54 THE WEST SHORE. December

HUM Ul'H BBONZ& THE PROSPECTOR. But even there the restless brain refuseas to be TELEPHONES IN' MINES. quiet, aud carries the weary dreamer on the A correspondent of the London Miniinj Ifmm ihe Minim ami Msotlfa Yrvm wings of imagination to scenes of splemlor, The telephone which has been placed iu the Journal vert the formula for comjiound where science vies with art in contributing to is Volumes have been written in times past set- Consolidated Virginia mine doiug its regular , which he tielieves will be found of wants and wishes of those who worship ut ting forth th claims the duty like any other part of the apparatus wiile Usefulness to tneUl workers. The process to public esteem of the mammon's shrine, and he, for the time imagines of the from the otKce is invented by Mr. James Webster. .Mr. Web DUDieroui heroes of every age and clime. The himself a "bonatuta king, before whom all the mine. It runs down to the bot- object M to produce metallic alloys of shaft t suita- orators, poets, philanthropists itateamon, war- lesser lights in the financial firmament bow with tom the at the level. A fine ble with or without the addition ami admixture a Battering obaequlouaneaS ; hut he awakes in is used which is riors and othera who havo figured more copper wire insulated ami cov- of other metals or alloys, as required, for the orkss the morning with a headache, and "stubborn conspicuously ered with India rubber or gutta pereha. of cannon ami other large articles, also in the life drama of nations or facts and stern realities" staring him in the The ingots, slabs ami the like for rolling ami for localities, and whose deedi or words have been face. instrument operates perfectly and orders from general purposes; ami for the production of considered of sufficient importance to occupy a To theifl restless, unsatisfied nomads the the oliice to the bottom of the mine are trans- supuri- 1 allow for thl manufacture of articles country is indebted for the discovery of nearly place on the pages of history. Hut there is a mitted distinctly This saves a good many usually made of metals or alloys of metals. all the valuable mineral deposits which have in lass of men wliose claims trips of the cages, and in case of an For unking the hard bionzo or , to public attention the last 'JS years contributed in so marked a accident can bismuth, 'A; have be matte of very great he takes part; , zinc, (i; hitherto been almost entirely overlooked. iegree to the wealth of the nation and the service. It will un- motel, aim antimony, m parts; ' we be introduced cpier, z.j; who, althoiigli their entrances or exits 4'rld. lieu reflect upon the vast amount doubtedly iu nearly all the mim upon 19 iromsne before long and replace tlinroiii-hl- the active aceoes of Ufa have never hen. '" :"nam- uun the obi bell and cord IhaMina tim,. IffllllMnMhl llu.l., mine on this aoast ami put into circulation, tin signal. and then runs the amalgam, alloy or bismuth " inut meteoric splendor tnat is nlnuist countless number of men to whom it, bronze thUI produced Into molds Of any COO- - io often seen in the transit urou tin- initial both directly and dvM nlnvmant The instrument is being also utilized in the or form for future use, aa desired, firmament oi venlsntahape some favored son or daughter of the stimulus tt has riven to commeroe. and the same region for other purposes. The Enterprite lus bismuth bronze IS a hard metallic alloy fortune, who, through some great achievement incalculable benefit this great says: An instrument was attached to the wire and may he made into reflectors for of sword or has mirrors, peii, excited the admiration of region was to the nation in its recent terrible leading from the office, of the Virginia ami QoU tamps ami ins iiM ami into oiuer articles wie worm, .inn whom nave Hnan- - praises been suns by struggle for existence, and the resulting Hill Water Company, south B street, to the requiring a high degree ol harmless or polish; ten thousand tongues words elo- in of burning cial crisis, we have but a faint conception of farthest point on said company's works, near also axle uml shall Hearings, vttHcs uml by - lor loi qticiicc, lia.e tneir persover- the magnitude ol the benellts lowing from lite luo luaieiu oiioiu oi iaiioe. 