The west shore., January 01, 1880, Page 9, Image 9

January, 1880.
THE WEST SHORE.
A HOROLOGICAL BUREAU.
Arrangements are now being perfected for
the establishment of a horological bureau in
connection with the Sheffield Scientific School
at New Raven, Conn. A suitable building will
be erected, ateleicope mounted. nWV nl '
and every possible convenience arranged to
make the bureau aa perfect and complete as
possible. Mr. Waldo, the gentleman who is to
have charge, ii already upon the ground and
directing the progress of the work.
There are already one or more establishments
of the kind in the country notably the one at
Cambridge, which supplies the time for the
railroads converging at Boston. But the sup
ply of approximately correct time is the only
use for whioh this and other observatories of
not the central point; but some of the numer
ous dock's stars, as they are called, whoa time
is known, will be selected and observations
made at night, although with the larger stars
observations may also be made in the day timo.
The sun will be abandoned, because ono obser
vation in twenty-four hours is not enough; an
j ......... iwt eaen star every
twenty-four hours. Now Haven time will bo
taken, but New York timewill be furnished also.
The Waltham Company will send 100 or 200
watches for rating, as soon aa everything is
ready. "Rating" for private parties, we pre
sume, is paid for, and will form, to some extent,
a source of revenue to tho bureau. Thia bureau
will probably furnish standard time for the
whole country, as time can be sent by telegraph
and computed for any known longitude.
Tukrk is a groat deal said and writton about
NEW ORANGE HOUSE AT WASHINGTON.
Some timo ago the Department of Agriculture
at Washington secured from abroad a collection
of the citrus family trees, embracing many of
leading varieties of the m-amm anJ gj0
i Ilia collection forma tho haaia it., .it,. '
orations of the Department Some of the vari
olic wmun nave already (rutted have proved of
high order, and have been propagated nd dis
tributed. To secure Let t..r iamliti... (.,
and propagating the heat varieties, the orange-
uuuav auuwii lu me engraving on una page Has
been erected. We do not Hud record of the area
onclosed in the new structure, but it ii evident
from the engraving that it if considerable. It is
Shinned so that tho entire roof can be removed
uring the summer mouths, and the trees are
grown in bods of soil and not in boxes. Thee
INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NEW ORANGE HOUSE OK THE U. 8. DEPARTMENT OK AURICUl.TUIlE.
the kind in this country have hitherto been em
ployed, while the ohief object of this new ob
servatory, in addition to determining timo, is
the rating of watches, a thing which has not yet
been attempted in this country.
To rate a watch is "to determine the rate of
its gain or loss in respect to true time. " Swiss
watches are rated in Europe, and have been
greatly improved thereby. No American watches
nave ever yet been rated, and manufacturers in
thia country are placed to disadvantage iu coir
soqnenoe. Work of this kind has always been
considered government work, or the work of
scioutilic associations. It is now, for the first
time, to be inaugurated heie, under the direction
of a liberally endowed association. This bureau
will add nothing to the educational advantages
of Yale, but will be simply a acientiflo work.
In initiating the work, after everything is in
readiness, a sidereal clock will be started, as
nearly correct as possible, after whioh observa
tions will be made, to get absolutely correct
time. In arriving at such a result, the sun is
a "higher education fur women." Heaven
knows we need it sorely, but tint eiactly in the
sense in which the term is used. We want a
higher education of conscience to give us a truer
knowledge of our duty to the, young of both
sexes; we need to lm taught that ho or she who
works skillfully with a pair of hands, may be
as highly educated as those who work only with
the head; wo need to luarn common senso with
regard to the occujiatioii by moans of which wo
men sock to earn an honest livlihood; that
when two girls graduate from our high schools,
sho who has talent for dressmaking, takea rank
equally with her who teaches Greek or Sanscrit;
that she who can be a tasteful milliner is
truly an artist as she who seeks fame aa painter
or sculptor, though they travel by different
roads. Motion Traiucrl.
" I wish you would fpay a little attention to
what I am saying, sir," roared a lawyer te an
exasperating witness. " I am paying as little
attention aa I can , " wsa the oalin reply.
two facta of course tend to the atuinmiutof
suoeessful growth under natural conditions
points of the highest importance. The trees
will enjoy open air culture until the approach
of winter renders protection neoeasary.
Tim QrjU Who Nuvkh Tmi.ua Lis. A I
girl onoe came into the house and told her
mother something whioh was very improbable.
Those who were sitting in toe ream with her
mother did not believe her, for they did aot
know the character of the little girl But the
mother replied at onoe i "I have no doubt that
is true, for I never knew my daughter to tell a
lie. " la there aot something noble in having
snob a character as thia T Must not lbs little
girl have felt happy la the consciousness of pos
sessing her mother s entire confidence T 0, how
different must have been her feelings from those
of the child whose word cannot be believed,
aad who la regarded by everyone with suspi
cion I Shame, shame a poo the child that baa
nut magnanimity enough te tell the troth.