The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-03-04 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CORNCILLOR.—On Monday influence can be proved mathematically in considering, afternoon, Mr. W. Moore, coroner for the borough of iil the first place, the attractive value of any thin slice Warwick, held an inqmst at the Crown Hotel, in that of substance in a plane perpendicular to the earth's town, on the body of Mr. Thomas Kemp, one of the radius, supposing that the earth is regarded as a perfect members of the Town Council, a guardian of the poor, sphere, of uniform density, and not affected by centriand a member of the Assessment Committee; who corm fugal force. It was in 1859 that Mr. Siemens first elided suicide by drowning. The principal witness was attempted to construct an instrument based on these Mr. T. Kemp, who stated that the deceased was his principles. The difficulties he then encountered he 13.3 father, and that he had been very depressed since the since overcome, and the present instrument is the result death of his wife in January last. The purchase of a of his latest work. He proposes to call it a bathometer, piece of property, called the Marble Yard, seemed to and it consists essentially of a vertical column of merprey on his mind a good deal, because he thought that cury contained in a steel tube having cob-like extol. he had given too much for it. Frequently he hail sanl sions at both extremities, no as to increase the terminal of Into "I should have been happy if I had not come area of the mercury. The lower cup is closed by means rr here. I shall never be well again." Witness had tried of a corrugated diaphragm of thin steel plate, and. the a, to cheer him, but his efforts were not sumessful. On weight of the column of mercury is balanced m.t e Friday afternoon deceased left the hnnse at three centre of the diaphragm by the elastic force in o'clock, and as he did not return at six a search was from two carefully-tempered spiral eteel spring.: of the made, and the following letter discovered in his hand. same length as the column of mercury. 0 of the writing,—" My very dear friends,—My trouble is peculiarities of i this mechanical is i arrangement eii elastic is that it greater than I am able to bear. May God, in his is paratherma., thetemperature force of the mercy, forgive me all my. sins, for Chnet's sake, who springs with rise of f diminishing being compensated by died fcr sinners. lam grieved to take this --; my a similar decrease o rotential of the mercury column, heart aches for all of you. I am distressed even to which decrease depends upon the proportions given to death. My dear Tom, I love you more than I can ex- the areas of the steel tube and its cup-like extensions. press. You have been a good and dutiful son, May The instrument le suspensuspendeda short distance above its God bless you now and to all eternity. I bore my God centre of gravity in a universal joint, in order to cause will fwgive me for Jesus' sake.—With everlasting love, it to retain its vertical position, notwitstanding the yu- nob ippy father, THOHAS Kemp." Deceased was motion of the vessel; and vertical oscillations of the 65 years of age. In 1872 he suffered very much from inercnry arc. almost entirely prevented by a local con. mental depression, and at his own request was term traction of the mercury column to a very small orifice. porarily placed under restraint. Eleven years ago he The reading of the instrument is effected by means of , also suffered very much from despondency.—Mr. Bally, electrical contact, which is established between the end 1 surgeon, said he signed the certificate as to the condi- of a tnicrometerscrew and the centre of the elastic . tion of deceased in 1872, and considered he was liable diaphragm. The pitch of the screw and the divisions. t,,, a recurrence of mental depression at any -me.— .t' A upon the rim are so proportioned that each division letter wis read from Miss Kemp, of Broad.street, represents the di.minution of gravity due to one fathom stating that deceased called upon her on Thursday, and of depth. Variations in atmospheric pressure have no said he did not thick he could live—The body was effect on the reading of the instrument, but corrections found in the bath in the river Avon, St Nicholas's have tube made for latitude. The instrument bas been Meadow, on Saturday afternoon, by a person named actually tested in voyages across the Atlantic in the Green, who was rowing down the river in a boat. The Faraday, and the compsciuons with Sir W. Thompson's body was in about five feet of water, and the deceased's steel wire sounding apparatus showed it was very hat, coat, and umbrella were placed on a seat by the reliable. The papnr concluded with pointing out many side of the water.—Several other witnesses were ex. ways in which the Instrument might hoof use; among amined, and the jury found that deceased drowned him. , others was that of indicating approaching danger if self while in an unsound state of mind. ' contour lines were first efficientl y mapped.  (From raoch.)  AN XSOP'S FABLE (Re-written).—A certain actor was tried vd condemned for murdering ri Moorish cap. lain m the employment of toe Venetian Republic. On his way to the place of execution, be requested, as ;last favour, that he may be allowed to shake hands with his critics, who followed in the crowd, weeping. The favour was granted, but in this act of apparent cordiality the condemned man contrived to twist out of joint the pen. fingers of the critics' bands.—" Unhappy man !" ex. :lamed the bystanders. "Will you, at this awful moment, add yet another to your catalogue of crimes, that you treat thus your hest friends and advisers I,— " Not so; replied the condemned man. "If these gen. thmen had not told me when I tons a beginner that I was a happy mixture of Roscius, Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, and Reap, I never might have come to this unhappy fate !'_Moral.—surrerfluous.  A