Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

hceblss Suktlo nuu SlLChcJf tWo ClSS.
tricians, have been for some time giving
their attention to serial navigation, and
believe that they have solved the problem
TO the extent that they can control 3 cap
tive baloon In motion. Mr.. Croker thus
describes the uew machine: "The mo-
tive power and steering apparatus con
sist If q fan from five to ten feet in diam
eter, with wide blade of thin steel
The fan is to work horizontally, deriving
it's power from an electric motor sus-
pended last below the center or hub
Of the lowest side wheel. Below the
motor and fan the car will be sus
pended. The motor Is to weigh not more
han 200 pounds, and will have the force
Of ten-horse power engine. The FAB
will ordinarily make 1900 revolutions per
minute, hut can be Increased to 5000 or
even 5000 revolutions il case OF an emeI-
gency. The steel blade, setting sgainst
the air at such speed, will be sufficient to
carry the machine upward and to steer Il
with or against current Of air by d, f c.
lions ofthe fans. 1t will be useful for
war purposes and weather observations
The Popular Science News inveigh-
against the abuse of tes, and warns to-
young particularly against its US Fnu
or six cups Of tes taken during each
twenty fours will, In time, produce tea
poisoning.
Austrian engineers speak fsvorably Of
Giex,'s pilot engine for preventing raIl
way collisions. It IL worked by cleo
trlcttY, under the control of the engineer,
and is run at any desired distance In from
Of the train, which IL stops automatically
Np ri hat oil
Nitrogen will not burn, like hydrogen,
nor support combustion, like oxygeu !;
snd, though not CT itself poisonous, All
mails surrounded BY 1t speedily die from
"oxygen starvation " The Rpeci6c grav
Ivy of nitrogen Is s72. air being one %
Its escape.from q deep, open jsr is on.
nesus Of extinguishing 1t from csroonic
aeid.
A new invention to take the plsce of
stained glaes is made Of q cotton AND
linen paper, which is dipped into q
preparation Ct alcohol and csmphor, which
makes 1t like parchment. From this
oint 1t can be modelled and cut into re-
| ns1k.bly tough sheets, entirely trans
| ucant, and It can be dyed with almost
the whole outline colors. the result. being
| a translucent sheet showing far NOR.
vivid huea than the best glass exhibits.
DR.. C. A. White thinks he has solved
| he mystery Of whist be omss of ell the
.ntlers that deer ehed every year. Al
| though tho antlers when the deer is killed
| before they are removed Will withstand
| ill westhers for years, 1t is very
rarely that pair that have been shed are
| found. DR.. White asserts that he has
discovered small insect that attacks the
antlers and within short time after they
,re shed destroys them by narrowing
through them.
There Is news from Cochin China thai
a meteorite of great sizs has fallen moi
+, ar from TayniDh. This brings to minc
The Cranbourne meteorite, found pesl
| Mslb urne in 1861, and weighing -four
| tons, which is one of the largest known
That found in Brsz ], weighing fourteen
tons is also one of the largest known
But #, again, Ia isr behind the meteorit
mass found In 1870 by N,rdensk1old q
Ov jsk, in West Greenland. H. founc
three meteorites there weighlDs
fnur tons, another weighing fourteen
tons, and q third Weighing twenty-five
and one-hslf tons.
K,init Is obtained at SrsssJurt, Prus
sis, The mine from which It Is taken !:
struck at . depth Of 4so to sl2 feet. The
thickness Of the bed IL unknown. It ha'
been pierced over 1000 feet. 1t extend:
over an era OF more than twenty-f I've
German miles In length. The con-
s,ituent parts Of ksinit are: Su'phs'e o
pota ssa, from 90 TO 80 per cent sulphat'
fof m,gr esis, from IA to 20 per cent.
chloride of magnesium, from to pei
cent sulpbate of lime. from 10 to II pei
cent chloride OF sodium Common sally
from 25 to 40 pr cent.
The use OF the mosquito has been q
last discovered. Professor Webster saw
that siT j1rious organic matter 10 the VS.
ter, instrsd of accompanying and poison
ing people, is charged into "viggle'sils.'
which In due time become mosquitoes
and ths winged matter hies away, leaning
the water purihek TO the ex'ens OF theil
ability to remove the Impurities. II 6st
are Kept ia the water iney est the 'wiegle
Ills .ud grow ,.rss enough to ssrye q: