The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-08-19
POPULAR . SCIENCE.


Electricity be used convey passengers the top oil
the Washington monument in this city.
The city of Newark n j. is planning State Industrial Ex
position to be held in their city in 1902.
mail train on the New York Central Railroad recently
made from Rochester Syracuse, eightyone miles, n
eighty minutes
quart of oysters contains average about the same
quantity of nutritive substance quart of milk or pound
of very lean beef
underground railways of London carry only nineteen
of the passenger traffic. eghyone per cent is carried by
omnbusseS and street cars.
method of construction for large balance wheels
high ephera speeds consists making the rim by wind
ing a rectangular section steel wire castron spool
The Southern Railroad Company of Italy going to have
built Is locomotives 1 passenger 32 baggage and
900 freight Foreign will be allowed to compete
An ostrich in the Cincinnati Geological Gardens undergo
ing by electricity for paralysis Under this treatment
bird has been able swing first leg and then the other
Water if subjected to great compression and then decom
posed by of electric current into its elements hydro
gen eXodes with tremendous force In the
The velocity light 1872 miles in second From the
light to the earth in eight minutes From of
the fixed stars of the twelfth magnitude it takes four thousand
years for the light to reach u.s.
This has breaking year for the California orange
crop The yield it is thought will be about 100000 boxes
45 carloads The total investment in California orange
groves amounts to S44, ,OOO,OO
On June 1900 there were 72 warhips under construction
United Kingdom 81 being for the British Government
Sixteen of the vessels being built in Royal dOckyarls and
the remaining 90 in private yards
considered doubtful Pennsylvania Railroad
will adopt nickel steel rails for the points of service AT
Horseshoe Curve the nickel steel rails have been
replaced by those of the ordinary steel type for it found
the rails diminished the ractve of the engines
account of their hardness.
Two of the British Navy the Diadem and the
Curious" have been equipped with Marcons wireless tee
graphic apparatus The receiving coil is suspended to ga
the mainmast above the semaphore which the
highest point board The apparatus fitted to work
distance OF 20 miles.
DR. j. H. Breasted Professor of Egypoogy the University
Of
supentend the publication of his Egyptian dictionary
This lexicon will enable students of EgptolOgy to study the
heogyphiCS in the throughout the world This
is an excellent compliment to an American scholar
Small spiders play with the telegraph wires in the Ar
gentine Republic The long cobwebs settle the wires and
as soon as dew or rain falls they
conductor and the effect practically stop the operation of
the lines The Government has determined to connect
Ayre and Rosario by underground cable $50 miles
long obviate this difficulty.
NJ Tsot has succeeded in increasing considerably the sens
veness the coherers which he using his experiments
in wireless eegaphy the coherer is placed in magnetic
field whose lines of force parallel to the axis of the tube
Filings of steel nickel oxide used The system of aerial
eegaphy which he enables him to receive signals
from the cruiser Massena at distance OF ~ miles, with
mast of only 90 feet.
1t has suggested the electric heaters of trolley
connected controller the platform that when the
highest speed required the heaters will be cut out They
uure little time cool off, that the heating effect will
be This will reduce the demand for current by the
when full speed is necessary 1t requires quite
centage the total output of the generating plant the winter
to heat the cars.
Madras the only city India where electricity is used
the for service The of Bombay
run by horse power and the lighted by gas Eec
tricity used only in limited way India would afford
an excellent opportunity for trade in electrical machinery and
appliances An American company is trying to get the prv
lege of converting the Bombay into electrically
operated system.
The Peary supply ship Wndward sailed July 20 from
ST. Johns Newfoundland and her will be watched for
with great anxiety she will be the bearer of of Pear
success failure The Wndward carries Of thirteen
and Mrs Peary and her little daughter also go to join Lieut.
Peay The boat is loaded to its utmost capacity with coal
the decks carrying it, The objective point of the wind
wad Etah this being the center of the region where
located the Arctic Hghanders tribe Of Esqumaux who live
farther north than any other human beings.