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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1881)
April, 1881. THE WEST SHORE. 99 CROCODILE SHOOTING IN INDIA. Although the Hindoo, similar in that rcspeot to the Egyptian we reed of in the Bible, re. ver thow wild nitrl, which they have to Iit, end will often subject themeelree to loet o( prop. rty. y Ion of their own or their kindred ' live, eooner than to entrap end kill them, they bav of late yeara, often appealed for doliverauoo to the Eoglithmen, whom ehanee or the rumor of a man-eating tiger or crocodile hai brought in the neighborhood. The M uieulinau ha no auoh qualma of oonsoienoe, for not believiug in me tempsyohosis, he hai no fear to kill eome rela tion whoee aoul hai pawed into the body of the animal he wanta to slay. Shooting orooodilea ia at the beet but tame port; but hen you know that the old fellow, hownin the engraving.atiokinghis head through the reed, baa entombed within hie spauinua belly, aud that in the apaoe of only two veek. several human being, you rather feel your blood boil, and you determine that you hall deatroy bis man-relishing appetite forever. However dangeroua the orooodile ia in the water, he ia not much to be dreaded ou dry land. In aome plaoea ou the African ooaat the negroee, who roadily eat orooodile meat, will, for the aake of hii tleoh and the pleasure the thing afforda them, sutler thematlvts to lie bunted by him (or a while. One of thern will attract the notioe of a large orooodile and draw him on in purauit. Trie diatanoe ateadily tie oreaaoa between tlie two, and now they are but a foot or two apart. 8uddeuly the tormentor wheela olT in another direction and ia far away before the orooodile, who oannot turn with eato, it able to oome to a atou. Another ueiiro now takea the first one'a place, and the game ia kept up till the reptile ia exhausted. Then one of the tarty get on bia back, and with a few bard ilowa upon hi tkull, end thai gam forever. 11 LonoiTUii of Tin Asiatic Coaht or Tin Pacini'. It i understood that Lieutenant Commander F, M. tiroen and C. 11. Davis, Lieutenant 8. M. Aukley and John Morris, aud Surgeon Dale, U. H. N., now in Han Francisco, bav been detailed by the Navy Department todetermine the oorrect longitude ol the Aiiatio ooaat of the l'acilio ooean. They sail Saturday fur China, to Join the I'alot on the Aiiatio atation, All point on the ojaat of Jaian aud Chine, connected by oable,will be visited, aud theii exact longitude determined. The Amerioau otiioera have permission from theoableootnpaniea to establish stations and na th wire at night. Knuliah nllioeis are engaged in a aimilar work in New Zealand and Australia. Th inform tion obtained from th observation will be ex changed by the two nation. KuglUh ollloora . have determined the longitude a far aa Madras and llusaiao ollioera have made observation 00 the Siberian ooait. All observation have been taken from the Hongkong observatory. The American party will asoertain the precise longi tude of that place, there being a question a to th accuracy of the etandard. Th object of this movement by th Navy Department is to establish oorreot standards, from which trus chart (or th protection of maritime in tens ts may b produced. Food Valci or Varioci SuenTAXca I'rof. W. 0. Atwater, is an eetay on the aotritiv valu of fish, give th following table: Tsking medium beef at 100, w have, as th nutritive valu of like weight of fish (re from bwei Medium beaf, 100 fresh milk, 23.8) skimmed milk, 18.01 butter, 124 0; obeose, I.M; hen's eggs, 72.0; fresh eodftsh. C8 0 flaind.rs, 6-1.0) halibut, 88.0; bass, 70 0; macksrel. MO; lake, trout, 01.0; eels, M O, .had, 9 0; as) moo, 104.0) salt maoksrel, 111.0; dried oodlUb. 34S.O. Whixivbr yon Bad great deal of gratitud In poor man, yon may Uk it for granted that there would be as much generoeity if ht.were run Wiki Kort Thakhmiimion. Among th re cent improvements in th way of transmitting power for lung distauoes, ia the aubatitutiun of belt by endless wire rnpe rnrniinj at h!jh peed Just when th belt become too long for eoonomy there th rope stops in. In place of a uat-faoed pulley a narrow aheave, with a deep, Daring groove, i used, th groov being tilled out. or lined rather with leather, oakum, India rubber, or eome other eoft substance, to save the rope. The essential point are a large sheave, ruuuing at a considerable velocity, aud a light rope. When the distance exceed 400 ft., a doubla-groovtd wheel is used, and a second endless rop trsnamita the power 400 ft. further, and so ou. The loss by (notion i laid to be only 8 per mile. If it ia required to transmit SOU horse power by meau of a wire rope, the aixe of rope required will be one inch Amtahctio KxrLORATioH, While th energy of modern explorer has greatly xteodd oar knowledge of th geography of th North Polar rc'.out, Oouipeieuvely littie has been don in th exploration of th corresponding portion of the southern hemisphere. Lieut. Wilkes, at th head of an American expedition, believed that he bad established the existence of an An. tarotio ooutinenL and thia disoovsry waa v ri ll od year later by Sir Jam Rose, who found the extensive Victoria Laud with mountain 14,000 ft, high, and an aotive volcano, Heyond those discoveries, nothiug i positively knows of the exteusive regions of th earth. It ia now proposed by th Italian Uengraphioal Ho oiety to send out an Antarctic exploring expedi. tion under th command of Lieut, ileve. an Italian ollloer, who aooompeuled Prof. Nor. denikjold in hi recent Polar voyage, Th i. "I J ' - - ' w i ' " a i 1 . .. rtr- V " - i -iv,T .U-YX AaWx rr-sS .0 " f rn" c 1 Awl 0 ) 0 VENOKANOK ON T1IK MAN-KATKR. in diameter, running 4,920 ft, per nilnul over a wheel 14) ft in diameter, making IOH revolu tions per minute. On is thus enabled, at a email expense, to transmit power In any direc tion That woKtuart'L locomotiv. built at Tat araon, N. J., for an Inventor, who, in hla design, turnsd th ordinary locomotive topsy-turvy and imparted power to th driving wheel by Mo tion, has been tried, and ia aaid to bav given remarkably good results in drawing heavy load up grade, but it has not been teated for speed. On an up-grade of about I'.'J ft. to the mile, the engine pulled 21 ear weighing over 474 tons with such an esse that more ear war added to th train ia uooeeeiv experiments, uutU Ha alljr !RI loaded oars, weighing &?1 tone, were pulled over th aam grail with from 135 IT., to 140 ft of Uam, la thia eegine th cylin der and lb moving pert era above th boiler, so as to permit th aas of double drivers, on est above th other, so proportioned as to give great speed to the driver, resting th track, and to which power if imparted by friotioa. peditloa of Lieut, llsv. It I given out, will b lilted out fur a prohnged voysge, and It la aa aounoed to b th intention at th voyager to winter ia the Antarctic region for the purpos of making a thorough study of It character, AaTisui Wati i IWxrrox, For some tin past boring for artesian water ha been la pro gross la Provhleoos street la thtolty of Boitoa, Th ohanos of laoees wsre generally believed to be against th ffurt Quit reoeotly. how. ever, water ha been foand at a depth of l,nA0 ft, and th wall I now oapabl of delivering from tliree to four hundred thousand gallon of watar a day. AxoTliaaMllirAl RailwaT, Th telegraph report another Meiieaa railway projsot, with 130,000,000 eapitaL Among the inoorporatori are Mayor Prinoe, FWo. BaUer. U. . Orant, Jr., and two Mtileaa capital at. Th mala line i to run from I'ltdra Neeraa, at th Hio (Iraod. to a point oa the UnU of California, with branch.