Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-25

The first load of passenpers e,.a, aa,
Veyed by steam were carried bv q com,
'''NA ioao engine constructed by Rich
o." iieNllElck, the inventor of the To-
'iiio.Ne' Inc feat was Accomplished
49, A'"s iailu' IreVthick had few
i'oi'''' before perfected a high pressure
hoh-condensing stea mengine (which ba.
came successful rival of the lovnras-
sure steam vacuum engine of Watt
LINUS began the successful develonmnnt
o. a system which would soon raVol,,-
tlohlze modern travelling. Treyithick.s
~ 81 engine was used in propeling car
i'"seS' put that proved too expensive
an" Nlthln four years he built a steam
| locomotive for tramways.
| olNer Evans at the same time intro
| ouced in America the non-condensino
and relative high pressure steam enpina
lie applied his engine to propellins car.
| ilases on roals and used as did 'rrevi.
| thlck, for boiler a cylindrical vessel
| with acyindrical tlue inside the con.
structlon, later known as the Cornish
boiler.
! Inc attack of Pleasing eleven wears
| before IN openly declaring to be false
the site of the Holy Sepulchre-the rock
| "t'O'i" AL W men, aItef HIS Crucis
! hXlon, the body of the Lord was pIaced-
continued to be the subject of deep dis
cusslon. No question of Topography at
| this time was debated with greater per-
sistence. There We're MANY ready 70 i'm.
pugn the accuracy of traditions. Will,
| even greater number We're on the other
sac. Inc generally accepted lOcatio of
the site was without the walls of Jeru.
salem, but research led scores to believe
the contrary.
| Inc heaviest man that ever lived
Daniel Lambert, of Leicester, England,
was on public exhibition at the age of
| thirty-two throughout Great Britain.
lie weighed 739 pounds. Some idea of
his enormous dimensions may be OBJ
| tanned when it is stated his waistcoat
| could easily inclose seven persons of Or
binary Size Lambert at moderately.
drank only water and slept more than
most persons. He had an excellent tenor
voice.
| christian Daniel Rauch, one of the
! most celebrated sculptors, was now en-
ployed at the age of twenty-four. as a
royal lackey in the service of King Fred
ericll William III, of Prussia. reserying
| few spare hours for the prosecution of
| his work. Queen Louisa surprised him
one day in the act OF modelling her feat
ureS in wax, and recognizing his genius
sent him to study at the Academy OF
| Art.
Wood engraving, heretofore a Compare
atively severe and conventional form of
art because the workmen shaded a.,
much as possible either with straight
INES or simple curves, so there was
| never much appearance of freedom was
| now rapidly becoming more modern,
quite distinc'. art based on different
| principles. which led to independence of
| spirit and the: perfecting of wood en-
! craving.
| With the close of his second term A,
! governor of New York. during this wear.
| John jay, the first chief justice of the
| United States, and father of the COM
! mercial treaty signed during the war be-
| tween Great Britain and France closed
| his public career and retired to mis- home
near Bedford in Westminster county.
| New York.
! Pierre Louis Guinand, a humble watch
maker of Switzerland, the first who sue
!
the manufacture of optical flint glass.
| vas now devoting most of his slender
earnings to the fulfllment of his ambi-
ton. He was empoyed at a furnace he
| had erected near Les Brents.
! Every man who has wine cellar has
an equal fondness for spiders. This is
| on the authority of a connoisseur. Cob
webs add dignity to wine and make it
seem older than it really is. Moreover.
| ii the spiders refuse to weave their webs
about the bottles of the nouveau richie.
these same spiders may be purchased at
so much a dozen and imprisoned in
vaults. where their natural industry
must assert itself in cobwebs. There is
an old Frenchman living in one of Phil
| adelphia's suburbs who makes BUSH
ness, and a very good one. it Is claimed.
| OF cultivating spiders for wine cellars
purposes. In this way lot of vim ordi-
naire may in a few weeks take on all the