The herald., 1897-08-08

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hickories and walloped him good. Ther
she ducked his head in tub of soapsudis
and locked him up in the barn. And the
next morning my pa said he reckon he'd
| swear Off"
| Maxims new gun hurls an aerial tor
pedo weighing 27O0 pounds, of which
1920 pounds are to be of picric acid. The
dropping of few such torpedoes upon
fleet will simply annihilate it. Mr..
Maxim says that for the cost of a single
cruiser he would take the contract to
destroy 1000 first-class battleships
The largest wholesale dealer of New
York city in leaf tobacco, who has been
in the tobacco business all his active
years. says the country's trade in to-
bacco cannot be extended, because we
grow the worst tobacco in the world for
cigar making purposes. We grow the
best in the world for chewing and pipe
smoking purposes.
An expedition sent out on May 1 last
to Wyoming by the American Museum
of Natural History to search for fossils
of extinct reptiles has unearthed speci-
mems which will enrich the scientific
treasures of that institution. DIR. Wort
man and Mr. Brown have found two
gigantic lizards, each about fifty feet
long. They lived 2.5Oo,OOO years ago.
The breeding of cells is a mystery No
/ body ever saw one of their eggs The
ancients used to have notion that cells
were developed from horse hairs. An
other theory was that they were the
progeny of kind of beetle. 1t is now
known that they must spawn in the
ocean. Eels put into landlocked ponds
co not breed; they must go to the sea in
order to propagate their species.
Senator Clay of Georgia, in speaking
of the watermelons grown in his state
and of the ceremony known as water
melon cutting" said: There are more
melons cut and eaten ON single day
than you would see in Washin gton in a
month. Only we do not eat the melon
down to the rind. We take out the
juicy seedless heart, and then, in our
extravaganza, we throw the rest away"
For forty days Lena Collinsworth,
woman living in Claiborne county Tenn
has tasted. She is starving herself to
death under vow. Forty days ago she
quarreled with her husband They sep
arated and she made a vow that she
would fast until he came back to her.
Forty days have passed, and nothing
has passed her lips but water. She is
now only skeleton ard cannot last
much longer.
1t appears from the experiments of n
French scientific man that oak trees are
in more danger than other trees of being
struck by lightning. Beeches, on the
contrary, are not good conductors of
electricity. The danger of trees from
lightning is great in proportion to the
electrical conductibiity of their wood.
Dead trees and dead wood gorerally
form much better conductor than liv-
irg woods, which offer greater resist
ance.
A curious discovery is reported from
Bowdoin college, Maine. In excavating
for the remodeling of Appleton hall, one
of the college dormtories, the laborers
came across a subterranean chambe.
beneath the cellar of the structure. The
chamber had evidently been untouched
for years, was draped in black, and con-
tanned some skeletons and cofIirs. Fur
ther Investigation proved that the cham
ber was connected with some of the
students dormitories, and it is suggest
cd that it was used in hazing rev stu
dents many years ago.
An attempt to classify well known
Engiishmen as tail. medium or short
is made by the st. James Gazette. me
dium" being taken as from foot to
{ foot 9. Under tall came Lord Sails
bury, Mr. Balfour, Sir William Vernon
Harcourt Cecil Rhodes, Mr.. Lecky, DIR
w. G. Grace. the bishop of London, and
Henry Irving; under medium Mr. Glad
stone, Mr.. Chamberlain, the archbishop
Of Canterbury, John Morley and Henry
M. Stanley; under short, Lord Roberts
of Kandahar, Lord Wolseley, Dr. Jane
son, Rudyard Kipling and Mr.. Barrie.
1t is prophesiad that present methods
of illumination are to be superseded by
a lamp nearly perfected by Puluj OF
Vienna, one of the earliest experiment.
ers on Cathode rays. For fifteen years
he has been working upon it. Not only
does it generate intense Roentgen rays,
but it also transforms nearly all of the
energy of the electric current into light.
Prof. Ebert's experiments prove that a
single horse power of electric energy
would be sufficient to operate $4,000 Pu-
luj lamps Prof Lodge, head of the
department of experimental physics in
Universal college, Liverpool, says that
"if mechanical energy can be converted
entirely into light alone, one man turn
ing the crank of a suitable machine
could generate enough light for whole
city" Puluj claims that his lamp full
fills this condition.
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r1essrs. Brauer and Krohn