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STRANGE FUELS.
QUEER DEVICKS TO pro duck
CHEAP me AT.
Utilizing Coal Dust the Groat Prob¬
lem Itrirkn of Leather Chips —
Burning Corn and Hay—
Alcohol Ideal Fuel.
T HE economy, more the fuel number and question more as one of n contrivances is problem may becoming see by of '
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patented recently for cheapening the
cost of this necessary of life. Borne
«»f those ideas suggested by ingenious
Americans are very interesting. One
of them is for using corn cobs soaked
in petroleum, while another inventor
proffers the notion of cutting grasses
and weeds while green and pressing
them in compact blocks. He says
that such blocks might be employed
to advantage for building and fencing,
and this could be done without irn
pairing burning. their eventual usefulness for
Most of the artificial fuels thus far
patented are devices for tho utiliza¬
tion of coal dust. Of these there are
hundreds. One inventor pioposes to
nix together clay, molasses and water,
adding coal dust and water to the
combination. Another is for a mix¬
ture of sawdust, Irish moss, asbestos
fiber and burned limestone. These
are to bo boiled and finally made with
coal dust into bricks, the fiber of the
asbestos and tho gluten from the moss
helping to keep tho stufi' compact.
Thero is a patent for bricks without
coal dust, composed of ashes and saw¬
dust saturated with petroleum and
coated with resin. Yet another kind
is made of cut straw, chaff and petro¬
leum watte,combined with peat. Some
of tho most curious ingredients for
artificial fuels aro clam shells, charred
garbage, corn meal, wheat flour,
sugar, seaweeds, broken glass, lard,
tar and leaves. Exclusive rights have
been taken out for the manufacture of
a compound of powdered charcoal and
finely-cut cork. This, it is stated,
burns very slowly and gives off a great
deal of heat, being particularly suita¬
ble for tho sick room.
One of the most interesting of the
patented fuels is a brick or cartridge i>e
soaked of highly porous clay, which is to
in kerosene and put into the
kitchen stove when wanted, Tho
housewife has only to touch a match
♦ o it, and the fire is ready for cook¬
ing. In France pressed bricks of tan¬
nery waste aro used by economical
housekeepers to keep up lire at a slow
rate of combustion. All over Europe
bricks of coal dust are largely em¬
ployed for running locomotives. In
Japan charcoal is ground and made
into balls with ushos for a cheap fuel.
Borne of the materials used for fuel
iu various parts of the world seom ex¬
traordinary. In certain shoemaking
towns in Massachusetts, such as Lynn,
thero are some very poor people who
burn nothing else but leather chips
from one end of I ho winter to the
other. They got thorn from the fac¬
tories by the wheelbarrow load. Such
-'Chips, of course, smolder with a great
deftl un.
cent
up front '
Nearly all of tho __ saw^
sawdust from
mills everywhere is utilized for fuel.
But one must go to Utah in order to
find hay put to the same purpose.
Thero tho Mormons have peculiar
atovo ovens constructed for the em¬
ployment of hay. They twist tho hay
into light wisps, and at night they fill
tho firebox of tho stove with it as full
as possible, closing the damper and
permitting This it to smolder all night.
is for cooking, but they warm
their houses also by means of sheet
iron boxes with burning hay inside.
In the great corn belt in rural dis¬
tricts iu Indiana and Illinois people
who live far from tho railways and
cannot procure coal or wood often use
corn for fuel. This was more coin
luouly done when the land was virgin
aud produced enormous crop*. Maize
is a tirst-rate fuel and makes a rous¬
ing hot fire. The employment of corn
colis for tho same purpose is very
general.
lu Egypt mummies, chiefly those of
cats, ibises and other auimals, held
sacred by tho ancient inhabitants,
were employed within recent years for
running trains between Cairo aud
Alexandria. Dried fishes, particularly
the salmon, have been and perhaps
are to tins day employed to some ex¬
tent as fuel by the Indians in parts
of British Columbia. They contain
enough oil and muscular fiber to burn
well. On the coast of Scotland
trols , ere utilised ,. , in . un od , , I way. they
are very f,,t end ere made to serve as
caudles, w„Iks being run through
thorn. 1 he employment of the caudle
fish of Alaska iu similar „,u'“tioi“f fashion is fa
miliar. But this .a a illn
miuation aud of”soapstone^'tilled not ol hectic 1’heEs
himo lump with
whale oil or seal oil. is a stove.
In the desert mGegetation regions of Arizona
where there is worth l
mentioning, the Indians dig u ior
fuel the enormously Piu^-com develope 1 roots
of a kind of plant/ s make
a line kindling and are utilized for
that purpose all over Europe, particu
larly iu the Black Fores; and other
Euch parts of Germany. In the Old World
nnkD.w“ economies with fuel oreviil loklvcr as
wt, «. UUM 1 HWI in iu ms the aeiT New IIOACW,
m anada cor tai n nn thons arc pra°
nerving of’Imitation ^n the United
U ° USeS *”
* ^Tbe principal heatiuktove
niDo’.‘ is lllffe.I in the
main main hall li.ui, ami an 1 the tin pipi is not m t allowed
to For enter this the chimney nut,l it is cold.
purpose various devices are
adouted “Lilow-i chief ,me*” nmnmr ami C.--' ..rv
t k 1 ‘ lv_ lt b '' ove -
The hot , air irora the . escape pipe of
tu6 mam stu\c outers tU6 iliiniU stove
on an npptsr fioor and warms it, beiug
compelled to pass through tortuous
channels and beiug thus retained long
enough to heat the dnmb-stove befor®
it hually esc ipe-. I he gallows pipe
is^ constructed ou a principle some
wmit similar and serves to warn a
r 1vvu tae 8 } ir P-’' } * heat ir on
the kite nen range is utilized in the
same lasiuou.
