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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11
Science.

In any reference to the physical his
tory of the sun the stupendous magni.
tude of its sphere must he kept wildly
present to the mind. With a diane
ter lO9 times larger than that of the
earth the solar orb looks out into space
from surface that is twelve thousand
times larger than the one which the
earth enjoys. The bulk of the sun is
1900, 600 times that of the earth. If
the surface of the sun were thin ex.
ternal rind or shell, and the earth
were placed IN the middle of this hol-
low sphere, not only would the moon
have space to circle in its usual orbit
without ever getting outside of the
solar shell, but there would be room
also for second satellite, nearly as
far again as the moon, to accomplish
similar course. The weie bit of the sun
is three hundred thousand times the
the weight of the earth, or, in round
numbers, two thousand millions OF
millions of millions of millions of tons.
The mean distance of the sun from the
earth is low so well ascertain ed,
through Investigations which have
been made in several distinct ways,
hat there can scarcely be in the esti-
nate an error of 100000 miles. The
distance at the present time given is
90 1856 900 miles. This measure is in
Itself so vast that If any traveller wera
% move at the rate of four miles an
hour for ten hours day, it would
axe him $500 years to reach the sun.
Sound would traverse the interval, if
5nere is anything in space capable Of
transmitting sonorous vibrations, in
fourteen years, and a cannon ball sus-
tanning Its initial velocity throughout
would do the same thing in nine
years. A curious illustration, attrlbu-
5ed to Professor Mendenhall is to the
effect that an infant, with an arm long
enough when stretched out from the
earth to reach the sun, would die of
old age before it could become con-
5cious, through the transmission OF
Che nervous impression from the hand
the brain that it had burned its
fingers. In order that the earth, thus
moving round the sun with chasm
of SO 100000 miles of intervening space
between them, may not be drawn to
the sun by the preponderant attrac
ton of its $50, 600 times larger mass, it
has to shoot forward in its path with a
momental velocity fifty times more
rapid than that of the swiftest rife
Oall. But, in moving through twenty
miles of this onward path, the earth
is drawn out of straight line by
something less than the eighth part of
an inch. This deviation is properly
the source from which the amount of
the solar attraction has been ascer-
tanned. IF the earth were suddenly
arrested in its onward flight, and the
momentum were in that way destroy
ed, it would be drawn to the sun, bv
the irresistible force of its attraction,
in four months, or in the twenty
seventh part of time which q cannon
ball would take to complete the same
journey.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

and paid good salaries; men of intelli-
gence and knowledge, and of integ-
rity and honesty of purpose; their
duties being to inform themselves of
every part of their district, it's wants
and capabilities to collect informa-
ton; go among the people; to settle
In the wooded parts thereof; to in
struct them in the use and care of TIM
Der, and how to save and utilize it. :;
to have meetings IN the country
chool-houses; to teach people who do
ct realize the value of our forests how
to care for them, etc. Not one person
In ten has any idea of the necessity of
care as to forest fires, and it all comes
from Ignorance. Foresters should col
iect and distribute information, and
advise as to the manner of cutting
timber. Probably as much timber, or
rs many trees in number, are destroy
ed each year through ignorance and
careiessness in cutting the pine tim Der
for sawlogs, as there is that are cut
and really used or taken to market.
AS matter of saving to the state at
large, the simple effects of an intelli-
gent forester, to educate the country
people, by going among them, and
giving them information, would pay
IN the end thousand salaries, TO wit:
1t is not generally known hat even d
branch broken from q hem o, k tree
kills 1t. The pine is also sensitive
tree; a broken limb or slight oucn
on one side brings on decay: hence
care should be taken i'll cutting.
Again, fires should not be allowed to
run, fer no pine comes up again on
burned land.
Lumbermen sending their men into
the woods, exploring or haymsking,
should charge them to take extra care
of camp. fires.
The northern part of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, and the upper pines of
Michigan, fifty to seventy We million
acres of land, is well calculated for
forest reserve or park, from which all
kinds of timber that grow in the mid
die and Northern states may be Judi
ciously taken, and still the main forest
remain intact, if it is intelligently ana
practically managed. The prairie
states do not now perhaps so much
feel the need of having such forest
to draw from, but they very soon will.
Vast amounts of timber for agricul-
tural implements, railroad ties, tele-
graph poles, fence posts, etc., ar
wanted each year. The demands in
crease as the prairies settle up. This
forest is the only one left. A thousand
things could be said on this subject,
but what Is wanted is prompt action
on the part of those in authority, good
laws made and executed, people edu-
Gated up to the point; and this can be
done by the right man or men in each
district of said forest, meeting the PEG.
pie at their town-houses, school-houses
and villages, and telling them what
they must do, showing them how to
do it, and making the common people
under ,tand that fires must be kept
down, and the originators punished
Ec.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

