The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-07-27
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ACCOr01nE
sued by the department. OF Agriculture
New Jersey is building more roads and
better roads for the money than any
other state in the union. -.
Telegraphic communication is TO be
estahlished between the Scottish Is
lands Rum, Egg, Gamma and Muck, ana
they are all to be connected Win the
mainland through the Isle OF skye.
c-b,capo,s population. according to
Chief of Police Ripley. has finally pass
ed the 1000 000-mark. and is now 2,oSS'-
O43 The figures are the result OF
census taken by the police force.
When a maid of honor to Queen VIC
toria has survived her youthful
cnarms and, at middle age, is still un-
married, she is relieved of duty, ana
has her salary increased from s2ooo
year TO $4,000
The new French Minister Of War has
not the facile tongue of his countrymen
and he speaks so slowly that they cail
him Flacre a rHeure, which, being In
terpreted. means cab hired by the
hour.
Berlin University attracts a large
number of students every term. This
summer 4997 students have registered,
as against 4.64S last year. Besides the
regularly matriculated students, 4,252
other persons attend the lectures, In
cluding III women.
That a great many people enjoy
reading what the newspapers have to
say about them is demonstrated by the
fact that today $4,000 persons and
$50. 900 900 are employed IN the business
OF making and distributing newspaper
clippings among those whom they con-
Germ.
The passing OF the axeman from the
Michigan and Wisconsin fields 10 tho
South is becoming something like an
exodus. Among other recently an
nounced purchases by Northern lum-
bermen Is a tract of 10000 acres OF
pine timberlands in Cals.eu parish,
Louisiana.
The. Holy Synod OF Russia has de-
creed IN ( the insurance companies are
not obliged 10 pay losses incurred dur
ing anti-Semitic riots. They did not
say the companies are not TO pay to
Jews. but a is well known that in these
riots the Jews only suffer loss, and. so,
by this measure, Jews alone are affiict-
ed.
In 1857 the coinage Of the big copper
pennies. which everybody has seen.
was suspended. Up to that time they
had been coined regularly for sixty-fve
years. In all. 1560OO.OOO OF the big
awkward coins had been put into cir
culation. Not more than one-fourth Of
that number have been paid back 20
the government or exchanged for other
coin.
To maintain extremely low tempera-
fures by means OF freezing substances
requires careful insulation. Prof. w.
Hempel finds that eiderdown IS the
best insulator. carefully dried wool be-
ing nearly as good and cheaper. and
that both are much better than the
specially devised vacuum jacketed
tube ot Prof. Dewar. Starting at
about 10 degrees below zero Fahren-
hell. tho rise I'm Temperatures under
protection OF the eiderdown. was only
twenty-five degrees I'm eighty -eight
hours. while in the Dewsr tubes the
increase was 10 degrees TO 124 degrees
Recent experiments have shown tha
Che best protector OF iron in building
.s acid-free cement applied closely so a,
20 prevent rusting. In FIRE tests o
wrought and cast iron and timber b,
the municipal government OF Hamburl
the conditions ~ great confiagratioI
were Initiated by the use OF a gas fur
mace and the application Of hydrauli
pressure UP TO about 1900 pounds pc
square inch. Unprotected iron sup
ports lost their carrying power I'm sew
enteen TO ffty-nine minutes. accJrdin,
20 the rapidity OF the combustion. Sup
ports filled with mortar were little bet
ter. and an oaken support without cas-
ing vithstoOd a similar pressure In tn
fire for but one hour and twenty-on'
minutes. but iron supports encasc,
with such materials as plaster 81
Paris. stone. wood. asbestos and ce
mect retained their carrying power 10
- ione a. three hours and fifty-si'
mInuteA