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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-07

copyright, 1897, the S. S. Mcclure Coz
Refinements aof measurement have
within recent years, reached such in
credible limits as to tax the magma
ton, not to speak of the credulity of
the layman who has not kept himself
IN touch with the marvellous progress
that has been made in this direction.
Professor, Vernon Boys, for example,
VINO has done some remarkable work
IN TINS line, claims to be able with the
simplest possible arrangement of
quartz fibre, tortional balance and mir
lor' TO detect the attractive force of the
one @tWenty-thousand millionth of a
gram The figures are literally so vast
lhat they carry practically no illumi-
talloh Whatever. The mind the ordi-
nary mind, at least, cannot have even a
remote perception of a grain divided
INTO twenty billion parts Our natural
senses hardly suffice to detect the diff
terence IN weight, by hand, between a
ceupie OF oranges weighing, say, re-
specuvely three and five ounces.
AGAIN, it is conceivable that a small
number OF virulent microbes lodged in
the human body viii cause a mans
oeath. And yet, according to a recent
computation, a cubic centimetre of
water may contain not millions, but
pll-lons OF these deadly parasites. Re-
Gently the milk supply of Boston, on
examination, yielded as high as 135, 0G0,-
OoV germs per ounce. It is astonishing
20 pc told that these calculations are
made rapidly, and that a computation
reaching even into the billions may
consume only a minute or so. This is
done by means of extremely fine rul-
lngS or lines in the field of the micro
scope vision, and the simple process
OF counting the number of microbes in
one OF these squares and multiplying
OUT TINS sum, yields the desired knowl-
ed-e.
Ihen, again, in making high power
microscopes the lenses are, to all in
tents and purposes, fiat: that is, no or
olnary eye could detect their curvature
winch Is often no more than 1-150. 00Oth
OF an inch. In order TO liquefy air.
PROFESSOR DeWar of London desired TO
attain the nearest approximation TO a
pertect vacuum. Air has a pressure
OF Is pounds to the square inch, and
TINS IS called an atmosphere. in techni-
cal languages. We do not feel this pres
sure ordinarily, but Professor Dewar
succeeded IN gaining vacuum of
10 ,U0Oth Of al atmosphere by filling
vessel with mercurial vapor and eX-
posing It TO very low temperature. A
human being would die in an atmos-
- y 4 a l--C0 lA o. l1li Us. Out Professor
DeWar goes a little further: to be ex-
act, to where his air is rarified to L.
5O0.OOO.ooOth of it's original density.
Next as regards angles. It would be
quite Impossible TO detect with the eve
a penny at distance of 1000 feet. Sup
roslnS = were 100 miles away. the
angle formed by its diameter at this
Instance would be Sc incredibly small
that we have no means of picti1rine If
to ourselves. Bnt the Darwin Derdu-
lum Will indicate a movement of l-sGth
OF second. which is Just about
me angular measurement of a penny
at this distance of 1000 miles.
<'rofessor Langley's boIo1neter meas
ures the temperature of the sun.
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grounds and found them great pro-

grounds and found them a great pro-
lection.
E. P. Mayo: Rocky soil has always
been considered best for fruit trees
and justly so. 1t may be we'll to state
briefly the reason for this fact. Rocks
contain enclosed>within their hard sur
face, nearly all the life giving and fer
tilizing elements which trees need and
constant process of disintegratior
is taking place from natural causes by
which these materials are liberated and
returned to the soil for use. This is
why rocky SOIL as we say, is strong
soil. Some additional fertilizer is need
ed as not enough is furnished in this
manner.
Plants languish more from the lack of
moisture than lack of plant food, says
Professor Roberts, director of the Cor
nell experiment station. They have
tried at the station to conserve moist
ure and release plant food by cultiva-
ton They have found that the yield
of potatoes is in proportion to the
number of civilizations. Some plants
cultivated ordinarily yielded less than
100 bushels per acre; those cultivated
nine times yielded considerable more
and those cultivated IL times during
the season of growth yielded over $50
bushels to the acre.
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that the slightest inaccuracy in any
one of its parts would throw all the
others out of adjustment and destroy
the value of the instrument. Expensive
special machinery of almost perfect
precision is necessarily required for
this class of work, and the final test
ing of d caliper of the kind mentioned
must be made with a standard scale.
The latest development of this type of
appliances is to be seen in the shops
of a manufacturing company in Provi-
dence, r. I. On a massive bed, IS
inches high, are two movable heads,
fitted to the broad fiat surface and
gibbed at the sides. The larger
head carries bar having
finely graduated scale, with mark
ings down to 10th of an inch
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NOTES IN SEASON.

