The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-08


fhcsc streams within twenty feet oI
discharge and n human being struck
by such avstream would be killed
pounded into n shapelcss mass
"Ar. j. Bowie. OF San Francisco, au-
thor of book on hydraulic mining,
estimates that the stream from six
inch nozzle, under 45O feet vertical
pressure, delivers blow of 668, ,735
foot pounds every second, equivalent
TO 1,070 horse power It is absolute
ly IMPOSSIBLE says Mr.. Bowie, SO cut
such stream with an axe, or TO make
an impression on II with any other
implement Mr.. Bowie adds that ac-
cidents have occurred where miners
We're killed by very much smaller
streams at distances of $50 or 200 feet
from the nozzle. aoi '
"Prof Christy offhc university of
California an eminent authority on
mining, says that ifa nozzle OF IRON
six to nine inches diameter. were ar
ranged to throw stream vertically
upward against a spherical boulder
weighing 1000 bounds, the vertical
head being anywhere from 100 to 500
feet, the boulder would be forced up
until the diminished velocity of the
stream established All equilibrium of
prcssures. There would be a point Mt
which the upward pressure Of The
stream would exactly balance the grav-
ity pressure of the bonlaer, holding IL,
the half-iourOck, there snspen led. In
practice. OF course, the boulder could
not be balanced accurately, but ii
conical basket OF iron bars were ar
ranged about the nozzle so as 10 catch
the bonldcr whenever il should be de-
fccied from the stream and return il
to the nozzle. the 1000 pounds OF
quartz would be kept in play as ball
i'm n fountain. As 10 cutting these
streams, Prof. Christy says that he has
often tired TO drive a crow bar into
one Of them. rhc stream felt as solid
rs n bar OF iron, aud although he could
feel the point of the crow bar enter
tho water for perhaps hall an inch, tho
bar was thrown forward with such
force that it was almost impossible to
retain ID in the grasp. An. axe swung
by the most powerful man alive could
not penetrate the stream. Yet il might
be cut by the finger of a child, if the
child were seated an railway train
moving parallel with the stream in the
same direction and with The same ve-
locity. That velocity would be CON
sidcrabiy more than mile minute"
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American papers are fond Of print
ing paragraphs like this g 'St
The Princess Of Wales is now hav
ing made in London a $4,000 ten
set. Grea. Britain has to pay dearly
for the articles of ycrtu in the Wales
fl nily.
Here is fine example Of peoples
fondness for spying out little NOTES
in the eyes Of their neighbors, while
large-sized beams arc sticking out Of
their own eyes. The congress that
has just adjourned managed, in the
course Of two years,t spend 81 ,003,-
10000; yet we free-born rcpubli-
cans are virtuously scandalized at
Mrs. Wales $4,000 tea-set. Our
Lawmakers, with their magnificent
prodigality, would scorn to waste
time in considering such beggarly
sum. They don't get well warmed
up to their work until they begin to
scatter the national revenues by tens
of millions. Observe these items
from the list Of appropriations Ar
my, s4s, $4,000 Indian department,
s23, GAS, 900; legislative, 43,O5s, 427;
navy, sos, ,677, 900 pensions, $685.
329,75l, and so on. With such re-
cord staring us in the face, it i'll be-
comes us to put on Pharisaicai airs
about the expensiveness Of these "ef-
fete EUROPEAN despotisms." Sixty
years ago Alexis de Tocqueyille, af-
ter a careful study of our system,
cams to the conclusion that whatev-
or merits democratic form Of gov
srnment might have, economy was
not one of them. What would the
philosophic Frenchman think if he
we're alive to. day and could scan this
billion-dollar list ?