National Republican., 1881-01-07
PERSONALITIES.
GARFIELD loves to swim.

PERSONALITIES.
GARFIELD loves to swim.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has been visiting De-
troit
SARA BERNHARDT has netted S1S0000
thus far.
JEFFERSON DAVIS and his wife are going
to Europe next summer
THE Prince of Wales started the hideous
fashion Of wearing ulsters.
GENERAL GRANT is not giving much at
tention to politics at present
EPEs SARGENT wrote "A Life on the
Ocean Wave" about forty years ago.
Hon. STEPHEN PRESTON, Minister to the
United States from Hayti, is at the Arlington.
Mr.. FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance
speaker, is now conducting revival in Pittsburg.
Mrs. CoRNRLL's first reception was held
last evening at the executive mansion in Albany.
Ex-SECRETaRY Boutwell, has joined a
law finn in Boston, and will again enter into active
practice.
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE and her
family have gone to their winter home at Man
DARN, Florida.
FISH COMMISSIONER PARKER is stocking
the streams of Nevada with catfish from ten to four
teen inches long.
THE engagement of Miss May DreXel,
daughter of the banker, to Mr.. Charles Stewart of
Philadelphia, is reported.
LIEUTENANT-C COMMANDER GoRRINGE is to
deliver a lecture on the Egyptian obelisk in New
York next Monnay evening
Mrs. JANE II. LONG, who was known
as The Mother of Texas" because of her great
age and State pride, died at Richmond, in that
State, a few days ago.
4 MENTOR writer says that servants
ruin President, and that Mr.. Hayes, with the
most rigid economy, has been compelled to spend
q scJd deal of money.
PRESIDENT HAYES and the White House
during 1850 cost the Government s11996 $4,000 of
which Mr.. Hayes received as his salary, the other
s69,964 being for White House expenses.
AUGUST LEFFLER's wife had pneumonia
at Fond du Lac, and he was advised to lay warm
flat-iron on her chest. He was drunk when he ap-
piled the remedy, and caused her death by using
a red-hot iron.
JUDGE PARDEE, of New Orleans, who has
been on the bench of Louisiana for twelve years,
will probably be appointed to the place made
vacant by Justice Woods, who has gone upon the
Supreme bench. Judge Pardee was the colonel of
Garfcld's old regiment.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HAMILTON FISH Tuesday
evening entertained at No. $50 East Seventeenth
street. New York, a company of distinguished peo-
pie. The party included General Us. Grant and
Mrs. Grant, the Rev. DR.. Henry c. Potter and Mrs
Potter, General Lloyd Aspinwan and Mrs. Aspin-
wall f. W. Stoughton and Mrs. Stoughton, Ed
wards PieFrepont, Judge John r. Brady and Mrs
Brady, DR.. and Mrs. Barker and Mr. and Mrs.
Astor.
DR.. A. ID. LAWRENCE JEwETT is staying
with his family ct the Arlington. DR.. Jewett
is II son of the late Admiral JeWett of the
Brazilian navy. Admiral Jewett was an American
by birth. He raised the first flag of Brazilian con-
stitutional independence, and has been called
" The Lafayette of BRAZIL When jefferson
placed the junior officers of the American navy
in command of the then so-called gun
boats" he handed in his commission and
joined in the struggle for liberty with Bolivar.
Upon his return; being sent for by Dom Pedro
he sailed for the Brazils, taking his own vessel.
After also that successful revolution he was
complimen;ed by the Emperor, who said to him
" Commodore, twice you have saved my crown"
Engineer SHOCKS work On Steam Boilers.
work destined to be an authority in its branch
of applied science is Steam Boilers: Their Design
Construction, and Management, by William H.
Shock. Engineer-in-Chfeta and Chief of the B1reau
of Steam Engineering, United States Navy. 1t is
published by d. Van NOStrand, No. % Warren
street, New York. We may say at the outset that
this handsome quarto reflects great credit OH the
printers and engravers concerned in its produe-
ton. 1t contains thirty-six full page and double
page finely engraved plates which are placed at
the end of the volume, and $50 cuts inserted in
the text. 1t Is printed on fine calendered paper and
is altogether triumph Of American Typography.
The text is divided into nineteen chapters.
whose headings alone indicate its scope.
and the manner in which the various diyi-
siOns of the subject are treated fairly entitle
the author Gsay, he does in the preface that he
has supplied want long felt need in this partic-
ular branch of engineering and construction"
His sho OFT Introductory chapter tells us of the
used in the construction of boilers in
the earlier days of the steam engine why COPPER
was superseded by plate iron, the latest forms of
boilers due TO the introduction of compound and
high steam pressure the essential paris of a steam
boiler. how infinitely forms may vary conditions
which determine the features of marine boilers
and particularly those affecting boilers in war
steamers. The general subject thus stated he
takes up - combustion in chapter which gives
us the latest chemical knowledge Of fuels and their
constituents, tie latest data on tenperatJIFCS of
ignition and the total heat of combustion. Taking
in, rs il does all the facts relating To fuel as 4
source of power. it necessarily gives with all the
precision attainablc, the figures for calculating the
important elements of furnace draugiltS He now
proceeds 10 exaininethc transmission of heatand
evaporation q most important consideration for
on the eiic.eHcy the heating surfaces depends
rate of steam production, and so leads Ip 70 the
latest direction which inveutiyeneSs in steam
engineering is takiEs-namely, the use of super
heated steam. It's economy of fuel is undoubtcd
ana the only other question 10 be answered is
that of "the bulk weight, and cost of the super
heating apparatus, or the labor and expense OF
keeping 1t i'll working order and its liability to de-
The chapter on d" Materials" is in
teresting even 10 the lay reader who takes tine
slighteS. interest in metallurgy. The use of con
per, brass the Invaluable phOsphorbrOnze cast
iron, wrought iron, and lai!erly steel which i'm
proved processes of manufactures have made
is treated historically and scientif-
caly invaluable tables of weights Of iron used fJ
plates and rircts being appended. The chapter,
on Testing The Material" and q Principles OF the
Strength OF Boilers involve matters of great mo
ment 10 the profession and not less TO the public
We now come TO the making ofthe boiler and this
is exhaustiyely considered in ten chapters which
take the engineer from the design on paper TO the
boiler set up and ready for its final tests As indi-
eating the miIiGencss OF the details given We may
say that these ten chapters on construction are
divided into eighty eight sections, which includes
mass Cftabuia eli data and mathematical formulas