Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27

mat Volcano sddition in the event tb,,
the Old thing should suddenly take uro"
ITSELF notion to become new.
Professor Granville. a noted scfsr,i,.
IN his specially, reports through ~
Epoch his conclusions after n Ions sf,,t-
OF the human voice. He SAYS goa,
voices are natural, not made. The ms,
Is born and so is the great singer. L,,
proper culture and assiduous wOrg Co..
90 much 10 improve voice tina. i,
scarcely above mediocritv. The carIar-
ter must know how To use mis- tool. .a
lore he can do fine work, AMI the ma,
or woman ambitious to succeed d. Ia,
caIlst, no matter how woudertu tbs
natural gifts he or she NAV possess .l...
consent TO undergo the necessary irt.,'
ing. Some require longer traiuirg RIM,
others. The length OF Jime to tram NM
educate voice depends on the cgusrr,r
and aptitude of the pupil. raIuus tta
human voice properly is somerh,u. ,,-..,.
liar. There can be no rushing or cram =
ming IN the case. If tn. voice b, ,rr,
strained or too much fstiguet vh-7
young 1t Is injurious, and if the r-,n..
| rest aud care is not taken it NAV r-r--
amount to anything. Never ovpr,var. a
| young voice. If young colt is r.fI.n
too soon or strained by pushing him f.,
FAST, he is practically ruined AM viii
| never become elod racer. I'm,
| So me is true OF voice, ard too rnu.,
stress can not be laid on this fact Ngrv
voices that have indications OF rare
| quaint are literally murdered br z.ala.,
but inexcusably foolish over-tru..rU,
Nature can not be pushed, it is the I.,,
ter that goes hand iu hand with time mi
| brushes those who attempt 10 violate t-.
inexorabIe and immutaUle laws
4 great mistake IS made by 90. rrr,
| practice. A voice should be pr..,l,s,
an hour in the morning, but not ,palu.
uously. Half an hours rest shout n
terveue before the hours work Is Agycr.
plished.
Step by step we move on in the d.sear-
ery of new uses for electricity III.
latest very important discovery !. &c..
ported from Berlin. By means Of the
new agent they can reduce any of or
hard metals TO q plastic state, without
the employment of heat, aud while IN
that condition can mould or shape them
as desired. with as much ease ~ th.r
could mould or shape tempered putig.
When the cause has been removed tina
in every respect. So say the scientific
papers.
The site of tine ancient Roman city AZ
Cissa. often mentioned by the Old
writers, has long been lost. Certain i'll
dicatIons lately discovered have led 10
the conclusion that the city must have
stood upon an island in the MpGiter-
raneaD, and that the island has gone
down beneath the waters. So strong
has grown this conviction that al ry-
pedtion is now at work sounding the sea
for ruins.
Mount Blanc now has the most elevated
meteorological observatory in the world.
1t occupies a position IA 800 It above
the sea. The SonenbliCk station Is To-
l!O feet above the sea, and the Pike )
Peak station IA 1874 feet. The register
ing instruments of the new Mount B.auc
station are SO arranged as TO require at
tentiun but once in fifteen days.
-
The ancieuts had what thev calleI
"the seven wonders of the world - but
those wonders are not now regarded ~
wonders at all by us modern deniZnus Of
the earth. We have our own wonders in
large numbers, aud should we feel dis
posed TO make choice of seven of these
as the greatest, Mr.. Arthur V. Abboo
says We would find them in the new
Forth bridge, Scotland; the Elffel tower,
Paris; The new croton eQueduct, New
York; the blowing up Of the He'll Gate
Instructions, New York; the Eads jet
ies at the mouth of the Mississippi; the
ST. Gothard tunnel. Switzerland; aud
the East River bridge. New York.
'What Is electricity anyway is
question one often hears asked. Who
can answer the question correctly? The
old notion that electricity is something
flowing through wire as water flows
through pipe is rapidly passing out OF
existence. Scientists are beginning 10
believe that electricity does not enter the
wire at all, but simply plays upon the
In Immediate contact with
1t. In some experiments by Prof ) J.
the velocity of electric dis
turhauces along wire surrounded by
air was nearly double the velocity along
the same wire surrounded by sulphur,
and the velocity of the DISCHARGE
vacuum tube fifty feet long
was comparable with that OF light. His
Is tnat the conductor meFtlf
guides the discharge impelled through
the ether. -.
A scientific writer observes that cleo
tricity is gradually invading the whole
domain of commercial chemistry.
factory for the manufacture of chl0raIs
Of potash by electricity has been estAb-
lished in Switzerland; soda Is being
by electrolysis of Sec
salt; the electric bleaching Il
paper is largely carried on in France;
and the manufacture of electric soap on
; large scale is proposed in Germany.
The transformation of wood into paper
pulp BY the electrolysis of q salt solution
nto which sawdust or wood Is immersed,
has been proven to be practicable, and
he new industry is TO be estGblishedi
some sugar works IN havana haTs
adopted electric appliances which greatly
hasten the process of sugar. making.
A recent work by DIR J. Z. PhIpots,
tates that of English oysters 1900 are re-
Iuired to make a bushel, and OF the
american, only 800. The largest edible
ysters in the world, however, are those
4 Port Lincoln, South Australia, sPecl-
mems of which sometimes measure foot
cross the shell. 1t was estimated thirty