We will pay the above reward for any case
of Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Head
ness we cannot cure with Vests Vegetable
Liver Pills, when the directions are strictly
complied with: They are purely vegetable,
and never fail to give satisfaction. Sugar
Coated. Large boxes, containing 80 pills,
25 cents. For sale by all druggists. Beware
of counterfeits and limitations The genuine
manufactured only by John G. West & Co.,
The Pill-Makers," 1871 and 1873 Madison
St, Chicago: Free trial package sent by
mail, prepaid on receipt of Scent stamp.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11
The Rain-Band Spectrum

@. PiaZzi Smith, the Astronomer
Royal of Scotland, calls attention in
The London Times to the use and
value of the spectrOscope in foretelling
rain storms. This it does by showing
whether there is more or less than the
usual quantity of watery vapoI perme-
ating the otherwise dry gases in the
upper parts Of the atmosphere, this
watery vapor not being by any means
the visible clouds themselves, but the
invisible water-gas out of which they
gave to be formed, and which when
over abundant they produce rain. But
how does the spectroscope show to the
eye what is declared to be invisible In
all ordinary optical instruments 1t Ia
partly, says Prof. Smith, by it's power
of discriminating the differently color
cd rays of which white light Is made
up, and partly by the quality impress
ID on the molecules of water at their
primeval creation, bat only recently
discovered, of stopping out certain of
those rays so Disseminated and placed
in q rainbow colored order by the
prism and slit of the spectroscope, but
transmitting others freely. Hence 1t
is that, on looking at the light of the
sky through any properly adjusted
spectroscope, there is seen besides the
Newtonian series of colors from red to
violet, and besides all the thin, dark
Fraunhofer or solar lines, in one very
definite part-viz., between the orange
and yellow of that row of colors, or
spectrum" as it is called-a dark,
hazy band stretching across it. That
is the chief band of watery vapor;
and to see it very dark, even black,
one must look at where the sky is
brightest, fullest of light TO the naked
eye, at low, rather than a high angle
OF altitude, and either In warm
weather, or above all, just before
heavy rainfall, when there is and
must be an extra supply of watery
vapor in the atmosphere.
Any extreme darkness seen in that
water-vapor band beyond what is
usual for the season of the year and
the latitude of the place Ia an indica-
ton of rain material accommodating alb
normally; while, on the other hand,
any notable deficiency in the dark ness
Of it, other circumstances being the
fsame, gives probability Of dry
weather, or absence of rain for very
want of material to make it; and the
band has, therefore, been called.
shortly, "the rain band" Thus. also.
''the rain-band spectroscopes" have
been specially constructed by several
expert opticians in size so small as TO
be carriable in the waistcoat pocket
but SO powerful and true that a glance
of two seconds duration through one
Of them sufhces to tell an experienced
observer the general condition of the
| whole atmosphere. Especially. too.
OF the upper parts of it, where apv
changes-as they take place there al
most invariably earlier than beIo "
enable such an observer to favor his
friends around him with q greI sion
- that they are likely soon to ex perl,
ence.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

THE SENTINEL has larger circulation
than any aoeekly paper published in this
s;ty (.oiM one erception). This statement
vs are prepared to UerJy at any time.
Adpertisers aoiU do aoeU to remember this
tact, as oar adcertas,ng rates are loaoer
than those Of any other newspaper of equal
circulation.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

The circus man yelled 81 scold lem
onadew and the innocent maiden
from the rural districts allowed it was
shame, as it was J)o weak to tax
its own part.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

1t is an old and true saying that
opportunity has hair in front, but is
bald behind. II you catch her by the
forelock you can hold her, but If you
wait till She gets by, Iyour hand slips
and you lose her,
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

A visitor to baby show sums up
''For pure, unadulterated foolishness
about baby. father can 'ont foolish
all the rest of the family--yes, and l
will throw in the grandmother on the
mothers side, too"
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11
$500 REWARD!