1 his similar articles or purposes. also lke wire hae other It may ence, contributed in no small degree to the labors of these unappreciated men, of whom so heretofore been need for working a Drintfno and be let lie ground into bronze powder used for wealth of the world and very largely to that ot many people, with little wisdom and less re- urauht V similar purposes to those in which ordinary the I'acilic coast. . yp6, uvertoo. flection, apeak in tones akin to contempt. There- - ouiwrinteuaeni 01 toeu"r'anautoi the oomnanv. epesa . . , r,, ' is tne mining lore i say ail honor ami praise to ttiose adven tttok a telephone ami started out along tho Iin 11 wui,.r m m vi tuu unit gvanguaril ot on turous of toil, who, wnm wu hmi Mw; '"jwnur, civilization sons unsatisfied with th uwu mi ou uo is t iiearu irom at the kind would be too costly to come into general this coast, who has, for tho 28 lad years, slower methods of courting the fickle dame, at- reservoir on the dividing ridge between Aineri-ca- use, to the high pen intage of antimony, witli steadfast owing purpose and unfaltering steps, tempt to win her smiles by the less certain but Flat ami Wiishoe valley, some six and I am Inclined to think so myself, except for through summer's heat and miles winter's storms more romantic and exciting avocation of a Proa- - from the city, lie having there halted ami the purpose of bronze powders, but he also pro traversed every desert, con- ascended every mountain jHe.tar. nected his instrument with the wire. Every hjscs a softer bismuth bronze, which would lie and prospected in every stream from Cariboo to word that he spoke could be distinctly heard iu as cheap as copper ami might he advantageously Mexico, ami from the eastern base of the Kocky KHIZOPODS. the oliice here. He then went to Lake View on used for a variety of purposes. The softer kind mountains to the Pacific ocean; often contesting the further side of Washoe valley, near the consists of blimUtll, part lead. 6 zinc, S IKmm the IUnlO iMitl BohmUfla I'ress.l thognmudfootbyfnutwithitssavageoceiipaiits, foothills of the Sierras, and over 20 miles from nickel, 'Mi; ami copper, .VJ parts; tin- atualgama sometimes vanquishing anil sometimes van- I'rof. Joseph l.cidy, the eminent cuinparative this city, following the course of the wire. tion of the several nn:tals being effected m the quished. K it fuw, if any, who have never ex anatomi-- t ami Again he connected with the wire and again he same wav as in the c;ise of the bard alloy. perienced it, 030 fully realized the mlarosooputt, made his second was aa distinctly heard as though he had lieen forms a very tough metallic and visit to the West latter admixture privations that many of them the past season, under tho but a few toils a WAV. ft nKmkZ) tt alloy ami is cast into ingots ut once, to be after tUVe undergone and are still experiencing ill auspices of the Havden survey lie made a tains and was next lieard talking from this t t . . " end wards nmelted and cast or rolled or otherwise ir troi'irle t1.; 3" of the long tunnel .i . . 9,7 .... " ,,'""- caretul exploration of th tuntry about Fort that runs through the Sooner dealt with as required. These alloys will be oemrc io strike it rn i. I'ha mm. ... ir Brldger, tho Utah divide this side of Lake Tahoe. Finally he found to resist oxidation ami keep their color pector must have a of hope mountains ami the Salt Lake went to the station at the end of the line, . better than any other similar alio) hitherto m his soul" for none but of basin, in search of rhflopodl. en- those the most He has been nines irom tne omoe in tins city, ami fast made and can be produced at less cost. hopeful disposition can long continue in the gaged for a long time on a memoir on this sub- - was talking from that point away up in the Sierras, where ho says there is a fool f PltDtxa Mink Lamm with Commumud snow. When at the terminus every word could An We read in an exchange that an Unproved be as distinctly heard as one sitting in the