Farmers who grow their own fence
POSTS find the cost of good fences com
paratively light, and it is very pool
farm which has not suitable corner
on it for a patch of trees.
A great many plots Of ground now
used to grow grain under unfaVoraplt
tillage conditions would produce more
profitable crop in the long run
planted to valuable sorts of timber
Deep freezing of the soil makes til
lage easy in the spring of the year
but the fellows who are in hurry tC
i get seeding done will make bad bust,
ness out of things by tramping the sol
before the frost is all out.
Professor Baileys remedy for potato
scab is to soak the seed. whole, one ano
a half hours in sixteen gallons of water
to which has been added two ounces
of corrosive sublimate. Take out,
spread and let dry before cutting and
planting.
Many a thrifty farmer has such an
immense respect for a banker that he
loses his profitable farm in an effort
to do a one-horse banking business
Just as if it is not as honorable to buy
and sell cattle as to buy and sell evil
dences of misery called hottest
To keep the fleeces of your sheep
free from chaff and grass seeds have
the hay racks for them resting on the
ground. that the sheep may eat from
the top or sides. Endeavor to fill these
always while the sheep are away from
them, and avoid the fouling or the
fleece.
Zeal without knowledge will put the
horticulturalist of the future in hard
lines. Competition is becoming SO
strong in the fruit market that the
most thorough knowledge of varieties
and methods of culture are needed to
keep the cost of production below the
selling price.
If you have 500 with which to buy
sheep, buy a few good ones rather than
a lot of culls: do not let the butcher
Gull your flock; do not keep your gran
aries full of grain and not feed 1t; do
not permit the sheep to stray out IN
cold storms; do not expect heavy f1eeces
, and good lambs from ewes wintered on
straw.
The Indiana station finds formalin a
good substitute for corrosive sublimate
in treating seed potatoes for scaD. 1t
is little more expensive. but is not
poisonous to animals, while the corro-
sive sublimate is a violent poison For
malin comes in one pound bottles con-
tanning a 40 per cent solution, which
is a colorless and odorless liquid. Add
nall pint TO 10 SalOnS OF water, SOAK
the seed potatoes two hours, and then
cut and plant
L. B. Pierce. of Tallmadge. O., in a
paper read before the New York Hor-
ticultural society, recommends the U.s..
of evergreenS for protection and orna-
mentation around country homes. His
attention was first called to this sub
ject by a visit in 1866 to the Mount
Hope nurseries. On a cold. windy day.
it was still and comfortable upon a
green plat surrounded by beautiful
evergreens. He ordered a lot of trees
and planted them around his home
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ING THE FLIGHT PRoJEoTILEs FORTRESS MONROE.

