Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-13
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"a CONDOLENCES.


Massachusetts ale brewer. Zachariah
Taylor has been sent to Jail at Syracuse,
n. Y, for theft. Lafr1s. Bible and his
fwife Sarah Testament live in.Grittenden
County, Kentucky. An Indiana farmer
has christened calf with two mouths,
"ODonovan Rosa" The village OF
"Tight Squeeze. Ga, is to be known
hereafter as North Atlanta. At a recent
election in Sheridan, Mich, Benjamin
Franklin beat John Quincy Adams for
justice of the peace. :. Boone County,
Missouri, has aclti2en named Old, whose
nearest Eeighbor istnamed Young. At
Rocky Fork, Mr.. Graves lives a few
doors above Mr.. Gay. = George Wash
ington is featuring IN Somerset County,
New Jersey. =.
NEW DISINFECYANT. b.
An apparatus STANLEY now be-
ing brought out in London, for the pur-
pose of cooling, purifying, and disinfect-
ing the air of saloons, cabins, hospitals.
The system consists in pumping cold
water through pipes which are fixed in
ceilings, running the leDgth>and across
the saloons or ward in an hospital. In
these pipes are fixed rods, outside which
1t is intended that thin film OF water
shall trickle down, which will be regu-
lated;by a cup fitted to the upper end of
the rod. The water in thus running
down the rod will, it is claimed, absorb
all the particles of dust, etc., that may
be floating In the air, also cool and puri-
fly the vihated atmosphere; and any of
the known purifying chemical agents can
he 4hfN G., 1,
of disinfecting, such as Condy's fluid.
The water, after running down the rods,
will be carried away by an arrangement
Of pipes under the flooring. To prevent
any contact with the water, q guard of
brass wire gauze can be fixed.
r. CEREBRAL DYSPEPSIA,
DR.. John S. Main discusses in the
British Medical Journal what he calls
cerebral dyspepsia. A sudden piece of
bad news, as is well known, will take
away all desire to eat even when the
stomach is empty, and the man perfectly
healthy, and it is often tho case that
ply sicians t1eat dyspepsia, which is
really the expression or indication of
an over-worried brain, as though the
stomach was diseased. The true course
is to use medicines that act directly upon
the cerebrum. [ have found, he says,
the most useful to be the bromide of am
monium, or bromide of potassium
preferably the former-given In sufficient
dose at bed time to secure agood nights
sleep; and, combined with this, to be
taken three or four times during the day,
such medicines as are known to have a
building-up effect on the nervous sys-
TEN. Among these, the most useful be-
ing phosphorus, or the hypophosphites
and cod-liver oil. Arsenic and quinine
ale often also useful, and generous diet
is always indicated.
A CURIOUS VESSEL.
Geneya papers contain an account Of
the trial trips of the peculiar steamboat
built on the plan invented by Prof. r.
Pictet. This boat is entirely fiat,
twenty meters long and nearly
four wide; the shaft of thes crew
is let into the keel The bot
tom rounds toward the stern, thus act
ing as a rudder when the boat is in mo-
ton, the water, III trying to overcome
the resistance of the rounded bottom,
lifting the boat out of the water. When
at anchor the hull is very low in the
water; when in motion, the faster the
boat goes the more it is lifted out of
water, thereby diminishing the resistance
of the water, so as to make it appear as
though the boat was gliding along the
surface, There are two steering wheels
one forward, which is used when going
at a slow rate, and one aft when steam
ing with great velocity. At the recent
trials the Pictet boat beat the RothschiId
steamer, La Gitana, long considered the
fastest craft on Lake Leman. At We
loclty of less than nineteen and one-half
kilometers per hour the Gitana was
ahead, at nineteen and one-half kilomet-
ers they kept even pace, but when going
faster than that the Pictet's boat, with
scarcely more than half steam on, left
the competition far behind.
NEW ELECTRICAL APPARATUS,
Something both novel and useful in
electrical apparatus has been brought
forward bya Canadian inventor. This is
a device by which the loss of power re-
sulting from the rapid reciprocating
movement of electro magnetic motors in
which the vibration Of armatures is util-
il d for power, is avoided. For this
purpose, an endless belt extends around
rollers and through the magnets, and has
cylindrical armatures attached to it at
regular intervals, these armatures being
slightly longer than the distance between
the magnets, and the spar between
them equal to twice their length; the belt
rollers are fast on their shafts, one OF
which carries also a balance wheel, and
the rollers are Aattened on two opposite
sides. to receive the armatures and to
prevent slipping. Each magnet is pro-
vided with q circuit closer, consisting of
bell-crank lever, one end of which pro-
jects into the path of the armature, so
that, when pressed down by the advanc-
ing armature, the lever closes the cir
cult to the magnet next in advance; this
occurs when the armature has passed
the point of maximum attraction in one
magnet, and broken the circuit by it's
rear end clearing the lever. The arma-
ture belt is moved by draft acting con-
tinuously in one direction of the arma-
lures. thus avoiding changes of direction
and utilizing the momentum.