Ask your druggist for it.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

1t is not so much a q 'e=tlon as to
whether or not a man can spare the
money to buy gun, as to whether or
not he can spare the boy.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-11-11

1t is reported that copper mines have
been discovered In Cerro de La Palma,
in the departmGn of Q lillOta.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31

tee to Democrat The Republican Senator'S would
naturally prefer to have their places on the COM
mitttees named by Republican than by Demo-
crat The only persons who would he displeased oy
such all arrang cement would be tho Tammany Sena-
tors. They could not expect to obtain from MI
HoskIns the positions OF prominence on committees
nor the power over the composition of special com
mittees that they seek to wiring from the ludeh
Democrats
Disappointed in the Senate tho Tammany mem
bers will naturally seek to grasp power IN the
Assembly This they can only secure oy
some sort of an alliance with the
Republicans. The alliance can only
consist in voting for the Republican candidate iof
Speaker with the hope of receiving III return va u
able places on committees. There have been rlin",S
that the Tammany members demand tne ;o Wiz ~
drawal of Mr. AlvOrd and the substitution OF
Charles s. Baker, Of Monroe county. a. the hepnp-
ican candidate for Speaker as CONDITION o. lh"iF
making such an alliance. The present noSiIe pI
Tammany Hall tO pose the directing spDlI Oh hC
Anti-MonopOly party il well known; hence tIie WISH
of the Tammany members TO vote for MT Baker III
stead of Mr. Avord the record of MIR BAKER Us
an Anti-MonopOlist, beng cOnSld dered mnmphaGhaoo
from his membership of the Hepburn Railway lnVeS-
tigating Committee The report OF slch an aliianco
of the Republicans and the Democrats on Sr. baker
worries the 'riden Democrats IN the Assembly. Mr.
Patterson their candidate for Speaker, went 10 Mr.
Alyord tonight and said "We!i il seems hat both
you and ! have got to withdraw for baker Mr;
AiyOrd replied: That may be so, but want 10 tclI
yOu this, that if Republican caucus ae-
sires iue to Withdraw III Mr. Bakers IN
terest am willing 10 do 80, but neither Mr. Baker
myself will submit t0 any snap game, any Doi'
ing by Republicans of the caucus nomina ION ior
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FOREIGN NOTES.
LONDON, Monday, j

LONDON. Monday, Jan. 60, 1882.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of Tie Times says
that Engineer Melville will form five separate parties 10
search for Commander De Long.
AT meeting Of the panellites in LONDON to-day 1t
decided oppose the cOtre at the coming seSson
Of Parliament
A dispatch to The Standard from St. Petersburg says
that it is feared that fishermen have persisted at
AstTakhan in terrific -alc.
The centenary Of The GiasgOr Herald celebrated
to-day by banquet, which attended by members OF
Parliament and other prominent citizens.
Ia Faieley to-day observed as public holiday on
the occasion Of the inauguration pf the Town Hail.
erected to the memory George A. CLARK, OF
Newark, N J.
A dispatch to The IoS from Berlin reports that the
German Government is about TO establish station on
Cumberland sound for the purpose % recording oDseTV
tons in the Arctic Ocran
The Calcutta correspondent Of The Times says "The
outbreak Of cholera the Allahabad fair did not
much mortality but the returning pilgrms are carrying
the Infection in ali directions"
The Times has rcaFon To believe that before leaving
office the French Ministry will in the Chamber of
Deputies today the proongaon Of existing coInt
treaties in the OF countries with ~Ei;h negotiations
for new treaties are pending
The Calcutta correspondent OF The Times lclecraphs
that according all accounts the Amecr OF Aghanistah
Is developing ferocy worthy of his most blood
prcdrcesSOr reign o. terror prevails al C&h, whcre
l. 100 persons imprisoned for political offences
A heavy SHOW STERN prevailed during the whole OF
Sunday IN North Wales, and considerable snow fcll in
some parts of England and Scotland A very severe
Orin experienced in the counties OF Dublin Kildare
and Wicklow, Ireland causing great damage to property
A Cairo telegram says that the deputatiOn Of the
Notables arr, I'd at understanding with the Gov
erumeut concerning most of the rules Of procedure
and have authorized Chcr Pacha tine prcmior to neS
tate arrangement with France aud England in regard
10 the budget.
The Rev. Adler delegate OF the Chief Rabbi. in
delivering address in regard to the persecution OF
the Jews in Russia appealed 10 hs hearers to help raise
million of pounds to carry O elcctuay the propOed
scheme OF enabling the Jews OF Russia Ia cngrdte 10 the
United States and Canada.
MONTREAL, Jan. 30.Cardina Simeoni, having written
letter OF reprOo to the opponents Of The Local College,
Montreal. an editorial appeared in lie Monde
the organ Of the Roman Catholic Church here,
denouucng the tone of the letter. The Bishop
called On the editor Mr. Uoude NJ p. to disown II,
would denOIuce the paper The editor writes TO the
Bishop stating that e could not repudatc the article
but he has transferred the control C tile paper % Others
who conscIeniiOualy advOcatc thc BlshOps Vows
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WAsnINGroN. Monday. Jan. 80.

