Show J NEWS ITEMS tn THE rhode island legislature h has as I 1 passed a bill which will go into effect in may prohibiting the exclusion of children from any public school on account of color or race A corre correspondent NT states that the snow in the garrison at fort ridgeley minn was at one time during i las last 1 winter SO 30 feet deep and the tho thermometer om 35 degrees degree 3 below below zero all the tile animals in the quartermasters stable wae ehi efi buried beneath the sn snow wi which whdeh was with difficulty cleared away to feed them 1 j vly Vir cholera still prevails in southern rus bus ia where the mild mildness hesp hess of the winter has pro produced duped a great deal of illness at moscow there have been so many cases of typhoid fever lately that the hospitals are quite full AN imps impy imperial rial ukase permits jews 1 who wild have received a diploma at a russi russian an or polish university to enter public service in Poland Foland with the rights and privileges 0 of public functionaries function aries AMONG the great tunnels of the world is that which chic h connects Gama 11 wl th st ml erita on the road between genoa to chivari it is 3 3 yards in length rr and is just completed M VON BORN a aban banker kerin in dortmund 9 germ germany a n I 1 lately t ly made excavations in the neighborhood neighbor n i eborg good of frankenhausen Franken hausen in the hope ofil of finding linding copper and in 16 do doing ing BO so has discovered the largest and most beautiful caverns in all germany the two largest are 6 eight hundred and s six bix ix hundred feet in length respective and about oke one hundred and thirty feet in breadth and forty to fifty feet in height the third cavern is also several hundred feet long the three caverns contain in all nine pools of water so clear that the smallest pebbles can te be seen at the bottom though they are eight r and nine feet deep this of comae course is only possible when the caverns are lighted up ul by magnesium or bengal lights which however is very constantly the case as they are visited by many hundred persons every day A 0 great many beautiful slabs of gypsum hang from the roofs A CURIOUS process for giving iron an exceedingly high g de degree gree of hardness hasteen has been discovered in france by cli TNT gaudin this chemist sometime some time since recorded the fact that by heating iron tolerably free from carbon with ysmall a small smail quantity of boron a product so hard that it forged may be obtained he has now found that a similarly hard metal may be obtained by adding to ordinary cast iron while in fusion phosphate of iron and peroxide of manganese the iron produced in this way cannot be forged but it c casts easily and is therefore thoroughly applicable to the construction of such machines as require in their material extreme hardness rather than tenacity the metal so produced is moreover singularly sonorous I 1 s and its inventor suggests its empl empi employment in bell foundry he also states has discovered a 1 species of alloy called tungsten iron crystals of which araso areso hard that they will cut alati glaskas ds readily as the diamond |