Con. safety tamp is at presentbeing manufactured by Virginia otlicc can hear what is said on the Mr. A. It. Boollenot, Sr., of level of the mine by means of the telephone in near Pans, tlie leading principle of which i use there. Wires will probably that Hit! compressed air which is furnished to yet he run from this city to the mills and big flames in thu lamp in quantities just sufflolenl up the mountains; also to the mills to Insure perfect combustion is taken on the Cat a ui river. from outside the mine, or at least from This really practical invention will be of the a part of the mine which is free from greatest utility iu the mining regions iu the lire damp. The exterior air is conducted to the mountains, ami w ill save expense in many ways. is lamps Inside the mini by means of an pipe, It stated that sitting iu the Consolidated The air so distributed to ttie lamps is submitted Virginia oliice at Virginia, one may hear by the to a variable pressure aconrdlug as the lamps aitl of the telepl tone the putting of the are placed at a more or less distance from tin air engine, uml the rattle ami clutter of reservoir of air or from the citterns, which can Other machinery in the mine. This being the be planed at different points in the mine, The case, the Eureka Republican suggests that a tel- principle id the Inventor then rests oeeentlall) ephone might be introduced into the several upon the canalisation of the exterior air aftei tlntta and Outer plucea when men are at work, Imss the manlier of tlie canalisation of gas for the when a sitting anug iu bis office on the Bur lighting ot towns, Tins lamp repels on thu one face might readily count the pick strokes made side tho carbonate hydrogen gas, while at every or the blows struck on n drill iu any part of tho instant it is purified from Die carbonic aeiil mine. Though a man only paused 'long enough produced from the combustion; solid iron bars to spit ou his hands tho little instrument would protect ami enclose it. The wick is fed with tell about it. It would make it rather rough oil by the principle of capillarity; it is neces- on men Inclined to "soldier." However, the sary only to measure tlie quantity of oil to know men would probably soon carry all the tele- the number of hours one wishes the lamp to phones into one drift ami take turns at keeping bum, or to make n bigger lamp. Fixed at dif- the DULLOOK-OHA- up a racket therein. It is hardly probable that ferent points iu tho mine it serves the miner the miners will take to the suggestion advanced, business under the discouraging with light in every direction by means ol a re disappoint- jeet, which will eventually form one of the and Scithtijic PrM. ments most of Hit-- Hector, Which can be turned round at will; that experience sooner or series of the ouarlos of the survne later. .Many of them long yean of However, iti ease ol iteeil, Pie lamp may he ear- after unrc i ue rnwpoae nre me lowest anil simplest THE BULLOCK-GHAItll- quitod tod iu thdr s arch for the u ned by nil experienced miner, because small hit'd forms of en inula, mostly minute, ami MnmOj in nature's storehouse have SUCCUmbcd Miiiia niooitr may oe to any to nigii power of the microscope to distinguish India is a country which, albeit, under Eng- tioi.iioeu ainxeii the fatal bullet ol of the taps which are placed along the wily savage, the malari. their structure. While most of them construct lish rule, is very far from air the prin- ous poison of some having adopted tho cipal tube. miasmatic region, or shells of ereat beauty ami variety, their soft customs of enlightened by hunger that country. To au and fatigue have sunk down part consists of a jclly-l- ke substance. This American, to die, just out from the States, used to "Unwept, unhonored ami unsung,'' the animal has the power of exti'inling in threads NlONTAN n ami railroads, a sudden Horn LoMIU'SI'ION OK Call. C.lHlIIK.S some dreary desert, far from frieu.ls or finger-lik- ami processes, which areiiBetlas organs transition to, let us say Hombay, would be a Some interesting points were brought kindred, their golden . out at still of commotion ami prehension, often