WAsHINGrON, Monday, Jan. 80, l6S2.
Leave of absence has been granted to General Hurt
but, Minister to Peru, To return to this country.
Commander william T. sampson, U. 8. N, has been
ordered az assistant the Superintendent OF the Naval
Observatory.
IL is stated that Senator David Davis viii favor the
division OF Dakota and the admission OF the southern
portion as state
Sergeant Mason who tried to shoot Gueau, will not
he tried by the cour-mariial ordered TO at the
Washington Barracks I'm this city to-day
Among the Presidents callers to-day Senators
Riddeberger and Malone The latter was alone. Gov
ernor Cameron and Collector Brady OF Virginia accom-
panied Senator Riddleberger
Twenty young Indian children from the Usage Agency
in the Indian Territory will go to Carlisle, Penn
and begin course of study. All the expenses Of their
education Will be betrayed by the OsagO tribe.
Up to the close Of business today United states bonds
had been redeemed the Treasury Department as fol
lows: Under the l05th call, $l0l7s,9O0; under tho
lOGth call, which matured yesterday, $50, 2O0O
The Coroners jury in the OF Mrs. Conners. who
was shot dead through the window Of her house on
Saturday night to-day rendered verdict that the shot
fired by Nicholas Miles Whlle III stalc Vi III
tOXlcatiOn.
Judge Advocate General SWAIN to whom was referred
the charges preferred by General Wilcox against Coohe
f. A. Carr Pade hs report that ease 70 the Secretary
of War to-day, and II Is believed II WIN result III 'o
appointment Of u cOurt-martal To Try tue c"so'
In the case OF the Bcaubn Miranda Grant, the At
orneyGeneral says that the action Of the commissioner
was ertly n accordance with tho law and facts Tbs
drpison raye. the patcntees In the unulsufDed pos
session of nearly million acres oI Iau III NeN-'ieNcO
A delegation from Southeastern Dakota and the Black
Hills headed by Representative Pittgrew, had an in
teryew with the President today IN retereuce TO tho
adm- and division OF OF that Iefy; IL II uhuef-
stood tEey Will also urge the removal OF Governor
DruX4Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
A MINT NEEDED FOR NEw.YORK.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE


