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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1871)
A Novel Experiment. . The Nashua (N. H) Telegraph says .that two mechanics have been for ten days.buildiBg a small, experimental, ship ' there, which will he launched, when com plete, on the Nashua fiver, and irake a trial trip! It is thirty-twobeam and eight feet depth of hold, and its peculiarity is in jihe propelling power, which is a novel ty invented by a man who has followed the sea for many years. ' It is thus described: 'The propelling power is to be a turbine wheel, set at the bottom of a flume rising fiireeet from the ship's bottom.. The wa termen ters the flume from the ship's side; f just'' below the water line. This opening is.'p6.vided with a valve, to prevent the water from returning when the ship lurch es h)-a rough sea." How is the water to leave the ship? asks every one. From the .bottom of the flume,' near the turbine wheel, a tunnel eighteen inches in diam eter. extends 'along the ship's bottom to (he-extreme stern. This tunnel is to bo ao constructed as t" constitute a vacuum, and is to be supplied with a set of revol ving faus, to-accelerate the egress of the water, and with valves to prevent the in flowing of the water from the stern. The water in the flume will have a head of five feet, furoishinir a power ol nine horse. Now the inveotor who is one of the work men, expects to secure one hundred rev olutions of the screw before the outer valve iu the tuunel is reached by the out flowing current of wateri or a rate ofVpced " equal to .five miles an hour- A moving vessel always mukes a trough in the sea at the stern,- and the faster the vessel moves the greater the trugh. This trough will ' lessen, to a considerable ezteut, the .pres sure on. the outer tunnel valve, and the re maining force uecessary to overcome the pressure, open the valves, and release the wa:er is expected to be created by the movement of the vessel itself. The prin ciple is. that which will empty the bowl of a common clay- pipe drawn rapidly through the water.- Ouce in motion the 'ship is.expeetc-d to attain it rate of speed only eq-ualed by the power of the turbine . . : , Does Ick Ht-:i.iKVtc TnmT? Ice not only melts, but it, dissolves. A lump of ice placed on the table will melt placed in water it dissolves, just as sugar or salt do'es. Y hen we place sugar or. salt in our mouths, .the glands fill our mouths wilh sajiva. dissolve the sugar or-ealt; and wash it down our th rents in ..a stute of-olu'tipn.-TbHunnr ftf Salvp ia the gUVi'ds'is comparatively smull, and 0 rapidly exhausted, leaving the mouth dry, and creating a desire fur drink to moist on the" mouth, . tlmugh the body may be actually surcharged with mois- . ture.- Ice' has precisely the same effect, it compels 'the glands to discharge their . suliva to dissolve the ice, -and leaves them dvy and clamorous for more water, livery boy ot girl . knows the apparently insatiable thirst created by eating snow, the snow penetrating rapidly the entire mouth, and drying up the glands as wilh a sponge. In' the same way at'every ice cream saloon a 'glass of water is handed with the cream, and tn tny persons drink two of three glasses of water after eating an ice? " For this reason the practice of giving ice, especially to the sick, is high ly objectionable, and even for a well per son 'fails of its object. . We need a great deal of water to. keep our skin supplied with moisture., .The object of the mois ture is to keep the skin cool. The cooler the moisture we.drink, the less will we require. But ice will make us drink more than we need to produce the desir ed effect. ' ' - :. . -, The anti-chignon pled.ee has been sign . ed by 50,090 ladies in Germany. Caw Spch Thinos Be? Wefind this in the Los Angoles News of July 9th, and give the same for what it is worth ; . ' Another of those wonderful manifests tions from the unknown , world to the in habitants of earth occui red recently in this city. Pete Thompson repaired to God frey's Gallery to have a photograph taken. The subject was iu position, the camera well aimed, when a specter intervened. On the finished picture appears the ghost of T. II. Burdick. The shadow of the spirit falls over the ohotograph in the same manner so convincing a f'ew weeks sgo. ; Besides , the -appearance of Mr. Thompson, his eves protuding some eight inches, and each individual hair standing on its own end, indicates the mortal ter ror naturally induced by a supernatural visitant. Skepticism must henceforth disappear; blind ignorance, which pre tends to disbelieve everything eontradio ting the known laws of nature, must own itself confouuded. The wonder is tho greater that the apparitiou should be the 'double" of a living man instead of the usual spirit of a dead one. Progress, Spiritualism, and Science, so called, re joice at the revelation.; Naturat. Gas Is Nkw Oklkans. A New Orleans man, who hunk a well in the rear of his factory the other day, fiund,"wheu be had reached the depth of forty-six