INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3619, 8 February 1906, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

,|r Qat of ih« largest s«wing machine in the country is to be Imme- i Ilpply ereeled on Long Island. | ft A new fast train baa bean put on to i ilfcwten the time between Chicago and . (Ml Francisco by three hours and tea 'frtßUtee. I ft' 'HffyipTp baa a waterworks that could irepplj over 7,000,000,000 gallons daily, foul tbs consumption is only 58,000,000, :iir ll« gallons per capita. ' |f The drift of the times is in the di- ;, pgadofi of putting the locomotive powr Mr to the end of a car in small ooroi pas* instead in 100 to 190 tons of steel ' Mi tfoe front and of a train. I jipong the grand railroad schemes - efow arousing the attention of grain ' shippers and importers abroad is one Uroposlng to load wheat at Duluth and (tort Arthur and deliver it at Leith, Gsotland. Sight steel boats of very t Igrfa capacity will be built at St. Clair and a 91,000,000 elevator at Point Ed- : arard. At Portland, Me., 15,000-ton tfeamere will receive the grain and iKr| It across the Atlantic. Ofil and mechanical engineer* are, . deeply inters* Ul in the work of the t ttsptoa tunnel, the greatest engineerl?tof work of the aga, as measured by | (iSwiUiea encountered, chief of which h? > uraa and la th« matter of ventilation of 5(. * foot* 13 »««• long, through rook. ■ 33W two rivers, Bhone and Direr!a. supply th« immense hydraulic works | with JAM-horM power at present, i! MM men aro engaged and tbo srorh |! : ; aa mbn fiflft* bf M*y 1»

tu dn*ti ui iA&wi v*. t v * husband nor the wife I» » compete** witness against the other. Where a strip of land is conveyed as an “alley,” the supreme court of Illinois holds that a private alley it meant, and the court also held that s private alley cannot become public except by condemnation by grant, o* by dedication. An office. of a hotel is a public plact :r. City ordinance providing foi i , ut of any persons quarrel- . angling in a public place, ac- ■ • *o the supreme court of Kan.ic.a, in the case of City of Howard vs Stroud (65 i’ae. Hep., 847). In North Carolina a note indorsed and transferred by a married woman without her husband’s knowledge 01 docs not vest the title in th 4 i, tlci;i-c;, /.ecording to the supremi court of that state in the case of Vanx vs. Edwards (39 S. E. Hep., 66). One who makes an excavation upoz his land is not bound to so guard it ai to prevent injury to children whe come upon It without his invitation express or implied, but who are induced to do so merely by the alluring attractiveness of the excavation anc its surroundings.

A person who usee a nontransferable mileage ticket and who signs th« name of the owner of the ticket, is not guilty of forgery, holds the suprenn court of Missouri in the case of Merrleles vs. Wabash Railway companj (63 S. W. Rep., 718), provided he wa« authorized by the owner to sign hi* name.

In a prosecution for murder, where It is claimed that the death of the deceased was caused by a blow on thf head, the court of criminal appeals ol

Texas in the case of Minson vs. Stats

(63 S. W. Rep., 647), holds that a photograph showing the condition of th< brain of the deceased, after removal of the skull, is admissible in evidence.