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Show competing with chfcacc. Norway Making Arrangement to Supply London With Mutton, London will shortly have the advantage advan-tage of another meat supply this time from Norway which, according to the London Telegraph, is perfecting arrangements ar-rangements for supplying the English metropolis with as much mutton, alive or dead, as it can spare for exportation. Systematic experiments were made re cently under the supervision of the Stavanger Agricultural society, and the results were so satisfactory that in the approaching cold season it is to be re peated on a larger scala It appears that 80 sheep, each weighing weigh-ing about 100 pounds, were fattened for a week or so until they turned the Bcale at from 115 pound; to 123 pounds. They were then shipped to London, where they realized an average price, after deducting commission, of about $7. 50, and as the total outlay had only been about $6. 50 per head there was a net profit of nearly $1 on each animal. Forty were also sent over with the skins, hoofs and interior intact, but on these three was an average loss of 10 shillings per head, partly explained by the skins being damaged through bad packing. Nevertheless the Stavanger society has come to the conclusion that the business promises to be remunerative, and the English people have thus an additional guarantee of an adequaU supply of mutton Speed ot Electricity. The fact is generally known that, according ac-cording to the experiments of the late Professor Heinrich Hertz at Bonn, the velocity with which electricity is prop-agatod prop-agatod is nearly identioal with the velocity ve-locity of light. The identity may be perfect, per-fect, but experiments have as yet failed to prove it so. In a receut communication to the French Academy of Sciences, M. Mas-cart Mas-cart has shown that the mean velocity of electricity, as deduced from experl ments, Is 188,185 miles per seoond. This is about 1 per cent greater than the velocity of light, which is 188,300 miles per seoond. It is believed that if light and electricity elec-tricity do move with exactly the same speed the velocity ascribed to light more closely represents that spe?d than the velocity ascribed to electricity, because the experiments are most satisfactory and probably more accurate in the case of light. Youth's Companion. |