Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-10-25
IrEns OF INrERnsT.

Railroad sleepers Of cast glass by the
Sienen's method are possibility OF
the near future.
A Pittsburg manufacturer consumes
one car load Of lead every week as an
ingredient In the production of glass
lamp chimneys.
The longest clock pendulum in the
world Is at Avingnon, France. It is
W ieet long, and requires four-and "a
halt secods to swing through an arc of
nine-and-a-half feet.
Crater Lake. in Oregon, has been re-.
Gently surveyed. The crest of the
ridge surrounding the lake is 900 feet
above the water Two submerged
cinder cones were found, 800 and /, 300
feet high, The greatest depth found
was S'oO5 feet, so that this Is the Deep
est body of fresh water on the CONT
nent.
The largest cargo of meat ever re .
ceived in London lately arrived in the
lhames from the Falkland Islands on
board the steamship Selembria. This
consisted of 80, 900 frozen carcasses of
sheep. This ship possesses four en-
gines for preserving and freezing the
meat, and the holds are lined with a
non conducting packing of timber and
charcoal.
The largest pension ever paid in the
United States was paid at the Pension
Office in Louisville, KY, recently, to
Marcus ID. Richardson, an aged SOL
dier, living in Milton, KY. The cause
for granting the pension is total blind
ness, brought on by an injury to his
eyes received in the war in 1868. The
pension dated back to that year, and
amounted to $11.50
Drinking blood has become yery
fashionable In Naples. Adjoining the
abbatoir, drinking saloons have been
fitted up, where the fresh blood from
the reeking carcasses of the slaugb-
tered animals is partaken of. Like all
new and unaccustomed methods OF
cure, wonderful effects are ascribed to
this remedy, and the highest classes of
society are drinking and praising it.
In 1889 Rhode Island issued it's first
newspaper. 1t was owned and edited
by Anna Franklin. She and her two
daughters did the printing, and their
servants worked the printing press.
History tells us that for her quickness
and correctness she was appointed
printer to the colony, supplying
pamphlets, etc to the colonial officers.
She also printed an edition of the
Colonial Lave of $40 pages.
:. In the Swiss village of Meyrin some
disused wells have been heremeticallv
sealed to serve as barometers. On a |
fall OF atmospheric pressure, air escapes
through a small hole in the wall cover,
blowing whistle, and thus giving
warning of coming storm; but when |
the outside pressure is increasing, the |
ar being forced into the well causes a
different sound, and announces the |
of fine weather.
A Russian journal says that Baku, |
on the Caspian sea, the home of petro.
leum, it is quite common for pleasure
parties TO set fire to the sea. When
ever there is an unusual accumulation |
Of naphtha at the bottom ofthe sea the |
surface becomes agitated in a peculiar
way, and If the gases lowering over it |
are ignited, the fire often spreads over |
large area until strong gust of
wind puts an end TO the fascinating
spectacle.
A floating church for the Island of
AIrar, Scotland, is the latest novelty,
he Duke of Hamilton having strictly
TO his resolution not to allow
my United Presbyterians a place of
worship on the island. The modern
lrk is to be moored in Lamlash Bay,
me OF the Suggest anchorages on the
scottish coast, and the members of the
congregation will be pulled on board
rom the shore in small boats when the