Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-03

doctors are talking about an electric lamp
which can be placed In ones insides and 90
illuminate the dark interior as to be Of the
greatest use In locating such diseases ss
tumor, cancer and the like.
The average number of persons killed
every month on the railroad grade Gross
ings in the city of Chicago is said to bs
more than twenty. Some months the
number has exceeded forty, and such oo-
currencss are so common there that they
have ceased to excite any sensation.
The first large shipment of hay from this
country to Europe was made last week,
and though we are accustomed to look up
on that chesp and common article as of
less importance commercially than cereals,
1t is said that the future will see big
trade done In 1t. The indications are that
in few years there will be good profit
for all who desire to raise hay for the for
eign market.
In support of the modern theory that
sound does not consist of given number
of countable wave beats, q well known
writer sdduces the fact that q plate of iron,
even an inch thick, when used as the dia-
phragm of q telephone, will respond to and
transmit perfectly the sound vibrations of
the human voice, result which 1t is al
most inconceivable to suppose could be eff
fected by mere mass vibration.
The problem of running machinery 81
lently appears to have been brought q step
nearer solution by the introduction in Aus
tris of cog g-wheels made of pressed rswhide
which are to work in conjunction with
wheels of cast iron, steel and other metals.
The new wheels are said to produce great
strength. They do not require lubricsting
and are, therefore, clean in operation. 1t
is claimed that they substantially reduce
the vibration of the machinery In which
they are used. They can be had ready
made or in the form of rswhide disks for
shaping by the purchaser. They are sup
ported by a wooden framework, and after
being cut the wheel is covered with shell
lac solution. The greatest drawback to
the new wheel is it's comparative expsn-
siveness.
This is the day of big pspers, but the
biggest paper ever published was the IL
Illuminated Qusdruple Constellation, which
was issued in New York city on July 4,
1859 1t was 2S,00o edition and was
sold for so cents Fer copy. The size of
the page of this msstodonic sheet was 20
by 100 inches, or almost forty-niue squsre
feet. 1t was an eight-psge paper, thir-
104 columns, each forty-eight inehss in
length. It was illustrated with good por-
traits of President Buchanan, Edward
Everett, Henry Ward Beecher, n. P.
Banks, E. II. Chaplin, Horace Greeley,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alexander
Won Humboldt, James G. Bennett and
several others. The paper contained
thirty y-six poems entire, one of them hav'
ing as many as sixty-four eight-line verses.
Among other articles of special note was
the celebrated moon Hosx," taken from
copy OF the New York Sun published in
1885. It required the work Of forty psr-
sons ten hours per day for eigAt weeks ''to
get out" this mammoth paper.
If people are going to war something
will have TO be done to pToteot them fTon
the very deadly machines which will be
used against them. A Philadelphia wal
veteran has patented device for protect
ing soldiers to n considerable extent from
an enemy's fire. 1t ia folding shield of
bullet proof material, circular in form,
which can be fixed to the barrel OF a riEs.
Its diameter is eighteen inches, and the
surface is corrugated for the purpose of de-
hscting bullets. The inventor does not
pretend that Ii furnishes a complete pro-
lection, but he believes that It would pe
found indispensable by skirmishers, and
IN general engagement would be the
means of greatly reducing the casualties.
When not in use it can be folded into
portable compass and worn at the side like
bsyone:. When expanded and fastened
to the riAe-bsrrel, an aperture on the line
of sight Is shown, which enables the sol
dler to take aim and use his piece effec-
lively. The idea of the invention i'
already applied to large rified guns on vee
ssls of war. The inventor has brought hi'
device to the attention of military ex
perts, and they have endorsed 1t as prscti
| cable in operation.