Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-07-08

The smallest quadruped in the world
is the pigmy mouse of Siberia.
A company has been granted permis.
sion to experiment with electric omni.
buses in London.
To complete their growth the nails OF
the left hand require eight to ten days
more than those of the right.
That the world was inhabited long be
fore authentic history began is now onn
OF the generally accepted facts.
In the Samaritan Hospital at Belfast,
Ireland, chlorcform has been given in
over 5000 cases of operation without a
single fatal result.
Instantaneous photography has re-
vealed the fact that the former method
of representing lightning as fiery zig
Tag was entirely false.
The mean descent Of the Ohio River
from the junction Of the Allegheny and
MonOngahela TO the Mississippi is about
five and half inches per mile, the dis
tance being 97j miles.
A discovery OF great Importance to
South Africa is stone capable Of being
burned into a natural cement of good
quality. The deposit covers 1000 acres,
and varies in thickness from ten to
twenty feet.
Rather more than ten tons Of red lead
have been injected between the wood
sheathing and the hull OF the English
cruiser Rainbow. This has not been done
on account of any defect in workman
ship, but as precautionary measure.
An English firm has invented M in
gcnious device for turning on the cur
rents for electric lamps at a certain hour.
An ordinary clock is so ad iustcd that at
the desired moment spring is released,
permitting a pair OF plyoted contacts to
fall into mercury cups, thus completing
the circuit.
A French chemist, who has beou Civ
ing considerable attention to the problem
of heating and lighting from single
source, has devised novel stove,
which in appearance resembles an ordi.
nary heating stove. 1t is so arranged
that the waste heat is utilized for the
generation of electricity.
The diving apparatus is one of the
latest objects to which the telephone ha:
been applied. A sheet Of copper is use !
in place OF one of the glasses in the he'll
met, and to this telephone is fixed, Sc
that the diver, when at the bottom OF
the sea, has only to slightly turn hi
head in order to report what he sees OIL
to receive instructions from above.
In the early days OF telegraphy copper
Gire could only be obtaine with con
ductivity of from thirty to forty pc
cent. of that OF pure copper, and with a
breaking strain OF about 80, 900 pound:
per square inch OF sectional area; whorca
now hard.drawn copper eau be procured
having q conductivlty Of ninetyseveI
per cent. and breaking load of "a, ,00t
pounds.
Electricity Is now used in a Frencl
gun factory for tempering gun springs
The springs consist Of steel wire, wounC
spirally, and when they have beer
brought to a high temperature by tht
passage OF the current the circuit i
broken aud they are dropped into
trough of water. 1t Is stated that b.
this method a workman can temper 2i0l
springs a day.
A new case of mimicry observed b,
Sard is reported. One is saw fly an(
the other is fly. When both Insect
are quiet they resemble each other per
fectly in color and patterns, aud as tht
saw fly it protected by Its unpleasan
smell from the beaks of birds, it is prob
able that the fly is mistaken for it b,
birds, on account of the bad taste of thu
insect it resembles.