The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-12-29
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Speaking about bearings and friction, the
Scientific American says: I" In all cases tie
journal should give space enough for a film
of oil, especially for high speeds under
which it may become heated and slightly
expanded. Many journals and boxes are
injured by binding, the consequence of q
too fnical fit.
A very successful endless chain towing
system has been tried on that most Difficult:
of navigable rivers. The Rhone, and des-
cribed by N. Dupuy de LONE before the
Academy of Sciences, Paris. Two endless
lateral chains are employed. worked with
independent machinery by a single hand,
serving at the same time to direct the
course of the vessel.
Herr Krupp's great establishment at
Essen has its own water and gas works. 1t
contains %, 900 gas burners in addition to
the electric lamps. It has its own chemical
laboratory, Photographic and photographic
establishments, and printing and binding
shops. There are about fifty miles of tele-
graph wires and thirty-tive telegraph sta
tons belonging to the works.
Fishes now living in the Suez Canal have
formed the subject Of a paper by DIR. c..
Keller. Up to the beginning Of the present
year eleven species from the Mediterranean
have penetrated the Canal as far as Suez.
The Red Sea, on the other hand, gave no
fewer than twenty-five species, which, how
ever, have only for the most part scarcely
reached halfway toward the northern en-
trance.
Marriage, as practiced among the negroes
Of ~Senegambia, has been written upon in a
very entertaining way by NJ. Berenger
Feraud. As in other parts of Africa, the
parental tie is slight, divorce is a matter OF
everyday occurrence women are to all
intents and purposes slaves, and the mar
riages are attended with elaborate cere-
monials, simply as pretexts for amusements
and intemperance.
1t is said that a Hambufg manufacturer.
converslng with his store-room manager by
telephone, received a reply which annoyed
him, and replied in an insulting manner
The manager pretended not to have heard
the remark. and asked to have it repeated,
at the same time inducing a colleague to
take his place and receive the second edi-
ton. In this name he secured q witness.
n is now proceeding against his employer
for libel.
NJ. Vieusse. principal medical officer of
the medical hospital at Oron, states that
sweating of the feet, under what
ever form it appears, can be quickly cured
by carefully conducted friction with the
of bismuth, and even in the few
cases where this suppresses the abundant
sweating only temporarily, it still removes
the severe pain and the fetidity which ac- !
company the secretion. DR.. Vieusse has
never found any i'll consequences to follow
the suppression of the sweating.
A paper of value to dyers has been read
by NJ. Horace Koechlin, of the Industrial
Society of Mulhouse. It relates to the txa-
hon OF colors by means of gelatine rendered
lnsoluble by means of potassium dichromate.
colors and certain analine colors are
'hickened with gelatine and printed upon
cloth prepared with sodium h~yposulphite
md then passed through potassium dichro.
The colors bear soaping at boiling
and sustain the action Of sunligh.
alteration. h,
The so-called "Maye," or May Queen of
a festival by which the month Of
Aay IS celebrated in Southern France. has !,
'een traced back by DR.. Berenger-Feraud
o the ancient cult Of Maia, the mother of s
dercury among the founders and Greek I
olonlsts OF Marsailles. In modern times he i
lolds that the worship Of the Pagan Maia ,
las been transferred to the Virgin Mary, in I
those name aims are solicited for the little $
who. yelled aud nearly buried in I
overs, is supposed to represent the much. +
enerated "Notrs Dame du Maia' of +,
'rovences. i,
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