The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-03

" tnerm0statlc nurse, ana 10 described rs an
artifcially warmed and thoroughly ventilated
box, in which crib or hamper, with q baby In
IL, can be kept at an even temperature, varying
only one degree from the standard decided
upon. The machine Is warranted not to flirt
with the policemen or the groceryman, or carry
q baby head downward or treat 1t in any way
inconsiderately.
| ONE Of seventeen cars containing Orton's
| Anglo-American circus was burned near
| Greeley, Col. last week, while the train was
running twenty-five miles an hour. There
| were sixty men In the car, arranged in three
| tiers Of hunks on either side. The only means
Of egress was through small window between
the car and the engine. Owing to suffocation
| from the gases 1t was difficult to arouse the
sleepers and some were kicked and bruised in
a shocking manner and pitched out Of the win
| dow AS far as learned ten men we're burned
to death and half dozen are badly injured
| A SUNDAY picnic party from New York went
to Staten Island, Sunday, by steamboat On the
trip one Of the excursionists attempted to steal
sandwiches from the bar, when the barkeeper
| struck him with q club. The crowd then
bounced upon the barkeeper, beating him to
death with glasses, plates, pitchers and what
ever else they could lay their hands on. The
| captain sent man ashore to notify the Staten
Island police of the murder. The police, how
| ever, took no action After killing the bar
keeper, the party Quilted the bar. The lower
deck looked like a ssughter-pen, as all we're
fighting terribly.
SOME of the striking miners of the Hooking
| valley attacked the guards at Snake Hollow,
| Ohio, early Sunday morning, killing one and
wounding two, shooting them down In cold
| blood. The telegraph wires were all cut. The
| firing was brisk over five hundred shots, il is
estimated, being exchanged One of the hop
pers was burned, causing loss of $4,000.
| Sunday night the miners were concentrating at
Murray City. Sheriff McCarty telegraphed to
Governor Hoadley for instructions, and he sent
10 N.h N.xN 1A ,lxa -
ing and Perry countless: "All means in your
control should be exhausted to suppress the
riotous proceedings and protect life and prop
erty before the aid of the state is called for"
Serious trouble is feared
On the the Goth of August French fishing
schooner picked up Captain John Traynor and
his dory, Harold I. Bibber. Captain Tray
nor states that he left New York, June &C. to
row across the Atlantic. He enjoyed good
health. The voyage was considerably retarded
| by persistent east winds. Nothing unusual
occurred on the voyage till the night Of the
18th ult, when dense fog prevailed. His
position was latitude 45o 49,, longitude 51o 49,
He was run down by passing steamer, and his
dory was upset and damaged. He righted it
with considerable effort, got in her and kept
afoat till rescued by the Bergere. He lost his
| dog. He passed. on the 18TH ult., dory No.
A Of a Gloucester schooner, half filled with
water, and two dead men on board, dressed in
oil clothes and rubber boots. After repairs
| Traynor, confident of success, proceeds across
| the Atlantic.
THE proposed Jordan canal, the plans for
which have appeared in the foreign scientific
journals, is not to be, in any proper sense, a
canal, but rather large inland sea, some three
hundred miles long with an average of ten to
fifteen miles in breadth. The waters Of the Dead
Sea would be raised from their present level
about one thousand three hundred feet, and
its area of course be largely increased. The
| riVpr Jordan the Dpqd and qka Tihpriaa
would all disappear, with some square miles OF
land, principally on the western side of the Jor-
dan valley as now existing, and in their place
would be vast inland sheet of water, fertil-
izing the neighboring desert with the rainfall
produced by the evaporation from its surface.
According to this plan, therefore, there would
be, instead Of simple canal, wide open chan
mel, traversing Palestine from north to south,
navigable in every sense of the term, with safe
harbors here and there on either side.
A CONTRACT between Robert Garrett and a
number of capitalists interested in the Balti.
more & Ohio Telegraph and Railroad Companies
and the Globe Telephone Company of New
York, went into effect last week Tuesday, by
which the Globe Company's patents will be put
in operation in Baltimore, and the Bell Tele-
phone Company will be met by a formidable
competitor. The Globe Company bought the
well-known Shaw patents a year ago, subse-
quenty purchased the rights of Antonio
Mencei, an Italian resident Of New York, who
invented and filed caveat for q telephone In
the patent office five years before Bell or Gray
and finally experimental with telephone on
the make and break Fl" system, with salts
factory results. They have ordered instru
ments, formed sub-company in Baltimore
and will begin business, using the Baltimore
& Ohio Telegraph Company's wires and poles
in few weeks The president, W. W. Good
win, says the company has ample MEANS and il
/ determined to fight the Bell company to tn,
supreme court, If necessary.
A LADY was arraigned before Judge Chitty
J in London, the other day, to answer a charge o
having sent to one Of the junior clerks il
chambers letter enclosing a check and con
} veying promise OF sum OF EGO for such
, junior clerk and 81 900 or 81, 200 for the chic
, clerk, or percentage, in consideration Of
cause in which she was interested being expe
dited. The lady, in answer to the judge
questions, said she did not think she had dom
anything wrong. She wished to pay some
thing for the trouble she was giving the clerks
1t was, she had found, very troublesome
q thing to get her case heard, and she wa
! anxious to have case which had been worry
. ing her for seven years finally settled. Sh
: was willing to give G4, 900 to have it settled
She, however, promised not to repeat any OF
Tense she had been guilty of, and apologized t.
> the court. The judge said that the Offence
was plainly bribery 1t was most seriou
case; but, taking circumstances into account
especially the offenders SEX he would, OF
her apology. His lordship then handed bac
the check to the lady and severely repr
d manded her, adding that, in the event Of he
being guilty of such an off ence again. he woul
n doubtless commit her to prison.
The honey extractor now in common us
was invented by German, the idea ben
i suggested to him by seeing his boy tie a bit Q
string to piece of honeycomb and swing
y around his head, in order to get the honey out
Q The centrifugal force forced the honey out G
II the comb From this to the ordinary extracto
= 1t was but step. The machine consist
d simply OF big tin barrel, in which turns
o frame upon which honeycomb may be placed
}, by means Of ordinary gearing the frame
!, turned very rapidly, and the honey flies fror
u the cells to the sides Of the barrel and tricke
= down. The beauty of the extractor is that
l. saves the bees all the trouble Of maxim
= honeycomb, labor requiring considerable
: time and material, inasmuch as for ever
e pound of comb there are twenty pounds {
honey When the comb In the extractor
empty, 1t is put back into the hive, and tn
b bees, dismayed at the loss OF their stores, go
!. work at a terrible rate, in order to provide fo
70 the coming famine. When the comb Is agai
o full of honey 1t is placed in the extractor an
,, again emptied. The bees can be made to
X about twice as much work when their honey
o taken away from them after this fashion q
II when they are required to build comb.
1t other words, the yield Of honey is nearl
double.