The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-09

! turned upon the shadow of one of the
MOONS of Jupiter. This shadow seemed
double. SINGS the first hint of the dis
covery many observations have been made
through the Lick glass, all tending to con-
firm the original impression, to-wit: That
this particular SATELLITE of the greatest of
planets IS double-a dot of a moon revolv-
ing around the main moon.
Ayoung man camping in the Sierras dis
covered and captured a butterfly of an I'M
usual species. He sent it to the Smithson-
ian institution Mt Washington, and received
a check for $1.5OO, with the request to
make careful search for other moths of the
great was the excitement among scientists
at the discovery that one of the race had
been recently alive. Although diligent
search has been made by men paid for the
service no other specimen has been found.
One of the novelties at the st. Pancras
exhibition in London. England, last week,
was a sausage machine, driven by electric
motor. In conjunction with this machine
1T has been proposed to employ an electra
heating attachment, whereby the savory
dish can be delivered cooked and smoking
hot to the purchaser. 1t begins to look as
if the shrewd individual who conceived the
idea of a universal pie-utilizing machine,
into which the animal could be put at one
end, to emerge at the other az cured hams
IN DAdSh41Ik DANoAcs, wan uD VlblOldIY, DuG
only a prophet a little in advance of his
times.
A device that will enable a railroad en-
ploye to determine when a car is loaded
consistent with safety or with economical
wear has been a ''long felt WANT in rail-
road circles. An apparatus has been in
vented to supply this demand, and owing
to lts simplicity it is likely to come into
general favor. The devise consists of two
distinct parts, the upper part being at
tached to the truck, above the spring on
the side of the car, while the other part is
fixed below the spring. An adjustable
spring Is carried by thu top part, and the
bottom end of this touches an index finger
that works over the dial of the bottom
piece. When the apparatus IS once ad-
Justed the index, as the car is loaded,
will indicate on the dial full load, or
overloaded" as the case may be.
An electrical novelty is IA direct acting
electric elevator. The motor is Suspended
beneath the car, and ia equivalent to about
three and a half horsepower, while the
movements of the cars are easily controlled
by switches. Ihe motor is connected with
n system of gear wheels. and they grip the
ropes on each sid and the car moves nm
and down only when the motor is in mo
ton. Should any accident happen to the
machinery the 4ear wheels are automati-
cally locked and the Car stopped. In case
OF sucn an accident happening while the
elevator ID between the floors, the elevator
boy may attach a crank to the gear that ex-
tends inside the car and the car be wound
up or down until a point is reached where
the bpassengers may alight without diff
Guilty.
Years ago it was supposed that Sirius was
nearer the earth than any other star, and its
light REQUIRES over three wears to ranch no
Now, however. Alpha Centauri, a compare
tl7ely insignificant star of the southerp
heavens. IS known to be the nearest neigh
Dor, and Sirius is so far removed that tha
human mind falls to grasp the distance
when expressed iii miles. he fact th.t
llRht requires some seventeen or twenty
years to cross the space between our littla
earth and this giant orb is scarcely more
easy to comprehend. If one would apprs-
clate the maQnificence of this most brilliant
OF suns, he should not think of it az near
but rather let his mind make the vain ~
tempt to follow a ray OF light thither. no !
travels on, unwearied, day aud night, at Tho
rate OF $4,000 miles q second for twenty
years.
Inc latest Investigations show that bacte-
ria are spher0idai, rod-like, or spiral. I'm.
der the most powerful microscopes thew are
found to have a granular mass in the cen
Ter, surrounded by a thin, stfucturelesa
membrane. Under favorable conditions
with plenty of food, they divide across III,
MIDDLE, each part growing longer and AGAR
6ubdlyidlng and so Oh indefinitely. II hi,
saouid go on for II few weeks these ninutt
animals would become 30 hume Gus tina
they would use upnl the carbon, hydrogen
oxygen and nitrogen there is available fol-
life purposes. But their increase il lin
] ited by the facts that the food supply give,