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...Navy. The balloon itself is 175 feet long, 35 feet, wide and 50 feet high, including the car. It is propelled by a 150 horse-power Sturtivant motor which drives two propellors of the swivel type. It is capable of carrying a crew of eight men and a useful load of two thousand pounds. The balloon can rise either from the water or the land. The dirigible is now being finished in the works of the Connecticut Aircraft Company in Portsmouth, N. H., and on completion will be shipped to Hartford and set up in the Armory. The battery...
...number of men who have been present to support the University team. This year, with the course only twenty minutes from the Square, there is no reason why several hundred men should not be on hand when the cross-country team meets Cornell. Cornell is here with a train-load of rooters and must be met on an equal footing. Between the race this morning and the game this afternoon there will be plenty of chance for the spirit that has been breaking out in College this fall to bubble over to some purpose...
...Rhodes pointed out that every plant has to be built to carry the maximum load, and that this maxamum load is very much greater than the average load. He showed the finctuations of night and day, and of winter and summer, both for lighting and railways; and compared the different kinds of engines used. In running a power plant it is the fixed charges that must be watched closely, and Mr. Rhodes figured that the average fixed charges per annum for the various different engines amounts to 12 1-2 per cent. of the initial cost, the distribution being...
...religious and artistic spirit in the past, so is it with the modern scientific spirit. The desire to find out the secrets of nature impels men to trudge over Arctic and Antarctic ice-fields with the satisfaction of all bodily requirements reduced to a minimum and burdened with a load of scientific instruments. Other men expose their bodies to the attacks of pestilential microbes for the advance of knowledge and the betterment of man's estate, while Alexander Agassiz rises with difficulty, when over-whelmed with sickness, and has his mattress laid on the deck of the tossing steamer...
...Merry Soldiers," Sabathil 2. Overture, "Robespierre," Litolf 3. Waltz, Militaire, Ganne 4. Selection, "Mme. Angot," Lecocq 5. American Fantasy, Herbert 6. Funeral March of a Marionette, Gounod 7. Selection, "Rigeletto," Verdi 8. March, "The Queen of Sheba," Gounod 9. Overture, "1812," Tschaikowsky (Organ, Mr. Marshall). 10. March, "The Little Load Soldiers," Pierne 11. Waltz, "Artist Life," Strauss 12. March, "Present Arms," Wagner