Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21
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There is said to be salt enough in the
sea to cover 100000 square miles of
land with q layer one mile in thick
ness.
The Amazon and it's tributaries hold
the record among rivers of possessing
5000 miles Of water suitable for steam
navigation. The area the river drains
% two-thirds that Of Europe.
The fastest mile ever run by n horse
wat in 1864. The fastest mile by an
engine was 80 made by No. 900 Of the
New York Central Road in 1893. The
fastest time by a dog vas in a rae at
Buffalo. in which Drake Carter rar
200 yards in Oily. which Is q mile In
l.41. Experiments have shown that IL
salmon Gun swim a mile In less than
two minutes. Last comes q The
fastest mile e run by man was run
by w. G. George in England. He COW
cred the distance in 4.12A.
Among the chief Of Spain
are her stores Of minerals, which, in
many places. have hardly been devel-
0ped. Recently Schneider & Company.
the manufacturers of the Creusot ord
nance, have obtained concessions for
working the iron mines at Cape Gala
honda. in the Province Of Granada. Our
Consul at Malaga says the ore will
probably be shipped direct to Cette. in
Southern France. where the new Creu-
sot works r located. A French COM
pany Is also about to develop the coal
mines in the Spanish Province Of Jaen.
The development of the automobile
as an engine Of war is at present oc-
chpying much attention among mill
tary authorities in Europe. The Eng
lish. the French, the Italians. the Ger
mans and the Russians are all ut work
upon the problem. Several types Of
military automobiles are being expert
mented with. In Italy q special form
of armored machine has been devised
in time Of var Some of the German
machines are intended for scouting.
and are furnished with drawing tables
and maps. Others carry Maxim guns
and can do a little fighting.
A monument was recently unveiled
at Dundee, Scotland, in memory of
James Bowman Lindsay. who. Sir Will
liam Preece said, predicted in 1884 that
houses and towns would soon be light
ed and heated by electricity. and that
machinery would be driven by electric
ity instead of by steam. About fifty
years ago Lindsay went t London and
illustrated by experiments IL system
of wireless telegraphy, but there was
then no practical call for such a sys-
TEN, and it was forgotten. "An inven-
ton, to be of USE" Sir William Prcece
remarks. must come at the proper
time"-a fact in which disappointed
inventors may possibly find some CON-
fort.
New England rains are very un-
steady, but in the long run reliable.
4S inches a year is not a local affair,
but for the most part IN Importation.
1t ONE (barring q slight Atlantic
sprlnkling along the COAST from the
Gulf of MexicO-a part of the Gulf
Stream shipped overland by m espe-
cially directed southwest wind. But
the southwest wind isn't a careful car
:ier. 1t spills it's load all along the
road up the Mississippi and Ohio val
leys. so that as you look at a rain
chart Of the country you see it rains
most near the Gulf. a little less and
less as you go away from it, till when
it arrives in New England only four
inches on the average remain in it for
New England's monthly allowance.