The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-26
FOREIGN BRIEFS.

fduduo. DAloou Jesuit priests, Inc
advance guard of large body expelled
from Nicaragua by order of the gov
ernment, have arrived.
London: The Irish party in parlia-
ment will give Parnell grand banquet
next week, on the occasion of the 35th
anniversary of his birthday.
London: A dispatch from Dart
mund, Prussia, says an explosion oc-
CURED in the Luies Tiefbar colliery.
Seventeen persons killed and five in
jured.
Vienna: Count Ignatieff, the Rus
sian minister of the interior, will pro-
pose to the council of the empire a re-
duction Between 150, ,000,0 and 2O0,-
0Oo, 900 in the military expenditures.
London: In the walking match, two
miles, open to all amateurs, Merrill,
American, won easily in fourteen min
utes and thirty-five seconds. beating
Beckley, of London, and Murphy, of
Highwate. Meyers, of New York.
easily won the 440 yards running race
in 40 As seconds.
Constantinople: 1t is stated that
Tissot, the French ambassador, before
going on furlongh informed the grand
Vizer that the French would advance
upon Tripoli if the fanatical intrigues
were carried on there. The porte has
ordered the authorities at Sierra and
Tripoli to prevent the entrance of the
French political agitator ambassadors.
The powers have protested against the
menaces contained in porte's note rela-
tive to the suppression of foreign post
offices in Turkey.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
Compiled for the Leader.
In six years. trees of the eucalyptus
globul,ts planted in Jamaica have be-
come one foot in diameter and sixty
feet in height.
One of the many novelties of the
forthcoming exhibition of electricity at
Paris will be an electrical cooking
range, in which M. Salignac will cook
great variety of meats by heat gener-
ated from the electric current.
1t has been affirmed by DIR. Arnott
that no wave of the ocean rises more
than ten feet from the ordinary sea
level, which, with the ten feet its sur
face afterwards descends, gives twenty
feet for the maximum height of the
entire wave.
1t is noticed that various substances
are formed during fires in coal mines.
Among them NJ. Daubree has discov-
cred at Commentry new magnetic
mineral which contains phosphorus and
small quantities of arsenic and sulphur.
This substance resembles various
natural minerals and some meteoric
stones.
The old alchemist, in their search
for the philosophers stone, left no
mixture of familiar or unfamiliar in
gradients untried. An ancient work,
called ''The Gold-Maker's Guide"
contains this promising formular:
"Take off the gall of black tom cat,
killed when the night approacheth, one
part; of the brains of night owl, TAX
en- from out its head when the morning
dawneth, five parts; mix in the hoof of
an ass when the tide turneth; leave it
until it doth breed maggots; place it on
thy breast-bone when the moon shineth
bright-and-thou wilt see sight
which the eye of mortal man ne'er BEL
held afore."
Quite recently, the curious fact has
been discovered by NJ. Van Tingham,
that many of the lower plants can live
and sometimes fruit very well when
they develop in oil alone, and far re-
moved from all contact with the atmos-
phere. Unpurified oils are sown with
spores, and then, if slightly moist
substance be immersed in the oil. it be-
comes covered with vegetation. Among
others, the common mould, Peniciliun,
glaucum, develops in oil and frnctifies
very well in the midst of the liquid,
but the introduction Of a small guam
tity Of water at first is necessary to
cause the spores to germinate. The
termination of these plants is due to
the oxygen dissolved in the oil, and
they possess the property of forming
water at the expense of the elements of
the oil.