Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-08

| of tho board of health of Philadelphia have
requested physicians "not to place on any
certificate heart failure as the cause of
| death, but the disease of which the patient
was suffering prior to the heart failure"
Perhaps the most striking passage in
Bishop Potter's address at Gettysburg is:
"My countrymen, it was net this man or
that man that saved our republic in its
| hour of supreme peril. Let us not, in
| deed, forget her great leaders. great gener-
ais, great statesmen, and, greatest among
them all, her martsr and president, Lin
coin. But there was not one of these,
then, who would not have told US that
which We may all see 80 plainly now, that
Ii Was not these who saved their country,
but the host of our great uuknown"
The Empress of Austria has to give a
written receipt for the state jewels every
time she wear them, and her MAJESTY, as a
result, usually contents herself with her
private collection, which Is not to be
sneezed at. It is estimated to be worth
81 800, 900 and comprises some pearls which
are second to none In Europe. She fire.
quently loans her jewels to her daughters
and other princesses Of the imperisi house
on state occasions, bat has found 1t un-
necessary, 60 far, to extend similar
courtesy to Der uucfs.
An exhibition which is given In Chicago
outside the Columbian fair grounds is that
of street transportation by means of what
is known as the Ktnetic motor, device
controlled by q Boston company, which
consists in storing at high pressure steam
or super-he ated water and using the power
directly to propel street cars. 1t is said
that the cott of running motor Car with
two other cars trailing behind it does not
exceed two cents per mile. and if this is
the case it ia certainly an improvement, 30
far as expense is concerned, upon any of
the methods now In uss.
The San Francisco Argonaut gives some
interesting information regarding the
value of the property which the late Sena-
tor Stanford left to the university erected
IL VI his kou 4uoEo are OO, tUU
acres of land on the three estates which be-
long to the university, and the land ia to
constitute the principal endowment of the
institution. Part of the land is now
planted in vines, aud all of 1t is declared
suitable for grape growing. Should the
day ever come when tho whole property is
planted with vines the value of 1t, even at
the present rating of the vine planted
piece, will reach nearly 5000 900, 900. As
the largest endowment of the Eastern col
leges does not amount to SIS 900, 600, the
financial future of the Island Stanford
Jr., University will probably be easier and
happier than tina. of any other education
al corporation in the country.
Ona of the principal sources of economy
in street Car traction is the maintenance In
perfect condition of the rails. Dirty rails
are drag on the Car that represents 80
much in dollars and cents, aud many
more or less efficient methods have been
proposed whereby this source of waste
can be stopped. The newest of thess is
one In which the principle of elasticity is
introduced for the first time, and in
which, also, greater degree of llghtness
of construction Is attained The cleaner
is attached to the Car, and reduces the
cost of cleaning the rails to 10 cents per
day. The expense Of the various methods
of rail cleaning uaually adopted, is as
follows: By hand, once a day, 25 cents
per mile of single line in fine season, and
so cents mile in the winter; watering by
cart twice a day. 60 cents per mile. 1t
anee met with a car running on rails
cleaned By the previoue car was from
twenty-five pounds to thirty pounds lass
than when running on dirty rails.
The soldering of glass end porcelain with
metals 10 a novel French process, and its
adaptations are likely to be as numerous as
they sre valuable. 1t Is also simple. The
portion of the tube that is to be soldered
is first covered with thin layer of plati-
mum, this deposit being obtained by cover
ing the slightly heated glass, by means of
a brush, with very neutral chloride of
platinum, mixed with essential oil of
ohamomile, the latter being slowly evapo-
rated, and, when the white and cdoriferous
vspors cease to be given off, the tempera-
ture is raised to red heat; the platinum i.
then reduced and covers the glass tube
with layer of bright metal. On connect
ing the tube thus metalized and placed in 8
bath of sulphate of copper, to the negative
pole Of battery of suitable energy, there
is deposited on the platinum a ring ot
copper, which will be malleable and very
adhesive if the operation has been properly
performed. In this state the glass tube
covered with copper, can be treated like
genuine metallic tube, and be soldered tt
iron, copper, bropzs, platinum, or an,
metals that can be united with tin ant
solder.