though that orb is $4,000, 900 miles away.
a galvanometer has been devised so
sensitive that it will show the electric
current set Up by the difference in
temperature between two contiguous
fingers cf your hand, even il q very
good thermometer shows no difference
of warmth whatever. One per cent of
arsenic in copper does not seem q great
deal, but if there be but 3-1,000ths Of l
per cent in a copper ware, it is unfit
for use electrically. Chemical analysis
in every day use detects this difference
and even very small fractions of such
difference. It is not at all an unusual
thing to see a solution marked as con-
tanning 0.OO01 OF a gram, and an ordinary
assay balance works down to only /
Tooth of a miIligram. A diamond weigh
ing carat is not an extraordinary af-
fair but this same balance will weigh
down TO 1-1000th of this.
INSTRUMENT FOR REGISTERING
THE EXPANSION OF METALS.
One of the most exquishively sensi-
tive instruments ever devised has just
been set up by Gus Henning, a me-
chanical engineer of New York, who
has constructed some of the finest in
struTnents OF measurement in the
world. This is known as the mirror
testing apparatus, and is designed to
test and register the expansion or
stretching Of metals under heat or
strain. Seen in the compact little box
in which il is carried one would never
dream that this marvellous affair is
capable of accurately measuring the
strain caused by the football of a pc
destrian crossing Brooklyn bridge. And
vet such is its power.
This instrument, which is seen in the
Illustration, is exceedingly simple. Its
10 1e1 10
mirrors carried on spindles, which in
turn are fastened to a pair of knife
edges, so that the slightest change IN
the position of the knife edges causes
detection of the mirrors. For the rest
thee is an ordinary reading telescope,
TO which is attached q finely graduated
scale. reading down TO Ice OOOth OF an
inch. These readings cannot, of course.
be detected with the naked eye, but
only through a strong telescope. Now
when the knife edges are lightly
t,lamped against the object to be tested,
saw a bar of steel and the latter be
stretched or expanded, the knife edge
will change position, the mirror VIII be
DETECTED, and as the latter is looked at
through the telescope from a distance
of five or ten feet, the graduated scale
which the mirror reflects seems 10
move I'D and down. And by watching
these movements the stress on the bar
is easily calculated.
1t goes almost without the telling
that an instrument so sensitive as this
and dealing with graduations of l.
1C9. O0Oth part Of an inch, will register
the most minute changes of tempera-
ture The mere proximity of the body
will, by the expansion due to the heat
radiated tEerefrom. Introduce errors,
and in fact the utmost precaution
must be taken in this regard TO see
that the temperature of the room in
which the observation are to be made
does not vary while they are in prog
ress. Moreover, nervous or excltable
persons cannot use such delicate mi I
promoters at all, and even for others
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considerable experience is necessary be-
fore one can become an expert in their
use and their delicate readings be of
practical value.
This instrument is very much more
accurate than another remarkable mi
crometer devised by Mr.. Henning for
the same purpose, known as the duplex
measuring instrument. In the latter
device the expansion or compression of
the piece to be tested was made to af-
feet the closure of an electrical circuit
which rang a bell when the contact
was made. Manipulation of screws
gave the desired reading, which were
down to 1-10,000ths part of an inch
This was wonderful enough in its way,
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preSslonS, from which accurate meas
urements can be made. There are little
more than series of minute dots in
a circle, caused by the breakage of the
circuit. due to the cutting of the differ
ent wire screens in the path of the
ProJectlle. The breaking of the circuit
is communicated directly to- the trans
nlitter placed between the polarizer
and analyzer of the chronograph, with
the result that the rotation of the plane
of polarization is momentarily but in
stantly stopped. From this it further
results that the beam of light passing
through the transmitter is interrupted
IN its progress toward the camera plate,
and so its record on the plate is a series
of broken circles
Now If tuning fork be likewise
placed in the path of the ray of light,
so that its vibrations will make rec
ord upon the camera plate, it will be
possible with a scale closely to COM
pare the two records. And the rate
of the vibration of the tuning fork be-
ing known, the intervals of time be-
tween the breakage of the successive
circuits of the projectile can be quick
~ computed. The distance between the
screens being also known, it is a mere
matter of calculation to discover the
rate of the projectile's fight.
Complicated as this instrument seems
in the description it is comparatively
simple in operation, and of course in
Simultaneous 1t is manipulated with a
pressure of the thumb on an electrical
key. and its work is literally done in a
fash
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but the new apparatus is so much
more delicate that with a sufficiently
strong telescope placed about % feet
away it would be possible to read down
to 1000, 000ths of an inch, and there
would be interval enough between the
graduations to make an accurate guess
of 1000, 000th of an inch.
WILL MEASURE ACCURATELY
ONE TEN THOUSANDPH OF
AN INCH.
In the manufacture of such instru-
ments as these, other instruments.
hardly less delicate and accurate. are
in turn required. Take what is known
as nicrometer caliper, on which ac-
curate measurements may be made to
1-1O,O0Oth of an inch. It is easy to see
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on the upper side and another on the
lower side, so fine as to be visible
without the aid of a powerful glass.
Over this latter scale is a microscope,
fitted with micrometer eye-piece, for
reading these fine graduations. The
latter are read by means of a vernier
scale, and their graduation is .00001 of
an inch. The cone at the back of the
machine is for the purpose of concen-
trating light upon the graduation of
the scale.
The chief adjustment of the machine
is by the manipulation of the hair lines
of the microscope so that the latter are
coincidert with the lines of the scale.
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Photographic plate is made to rotate
at known sped in a light tight box
ana light is admitted to the plate
through a narrow slit by means of a
''massless" shutter The latter con-
sistsi of pair Of Nicol Drisms. between
which is a unique device for the rota-
ton of the plane of polarization. This
rotation is accomplished electrically.
with the result that the light is ad-
mitted and cut off without the move
ment of any material or at least pom
derable, thing.
With this wonderful apparatus it is
possible to project upon an exceedingly
sensitive camera plate a series of inn
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UNION
PACIFIC


