The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-08
lulu, Perak and also at Wei-Hai- Wei.
London Times.

lulu, Perak and also at Wei-Hai-Wei.
London Times.
An Italian named Luciano Butt
has perfected Photographic appara-
tus capable of registering the incredi-
bic number Of 1000 photographic i'm
presslons per second. The most min
ute and least rapid and casual move
ments OF birds and insects on the
wing. which have hitherto defied sci
enee. can. it is claimed. be register
ed with accuracy. thus opening new
world Of natural obscr> alton TO orni-
biologists. The films used cost s
pound second for the 1000 impress
sions.
A trial was recently made III Aus
tria to decide how short a space of
time living trees could be converted
into newspapersh. AT Essential at
| thlrty-five minutes after III the
morning three trees were sawn down;
at thlrty-four minutes after 9 the
wood, having been striped of bark,
cut up and converted in pulp. became
paper, and passed from the factory
to the press, whence the first printed
and folded copy was issued at 10
O'Clock. SO that in 145 minutes the
! trees had become newspapers.
Ancient timekeeping has received
new light from two remarkable stones
lately unearthed by the German eX-
plorer on the site of the old Ionic
port. Of Miletus These stones are the
remains of calendars, of which one is
shown to date from 100 \. ID. The
year was divided into twelve zodiacal
signs. and against each month the
motion Of the remaining signs was
given, with note predicting the
weather. On the left side were thirty
holes. wooden peg being moved for
ward one hole each day, thus giving
the astronomical date.
The museum of Bay Tor University
at Waco, Tex, has recently received
as a Gift from the Rev. Z. c. Taylor
Bahia. Brazil, the complete skull, the
blade bones. several vertebrate, and
three ribs of an immensespecimen of
the common fin whale or rorqual, cap
tured in the South Atlantic. The
length of the skull is 1912 feet, width
acoss top feet. high from the ground
5 feet, length of ribs feet inches,
length of bladebone 5 feet inches,
width feet. Weight of skull q
SS4 ounds; Of each of the lower jaws
bones $40, of the bladebones, SIS lbs.
John Clay, the father of Henry
Clay, the distinguished statesman,
was not only a Baptist, but a Bap-
fist preacher. He resided most of
his life in what is known as "the
slashhes' of Hanover, and his farm,
on which he lived for many years, is
two or three miles from Ashland
Here his son Henry was born, and
probably Porter Clay, who removed
to Kentucky and became a distin-
guished Baptist minister. Robert B.
Semple, in his "History of, Virgna
Baptists,' says that the Black Greek
Baptist church, in Hanover county,
was originated by John Clay. and
that he was pastor of Chickahominy
church. and did much missionary
work in the region around.
The seriousness of the fire in
January last at the Turin library Is
fully revealed in a recent report. In
addition to four fourteenth century
manuscripts Of the "Roman de la
Rose the "Discours de Bessarion,'
the manuscript of the "'Chevalier En-
rant and the famous Turin book
of Hours the fire reduced to cind-
ers $500 volumes Of philoloey and al
lied subjects, 4,l47 volumes Of law
works. 2,760 of political economy
1914 Of photography, 1860 of phil.
osophy, 1880 of Photographic,
2,343 of literary history, and. 2.241
periodicals. To replace as far as pos
sible this serious loss, the Italian
photographed Society is making al
appeal to the generosity OF book low
ers and collectors in all parts of the
world.
Germany possesses a miniature bu
most useful railway, to which NJ
parallel is found in this country. 1t:
popularity is that its trains have NJ
drivers. 1t is used for CARRYING sal
from the salt mines at Stassfurt. The