Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-04

W hat the Senrch"r. into Science Find
For the People.

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owned and worked by the government,
a temporary injunction was granted
a Brooklyn lady last week, to prevent
telephone company from erecting a
pole III front of her premises.
The September product of the Lake
SUPERIOR copper mines is reported ~
follows: Calumet and Hecla, 2,7S5 tons;
Quincy, 80 tons; Franklin, 2i6 tons;
Atlantic, IA tons; Huron, I05 tons.
At the St.Louis telephone convention
q speech was made 10y the President of
the Erie Company, but mp to the pres
ont writing we have been unable to
IND anyone who understood it. Con-
seluently it has not been published.
f. Otz & Co. have built a model silk
mill on a large scale at West EIoboken.
The mill is On the English plan. being
o. one story only, lighted by skyliqhts
in the day time. and a 800 light Vest
inghouse incandescent plant at night.
Steam users have great respect for
the engineer who z Is more power from
the coal than "the other engineer" It
behooves working engineers to give
this earnest and constant considcra-
ton. The man who "saves coal" is on
the way to promotion and better pay.
Mr.. Charles Wann, Of North Plain
field, has resigned his position with Tho
"Telemeter COMPANY. of New York"
of which Mr.. Erastus Wiman is Presi-
dent. to accept a more lucrative one
with the "Union Fire Alarm Com
pany,' Of number 145 Broadway. New
York. He has been appointed General
Agent and has a large field of operation
to choose from. as the company has
been or nized with a view to supply
ing a simple and reliable system to such
cities and towns AS cannot afford to
pay the prices demanded for other
systems.
Thos. J. Keech, J. f. Beal, Edward
Duffy, :. ID. Taylor and Gina y, King,
composing the Ann Arb0r Electric
Street Railway Company, have asked
for a thirty-year franchise for the con-
struction and operation of a street
railway in that city. The consideration
OF the ordinance was postponed until a
a special meeting to be held next Mon
day evening. The company proposes
to use an electric motor and establish a
tive-ccnt fare. Ii the franchise is
granted three-fourthS Of 4 mile of rail-
road must be constructed and in opera
ton within a year, to make the fran
chise operative. The capital stock Of
the company is 2250D Of which twenty
five per cent. is paid in.
The Vienna Electro Techniker states
that the Consolidated Telephone Con-
strurtion and Maintenance Company
and the Telephone Company of Aus
tria have met with a sever rebuff at
the courts in Austria. The tirst-named
company had lodged an action for an
nnlulpnt Of the patent OF Prof. AleXan-
der Graham Bel, the well-known in
veutor Of the telephone, in order to pro-
lttl III AlbLLlttil tNllDAloillllClt. IA
action, like many others. has now been
dismissed with costs hy the Austrian
judicial authorities. AS in England,
the Bell patent remains, consequently,
in force in the dOminionS of the Aus
TRAN monarchy, and the Telephone
Company of Austria being i%nfrincers
of that patent, will have to reckon with
the patent owners.
The Bulletin de Ia Ceramique points
out that the theory enunciated by NJ.
De Gran d. Fury is opposed TO the idea
that large trees and shrubs produced
coal; and IN further support thereof it
is stated that the carboniferous fora
consisted of plants deficient in sub
stances necessary for producing coal
the investigation Of VI. Castor de Sa-
porta on this point indicating that this
vegetation consisted Of a relatively thin
circle Of wood and of a large quantity
Of a softer substance. Brogniart and
Ellie de Beaumont attribute the forma-
ton of coal to the transformation of
the close herhaceous vegetation which
surrounded the larger forest trees and
plants. Similar opinions have been ex-
pressed by NJ. PDuchet and other sav-
ants; so that NJ. Gran d Fury has more
or less eminent authorities for his state
ment that a calculation OF the accumu-
lation of trees, etc, necessary for the
conversion into ever a thin coal bed or
a forest suddenly buried under water,
or gradually letting it's residue gather
on the ground, leads to An evidently er-
roneous result, so greatly Is 1t reces-
sary to exaggorate either the r Ass OK
vegetable matter or the duratio Of the
process of coal formation. I EN- ad-
hitting for a moment that coal is pro-
duced by the decomposition of trees
Nj. Gran d. Fury asks how it can be
maintained that wood, in losing its
moisture, has become liquid. Wood is
known to contain a good deal Of water,
and coal only traces Of it. While he re-
CARDS it as certain that coal was at n
time liquid. and gradually assumed a
solid shape. he considers that coal beds