England, most
important discovery was name in
the shape of perfect Roman bath,
measuring some eighty feet in
length and forty feet 10 width. The
discovery was made at \ depth of
-"o vnpu is quite uecp anu 20 .fuvu
with lead three. quarters of IN inch
in thickness.