Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-26
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Flowing by electricity is in contem-
piation for large property in central
Spain.
Electric roads exceed IS per cent OF
the mileage and of the number Of street
railroads in this country and in Canada
A trolly system of electric traction,
somewhat similar 10 that used for street
railways, is proposed for canal boat
propulsion.
The new downward draft locomotive
is the thing. II puts the smoke. cinders.
and fumes under the cars instead OF
over and into them.
The wire for covering the tube Of tho
10 inch gun, now in course of constrno-
tion for the army, is being joined By tho
electric welding process.
A feature of the Frankfort-on-the-
Main International Exhibition viii bo
the transmission of electrical power over
copper wires from a distance OF l40
miles
Sixty-five years ago Emmons Rudge
was arrested in Hartford, Conn, for
selling ice, as the doctors of the city
had decided that it was unhealthy to
use it.
The COW does not eat when she is graz
ing, but stores up supply Of food TO be
masticated in some quiet shady place
in the pasture. She is only really eating
when she "chews the cud
Recent experiment has proved that
aluminium is particularly adapted for
treatment in the drawing press, one OF
its chief advantages being that it can bo
worked with very little annealing.
The United States Government Conn
missioner of Patents estimates that from
six to seven eighths of the entire manu-
featuring capital of the Unitel States.
or So 000. 900, 600. is directly or indirectly
based upon patents
The feat of telegraphing from St
Petersburg to Bouiogne. distance of
2, Ago miles, is heralded as extraordinary
by the foreign papers. Messages were
long ago sent from Portland, Maine, to
Portland, Ore, distance of more than
1000 miles
Instead Of increasing the weight Of
locomotives to secure better traction,
efforts are being made TO use the electric
current, asexperiment has demonstrated
that the passage of a current through
the driving wheels increases the traction
far beyond what additional weight ac-
complisheA
Something new, says the Chicago
Times. in the way of brick making has
sprung up at St Joseph, Mich, where
the sand of the beach by chemical proc
ess is being turned into bricks. They
are represented to be superior to pressed
brick, and large quantities are being
put into fine residences and the fronts
of business blocks.
Professor Virchow is one Of the most
distinguished physicians and scientists
on the continent Of Europe. lie has
Just paid the American medical world O
high tribute, declaring that it excels in
surgery, midwifery and d .ntistry.
What the Germans know about dentistry
they learned from America America
has also splendid oculists.
The naval ordnance officers at Wash
ington have succeeded in firing a pro-
jectile filed with dynamite through a
two inch shell plate and ex ploding it on
the other side; and have no doubt that
the explosive can be fired successfully
from the new large caliber rifled mortar
which the ordnance bureau has under
construction. The experiment is re-.
garded as the most important which has
been made yet with high explosives.
Some English physicians appear to
adopt in their practice the honey found
in suchlarge quantities in the eucalyptus
trees Of Tasmania, the product Of a
small black wild bee peculiar to that
country. The honey is thick homo
geneous somewhat transparent sirupy
liquid, of deep orange color. having
an odor suggestive at once Of its con-
tanning eucalyptus principles, is very
soluble in water. in milk, and in wine,
but much less so in alcohol, and very
difficult Of fermentation. Thus far ex-
periments show it to be a valuable ali
ment, an efficient and palatable substi-
tute for codliver oil, an anticatarrhal,
an agent affecting the heart in man
ner comparable to the action, but free
from the inconvenient properties of
digitalis, febrifuge and an antipara-
site, and remedy for tubercular and
scrofulous ailments