The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-07


The Next President-Harbor Excur.i.n-
Victoria BridRc-Thick rce-Grand Trunk
workshops. sc.
correspondence % the Richmond Disp.tchl
MONTREAL, CAN, August 30, lSs2.
7 think | promised in my last a more
particular reference 20 some OF the papers
presented before the Association. But LET
me first saw that there is often mi.appre-
hcnSion aS 10 what is 10 be expected from
Those meetings. Indeed, some Il the news
panerS here in Montreal complained rather
ihai the papcrS were all SO abstract. So i'm
nractical. Now, this Is Just hat they should
IL. The scientist deals only with princl-
nle>. and leaves the practical working ont
N these and their applications in daily lie
~ ,,,c inventor and the artisan. Brit the
al,>frac; discussion Of principles is almost
inevitably airy and unatiractiye. BY the
way,
STRIXING ILLUSTRATION
n this was referred 70 in an address the
other night by Dr. Haughton. Of the Dub
lin University, Ireland. He stated that he
remembered well that when some years aco
Dr. Ioule ,hc pronounced il Jowle) read
f,iore enc oi the sections Of the British
Association his now famous paper on the
Mechanical Equivalent Of Heat, which has
almost rcyoluiionized the whole % modern
physical science. not single visitor was
present. and it attracted no attention from
ihe public whatever.
The public wants TeSuitS-ncw results,
startling discoveries. novel inventions. that
viii n once affect society and business;
and 70 Is altogether impatient ~ the slow
elaboration Of mere principles. 1t loves -
see new structures going up and cleaning
forth with piGnaclcS and towers and bells
and dags: Dut il has no patience with this
preliminary pilo-drlving and foundations
.yiay that makes no shoe whatever after
al.
BIT must neither apologize nor moral
ize. pa; proceed. will take first the pa
PER, on
STANDARD TINE.
This subject was well treated in q Dis
match editorial some months ago. and i
q, -.reral interest. or course the idea is
a. l,cid. X possible. the trouble which in
th,>c dav, Of lon- Journeys and the to-thc-
minute punciuality Of banks. railroads.
and IL. Ike. arises from having different
Ioc.l ti,rr,--such o. Washington time,
Ri m0nd time. New York time. &c. d..
pr instance. noticed the other day that
inr clock or tie Loaf tina; took Us 10 que
ha. had tr0 minutc-hands, one keeping
some ton minutes before the other: and
found that one wa, intended % give Non
,real time and the other Quehee time. AT
SEQ the evil. bUt the remedy Is not so easy.
one popular plan. presented especially ~
M Elliott. ~ Washington, l. Z divide
un thi, country into throe or four parts. 80
tl.t The local times viii differ by exactly
rrs bor. THIS aii the eastern part II the
Un.fed Sta,es would Use
"EASTEES TINE
,sv tie timc 81 New York or Nashin-ton;
then all tie central part Ct the country
would Use - Valley" timc-S2y the time oil
- Louis. which would Dee iust one kou-
behind eastern time; and N the western
u.rt would Us. Mountain timc sly thai
= som, qoin, ont West. whose time would
I'd. inst one hour later than Valley time.
Bv t.., scheme The bulk Of our great coun-
t~r would have only three times, and these
differing conveniently by just one hour
from Zach other But others are more
radical. and propo>eto have but one time
>sv Washington time. for tho whole United
St.ie>: and others still 70 yet farther and
would have but
ONE rIHE FOR TIE WHOLE WORLD;
a. tb.t when the bell, in Richmond struck
10 O'Clock every ri-ht-Comg clock on The
Globe would chime i'm and strike 10 also N
ta- same moment. This plan. which ac-
cords with the Cosmopolitan spirit Of the
arc. viii probably 40 some time be adopted
and SLOWLY come into use. / see objections
and difficulties. especially a. 90 the de>ls-
nation 4 the dd4 10 which our ID O'Clock
inst p, i.rred % Shall hc held % belong IN
dir rent parts 81 The world; but AT 'ucn
d,mcultio- NAV disappear before carer III
arrangement ard in the presence OF m"hl-
fe,r advantages.
Farthe present tho matter stands mus
Congress- rss-el list winter. al the in>ti-a-
lion II certain learned societies, It>o' =
t..D authorizing De Presiden. u the n'cI
~t,fo, TO call nm international convention Ia
consider and pass upon the whole qllcs uoh.
and our Association not only approved
Ills. but Amounted committee TO CO.
OPERATE with similar committees n tAe mat
te-. 30 that IN due time we may nave lu-
thor hight in this direction. .-
Professor g.. f. Barker. q the OnNel-
,liy Of Pennsylvania, read paper on
sroRAGE-DATTEIIEs.
Now. th:. i, q really practical matter
since II relates 10 the electric iighi ana olhei
publications OF electricity. All VINO nave
,ecn the electric light know now uhs'tHu'
Il j.. how it flickers and starts. Now I'M mn
i pq-f!y due % the fact that tlle erect. =. -
lamp is tel directly from the machine, Nl4
no intervening reservoir or constant sup
Div. II Is As if the water from tue rive
were pumped directly into our stree
pines: il would be sure then 10 COM
from our hvdrants in Jets ana spuI.3 t''
stead u regularly, a. now. NV, M M
stor,ce-batfcries OF Piante, a. improved
first by Faure and recent! -? gntoat
rrornissd "a remedy in part this deiec'
rbcv Lv a corr Of reverse action, in sens
nco,;yo,,i,fe the electricity. 80 that when pu
into the circuit they equalize ana ste'1'.
the floyy as (y-wheel >teadies . machine
And furthermore. they can when J''eu
"a 70 sneak. with electricity, De mo, =
abouf from place 20 place, 80 Una
one could carry in wagon the means y
immediately making an electric ligh' 10 All
desjred Mace. This has been DONE an
vessels have crossed the Atlantic hghteu y
elcc,ricjty which had been shipped aDoHi
iust a. their fresh meats or theT ca,iio'
frri,. we're shipped. / suppose, lnoeeu
maj the ferry-boat i'm which crossed ioL
Jcrsey civ to New York was thus lighted
for il had the ,,.,,re
nTArrTTrL IScANDEscENT LIGHTS
which require an extremely steady curlc ~
Tb..s incande.cent lights. by the way AZ
xerv he@utiiul. and scarcely at all ike "a
ordinary or arc lights that we had IN hic ,l
- a.. winter. The former are nc
blUe and chastity like the IdteT but are Ele
and vsJlow, like gas light slightly Inbnslneo