The Swansea Gazette and Daily Shipping Register

.co List of Vessels Sailed; FitON Dec 14 p.m. to D«ec. 19 p.m. King Dock. Dec 14 p.Ul D Riusjwood s 541 Rotterdam M Depeaux Dec 16 a.111 Portreatli s 1947, Rio Janeiro T H Couch Dec 17 a. 111 Thames s 675 London Harries Bros Dec 17 p.m Vigilant s 79 Glasgow P Mar-ow Ovidia s 1819 Newport J E Fisliet Dec 18 a.m Portaferry s 74 Cardiff M Murphy

North Dock. Dec 14 p.m Rostrevor s 118 Newry G Shepheid Grontoft s 1264 Nice Letricheux & David St Kevin s 246. Garsion J E Fisher The Viscount s 151. Miilotu Harries Bros Nov 15 a.m Tav I s 235 Llaiielly F II Tucker Snovvflake s 36. Barr.saple G >hcpite.it Dec 15 p.m Rival 60 Miuehead £ P Marrow Rhona s 280, Dublin M Murphj Princess Dagmar s 361 Portsmouth F H 1 ncke: Dec 16 a.m Turid s 668 Cherbourg R E James Dcon Glen s 50, Barry M Murpliy Dec 17 f .111 Dec 17 f .111 Boileau s 1038 St Nazaire L Guel et Portslade s 324 Moitagne E W Cook The Marquis s 146 .Miilom Harries Bros Rundo s 636. pt Talbot Letricheux & David Dec 18 a.m Cai diff Trader s 339 Pt Talbot F H Tucker Aurora 36 Watchet —————— Two Brothers 57 Bridgwater Fishley & Co Lenora 29, Barnstaple Shepherd Ada 67 Highbridge Fishley and Co Dec 18 p.m. Nil Dec 19 a.m Quo Vadis 79 Treguie r J Cabot Squirrel 56 Dun ball Fishley and Co Audacieuse 100 St Valery W G M Jeffreys Magnet 56, Bristol Fisliley & Co Dec 19 p.m Nil

Sosu.- Bock, J'ec 14 p.m CoJJier 113, Bristol Pockets 1-td; Dee 15 a.tu 72 It rick s 465. Newport M Jones Bror Dec 15 p o 72 It rick s 465. Newport M Jones Bror Truthful s 280, Mancliesier Powell & Co Dec 15 p o Brihiiinus 183 Pt Talbot Bu;-gess &Co Touis el Mo.r!e P<4 Opovio Cei^t Dec 16 a.m Prestonian s 36?, Liverpool j Baton Velocity f- 62, Pt Talbot iVe'- I td i'ee J.5 p in Dec 17" a.in Concordia e 437 Fecamp H Goldberg Dec 1Ft a.in Concordia e 437 Fecamp H Goldberg L ,1, -,(.. 1.- Dec 16 p.m I Nil Dec 17 a.m Princess Olgas 438. Hull F II Tucker Penwith s l253, Toulon Stephens & Co Dec 17 p.111 Tweed s 498 Glasgow M Jones Bror Talbot s 230, Liverpool John Bacor. New Pioneers 320 Rouen M Jones Bro The Lady Belle s99, Liverpool Bacon Ld Dec 18 a.m, Secret 59 Dunball Fishlcv & Co Susannah 60, Highbridge Fishley & Co Sarah 44 Dunball Fishley cz Co Mildred 79 Ouimper J Cabot Dec 18 p.m Nil. Dec 19 a-m. U11 i vers 73 Morlaix W_GM Jeffreys Marie 78, Landerneaa W G M j effrey Anne 79, Morlaix W G IVI Jeffreys France 80 Lannion W M Jeffreys 19 Agra s 62 Bristol Pocketts Lid Teviot s 443. Glasgow M Jones Bror VOl' i ate' see p"yc

