Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-21
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mand Of all its motions.
Many explosions in Touring mills
are said to be caused By the electricity
generated by belts. Even ordinary
belts are found to generate sufficiently
strong currents 70 perform the common
experiments for which electrical ma
chDery is used.
An extensive salt-bed is in process
of formation at the Kara BoghOz, a
small estuary on the eastern coast OF
the Caspian. The evaporation from
the gulf is so great that current runs
into it from the sea. There is no re-
turn current, and the gulf is rapidly
filling up with salt.
Thomas Fletcher, Of London, has
patented a new vessel for heating
water, by which, with the same gas
Jet, be can reach the boiling point in
two thirds Of the time ordinarily re.
quir,d. The vessel has = number Of
rods inserted through the bottom a
short distance and spreading out into
disks.
Russia is going to have railroad
tunnel three miles long, at a cost Of
S3500,O00. She has $4,000 miles Of
railway, but her only tunnel Is 700
yards lorg. More great works of this
kind are contemplated, and, as Russian
engineers are ignorant Of tunnel
making, there is demand for foreign
skill.
The objection to the incandescent-
light in mine, that it gave no indlca-
ton Of fre.damp, has been removed
by placing two together-one a cOlored
and the other clear light. A mercu-
ry.copact, subject to the pressure
from diffusion in an unglazed porcelain
pot, allows the clear light to burn in a
| good atmosphere, but lights the colored
one in fire-damp.
The new "brovn or cocoa"
pow der is departure in military az
fairs. Wood charcoal has given place
to new material, and the proportion
Of saltpe,Te and sulphur has been
changed. The new powder makes less
smoke, ard is slower to explode when
not confined. 1t has proven its ef-
fcitncy in the artillery, provided a.
ways that tho guns are breech-loaders.
Turtle.oil has been used with the
most beneficial results in all clse9
where cOd-liter ell was indicated, in
persons to whom the nuiritiye process
vas defective; also, in children Of
strumous disposition, in the speculr Of
/ scarlet.ieyer, III measles and other
acute specific diseases. TAKEN in warm
milk it is not 50 Objectionable as cod
liver oil. The oil is Of a yellowi'h
color, and ut ordinary temperature
forms thick, tinely.grauulatet huid,
in consstence something ike olive oil
partly concealed, gentle heat render
| Ing the OH clear and transparent; i.
| possesses lli,le odor or taste, and docs
not quickly turn rancid. IL has proved
Of the greatest service in scrOfulOus
affections Of the eyes, nose, and other
/ paris. and has been most beneficial in
chronic bronchitis, bat is found more
particularly useful in phthi5is pUlD,o-
nails in al its stages.
A writer in the Midland Industrial
Gazette argues that the absence Of flies
does not exactly presage an epidemic-
that IS, the flies are not killed by the
poison in the air, as has sometimes
been believed Oh account Of the coinci-
/ dence between disease and small ily-
/ crop in seme seasOns-but their absence
/ is IN Itself cause Of sickness and cpl
denies. The ily, according to This
theory Is a vUlture, a buZzlrd on a
small scale--ihe most important, be-
cause the most numerous and pest
breeding material-and gets in foul and
| decay ing matter that can be reached by
70 other insect OF animal and destroys
it. The quantity Of this pestilential
matter thus removed cannot be esti-
mated, because the fig is always get
,i1g away with i. in summer, while 10
winter the cold prevents its evil inhI-
erces from being felt. The conclusion is,
therefore, that when there are too few
flies TO thoroughly consume all the
forms of the dead and decaying sub
stance that fill the earth the surplus
pollutes the air, the soil, aud the
water, creating disease.
The mountain meteorological al stations
Of Europe are said to someShat excel
in their equipments and appliances any
thing to be found in the western world.
Amorg these appliances is superior
kind Of arrangement, or apparatus, for
the automatic registration of sunshine,
the results Of which are tabulated with
reference to the period Of possible sun
shine for each day, the record being so
much per cent. Of this total. On the
mountain top on which the highest
Austrian weather observatory is To-
Gated is another interesting arrange
nsnt-namely. a telephone wire extend
ing from the very summit down to the
village below, this wire in the summer
berg suspended on poles, while ia
winter, on account Of fierce winds, i, IL
laid upon the snow, the latter proving
good insulator, as the apparatus
works satisfactorily under these condi-
tiors. The French, it appears, have
the largest meteorological station 10
EuIcpe, and their two largest ooserya-
tories are, il is claimed, the best sp-
pointed in tie world. Much is expected
of the recently established station on
Ben Nevis, Scotland. The mountain ia
the highest in great Britain, and is
close upon the sea coast, a. we'll as in
the usck of the great southwesisrly
storms which have such an important
influence on the weather i'll the British
Isles-a situation, therefore peculiarly
favorable.
An important discovery has just been
To- de a, the Sognedal Pulp Factory in
| Ncrwsy, after several years expert
m.ntirg, wood pulp berg used for the
manufacture Of the kinds Of bulldog
ornaments which are generally made in
| plaster Of paris. Ths pulp is first