THE THROUGH CAR LINE.
Trains arrive and depart at Salt h7lgs
City daily as follows:
On Effect May 10. 1850
ARRIVE.
From Chicago, Omaha st. Louis.
Kansas City. Denver, Park
city and Ogden. $40 pm.
From Helena, Butte. Portland,
san Francisco. Ogden and in
rtermediate points ...-...........- 9:05 am.
From San Francisco. Cache Val
points ,...................... IT'S pm.
Kansas Kansas City, Denver and Og-
From Frisco. Milford and inter '''O H.
r mediate points .................. s:45 am.
n me- Sanpete Valley and inter-
liked train from Terminus,
iooele and Garfield Beach,. 4:30 pm.
DEPART
3r Snlcago Omaha. Denver.
and Ii psr,S City, ST Louis. Ogden
For pr San Francisco. ogden. ~ '
Fp points ..:....:....'.'........... 500 am.
For Chicago Omaha. Denver. ''O PM
Kansas City. st. Louis, Butte,
Fa Portland and San Francisco 700 pm.
NE Msphi sanpete Valley. TAO am.
T Fr, Provo. Nephi. Milford.
..NI,,,sc9 and intermediate points. 600 pm.
Mixed train for Garfield Beach.
1i10oele and Terminus. 7:45 a. M.
Sunday. 'A Ue'ii' eNOePS
.rDaily except Sunday.
A'aiiy except Sunday south OF Juab.
|rrf TICKET OFFICE. 2O1 MAIN ST.
Telephone No. 665.
1hTough Pullman Palace Sleepers. Lat
~ ~ improved Tourist Sleepers. Free Re-
clilnS CHAIR Cars. Elegant Day Coaches.
d. Z. hurley,
General Agent Passenger Dept.
S H. H. CLARK.
OLIVER w. MINK
u. ELLERY ANDERSON,
JOHN w. DOANE
FREDERIC r. COUDERT.
E. L. LOMAx. G. P. & T. Agt.
T. DICKINSON. General Manager.
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THE COLORADO MIDLAND r. r.
Two Through Trains Daily

Retween Salt Lake City. Ogden and Lead
Vile. Cripple Creek. ColoradN Springs.
Denver and all points east Only line
running THROUGH CHAIR CARS.
Through sleepers on both morning and
evening trains This line. in connection
with the Rio Grande Western. reaches
Denver earlier than any other line via
Colorado Springs. No change of cars or
DELAYED trains. Take the Colorado Mid
land and save time and enjoy the finest
ride and grandest scenery in Colorado.
For full information call on any R. G.
w Ry agent, or
W. F. BAILEY, u A Brown.
g. P A Gen. Agent.
Denver, Colo. Salt Lake City.
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sALTLAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY co

Time Table in Effect Nov. 1. 1896.
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
Salt Lake Farm Lagoon & Salt Lake
ington & Farm
Lagoon ington
700 am. 7:45 am. 7:55 am. $40 a m.
$40 am 5000 am. "10:45 am. I'll :S5 am
3:40 pm 4:S0 pm AS pm. 5:35 pm
SO pm $50 pm. 6:45 pm. 7:35 pm.
sDaily except Sunday.
SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS.
Leave Salt Lake. $40. 1910 a. m; 1.40.
$40, $40 p. M
Leave Pennington 9:45. Has a. m: 2:45,
AS 6:45 p. m.
Round Trip to Beck's. including bath.
80 cents Children. % cents.
SIMON BAMBERGER
General Manager.
H W. EARLY. Pass. Agent
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WONDERS OF FINE MECHANISM.

ANsthuMENTS THAT MILLIoNETH f.
0hE- -OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
oF AN INCH AND REGISTER INTERVALS THoUsANDTH
oF a SECoND-oNE
Lynn BRIDGE FROM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES WILL
WEIGH A MARK, A WILL TIME A PRO-
JECTILE MOVING 1000 SECOND
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Ticket ofie. Is West Second South
Street.
D. c. DODGE, S. H. BABCOCK.
General Manager. Traffic Manager.
F. A WADLEIGH, Gen. Pass. Agt.
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IN EFFECT JAN. Is, 1897.
Current Time Table.

LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No. 2-For Bingham. Provo,
Grand Junction and all points
No. flor Provo, Grand juno
ton and all points East.... TAO pm.
No. 6-For Bingham. Mt. Pleas
ant. Manti Richfield Belknap
all intermediate points. u 80 o. m.
No; @For Ogden and interme-
diate points. ..-...............5 $50 m.
No. s-For Eureka. Payson.
Provo and all intermediate
points OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 500 pm.
NO 5-Eor ogden and WeSt.....11:4 AS pm.
No. 1-For Ogden and West. :25 pm.
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No. 1-From Bingham. Provo,
! Grand Junction and the East 12:15 D. m
No. o-From Provo. Grand
Junction and the East. $500. IL :35 pm.
! No. 5-From Provo. Bingham,
Manti and all intermediate
| points 5:25 pm
No. 2-From Ogden and the
West .-..;;..;....-....;..-.:.. 7:4O am
No s 81 ogden and inter. '''O Pm
mediate points Observation-Disclosures. 9:40 m
No. From Eureka, Payson. 49,
Provo and all intermediate
points 9:55 am
Only line running through Pullman
Palace Sleeping Cars from Salt Lake
CITY to San Francisco; Salt Lake CITY to
Denver via Grand Junction. and Salt
Lake City to Kansas City and Chicago
via Colorado points
out change, to Kansas City, Chicago and
Free reclining chair cars. Salt Lake City
to Denver.
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Hotel KnutsfOrd

New and elegant in all its appoint
ments; $50 rooms. single or ensuite; Is
rooms with bath.
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THE !
STATE BANK OF Utah

Cor. Main and South Temple streetA
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
HEBER ]. GRANT, President
VIM. e. PRESTON, Vice-President
HEBER NJ WELLS Cashier
Directors:
Heber j. Grant. Issac Barton.
William B. Preston. Charles 5. Burton
loseph F. smith, Philo u. Farnsworth.
Abraham h Cannon, HebeT N. Wells
Spencer Clawsor
GENERAL RANKING BUSINESS.
Accounts solicited. large and small.
Special attention to country trade.
Collections q specially. Correspondents
invited
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O. $. HoLaIEs, Proprietor.
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Capital. fully paid. $500, 900
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R. 8. NEsLEN, Trav. Pass. & Freight Agent
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-29
ST AuGuSlINE'S FAIR
Drew Another Good Sized Crowd at City Hall
Last Evening.

There was as large a crowd as usual
at City hall, last evening, in attend
ance at the ST. Augustine fair and the
entertainment was fully as good as
usual.
The drama was presented in a very
acceptable manner and this was fol-
lowed by songs and instrumental
music.
All the various tables and booths;
were well patronized and all seemed
happy, especially the young ladies who
lead in the race for the chamber set
This evenings performance will cor
clude the fair, and the most Of the evening
will he taken up in awarding the many
prizes which We're offered. There will
possibly be short entertainment of
some sort.
Thus far the fair has been a grand
success in excellence, attendance and
also in the patronage given those who
have been working for prizes.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-29
AmusEmeN1s.
Corton's Mins.rels.
lllent.

Corton's Famous New Orleans Min
strels will he at Meonian Hall, Friday
evening Gortons always bring some
thing new, especially in the music ilhe'
Joseph GortOn is one OF the leaoihS
band. music composers, ana the ceie-
brated Gold Band will give thelf nooh-
day concert under his personal dlrec-
ton, which is a musical treat not TO DC
missed. The Original New Orleans
Mnstrels is one of the very best enter
tainments in it's line that has visited
this city for some time. There VIII uh-
doubtedly be lively demand LOT seats
which are now on sale at Devine's drug
store.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-29

prising how they got out. Only three
innings We're played, the score being
10 to in favor of the Augusta team
The foot ball game between the Cony
High and a scrub team proved to be ::
walkover for the scrub players, VINO
were about all old Cony High players
1t was a great practice for the Cony
boys as the work was almost wholly OF
the defensive nature for them, thc
scrub team having the ball greater
part of the time At times the Cony
boys did good work and blocked theiI
heavier opponents in grand STYLE ano
again their work showed how llttif
practice they had had, and at the en-
of the game Captain Owen said that ne
should try the players in different posi-
tions and give them harder practice
from now on.
For the scrub team Besse and Pratt
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-29
Notes Of the Ball Game.
SkoWhegan.

Brown fooled them with his slow
balls.
De Grande had speed enough for a
professional.
Percival got his clothes dirty In do
ing it but he got the first score.
Sprague is more than an old mas
BEEN" for the way he connected with
the ball was worthy of notice.
TT looked as though they were in the
habit of stealing for living the way
they stole bases when once they
reached first.
IT was amazing to see how handily
the fielders kept out from under the
flies. There were not so many errors
after all, only several cases of misjudg-
ment