Morris tribune., 1886-08-11

A firm on Wall street, New York, has
in operation and on exhibition what is
probably the smallest working printing
press in the world. 1t is an interchang-
able cylinder, printing from a contin-
uous roll, with cutoff. 1t is but 123
inches in length and Z! inches high.
Its width in the widest part is 105 inches.
At the office where it is in use it has
been necessary to furnish to brokers and
others daily letter of financial news.
Until the invention of the press this SER
vice was performed by the manifold
system. Nine manifolders were re-
quired, working very rapidly. By SIM
pie hand power, after the type is set,
200 copies per minute of any circular
can be printed. With a dynamo ma
chine to furnish the power, over 500
copies can be printed in the same time.
A New York letter says: walking
through. Central Park last week with a
friend, we met six or eight children
walking and presided over by three
teachers, Who do you suppose they are?'
asked my friend. "A little aristocratic
private school, said. No. he said,
those infants are not all of an age, as
they look. The oldest is 9. They are
the children of ex-President Barrios of
Guatemala, who was slain in battle
while trying the mad experiment of
uniting the Central American Republics
against their will. His widow lives in
that house yonder on the other side of
Fifth avenue-the double house. Bar
rios the dictator, was worth $50,
900, they say, but some of it got away.
She has only $8,00O,0OO, poor thing.
She is splendid Spanish beauty-one
of the handsomest women in New
York"
Stoves are of very ancient origin. A
fixed stove (stuba) was used in the time
of the Roman Empire for heating baths,
and in Germany and Scandinavia for
baths and hothOuses. In the middle
ages they were generally constructed of
brick or tiles, sometimes of slate or
steatite (soapstone) and used for warm
ing dwellings,. They were huge struc-
lures, sometimes occupying the whole
side of room, and in Scandinavia
their broad, flat surface was the sleep
ing place of the household. The fire
Was hluuieu 1T tie DOtUOu anu GQG neat
and smoke passed through various
flues before reaching the chimney.
These stoves were economical of fuel, a
matter of much Importance in some
parts of Europe. In the homes of the
rich they were sometimes faced with
porcelain or highly ornamented tiles.
Among the interesting results of SUBJ
marine or deep-sea explorations con-
Quoted under the auspices of the Lon
don Geographical Society are those in
reference to the Atlantic sea bed. 1t
would seem that the bottom of the
North Atlantic is occupied by two val
leys, the eastern extending from 10 to
80 deg. west longitude, and traceable as
far as the equator, with an extreme
depth of less than $4,000 feet, while the
western valley reaches from the 3Oth to
the 50th deg. of west longitude. The
two are separated by ridge in 80 deg.
west longitude, along which the aver
age depth is only 1000 fathoms, and
which can be traced northward to Ice
land and southwark TO the Azores; it is
volcanic in character at both extremi-
ties. Its extreme breadth is somewhat
less than 500 miles, and the depth of
the water increases on both sides of it
according to the distance of the axis.