| Show ITEMS OF NEWS I 1 DR hneil kneil director of the he observatory of 11 ven jsn n na has just invented an instrument by means of which ho lie edn edu discover the file intensity and direction direct ron of shocks of earthquakes it is composed comp obed of a pendulum oscillating oscil hiting Liling towards any point and at th lower extremity of which is a cylinder containing a ratch vatch watch movement which causes it ii to turn oil on its axis once in twenty foar four hours close to this cylinder c linder is placed an upright piece of wood t to which is 1 axed all ali all ail elastic lastic aria uria carrying a pencil poncil comin coming g in ili ill contract with the cylinder on which winch as jong long as the pendulum is still is described an zin uninterrupted line fill e but as soon as the tile earth moves and arid tile lite lle ile lie pendulum cw conr cour makes some oscillations the pencil traces oil on the cylinder marks I 1 nie hie length anulf V variety of which show the ath and dieb di action tion of hocks shocks fex ex 1 1 FIRES fines IN six MONTH endina ending june 10 30 10 according to the N Y journal of commerce Comi nerce thee were thirty two fires fire in ili the tile united states S tates during the he last month where tile the loss was equal tu to 10 or more the most destructive being behig aw am u which occurred at hasou hayou sara la with 4 low law of the to total ail amount of property dil oil destroyed during ivas was this smia soia may ba be increased by the tho fires not cot yet report kel since the beginning of the ibe year the tile monthly nion thiv loses toses have reached readied an mi aggregate of ag cowhen the class which lias has just graduated ut 4 west point entered that institution it numbered eight eighty y one one only thirty four succeeded in boloing on the rest resl fell oll oli from time to time min imin win inability to meet tile the stringent requirements of 0 the school chool t one of fhe the thirty fourkas four was th youn youngest oest aest member of the class hereafter thew them aro to be ix five classes instead of four nud aud ll 11 term wilt will be extended to five year years Cl ini lui lie Ife herald raid jirles are being manufactured alah U S ordnance department in dalon daton rouge tiri iiii certain changes in lit the ordinary ones OOPS the command commandant alit ot of that establishment al C i rodman has bas also invented a machine machine Ci capable paule paLle I 1 cas casting tina sixty millie minis bullets per minute 1 I 1 engleh machine casts but forty chavela Cl alvel aveia avela Her herdit ait alt 2 otlie J nie surveys of or lakes fourou and aid xa gan gau and the straits of mackinac ar are now cc cal klete ete nud and the re results suits in lit the hands of filu tile eid eld eci ga ver ter they have all been done tinder under the 04 i sa Intend Sn ence enco 0 of who is now in fit survey surveying lam ion the sault saull river det tri J at nark eAch anga auga paper tes teg t tatt t to nish nirh timber to construct a i luas ae pa enty four gun guo iship requires tiko tike c r forty four foul cres of or u woud lud or ad two hundred full grown rown trew trow i jpe Jfe |
