Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13

'sceipt Of price Dr. J. H. Scheuck * Son. Phils l
teresting. Mars having passed Jupiter,
will move on i'll his eastward journey.
| remaining an 'eveuing STAR through
| out the remainder of the year.
| on the same night of this conjunction
| OF Mars and Jupiter, Venus, which has
| been moving eastward, will become sta
tionary, after which she Will change her
course and begiu slowly moving west
| ward towards the sun.
| \ most remarkable steam discovery Is
reDorted in some of the scientific papers,
! made by Mr. T.. q. Fowler of Bridge
! port, Conn. 1t enables the engineer TO
| cause All instantaneous doubling of boiler
! pressure without the application OF more
| heat. The thing is said TO have been
| fully demonstrated by n small boiler in
| which the pressure rGissd to forty
pounds, and after removal OF the furnace
fire suddenly thrown to eighty pounds.
In another experiment the pressure was
| raised III an instant from eighty 10 100. IL
was claimed that this property accounted
for many So called ''mysterious boiler e1-
ploSious,f or those which wIthstood the
inspectors test and then exploded, ap-
parently at much lower pressures IL
was further shown how this property
could be readily removed from the boiIar,
whereby the danger is obvIatsd, and the
same was demonstrated by successful eX-
perImentS. No description OF the modus
operandi is given. But for the character
of the papers publishing the report we'd
look upon the whole thing us some snake
editor s fake.
The Textile Manufacturing World il
ont vii hn ,Ar,f hnf
and very important use for 'linters'
removed from cotton seed by the oil
mills has lately been made. Heretofore
this material, which is too short for tex
tile purposes, has been sold ut few
cents per pound TO be employed in stiff
fening pillows, mattresses and the like,
but now it has suddenly mounted 20
greater value than that placed upon any
other product of the cotton plant. The
new discovery brings II into position rs
the best material known for the manu-
facture of felts. n New York concern is
already manufacturing it into hats.
which give the fullest satisfaction. What
next for cotton?
The French scientists have been expe-
rimenting with steel wire for tslegraphio
and telephone purposes with excellent
success. The wire is coated with copper,
which coating forms the conductor. 1t
is said TO carry the current better than q
solid copper wire would do, and the
greater strength OF the steel renders that
kind OF wire entirely the most desirable.
The French postoffice department has
decided TO adopt the new steel wire to
:he exclusion of tas ordinary iron and
copper wire heretofore in use.
A recent discovery for greatly inoreas-
ing the power of electric arc lights is now
attracting no small degree OF attention.
1t is nothing more or less than employ
ing gas with the electricity. a very
fine jet of gas is fed into the lamps
through hollow carbons. Tests made are
said to have established the fact that IL
fine jet OF gas so fed ill., increases the
power OF the arc light $50 per cent. This
report comes from high authorities.
-.
Professor Foster tells THE GAZETTE
readers that the papers say Mr.. Edison
claims 10 be perfectins an Instrument
that viii enable him TO hear the crash OF
meteors as they fall upon the sun, we
have read the same thing in not few
papers. Professor Foster regards Mr.
Edison in the light of u man with too
much sense for setting up any such
claim. OF course, he is. Every school
boy ought to know that sound could not
be transmitted through space outside the
limits OF our atmosphere. 1t takes ma
terial of some kind 10 conduct sound.
Were it possible for man TO stand I'M
mediately upon the uppermost boundary
line OF our atmosphere and witness the
collision and destruction of two planets
rs large as Jupiter only FIVE miles away
there is no existing probability that he
vvnntf lf.h yvi Of
crash. -.
Prussia is doing away with the old
fashioned primary batteries in telegraph
ing, and substituting storage batteries
charged by diuamo. The new method
is said TO be entirely adopted by the
great Central telegraph company OF
Berlin.
The artificial Matching of chickens is
by most persons thought to be some
thing new under the sun, aud a result OF
the biological Investigations and discov-
cries made By the evolutionists. The
tact is, as Consul-Genera! Cerdwell at
Cairo reports, the Matching OF eggs by
other than the natural process was
known to the ancient Egyptians, and
this process, handed down from father
TO SON. leaves our scientific processes for
the same purpose far in the rear. The
extent of the business among the Eyp-
tiens NAV be gathered from the consul
generals statement that the oven crop
of marketable chickens il 10 200 900
each season.
Some new discoveries have been made
ct Pompeii near the Stabiana gate, aud
u description Is given of them. Nature
states that three bodies were found, two
being those of men and the third that of
q woman. Not fer from the resting
place of these bodies was found the trunk
OF ~ tree, three meters In height and
measuring forty centimeters in dame
ter. This tree, together with its
fruits that were found with it, have
been examined by this professor of bot
any, N. Pasquale, who finds in it
variety Of Taurus nobils. BY means OF
the fruits, since they come 10 maturity
in the autumn, he concludes that the
eruption did not take place in August,
but in November.