The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-01

species OF hsh now known TO men of science
when man sits on the river bank half a dav
watchinS cork idly Hoatingon the stream, and
comes home with a sunburned nose and not a
single specimen of these 1000 species, he is in
cllned to think that Dr. Gunther has made
mistake of several thousand.
=" Does our talk disturb Won p" asked
one of company of talkative ladies to an old
gentleman sitting In railroad station the other
afternoon =" No, ma am" was the naive reply
l have been married nigh on to forty years."
Last year &c, ITO new houses, cover
ing length of eighty. six miles, were built 10
the metropolitan police area of London, which
now contains 4, 70S, 657 persons, the largest num-
Der probably ever packed within fifteen miles
OF a common centre. Out of this multitude
twenty three children and 154 adults were en-
tirely lost.
The newspapers have lust made
their best point on DIR. Talmage They report
that recently he felt somewhat i'll while he was
out OF town and he sought the services of
strange physician. After a long examination
the strange physician said he ought to exercise
his lungs
The seventh session of Johns Hop
klns University was opened with seventy new
STUDENTS. PRESIDENT Gilman, in his opening re-.
marks, referring to the great prosperity of the
institution, said that there are now 1876 students
In the University and that of the 449 who have
been graduated from it, ITO are instructors and
professors In other colleges and universities.
The country schools of Maine are NOT
as rule open more than three or four months
IN the year. Some Of the districts are deficient
IN pupils. In one county there are districts
where the average attendance at school was on1v
hye scholars. There is a district near Augusta
where forty years ago the average attendance
was nifty now 1t Is but ten.-IHdepeadeat
Rev. George B. Allen, of Petaluma
Cohfornla' presbyter of the Protestant Epis
copal church, with his church and congregation
now called Grace Reformed Episcopal church
has been admitted into the communion of the
Reformed Episcopal church by Bishop Fallows
and the Standing Committee of the Jurisdiction
of the Northwest and West
"A party of Baptist ministers in con-
versatiOn at Marthas Vineyard, were discussin,
the true pronunciation of the word Khedive
which events In Egypt have made prominent
In English speaking countries One insisted
upon hee dive another on Keedeve and others
upon still different pronunciations. until one
member OF the party, who had lately returned
from Egypt ana who had spoken with the
BRITISH protected official himself who bears the
dubious name IN dispute, set the matter at rest
by saying they were all wrong and that the
Egyptian pronunciation is las far as tvpes can
give lt) hed- o-wah In the language used in
Egypt there is no sound of V, and that letter is
orally rendered W. as Derwish Pacha for Der
wish
ELECTRIC LIGHTS FOR RAILROAD
CARs-A car fitted out with an apparatus for
electric lighting was run on the night of October
To- over the pennsylvania Railroad between
Jersey City and Newark Thirty Faure ac
cumulators, or storage batteries, WEIGHING 600
pounds, are carried under the car halfway be
tween the trucks. The time needed for c6arg.
ing the batteries is four hours and half with p
small Edison dynamo machine, recurring one
and one quarter horse power. Seven Edison
elgnl candle lamps were used that evening and
gave steady and amply sufficient light of
pleasant quality. Once charged, the batteries
Will run the lamps for sixteen hours.
-CoTToN Mills IN THE SoUrH.-Tbe
New Orleans Tines Democrat says that in the
Pasv TWO years 4lS'OOOO0O has been invested in
cotton mills IN the So&th, and their number is
increasing daily. On September l, 1881, the
southern mills (that is, those in the cotton
States) contained $4,000 spindles on Septem
Der l, 1882, they contained $50 ,36l spindles
an a. increase OF 10 percent, and to day (ncluding
the Maryland mills they boast of 1887 400
splndles. That authority also states that tbe
boom still continues, and supports certain
predlctlons that there will be at least an in
crease OF 10 per cent. in spindles at the Soutb
during the present business year
SOUNDS FROM A RAINBOW of
the most wonderful discoveries in science that
mas been made within the last year or two is
the TACT that beam Of light produces sound.
beam OF sunlight is thrown through a lens ON
a glass vessel that contains lamp black. colored
SILK, or worsted, or other substances. disk
having slts or openings cut in it. is made TO re-.
Volve swiftly IN this beam of light, 50 as to cut
It up, thus making alternate flashes of LIGHT and
SHADOW. On putting the ear to the glass vessel
strange sounds are heard as long as the flashing
beam Is falling on the vessel Recently a more
wonderful discovery has been made. The beam
OF sunlight Is made to pass through a prism. so
as to produce what is called the solar spectrum
or rainbow. The disk is turned and thecolored
| ilght OF the rainbow is made to break tbrougb
u. Now place the ear to the vessel containing
the SILK, wool, or other material AS the col.
ored lights of the spectrum fall upon it. sounds
VIII be gwen by different parts of the spectrum
and there will be silence in other parts For
instance, II the vessel contains red worsted, and
the green light flashes upon it. loud sounds will
be gwen. Only feeble sounds will be heard
when the red blue parts Of the rainbow fall upon
tne vessel and other colors make no sounds at
all. Green silk gives sound best in red light
Every Kind OF material gives more or less sound
IN different colors, and utters no sound in
others. The discovery is a strange one. and il
is thought more wonderful things will come from
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