The record-union., 1899-09-25

extelning from just before the forward
end of the navigating bridge, was towed
to the Tyne and moored in that river
until a new bow end was built,
launched and made ready for connec-
tion to it, 1t is remarkable that this
half of the vessel was towed with the
bullxhead end foremost and that the
tugboats were assisted by the ship |
own engines. The repairers were SO
successful in their attempt to dry |
dock that the two pieces were in cor
rect relative positions, and but little |
subsequent adjustment was found nee
essary A stranger would never sup |
pose he was not looking at the orig
inal bow, and would find it impossible
to point out where the junction was
effected. In point of fact the Milwau-
kee is now as perfect and as strong |
as ever she was.
London capitalists are interested in
the proposal to lay a cable from Van
couver, B. c., to Skaguay, Alaska, to
connect with the telegraph line to Daw-
son City, which is expected to be COM
pleted soon. This will put the money
makers in touch with the gold fields,
and incidentally the cause of civiliza-
ton and humanity will be greatly aid
ed. when the suffering in these dreary
districts can to a degree be reduced by
this connection with the civilized world.
The Austrian Minister of commerce
is contemplating the introduction OF
motor cars for conveying mail bags to
and from railway stations, and also for
the collections of letters from the mail
posts.
An engineer in Tunis has invented
deep sea diving apparatus which mas
been tried without accident at a depth
of ia feet near Cherbourg. The in
ventor declares his purpose of search
ing for the hull of the Alabama, which
lies where she was sunk by the Kear-
sarge, off Cherbourg harbor.
Zion's Herald: The French physiol-
ogists, Hallion and Courtier, have per-
fected an apparatus to which they have
given the name of pletysmograph. 1t
is the nearest approach to a thought
Indicator that has yet been attained.
The well-known fact that some emo
now supplemented by the discovery
that many emotions which do manifest
themselves by outward sign may be
detected by the pletysmograph when
applied to the pulse. Applied to the
wrist of a professor who was about to
administer a reproof to one of his stu
dents. it showed a diminution in the
number of beats and in their force:
II nf oh a tn Or
to a dentist was so faint that its beats
could not be recorded. Various emo
tions passing even casually through the
mind of the subject, were all indicated
in varying degrees by the new appara-
tus. 1t was discovered that music of
any kind, but especially lively music,
not only quickens the beating of the
heart, but stimulates the circulation.
While not of any great practical util-
ity, it is claimed that the pletysmo-
graph may lead to more important dis
coveries later on.
Professor Mosso has been recently ex-
perimenting on smoke in tunnels, the
scene of his labors being a long tun-
mel not far from Genoa, through which
some 200 trains pass a day. leaving an
DDS were tried first compressed air was
used. Large cylinders of steel were
filled with air and compressed to 80
pounds to the square inch. The cylin-
ders were feet long and 2 feet wide
and were strongly built to resist the
enormous pressure. These We're placed
in the tender of the locomotive. In pass
ing through the tunnel the air was al
lowed to escape. The pure air blew |
back the smoke and purified the atmo
sphere. The second method was with |
compressed oxygen. This was allowed |
to escape through the cylinders into the |
fires of the engines, causing complete |
combustion, and preventing the forma |
ton of dangerous gases as well as max |
ing the air purer by the addition of the |
oxygen. The compressed air method |
is to be adopted, as it is cheaper and al |
most as good as oxygen. OF course the |
best solution would be to run the trains
through the tunnel by electricity.
In the seclusion of an Oriental harem |
a. woman invented the weaving of /
Cashmere shawls and besides this evil |
dence of brilliance gave such wise ad- /
vice to her husband that he changed /
her name from Nourmahal Qight of the /
harem) to Nouriehan Qight of the |
world). The same woman invented at
tar of roses.
Women have taken out patents on a
globe for teaching geography, a baby |
jumper fountain pen, deep-sea tele- /
scope and the first cookstove.