Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-02-04
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
Or the various novelties in clock con-
struction none have excited more gen.
eral interest, perhaps, than those which
consist of u plain glass dial suspended
by fine thread or wire, having the mo-
tive power--au ordinary watch move
ment-concealed in the central boss of
the hands or in the enlarged counter
balance of one of them. Another con-
trivarce in this line of note consists of
two circular plates of glass, mounted
in metal frame or border and connect
ed by slender column or foot, to a
pedestal. In these the figures are
marked on the front plate, the hands
being attached to the back plate, which
is cemented to brass rim, toothed as
crown wheel and driven by pinion,
the stem of which rises from the works
In the pedestal. The necessary hour
wheels, to give dillerential motion of
the hands, are hidden between the cen.
er bosses of the hands and the brass
washer on the back plate. Where three
glass plates are used, the short hands
are fixed to to the second and third
plates, and two pinions drive the tooth
ed rims of these two plates.
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JUDGE DUNDY of the United States
district court of Omaha, has n novel
way OF bringing jury to terms. The
judge had an important engagement
in Lincoln, and it was imperativelg
necessary for him to be there. Thu
jury IN a case tried before his honor
were out and wit no prospect of agree
ing. Not to be deter ed however, the
judge took the jury with him in a
spe ial car. Despite their trip they
were unable to agree, but the judge is
able to bid his term. This action or
the judge has provoked good deal OF
criticism and he will probably hoai
from the matter further. No judge
has a right to coerce jury in yer
dict. When judge has kept jury
together for a reasonable length OF
time he has done his duty, and when
after being out for three days, as in
this case, they fail to agree, the prob
ability is strong that they will never
agree, and should be dismissed.
AN intensely interesting article in
the popular Science Monthly" for
February is an account of THE i'm
provement of East River and He'll
Gate" by General John Newton, the
originator of the plan and director of
the works. This paper is historical
and descriptive, beginning with an nc.
count of the original condition of Hell
Gate, recording all that has been done
toward clearing it out, with particular
descriptions of General Newton's own
work on Halet's Point and other
reefs, and detailed accounts of the
operations and apparatus by which
Flood Rock was undermined and blown
up; to which is added an estimate of
the work that is still to be done. The
article is accompanied by new maps
and illustrations The other articles in
the number are up to the standard of
that incomparably excellent magazine.
THE statistics of immigration just
published by the chief of the bureau
of statistics show that there was fall
ing off of twenty five in the month of
December as compared with the cor
responding month in 1888, viii the
total for 1886 was 326, Ala, against 40S,-
$50 in 1884. These figures do not in
clude the immigrants from Canada and
Mexico, concerning whom it is impos-
sible to get accurate statistics. The
number coming from the several coun
tries in December was as follows.
Great Britain and Ireland, $40; Ger
many, SOP; France, 1856; Austr a, 364;
Bohemia and Hungary, 699; Russia
Finland and Poland, 855; Sweden and
Norway, 1872; Ne her
lands, CO; italy, 1,160; Switzerland;
PAP; all other countries. 247.
THE literary work of Gen. Grant has
proved him to be the most popular
author of all times and nations, postum
mously adding to his fame as the great
est of American generals. Mrs Gram
has already received S2j0,O0 from the
sale of her husbands book, and will
get about 100000 more, not including
the receipts from sales in foreign coun-