The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-04-19

ment, the spectre heiiograph, prom
| ises so much in the study of the sun.
Professor Hale is a young man of
| great wealth who has become in
| tensely interested in astronomical
research and who has given his whole
attention to it. Although not more
! than % years of age, he has built a
fine observatory for himself and fitted
it up with an excellent telescope and
other we'll selected instruments. The
spectre heliograph is his invention,
and in its future promises to make
Professor Hale the greatest authority
on the sun in the world. Professor
Hale is going to Colorado to attempt,
| from some mountain top, to secure
| photog graphs of the corona"
The Texas scout who captured &C.
roniomo, the Apache chief, has gone
| into the Superstition mountains with
the determination to take the Apache
| desperate "Kid,n dead or alive, and
secure the big reward for his capture.
| Thus far no white man has gone into
these mountains and returned alive.
The great Mormon Temple at Salt
Lake was completed and dedicated on
| April 9Th. 1t has been forty years in
| building, and is one of the most beau
| tiful structures in the world. Fifty
| thousand saints from all parts of the
| world witnessed the ceremony, which
the late Brigham Young said would
occur at the second coming of Christ.
| However, timely revelation was
received by the present, President,
saying the second coming of the
Saviour was postponed.
At the next session, Congress will
be urged to increase the enlisted force
of men in the navy from 1000 to 1000.
This is necessary in order to man the
new ships now being completed.
The new cruiser Detroit has had her
maiden trip, and made the first mile
at the rate of 10 knots.
A New York dispatch says:
"George Sheffield, a gray-haIred
inventor of this city, to day
announced on the Maritime Ex-
change that he had invented new
marine engine that would enable the
Paris or Teutonic to make the trip
from New York to Queenstown in
three days and ten hours. He said
that the engine was not problematical,
but an accomplished fact, and that it
could propel vessels of 5000 tons at the
rate of thirty-five miles an hour. The
record breakers, the Paris and the
TeutOnic, have an average speed of
less than twenty-one miles per hour.
No coal is to be used with this ocean
engine, but the screw system will be
used. In brief, the thing will be
motor power, and enough of this can
be put in couple of flour to
drive big ship from Liverpool to
New York. One part of the motive
power is sugar-plain, ordinary sugar
and another barrel will contain
chlorate of potash. The machinery is
somewhat complicated. The steel
enters has a small tube entering at
opposing sides. Through one sugar
and through the other chIorate of
potash is injected by air pressure.
They mingle as the rod dipped in sui
phuric acid comes in contact with
them, and this causes an explosion
which drives the piston. The series
of explosions is kept up by the feeding
of the ingredients, and so the piston
is kept working by gases instead of
by steam.n
The detectives in the famous Planz
murder case at San Jose, CAL, now
assert that the young man was poi
soned at saloon and then hung to
tree. They say they have discovered
the murderers.
A dispatch from Chicago says:
Tanneries with capacity of 80 per
cent. of the raw hides produced in this
country, harness, boot and shoe and
leather Manufactures large enough to
consume the greater part of the leather
produced, other and diversified manu-
factories contiguous, and the creation
of new industrial town, is gigantic
project under consideration by q trio
of business concerns whose aggregate
capital is exceeded by few commercial
triumviates anywhere. Armour, Swift
and Morris, the great packers, are the
projectors, and 1000 acres of land which
they own at Tolleston, Ind, is the
tract upon which the proposed new
industrial center is to be located.
The Commerce Committee of the
United States Senate will visit the Pa
cific coast to select deep-water har-
Dor between San Francisco and San
Diego, upon which the Government
will expend money sufficient to make
the harbor suitable for all kinds of
vessels.
A strike occurred at the Worlds
Fair grounds on the 10th inst, in
which over 1000 men walked out and
refused to work. They demanded
shorter hours and better pay, but were
shown the unreasonableness of their
position, and by midnight had signed
an agreement to go to work the next
morning and not interfere with nom
union men. No further trouble is ex-
pected.