Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-08
has offered prize for the construction of the best heating apparatus.

l The pipe lines connect with twenty
 thousand oil wells in Pennsylvania, receiving from them daily sixty-fve thousand barrels of oil. Fortyone million barrels are stored l ln tanks. To transport and store this enor- | nous quantity of oil about five thousand miles | of pipe line and over one thousand iron 1 tanks or an average capacity are necessary. Besides the five thousand miles of branch pipe lines in use in the region, there are one thousand two hundred miles of trunk line for piping oil to the refneries at Cleveland, Buffalo and Pittsburg.
 Some people think that MT. Hendricks speech at Connersvil1e, Indiana, the other day did not show that he is a great states
 man. '1 tell you now," he said, q want your votes the worst in the world-that is
 what l want" Then he paid his attentions to the Irish voters E'The Irishman,' he shouted, lis a natural Democrat. Irishmen
 and Democrats stand together" He was de-
 feated once for local office, he said, because
 he would not join the know-nothing party
 He wanted Indiana to vote for him now, be-
 cause his nomination was intended as an
 honor to that State ;FWhen they placed me
 In nomination it happened to be at a time
 when did not know exactly what was going
 on in the convention, and I was not drunk
 either"
 The Philadelphia Ledger makes the follow
 ing note of progress in the application of
 electricity: Only twelve years ago Professor
 Tyndall gave his course of memorable lee
 lures at Horticultural hall He had with
 him as part of his apparatus an arc light
 The lamp was regulated by clock-work and
 cost probably ten times as much as the lamps
 made to-day. It was imperfect in every
 way, the light being very unsteady, and sey- eral times got out of order at critical mo- ments. The current was supplied from voltaic battery at cost that precluded it's use for any but featuring purposes, The battery, besides being costly and trouble some, required the constant work of an at tendant for day or two to ''set up," and it also was very apt to get out of order Dyna- mo machines were not unknown at that time, but they too were costly, and for featuring purposes the battery was considered best. Looking at the display of lamps in the ex- hi Ition, and the great variety and number of dynamo machines, it seems almost incred- ible that it is only twelve years since such a man as Professor Tyndall was we'll pleased, rather than otherwise, to be able to exhibit his poorly regulated lock-work lamp, run by some hundreds of cells in a voltaic bat tery.
 Some of Chinese" Gordon's notions are very fantastic. For instance, he believes that the throne of God is directly over the rock of Calvary and the present throne of the devil is directly opposite it on the other side of the globe, over latitude 31' 1T S., longi- tude 1440 45' w. It is remarkable, he says, that if line be passed through Jerusalem and the center of the earth this axis would present the northern hemisphere as nearly all land, while the southern hemisphere would be nearly all water. ''In Revelations and Daniel, the beasts (evil powers) came out of the sea. In the new world there will be no more sea-" He believes that the rock of Calvary was the first land that appeared above the waters; that it had previously been the seat of the devil, who temporarily re- possessed it during the deluge; that upon it God moulded the body of Adam out of clay taken from the adjacent Potter's Field and breathed into him the breath of life; that the Garden of Eden lay to the eastward of it; and that Adam was buried under it. He be- lieves that in eating the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve, the man and the woman, joined in 8 kind of diabolic eucharist, which not only wrought in their souls moral allie nation from God, but also developed a phy- sical taint, dormant up to that time, in their bodies He believes that the cure of this taint or poison is the sacrament of the altar the bread from heaven. He believes, or at any rate leans to the belief that as often as this sacrament is celebrated an angel des- cends and mingles an actual particle of the body and of the blood of Christ with. the bread and the wine. He believes that, after the fall, everything in the Garden of Eden that was exceptional in beauty, and that distinguished it from the rest of the world, was raised up bodily and still exists near the throne of God, above the Armament, ready to descend again at the coming of the New Jerusalem; among the things thus lifted up was the river which originally fed the four streams mentioned in the book of Genesis. He further believes that, when the number of the elect has been made perfect, spiritu- al city-that is, city which is material, but whose material substance is purifed-win descend to earth from it's present position above the Armament, and occupy the spot on which Jerusalem now stands; that the sea will disappear into the center of the earth, and with the the devil, incarnate ill material form. Meanwhile the river which once flowed in Eden, but which is now above the Armament, will rain it's waters downward to the earth perennially, and from it will flow a terrestrial stream, which will encircle the earth with girdle of living waters