LOCAL CHAKTEKIHG. Leghorn 7/, narre not out, Cleeves & Co Nnrkoping 5/6, name not out. A Andrews Rouen 5/41, Alwina, IS \V Cock do 5/4g Gransha, David and Co do 5/3, Clou lee, M Depeaux Savona 8/3, Franlirig, E W Cook San Feliu 3/6, Juno, Heard and Co An oaiuious jiciver vmt Jouuo 1'iis&ij scuppea 17 the darkening hand ci a. poUcemau, turned hi* bead wearily on one sido and glanced down EA a little chauffeur bobbing up and uowa on b vibrating seat of a rather noisy car. '"Qot tèEI fivers?" asked the driver. No notice. "St. Witus's Dance i'" Still no uotic?. "Weil, blow aae tight," said the driver, "if I don't believe bs'l •doing of it to amuse hipseit'—like a spadger on a tree." ;'Now. how old do you think I am F coyly aafeed < literary spinster or a man whose unfailing courtesy was supplemented by *ii# witf on ruany Occasions. "My dear lady, that iá a iiard question tor a man who can scarcely remembef his owu agt1(! laid the man, cautiously; "and in your case it i. particularly difficult, for you look five yeafx younger than it seon" possible you ctn be, when I V, consider what a wonderful amount you haft accomplished I" Husband (newly-married); "Don't you thinfe* tove, if I were to smoke it would spoil ifafl gnrtainsP" Wife: "Ah! you are really the motil mnsellish and thoughtful husband to bo found uff* Where certainly it would." Husband-, tfoen, take the curtains down." An office; of very sma.li stature, and verf haaftf temper, was one day vehemently scolding one Of bis man, a soldier of uncommon size. The seen endured the ordeal for some time in patience, tfes Storm of vituperation rising up to him from bM diminutive chief. Finding, however, that instead of abating the rage of his officer appeared to mcrease, lie quietly said to the com-radrt next htBaf lbjobjl, go and fetch a stool. A believe tha a wftpta too give me a boa on the ear*"

KNOT'S TIED BY MACHINERY. Two of the mowt interesting automata now M work are those used by the Government of t,t. United States for counting and tying postai oaida into small bundles. These machines were made in Connecticut, and the two are capable of counting 500,000 curds in ten hours and wrapping and tying the same in packages of twenty-live each. In this operation the paper is palled off a drum by two long" lingers" whioh ooaio up t'roro below, and another finger dips in a vat of aucilage and applies itself to the wrapping paper in esraefcty the ri lit Kpofc. Other parts of vie maohme twine the pa par round the pack of nards and then a "thumb" presses over the spot where the i'«, and the package It ifirowu u^on a carry-belt ready for delivery.

'gemncE floars and NEWE r,M..£¿ J.i crl 1i. 1).. t ,,1.1 .N G\. f*EW ELECTRIC FURNACE. i>-> to dcicrmuie fnH points of fusion eS ry substances, W C. Heraeus has «n* Iat Hanau a new electric lu.nace, the Mccntial part of which, &ays an American pai^a iesistsfcs of a tube of lridimu 20 miilimetors thicfe arc? 40 r/iillirijeters in dinc.iter and in which temperatures between 1,SCi"h: lid 2,000de(K. De.ntigrada may be mcinfauisd for any desired of time. To attain a temperature to C^OOdeg. it is ^cessarv to send through the fcuW* go tdoctrio current of 1,2'JO ausperes at 5 wllfi k& a certani temperatuvt the substance undet KK^nination oemne to soften, and at a tempera- fm7rA 5deg. to 15 (leg. higber. depending upon the digisjjjs of tha ^nbstaneo. coinplote fusion oesusfc

_Lf' T. 1, TlJ, OAIJ3E OF'SLEEP. Sfer William Gowci-is, the famous medical Bois& t5, has developed a new theory of ilMp, Afi^rding to his explanation the euspension gCKi'jcioue-neiss in sleep is probably due to < "break and make" action among the bVÚII eeJJA. The activity of the brain is considered te be due to nt ve (,0Bs. from which spring iterve that go 011 ae<t tiub-diTiding* aotil they terminate iu )>ule k?i<uis. Former^ R was believed that tit;' nerve ceiin >.f .he braat ten in permanent connection by moans of iJtø terxniaak; but now it appears Uiafc these «n only in oppotnnon, and capable of being aepa^ rated. The liypofclsesis is that d.:n.><g eleep _su<» ■aparation takes >» > and the fact that nalt OOtic sn;hBt:ln<:c3 • captrl L" of inducing also It held tt* 4upport t.u:» "ievv

