Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-06

6uteu, Is QeVlce OF Cne OeVll I0r under
mining the stability of the home, CHILLING
its temperature and breaking its power.
Mississippi has ,479 manufacturing es-
Establishments, with capital of 81, 727, 900,
giving value of products of S7,5lS. 302.
South Carolina has 2,07S manufactures,
and a capital invested of SI,205, S94
Value of products, SIG. 73S,00S.
4 small hydrogen gas balloon, with a
capacity of about two gallons, was lib.
Grated at Bercy and made its way to
Gradno, in Poland, having travelled more
than {, 200 miles This is the longest air
journey on record for SO small an object.
At Sebastopol new Government dock
has just been commenced. 1t will take the
place of the one which WAS destroyed dur
ing the famous siege by the allied armies
more than 25 years ago. Il will require
three years to complete it, and tire esti.
mated cost is $50, 000
An automatic electric mechanism that is
designed to announce the approach OF rail-
road trains has been tried on what is called
the Paris. Lyon mediterranean line. It con-
sists of a box filed with mercury placed
under the rail at the required distance from
bell. When a train passes over this box
the mercury is so agitated as to form con-
tact with the wire communicating with the
bell, and thus make it ring.
Les Nondes reports that NJ. Dufouroet
has, in the exposed court of his house, two
bars of iron planted in the earth, to. each
of which is fixed a conductor of coated
wire, terminating in telephone receiver.
He consults the apparatus twice or thrice
every day, and it never fails through its
indications OF earth currents to give notice
of the approach of a storm twelve to fifteen
hours before it actually occurs.
As feature of the proposed commence
ration of the four hundredth anniversary
of the birth Of Martin Luther, it is pro-
posed to restore the old Castle Church, at
Wittenberg, upon whose doors the theses
against indulgences were nailed in 1917.
The building is in a state of general decay
and neglect. It's stone towers have been
pierced for cannon to fit it for use as
fortress, but they have no belfries or bells
to call the people to worship God.
A "seeker after knowledge" sends the
following question to Rochester paper
all the way from Illinois Would it be
proper to say the hog is his, or the hog
is hisen 2 :" sc Tastes differ widely regarding
matters of this kind, lis the answer, "and
what might suit New York State would
never do for Illinois. We think the hog
is hisen would be the proper expression
for you to use. Exchange. Yes, that
would be all right unless he was in the
neighborhood of Cincinnati.
A few days since the rails were laid on
the summit of the Bozeman Pass. The
altitude is 5, 7l5 feet, the highest point
reached by the Northern Pacific Railroad
survey in the entire course of the road.
For the distance of eight miles before the
summit Is reached an engine or car will not
remain stationary unless brakes are ap-
piled. The highest altitude reached upon
the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra
Nevadas is J, 042 feet, at Summit Station,
while the Union Pacific reaches an altitude
of s 242 feet at Sherman, in the Rocky
mountains.
A most remarkable electrical phenome-
non manifested itself On the line of the
Union Pacific Railway recently, between
North Platte and Sidney. The influence,
however, was felt perceptibly beyond those
points. The rails were surcharged with a
current of electricity, moving from west to
esst to so high degree that hand-cars
on the track were impelled at a
fair rate of speed by is. One hand-car at
Brule got away from the section men next
east The influence of the current was
felt by maAy persons along the track, and
no little excitement prevailed during its
continuance.
A traveller in the Holy Lsnd noticed
woman, heavily laden with domestic uten.
sils, toiling up high hill, while her hus-
baud, selfish, proud, lazy and useless as an
American Indian, rode by her side on
donkey comparatively free from burdens.
The traveller stepped up, moved by pity
for the poor woman, and asked the man
why he didn't relieve her and put some of
the implements on the donkey's back, The
man coolly informed him that he didn't
have to pay anything for WE, while
donkey cost him 20 francs. = Chicago
Herald.
Holy Week ends in Mexico with the OBJ
servance of an antique custom called 1.-THE
burning of Judas" 1t takes place ON
Saturday morning st about 10 O'Clock,
when the cathedral bells ring out announc.
ing the "gloria or resurrection of Christ. |
Judas is always a most absurd figure. He |
is sometimes dressed as Turk, sometimes |
as sailor, but commonly in sn ordinary |
modern costume. He is stuffed with fire. |
crackers inside, and at the hour of the
s. gloria these are set off and burned in |
the public square, in the streets, in the |
nouses-in fact, everywhere.
The Northeastern Lumbernaan is quite
skeptical in regard to the introduction of |
paper as a substitute for iron in the manu-
acture of rails. That paper thinks the
of the idea is extremely |
doubtful. In the first place, it claims that
here is literally no such thing as a paper
,ar wheel. The Office of paper is merely
% furnish filling, the plates and bands be-
ng Of iron. If the friction and pressure
we're applied to paper direct, it could never
tand fraction of the work to be encouo-
cred. It is hardly more probable that
,aper rail could do any more. If it is an
ron or steel rail on the half shell, stuffed
With papier mache, it may be different;
ut a chunk of paper that will turn the
ONT of a spike must be in somebody's
lind.
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