branching. very extraordinary experience. a late inquiry in Liverpool int., the burning of Many of them "have seen days," From tlie better appearance of their temporary organs, For instance, you may Bee at any time in the the ftora in the Indian ocean last August. The ' nance, positions of resembling icit Iionor and roots, the class of animals has streets of Bombay, which is the city that is omit, iu giving Judgment, held that the profit,a1ami Inspired with the hope of siitblenly its name of rhizopoda, meaning, literally, most under European influences, Hindoo mer- destruction of the vessel was entirely owing to acquiring wealth in a manner so strongly tinc- In compensation of tho smallne'ss chants, magistrates, ladies of the Zennnaa (a the spontaneous combustion of the cargo. There tured with romance, bavegtine forth determined of theso creatures, they make up in numbers, word which corresponds to the Turkish one of was no ev i. fence helore the court, altlnuich regardless of the many Bufferings and dangers ami it is to questionable whether any other class harem) on a visit, driving along strict inquiry was made on this point tending w,,n' in their gaily cxpoHe.l to athorve if they oi .oiiniais excecii mem m HOOnr .trice t ie attire. nH illnmlHJJ l.,.r ..1 T... to show that any water bad reached the eouhl not the smiles cargo win of fortune's fickle eoooomy of lUSnra. Iieologic.il evidence shows taken and passed all before the 10th of August, when the hose name, at instants by European was that they were the starting point of animal life with played over the heaven ooai The Some look with Notw ithstsiid. court could scorn and derision u pon the in Haw, ami ineir agency iu rock making ing the not discover any for the has fact that the expenae attached to their cause outbreak of the prosjH'ctor, ami Consider him visionary, ami un- not Iwen exceeded by later, higher, ami mora is as great as to of ahorse tire. As far as the ventilation of the vessel practical, profligate ami reckless; visible forms. that that there With the marine kind, known and carriage, the discomfort of the springless went, n bvcmcit to have adopted after t are some BUCn among them none will as ft tram in if deny era, we have been longest familiar. and shadeless machine ami its bIowucss, it if Mileration, as the liest and most eflcotive mode hut many id them an- solwr, industrious ami The beautiful, of many chambered shells of these greatly preferred by the by of carrying such a cargo iu practical i i natives; ami force safety. Hut DM who have weighed well the for the most nart iust visibln In tl ,, ,L ...1 experienced habit they retain the cumbersome old convey expressed a doubt as to chances embarking in the business. And eve form a large of the isirtion ocean mml ami ances, wnien example ot their more civil- KM system aOOOMU, .ml was inclined to think who will censure them when we the sands of inc see so many the ocean shore. L f f,,,,;. ized rulers that the laving of the (datfor n the bottom who have been raised ought to have taught fnou poverty to affluenoe nifera likowise form the basis of mites of them to discard Of the hold was a mistake, by a "lucky strata long ago. causing too much strike." Imagine for a moment 01 iinicsioue, sueli as the chalk ot ventilation, though England, and We give tti our readers an illustration of an this was done at the instance the feelings of one who after long years of toil the limestones of which of Paris ami the pyramids Indian bullock gharry, Rrahmin those interested in the insurant f the vessel. and innumerable disappointments containing a finds himself I ""oi. rrcsn water riiizopotls, and The court had before it tho " Report of suddenly lifted from life Bentleman driver, drawn by twoliuzerati the a of laborious servitude though not so abundant as marine forniB, are, Itoyal Commission on the Spontaneous with its thousand 00WS (bot Jhlm), also called the sacred cow of Oombus ills ami inconveniences, to a nevertheless, very numerous. in- tioti .d Ooal They mainly India. in Bhipe'and was inclined to think position of mdeomlonee, when- he can surround habit our lakes, )iomls that " ami standing