WASHINGTON, JAM Ex-senator Bayard has
bill pending in the Senate appropriating sum of
money not exceeding $780, 900 for the purchase of
land Ill Philadelphia on which to erect extension
of the Mint. The building will probably cost not
less than three-quarters Of million more. Con-
greSsman HutchiDs, of New-York, has introduced
bill making an appropria of $1,000000 for the
erection of mint in New-York City.
These two asures ought TO be considered to-
gether BY far the largest part of bullion coined in
Philadelphia goes from New-York and is transported
to and fro at the expense Of the Government. Since
the Assay Olice was established in New-York about
four hundred and seventy miionsi in gold have been
deposited there three hun red and twenty-five mill
ions of which were destined Tor the Philadelphia
Mint.
During the fiscal year of 1881, as reported by tho
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics the import of for
cign gold into New-York amounted to ninety mill
ions into San Francisco two millions, and into all
other ports, including Philadelphia, only two hum
dred and twenty-one thousand.
There is much complaint about the acid fumes
from the refinery of the New-York Assay O.ice and
the difficulty is rremediahle because the building is
too low for its surroundings. 1t is only question of
time when the whole structure must come down and
he rebuilt part of it ia already condemned as ui-
safe II is the opinion Of experts that II would be
measure of economy for the Government to sell the
Assay Office in New-Ycrk and purchase a site in
some other part Of the city, upon which 10 erect
both Mint and Assay Office Should that be done
10 extension to the Philadelphia Mint would be
necessary. The proceeds of the sale of the SITES 0i
City would probably be sufficient TO build and equip
the new Mint and Assay Office complete.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
POISONED BY A DRUGGISTS CLERK.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Jan. 30.--William Site,
age twenty three who lived with his widowed mother
at No "a Hanover ST. this city, Saturday evening sent
boy to the drugstore of Frederick Stevens 1T Main and
Satc-Gts for German EPSON salts, Of which hi' moth
er gave hin, n dose in water on Sunday morning. lie
swallowed the solution, and immediately asked his
mother what SHE had given him, as it burned Five
muutcs erward he became nnconHcions, aud expired
In about fifteen inmates. The authorities Immediately
took the case i'm hand The boy who sent Tor tho
medicine taken to the drugstore where II was pur
chased and identified Tho cerk who sold 1t to him The
clerk taken custody To await tho action oi the
Coroner The clerk had cold OIic acid instead OF Ep
salts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
THE GERMAN REICHsTAG.

BERLIN, Jan. 30-In the German Reichstag
to-day. Herr Boetticher the Secretary of State an
nounccd that the Bundesrstb had sanctioned the budget
passed by the RcchRtag and read imperial mes
sage closing the session of the Rechstag
In tie Prllssau Landtag to-day, Herr Bitter the Min
lister OF Finance anhOuDocd that in consequence OF the
odfcatous of the imperial budget passed by the Reich
stag the atrcuatory contribution Of Russia to the En-
pre will br reduced by the OF 6O0O.O00 marks and
the projected loan of 100000 marks will bewithdrawn
The Berlin correspondent of The Times says: Herr
SchOZeT takes full Instructions to negotiate with the
ule of the Falk laws"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31

recy after Kilparcks DEATH and asthey heard
OF tho Trcscott isson being sent to that country Mr.
Godoy feared the effect OF the Trescot mission and was
at dispatched to Washington counteract its nu
ence, and keep the United States from intervening on
behalf of Peru. When Mr.. Godoy landed In New-York
on Friday he found that Trescots instructions had
been revoked his mission destroyed and Chill left In
full possession Of the field. Mr. GOdoy at once took
heart aud courage and held b0asfu interview about
Chile victory He found his work had all been done for
him In the revocation Of Trescots Instructions Tho
same authority states that the property taken from
BY many IL ia placed higher, the district Of Tarapaca
alone being estimated worth more than 81
The cost OF the Chilli teen less than f6OOoooO
the larger part Of which has been collected from Peru
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
THE IRISH CONSPIRACY.

LONDON Jan. 30.-The Daily NeuS's Dublin letter
says:
The real cause OF the military renforcements and po
lice activity In Ireland 10 the extraordinary number OF
secret societies in Limerick and Claire The existence
OF these gives no crediby to the reports concerning
projected rising They purely agrsran and social
lstc associations supported by Irish American funds
The IN oriners appear to be plentiful II one man tells
story 10 the officials there may be doubts OF its TRUTH but
when three four nformers tell identical story It is
Impossible to disbeeve II, and this what is happening
The persons under arrest for the outrages in the
Mistrcct district will he also charged with treason
felony. There were five moro arrests to-day under
the Coercion act at Castle Island
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

LEGISLATIVE AND PERSONAL AFFAIRS.
THE REFUNDISG BILL IN THE sEYATE-MEAsUREs
FOR IMPROVING NEw-YORK BAY-wHY LIEU
TENANT MDONALD WAS ARRESTED.
In the course of the debate on the Refund
ing bill in the Senate yesterday, Mr.. Edmunds
asked the opponents of National banks some
questions which no one vcntured to answer
The reports of the Government engineers on
n slip-canal through the NewJersey flats were
sent TO the Senate; in the House q bill was
providing for a permanent deep
water channel through Sandy Hook Bar The
arrest of Lieutenant Mcdonald on Mexican
soil is explained.