Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-10-26
ANNAPOLIS, MD, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 90, 1891.


Electric pleasure boats are successful.
Homburg has q compressed wood
motel.
An automatic electrical pump has APP
peared.
A shingle machine has been devised
that cuts 40 strokes a minute. heavy
knife throwing off the shingles more
rapidly than they can be counted.
The latest improvements in the long
distance telephones have raised the ques-
tion of the probability of their being put
into operation between this country and
Europe.
Professor Foote. of Philadelphia, re.
Gently read a paper in Washington Civ.
ing description of the meteoric ore con.
tanning diamonds which was lately discov.
cred in Arizona.
A most serious obstacle 10 the proposed
American-Asiatic cable by the Aleutian
Island and Alaskan route has arisen in
the discovery Of such an extent of ex-
treme depth Of water northeast Of Japan
as TO preclude the sinking of the cable.
Various devices for increasing the speed
and economy Of telegraphing have been
brought out recently, and il seems not
unlikely that new era of cheap teleg-
raphy is at hand, when companies can
send 100 words for 25 cents and make a
handsome profit.
There is something about the cedar
logs that are now being exhumed in Cape
May county, N. j., and that are said to
have been buried for more than 1000
years, that imparts soft and melodious
tone to violin, and the logs are being
cut up for the making of such instru-
ments.
The walls Of brick or stone house are
frequently damp-a fault that may be
easily prevented in building. No plaster
should be put directly upon brick OF
stone, but furring strips should be nailed
to the wall, and the laths put upon these.
When this is done there will be nc
dampness.
1t is shown by reports issued by the
principal street railway company OF
Birmingham, England, which has lines
operated both by horses and electricity.
that storage battery traction is more eco
nomical than animal traction, the differ.
ence in favor of electricity being about
per cent-Electrical Review.
Dwarf trees, only two feet high, exact
reproductions in miniature of sycamore.
oak, cedar, and apple trees have for 200
or 300 years been raised by the Japanese.
The mode of producing them is a well
AaA
ers have within the past five years almost
equaled the japanese in the production of
these dwarf trees.
The bacillus of tuberculosis, says Nat
ure, is often to be found in places lived in
by consumptiyes. Herr Prausnits has
lately collected the dust in various com.
partments of trains which often convey
patients from Berlin to Meran, and inoc-
ulated a number of guinea pigs with it.
Two out of five compartments so exam
ined were foaud to contain the bacillus
the dust OF one rendered three out of
four guinea pigs tuberculous, that of the
other, two.
Lord Salisbury is quite distinguished
savant as well as a removed statesman.
In. recent lecture before the Chemical
Society of London, he said: Astronomy
is, in a great measure, the science Of
things as they probably are; geology is
the science of things as they probably
were; chemistry is the science of things
as they are at present. ~To these, +"
adds the Electrical Engineer, electric.
ity is the science of things as they prob
ably will be