The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-02-26

Inc company was as democratic as it was
large and all classes jostlcd each other in the
crowd which was found everywhere-in tho
corridors, the halls, in the galleries. in the
sacred precincts of the supreme court room.
the committee room, and the galleries. from
which undiminishing crowds watched with
interest ana more or less amusement the
throng of dancers
Despite the discoinforts attendant
upon the presence of SO large number
there was evident enjoyment Of the whole
affair Those who did not dance enioved
seeing those who did, and not the least of
the study Of the vast company, and it's yerv
varied and ditfot1Dx ~.o1.eI..a
SENArE.-The senate railroad bill passed by
vote of 80 to 2, and the high license bill was
recommended to pass by % to Il. Bills were
introduced for inspection of gas meters; regu-
lating boomage on logs below tho Falls of St
Anthony. Senate bills passed, appropriatng
money for insurance on state buildings; to Sc
cure civil rights to colored citizens; CONSOLIDATE
ing and amending the acts relating to chattel
mortgages; to prevent deception in dairy prod
ucts; to prevent pollution of sources of water
supply; for amendment to constitution as
to Investment of permanent school fund.
The nays on the railroad bill were Hall,
Hickman.
Observation-Disclosures, J. b. Gilillan, Sha
leen, Buchanan, Crosby, Vollmar
The nays on the $500 license bill were.
Christensen, Doran, Fletcher, Gillian, c. D.,
Goodrich, Grigg-, lang6on, Morrison, Peck,
Peterson. Rice, Sa ckett, Waite, WEIGH.
Crosby, J. B. Gilhllan. O'Brien, Shaleen, Steen-
erson, Voll mar and Wheat.
The bill TO regulate the practice of dentistry,
prepared by the state dental association as q
protection for the profession against quacks.
was recommended to pass the senate committee
Senate: c. D. Gilfllan's bill to secure civil
rights to negroes, (alroady discussed at lengthy
passed the senate. Of the eleven democrats in
the house. Griggs and Wolch were alone in
voting aye. Rise, Steenerson and Peterson, re-
publicans, voted against the bill.
HOUSEHOLDS were indefinitely POSTPONE l.
amending tax laws; for state entomologist;
for a correct spstem of surveys; for third hos
pital for the insane; for the assessment and
taxation of omitted property; relating to chattel
mortgages; to incorporate Martin Luther col
lege relating to tolls that may be taken by GUS
tom mills. Bills We're introduced: Fora fourth
judge in the Minneapolis district; amending
statutes relating to official trusts: making it
misdemeanor to permit wild mustard to go to
seed; for the taxation of policies of insurance
companies not authorized to do business in
this state; to provide for the destruction of
burdock; to legalize defective organizations
of corporations. relating to inmates Of the deaf
dumb and blind institute; amending game laws.
The house has had Cos bills thus far intro
hundred in excess of the number at any pre-
vious session. The senate has 4Y7 bills intro
duced, making total of 1,1U2.
A memoir by NJ. +. f. LIE Roux on
m experimental demonstration of the
inversion of the electromotor force
produced by the contact of iron and
copper at a high temperature, has
been submitted to the Academy of
Sciences, Paris. From the results of
several experiments. conducted under
varying conditions, NJ. LIE Roux con-
cludes that at about the temperature
of 1000 deg. Centrigrade an electric
current passing from the copper to
the iron heats the point of contact,
while cooling it at the ordinary tenn
perature. A knowledge of this fact,
now for the first time demonstrated,
may, it has been anticipated, affect
not only the theory of thermo-electric-
ity, but also that of certain chemical
phenomena.
Glass has been in use from so re-
mote period of antiquity and has so
intimately associated itself with the
progress of civilization, that it is not
surprising to find improvements in
its manufacture as often as the neces-
sity for them has arisen. From the
paintings found by Wilkinson at
Beni-Has it appears that the art
OF glass-blowing was known at least
5000 years ago. Sometimes new pro-
cesses in dealing with the raw mate
rails have produced desirable and
sometimes startling results. 1t is said
that some Anglo-German manufact.
urers have recently turned out glass
as hard and tough as cast iron, and
that they intend to make of this hard
and comparatively light crystal stairs,
street lamp posts and gas and water
pipes. 1t is thought that they can
make these and similar articles of
glass thirty per cent cheaper than
they can make them of cast iron.
A paper on the Acknowledging
rocks of South America has been con-
tributed by Prof. H. E. Roscoe to the
Philosophical Society, Manchester. OF
two shafts sunk in the Kimberley Mine,
the one in the pipe" passed through
three feet of red sand, fifteen feet of
tufaceous limestone, thirty feet of soft
earthly diamond rock, and 282 feet of
soft blue diamond rock. The other
shaft in the shale near the 'pipe" pen
etrated three feet of red sand, five feet
of tufaceous limestone, twenty feet of
yellow shale, ten feet of black carbon
aceous shale, one foot of two thin
bands of black dust in shale, 236 feet
of black shale, and two feet of dolerite.
The diamonds were found in the vel
low and blue ''stuff,' along with gar
nets, mica, bronzite, ilmenite, pyritc,
etc., and were separated by washing
the broken up earth in sluices similar
to those used in gold mining. Dia-
monds from Kimberley are said to
reach an annual value of $18, $50, 900,
and the total quantity raised since
1870 is reported 70 have attained the
enormous sum of 5000. 100000.
The cash system is being gradually
adopted by the newspapers south of the
Potomac. Formerly almost unlimited
credit was extended on tho part Of
Southern publishers, and as conse-
quence the papers langu: she'd Under
the ca III system there has been IL n arkei
impro cement 10 the southern papers
enforcing it,