ELECTIUO STKHT. '• TN GERMANY. The Hnroult electric ;>«..»ss for th/s prodaa tfen of steei 1;:0 now in p;cci!ca! operation at Rentscheid Ha^ton in Gens.an.v, and it is reo ported tI t the steel prod v u is much superiof sn many wajs to that nip.de by older meth-ads, Steel of grpht purity ü:"i Uoi: qualitJ is made from ordinarj scrap-iron • rubbiaS, melted, and tlic-n ted to the action of as flfectne oven, in whi-.i< the necessary carbon manganese, nickel and other substances requ. -4 to produce steel of various qualities are added to the liquid metal. The oven has a capacity of Ifoin one and one-half to t'. o tons, and is heated by a currant of 1CC vol! The new steel is said to be stronger and 'o.-istant to wear and toar than the old-fa.-Jiwiec crucible steel.

MKA^UUIN'.i TTTE INFINITE Of all the sciences, a^t.rs:no?>iy, jirobably, is tha L"(y.at impressive and awo-rrwpir-.ng 'he spaoa within the of the solar system bdf whicJa earth is part, am', fclio outermost known member Q4 which is nearly 3,000,000,000 miles from th. centre, is bat a drop in tho ooean of space. \T think of and measure distaiicos on earth in tel. ';)f an inch or a. yard or a mile. The smaller* yard-stick, so to speak, with which the astro- nomer measures distancr w thf universe IR. thi Bemi-diameter of the .?'.h' orbit, roughlj shaking, 93,000.C";0 mii. r!; ,nob figures are 01 pcry little use • L, :i:< y person, but they aiay serve, My U«- Pt i»rti:f 3/agn-zinn, to giTt ,Mne notion of n-.H-Jir .;f '.iiat human into), feet which ct' iwn.i'i y;;i s.-hoiiuUjo the mJlø ftorfeo of the siaf.,

THE ORIGIN OF GUNPOWDER. rhe Chinese have Song l»een ciedi ted with tb* Invention of g)jrip-.»vdi-i, but- Professor E. O. «3a Lippmann. of j!ud >sa» collected evidenct ls> indicate that thi- U 1 snhfano, and that the ArabianK did not, as comrnon'y stated, introduoe gtHipowder iitto Uasope d,:I;Jig the eighth aud sintX centuries, Prof.- •- or von Lipprnann be- lierea that the manufacture of the first gun* powder <sas ba.jei! »• or, the Fire-book" oi M««tsua Grasous, wld.-li epr-eored in Constant* IlUPÙ. a.bout the m. af t-lm thirteenth cen. tnry. This was tha w;ik-« from which Roget Baoon, Albertus Mafrnvs., and Ii Aquinae derived their knowh.xJge (If gcr.i u-.w ■<. The first «sk> of gunpowder n <1*; proj ascribed to a monk, i'.erG,d .< -z, wbose diacovMJ was made acei.dr!ir»i.y ivrj;.e j;repi.rmg the mix. !i:UN' tot medicinal par.po<c».

FACTS ABOUT J'UP,blWG STONE. Almost know "die rule of fib. masons that stone id Ponding should be so pi?vced that it will he as it ir.y ui itn natural bed when quarried. JBiit Mr. b'rancis W. Hoyt, m ilia Engineering ^eics, sa.vs this familiat rule is not. always 10 be oupon, and needs io. many oii.w.s to b; sjjpph-meiited with other precaution*. riinre a-v luroe planea of fracture known to o;rr,-i x u. The "rift" is Sho direction ):1 v/hv; splits moai eaailv; the ;rrain" next eaaieat; file t''Hfc ,v'i the groatost ffl siitanoe. [n a p%vi- b' irwo isidrs repre- sent the ritfc frnw ■ 1 i «:.4 bottom tha graia. and »•;<> h at a aissrty h'd :•<•■■■• .'erabig- 1&- ciin -■ the i» pertect 'He -r i>u**ng thf **&»» in b i