The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-06-14

Dr. Guppy concludes that the average
rainfall on the higher slopes of Guadal-
canar, on the Solomon Islands, is be
tween 400 and 500 inches. That Of Eng
land is thirty. two inches
The Electrical Review says that the
| lightning rod is a relic of superstition,
and that the day will come when light.
ming rod on house will be regarded in
the same light as a horseshoe over a
door,
The United States Fish Commission
Car reached Atlanta, Ga. the other day
when singular incident occurred
| Change of water was found necessary,
and artesan water was supplied. In
side of an hour $4,000 young fish were
dead, and nearly 100000 eggs are sup.
posed to be killed.
Prof. Peel of St. Petersburg has found
fifty per cent. of petroleum in the cod
liver oil sold by one druggist, the adul.
terated article having the taste, smell
and appearance of the genuine. Mineral
oil is also frequently found in olive oil.
The idea of putting monkeys to work
seems to have been accomplished in Bra.
I'll, where. according to report from
Rio Janeiro, twenty of these animals
have been successfully trained to cut
hemp on large hemp farm.
Under the laws of Iowa a passenger
who sticks his head out of a car window
and has it knocked off by a switch bar
is guilty of a misdemeanor and can be
sent to jail for three months.
Mr.. KEENAN, gives one a good idea Of
the enormous size of Siberia by stating
that Its territory would contain the
United States, including Alaska, with
all of the States of Europe except Rus.
STA. and there would still be 300 900
square miles to spare.
The metric system is now the only
legal system of weights and measures
for about four hundred and ten millions
of people, the only prominent exceptions
to its general use being in Russia, the
| United States and Great Britain, in the
last two of which its use Is authorized
although not generally adopted.
The Gloucester fishermen expect to
settle the bait question by introducing a
German process of preserving herring
aud other small fish used for bait in a
steel barrel containing an antiseptic
20 ution as a substitute for ice, which is
far more expensive.
The Supreme Court of Australia has
ordered the release of the Cinnamon
who were refused permission to land by
the Colonial authorities. on the ground
that the government has no power to
exclude foreigners from the country.
1t has been calculated by Prof. Rogers
of Washington that the dynamic power
of single pound of good steam coal is
equivalent to IA mans work fUI ono day,
three tons for twenty years, and one
square mile of a seam of coal only four
feet thick will represent the labor of a
million of men for twenty years.
Regulations have been established in
the coffee districts in Guatemala by
which farmers are required to build fur
naces on their lands. and whenever a
signal is given to Indicate the danger of
frost, to light in them fires of tar, pitch
or other substance likely to make great
smoke and keep away the frost.
The singular fact is demonstrated that
while the most rapid cannon shots
scarcely attain a velocity of 600 yards a
second. over 1900 knots per hour, me
teorites are known to penetrate the air
with velocity Of 10000 or even 60 900
yards per second, q velocity which raises
the air Mt once to temperature Of 40, 900
degrees 20 5000 cen;icrase.