Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-10

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at Woolwich, while one felt in the Isle
of Man in May, 1898, proved to be due to
a battleship's u practice at sea. A
shock felt at places forty miles apart in
January, 1894, was caused by the explo-
sion of a meteorite at a height of four
miles near Tewkesbury; and similar
shocks from a bursting meteorite in the
south of Norwalk We're noted in No
venber. 1857. Frequent earth-tremors at
Sunderland seem to be due to rock falls
in the cavities of the magnetism lime
stone, while similar shakings in south
east Wales are produced by rocks falling
in deserted mires.
The British inventor is awakening to
the Importance of labor saving machin-
cry. A mechanical brick layer IS the pro-
Guct of two Birmingham engineers, and
1t is ci-signed to automatically lay ce-
msnt and level bricks, slibs, stones, ETC.,
in piers, bridges and buildings of all
Kinds. The machine is expected to save
two-thirds of the time Of hand labor.
TIL new whistling buoy intended for
the Manacles, near which the Paris went
ashore. is the invention of B. Fletcher
Robinson. A large horizontal disc be-
meath the buoy is SUM to a certain depth
where it is sustained by several tubes
rising above the water, and i'm this posi-
ton it remains practically stationary on
>DN VA A"& ~ l
offered by its size and shape. The buoy
floating above, however, rises and falls
with every wave. The buoy carries a
cylinder, in which slides a piston held by
the Disc. and the rise and fall of the float
is thus made to yield power that can be
utilized in various ways. In the place
mentioned it is to Ee used for compress
irg air and blowing a faghorn at inter-
walls. :
The microbes of flowers is the subject
of investigation opened UP and given
unexpected significance by DR.. Domingos
Freire, the famous pioneer in yellow few
er incubation at Rio de Jane.ro. 1t has
been suspected that cancer and even tub
ercu-osis may have a vegetable origin,
and there is nothing SUI, Drising in the
! idea that blossoms may catch and re-
tain the bacteria floating in the air, but
DR.. Freire's researches seem to prove
that the chemical changes producing both
color and cGOr in lower are due to bac-
terra, and further that these bacteria are
rot always of harmless kinds. The pus
bacillus was found en- a variety of rose,
with unknown organisms in other flow
ers.
Protection from heat is ingeniously Sc
cured to workers in a glass factory at
Acknowledgement. Below the openings
for drawing the glass from the furnace
oAS tioi PtpSS "ilo hiC Pei allol!S oS-
liver-ng conE-essed air so as to form a
film of cold az above the stream Of melt
ed glass, while fans above assist in keep
ing the workers cool.
The destruction Of the larger wild ami
mails is making it impossible for them to
gather in such herds as the American
buffaloes once formed. Perhaps the last
great migration to be known was that Of
July, 1885, in Cape Colony, when as Corn
wrigl. Schre.ner estimates. the numbers
Of ~spr.ngbuck must have reached many
millions. a single herd Of half a million
Of these antelcpes having been in sight
at one time.
Large greenhouses are plant worlds in
themselves and p. HenrLnes finds not
few Of the fungi Of the Berlin Botanic
Garden to be elsewhere unknown.
The lack of British interest in agricul-
tural science il d~sLiored by Mr.. Boyd
Kinnear. It is now necessary for the
farmer to understand the little that has
been LEANED of the action upon plants
of soil and air, and Of the operations Of
lit, ara to strive to extend this know
ledge. England is the only country WITH
out research stations maintained by the
state. For half a century Germany has
had not less than 81 agricultural teaching
and research stations; France has SO;
Austria, 80: even Russia, IA; and the
other European countries together. 81. In
the United States are 81, these being sup
ported by the individual states; Canada
has s~1veral; and Brazil, Japan and Java
have each one. The only british work
in this direction has been the establish
ing by counties and private individuals
OF a few teaching colleges, and the splen-
did private researches for half a century
of Sir John Isroes. These small efforts
have been insufficient even to direct pub
he attention to the existing need.
An automatic recorder of a vessels
steering has been devised by J.. f. Liar
Diet. The movement of the wheel actuates
two drums, winding a long paper tape
from one to .he other, and at the same
tim a pencil fixed to a holder is caused
to pass from one side to the other of the
central line of the paper as the helm IS
! put to port or to starboard. A clock
work, arrangement is to be added, con-
tlnuously u%nwinding the paper at u mi
form speed, SO that the time and extent of
any movement of the helm may be re-
corded.
A use for selenium, which is chiefly
known as a laboratory substance of cur
ious and interesting properties, has been
found by the glassmaker. Rose-tinted
glass is produced by adding selenium di-
rectly to the materials in the melting pot,
and a beautiful orange-red results when
cadmium sulphide is mixed with the sele-
MUM. This method of making red glass
avoids the ordinary reheating and dip
ping in a c%oloring mixture.
By the process Of Paul Dresser, patent
ed, in France, paper is made waterproof
by coating one or both sides with a mix
ture of % parts each of olive oil, rapeseed
oil and linseed oil, to which has been add