Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — Getting Neptune Down Fine. [ARTICLE]

Getting Neptune Down Fine.

An apparatus for measuring tho mean level of the sea lias lately been invented at Marseilles. It is based oa the principle that when a liquid wave traverses a capillary tube or a porous partition its amplitude diminishes, and it is retarded In its phases without the mean level of the wave changing. Itconsists of a glass tube, the lower end of which communicates by a flexible pipe with a plunger which is lowered beneath the lowest water level. There are two cells in the plunger, the lower being filled with sand and open to the sea, the result being that the column of water in tho tube rises and falls very little with the tides, and the mean sea can be read from a graduated scale.

A Pennsylvania farmer tells In the RinalNew Yorker his experience of higher prices under the McKinley law. He gives tho following case: “Before the McKinley bill was a law, I had some spouting put up at eight cents per foot, complete. Now, under the McKinley protection I had a similar job done, aud was compelled to pay ten cents per foot, besides the wages of an extra hand. This shows plainly that for every cent of tariff the manufacturer adds ten cents for profits, and the laborer gets nothing." If it be true that protection lowers prices, why do tho manufacturers always shout so lustily for “more?” i Men like to be coaxed, and women i know how to coax. What profiteth a . woman to scold.