feet, thut there was a sudden and very powerful flow of gas from it. lie immediately closed the pipe, thinking to utilize this gas for illuminating purpos es, but fouud the pressure too great, when the idea struck him to direct it into the boiler of one of his engines, and experi ment wilh it in making steam. But no sooner had the connection been made than the engine began to ruu entirely by the pressure of the gas acting upon the piston at a pressure of twelve pounds to the squire in'-h; and so it has continued, giviug no sign of exhaustion. The last heard of William II. Seward, our great American traveler, he waB riding home from a "dubar" at Patte.tila, IndU, ou ; an elephant in the moonlight, with a beautiful '"kinbob turbau oil his head," attended by the Maharajah. The el ephant (one of twenty-four) was dressed with "housings of gold cloth, with ear rings that came to its feet. The Mahar ajah was arrayed in pure white, with a MDutiess turban covered. w:rh' "Pearls, and it lovely pe;irl ami emerald-, necklace." I Aronnu tuem were "crowdii ot tioldiers, mounted :iad on !et. proi-c?.ions, bands of music, calcium light sod booming cannon." - jr ' Notwithstanding the offers Cuing and ring, the Siamese Twins, have had to tv- el separate with rival shows, they haveal- ways stuck together, aud have accumula ted 200,000 worth of lands and children. The story that they were not 'brothers, but cousins, is a base fabrication. A Good lady who improved every op portunity to teach by preoept and example, once remarked at a piayer-oieeting: "My friends, as I came along I saw a cow a switching of her tail. In this wicked world of strife she was peaceful and con tented a switching of her tail; aud I said to myself, 'go thou and do likewise Mrs. Greumann, of (Jtsalady, W. T.f has just returned from a trip to China, whither she took out a cargo of .lumber She is said to be sharper in the lumber bus iness than any other mill owner on Puget Sound, aud got at least ten dollars more per thousand feet for her lumber than was ever paid at Hong Kong before. What the proper age fir a parson? The parsonage, of course. 1 1 : i i-Ittl People. . I. : ; Little ! Dick's mother asked him what kind of nuts she should buy for him. "Doughnuts, mamma; - me can caek 'em with niy tooths. - "Mother, ' father won'; bo iu Heaven .viih us will he ?" , " "Why, my child ?" "Because ho can't leave the store." "Johnny, what do you expect to ! for a living when you get to be, a ui'i "'" "Well, 1 reckon I'll get married and board with my wife 'a mother.". "I wish you had been Kve," said a child to astiugy old auut, proverbial for her meanness. "Why so?" . "Because, said he. "you would hvo eaten all the apple iu.stcud of dividing it. A bright five-year old, who was at a christening at a Newport Kpiscop) church oo a recent Sunday, reported t his mother that they had the biggest spittoon there that he ever s.-tw, and the minister came out with n long white urght-gown on, a man turned some water in the spittoon, and the - minister washed the baby's face in it." The merchants of Indmnipolis send their wives to collect bad debts and teach them to swear horribly so as to totimi dato the debtors. It is said thac the new Jersey watering -plaocs are rapidly filliug up with mos quitoes, and never befoie were they so thoroughly organised aud couSJeut of success. The Texas Puoiiio Railway is to be 1,515 in iies in length. Kor 250 miles tho road will be an ai- lite ; aod in a stretch of 815 miles tiierc will bo but . six bridges. United Stales Marshal Hastings has broken up aud arrested the ringleader ol a large gang of counterfeiters located in ' Cleveland. lie captured much coun terfeit money and iib-Jciueuts of manu facture, .v.;,...-; The New York Viaduc. Railway, which oow appears sure of being built, will probably cost about $25,009,030. It will ruu from the City Hull to Harlem, and expects to carry 159,090 passengers a day. Maine is experiencing the Christianising irjflnuces of 3,000 Bistoi di umnuT- Ijoodoners say that one-third of tha population of that city oovor sjw a iaio fielu. ' . - The wheat harvest in Southern Illinois is about over, and the crop is exceileot. Jersey City has a club of Johns. N one with any other Christian name is al lowed to join. The Pennsylvania Legislature refuses to authorize the election if female school directors. : A London letter states that at least 50,000 Frenchmen will emigrate t Amer ica in the next two years. Paris has forty-nine female telegraph -operators, Lyous forty-thre, Bordeaux -peven, and Marsailles eighteen. The boys at Athol, Mass., were badly beaten in a game of base ball with tha girls of the same Iowa the other day. The wheat crop iu Pennsylvania and New Jersey is declared to be at least tea days earlier thi'u it was last year. , Domestic magazines wives who blow up their husbands. Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. A West Virginian in a buggy was ha ed miles by a rattlesnake, recently. ' Straw hats of awning proportions nave made their appearance in the East.