waters," but KM " surface ventilation revomine-ide- bv himself with the many desirable they also things which swarm in iphagnons swamps, ami ever Ckmkntinu Hkasm (i lass. A cement for the commissioners highly deairable, ami wealth alone h ash to can nraenrai and uLm live in newest earth. Prof, Leidy has devoted attaching work to bottle concur strongly m their of necks, lamjis, etc.. recommendations that the envy the grovelling, unambitious phnlder years oi the several study to the fresh water rhi?o- is mode by boiling three parts of resin with one thermometer should be constantly used ami Who looks With IHhIS llf Tin- mi ...... a frowning sneer upou MBt ur of caustic soda, ami five of water. The daily registered in their log lutok. the prospector who has r'""" ami lrt returned from an un- his especial object hi the iast expedition was to comssition is then mixed with half of its weight successful search tho after coveted treasure; niiiii' H men are to u t.oiti.l H,. of plaster of Paris. It sets tirmly in half to but to morrow views him with atlmira-tto- elevated regions A Nkw CsfOU BlOWKft, The A.tMltti iiimous of the lU Lv m,.i.t.i... of an hour. It is said to be of when, erchaoee. well merited but de- AfniM tells of a cupola long great adhesive not permeable petro- in the Cleveland district, ferred success has juiwer, by OTOWtttd his efforts. At Stillwater, the headquarters of tho Piute leum, a low furuulud with air by means of a jet of steam, Hn Um conductor of heat, ami but super- other hand let us imagine the. feeling Indians, m Nevada a ficially ll is cylindrical, four feet three inches in diame- of h. lu,, attacked by hot water. Zinc white, one of an extremely hopeful ami sensitive out among the Indians. A ter and :tU feet high, built of refractory large nnfflbst of white Lead, or precipitated chalk may bo brick tint nre, w no alt. r ui.nit lis or HerliaiM with a shwt Iron casting. iia,v are t !h clt ith w. Illi,,. for plaster, but hardens more slowly. Tin upper by Ishor spent in a ui means of a rtue, irt, prmpevting in direction where!"f and fingers, which U'sidoa Wing Imruont! commuuicaU's with 'a tlie indication! mm MVS him every reason to ho vry pmful rentiers them utterly helpless Trickett, the Australian champion oarsman, shet column dwcoiidmg vertically into the for a ground. most eratifvuiL' siuvess. ihimolik- ...... The disease seems to lie having challenged the world to a race whre it joins an underground' tin ad remote ami unfrequented region, finds himself Indiana. for i'1,000, to be rowed Court- chimney. A steam pipe of small diam- in any conutry, "t ney BJ eter tho sheet r'M, with dispelled hopes sitting cents, to row in t). ... . niton iron column, the jet of ...... fU two 0l,Bi,U Indians voted BtsjM causm jiTwn on mo iiauk oi some menu UI at Oneida, tins amount or more, ami will pay Trick'ett's a current of theainn thecuHa. New ork. and were arrested on the lain smain. rellectiug ou the uncertainty )f charm of expenses to this Trick-et- which is furumhisl with uulit ktssM voun country in the event of t aUv unman eeuu, ami fully .1. I.. .x... whsbrju mat Indians s defeat the U.tlom. The, tuyews or oiwuing vo tll man prot.es but UMdisi '' And think-- : "8" " Onridas were uwy be oloeed it will. The rvsulU obUuie.1 indictttl and tnetl before fag of the happier scenes of liv cone Judge Wallace, at MRS. CtEO. 11. Tllolir-sn- ,.f w.ro aaUefauktry, tivs'u.ns ej foundry sasj bemg d." L'tica. The Judge decided sntnr before the reUess lemon, amintion, that the Oueidae Sargent, of California has committed suicide at mstteil in an hour with, it is ehuind, a tHk his are entitled to vote, and saving tessioii of his soul; he reluctantly comes to the at the November elec- Lowell, Mass. of live per cent of coke There are four of a the conclusion that 'what fates decree tion number of them did vote. cupolas whioli four amall loilon arv fuuud that man must nei'tis ain.te, and retires ttt his A HniTlsn b t., 1... at U supply with steam meager Dill of the notorious Davenport brothers couch to soek the Hawaiian in- temkrry oblivion, performers, dead. Islands, to look after British is i rests.