Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-14
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A representative Of French syndicate
has been looking at an island near San
Francisco with view 10 establish there a
frog farm. According 20 his estimates IN
enormous fortune awaits the man who
takes hold of the venture IN the right way.
The pigs in clover scheme was patented
ten or more years ago, and when the latest
Inventor" applied for patent he dis
covered that II was not Obtainable Tor TINS
reason. He is said TO have realized more
than 100000 of profit before the game
played out. and he was only brought mp
with q round turn short time ago when
the original patentee secured an lnlunc-
ton restraining him from conducting his
business any longer.
The great elevator built on the quay az
iulea by the Swedish-Norwegian Railway
Company for loading iron ore direct into
ships has now been finished and Its opera
ton is reported to be a success, the ele-
vator raising three trucks simultaneously
in two minutes. the same being then moved
along the rails 10 shoots leading into the
hold of the ship and emptied. The whole
arrangement is said to be so perfect that a
ship of some twenty-five hundred tons
may be loaded III day.
The strangest canal in the world is a
canal sixteen miles long between Worsley
and St. Helen's in the North of England,
and is underground from end to
end. Many years ago the Duke Of
Bridgewaters managers thought they
could save money by transporting
the coal in his mines underground in
stead of on the surface. So the canal was
constructed, the mines connected and
drained at the same time. Ordinary canal
boats are used. but the power Is furnished
bv men. On the roof of the tunnel arch
are cross-pieces. and the men who do the
work of propulsion lie on their back, on
the coal aud push with their feet against
the crOss-bars on the roof.
A gentleman recently from the Congo.
who was in New York last week, told this
story of an American missionary on that
river. He did his level best TO induce the
natives among whom he had settled to wear
clothes like white folks. Finally the mis-
sionary told them he had come there 70
be one of them, and if they would
not conform to his standards he
must descend TO theirs. The next
time he held meeting the natives
were immensely astonished to see the
white man appear among them wearing
nothing but breech clOut. Some white
men who happened along few days later
persuaded the gentleman that II would
conduce TO his comfort and he would do
lust as much good If he resumed his Gus
tomary garb.
A new nautical distress signal has been
successfully experimental with IN Eng
land, the notable feature III this device
being that no stick is required and there is
no back fire, the rocket taking the form of
a metal cylinder. in the base of which is
the propelling charge, above this being a
charge of tonite and above this again
star composition. The propelling charge
is fired by simply pulling lanyard,
and the signal is propelled upward at one
impulse until the rocket has reached the
stars are thrown out, giving brilliant
illumination. and the tonite charge then
explodes, the noise of the explosion being
equal to the firing of a six-pound gun, but
being high up is heard at a great distance.