The attention of many scientiiiv men
has long been engaged in trying to
devise some sort of app iratus ;or etn
ploying the sun’s rays as fuel.
Alcohol is ru ideal fuel. It give:
cr«nt hsitt nod it* i# pw-
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH. GA., 'TUESDAY, JANUARY 15. J895. -EIGHT PAGES.
feet, withont smoke or other solid
residnum. In burning it resolves
itself into water and carbonic acid
gas. Of course, it is too expensive
for common use, bnt chemistry may
yet discover a way of producing it at
a small fraction of its present cost.
Borne machinery is already run by
chemicals withont fire. Nature un
derstands this. The human body is a
rnacine run by chemical energy. Sul¬
phate of magnesia has been employed
for running engines. Cans are filled
with this compound and heated. In
cooling and crystallizing it gives off
heat.
Peat is used as fuel in some parts of
this country, but only to a small ex
tent. It is so employed on the Island
of Nantucket, where there if a bog.
Attempts to press and prepare this
material economically for market
have not been successful in the United
States, though the industry is exten*
sively earrie l on in Europe.—Wash*
ington Star,
Scenes in Korea.
The first thing that strikes a visitor
to a Korean village is the surprising
subpopulation of dogs. Every house
seems to possess a pack of these spirit¬
less curs, which are a gray variety of
tho Chinese chow-dog. They display
a more than passing interest in a
European traveler, and a free use of
one’s stick is necessary to keep them
at bay. On investigation one dis¬
covers that they form the staple article
of diet of the population. Unlike
most Asiatic races, the Koreans are
meat-eaters, and tho dogs, being
always at hand, afford the necessary
food with the minimum of exertion
and expense. Another curious fea¬
ture of the Korean diet is the total
absence of tea, tho almost universal
beverage of Eastern Asia.
Frequently one sees a Korean forag*
ing for tho evening meal. The method
is simple, though unpleasant. He is
armed with a short pole, to the end of
which is attached a noose. This he
throws over the head of tho nearest
dog, and then proceeds to screw the
pole round till the noose tightens, and
slowly throttles tho dog, who is mean¬
while prevented from getting to close
quarters with its butcher by thrusts
of fchejpole.
Tho country is much infested by
the great long-coated Mongolian tiger.
This magnificent animal, though a
considerable source of revenue on ac¬
count of its valuable skin, is never¬
theless much dreaded by the natives.
So serious are the ravages committed
by them that the King was forced to
organize a regiment of “Royal Tiger
Hunters,” and these constitute the
corps d’elite of the Korean army.
Travelling in Korea can hardly be
described as luxurious. The Korean
is not lavish of home comforts for
himself, and ho certainly provides a
minimum of the same for the travel¬
ing foreigner. The average Korean
hotel compares unfavorably with a
modern pig-sty, and one has to sleep
as best one can in tho midst of sur¬
prising dirt, a colony of cattle or
fowls, and other things which shall
be nameless.
Toothless New England Villagers,
* ■
“That is to say, not an adult Tonatn
tant will possess any teeth of his own.
All of the grown-up people wear false
teeth.
“This rather odd state of affairs is
due the operations of certain unscru¬
pulous persons who about the country
with false teeth for sale. One of these
fellows will go through a village and
literally pull every tooth in the place.
To take the places of tho teeth ex¬
tracted he offers artificial sets at $8.
“In rural parts, for obvious rea¬
sons people very commonly suffer
from toothache. The malady is dis¬
tressing, and tho customary way to
get rid of it is to have the tooth
drawn. No dentist is at hand to re¬
store the afilicted grinder to a healthy
condition by filling. The peripatetic
quack comes along with his forceps
and offers to give final and permanent
relief from all such suffering in fu¬
ture.
“For the small sum of $8 ha will re
move all tho natural teeth from the
customer’s head and substitute for
them an artificial set of much better
appearance, which will never cause
any pain to the wearer. By this at
tractive offer the people are deluded
into parting with the chewiug apara
tus with which nature has furnished
then V;“ th S, r t?““ f,' * toothle 3a
population, iooth polling is rarely 1
resorted to by a good dout.st, mas
much as it must be an extraordinarily
ba ,i tooU i that cannot be tired up ,K._ so
lls t0 be better tbaa , ar ‘ Mse oa
u^ton Herald.
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Sis prisoners confined iu Count}, the jail at
Monticello, in Wayne es
caped last week in a very unusual way.
The structure is a new one, aud built
of stond quarried a short distance
the town. The stone used
blue limestone, and very susceptible
to the ^ueuce of fire and water, and
is easily decomposed. Those in charge
tae 3tf urs of the county thought
tUo ,^stone would answer all purposes,
au will ;5 useti prove lt quite ^ an costly, experiment as the interior which
of the o.liflcc will ha« to be recon
*
The prisoners in the iail were
fleetly familiar with the character ot
—1} U1 !rhey saveflaU the’grease
boo the food brought them, placed
“ ou the floor beside the wall, and set
" ] “ * ei he a was
tuorougniy lieateJ, tney tnrew cola
water on it, aud the stone cracxed so
« to be easily removed. -Louisville
^-) i- t Pnnrier*Tt-mrnal Courie r Journal.
^—
Rorks Tliat Float in Water,
A geologist who is “welluik’ in his
business can name a dozen or twenty
different specimens of rocks aQd min
erals that have less specific gravity
than water, and which will, if tossed
into the element, iloat on the surface,
Hubelite is one of the best known rep
resentatives ot that class; the common
pumice stone is another example. The
rock with the very least specific grav
ity known is “daman,” a substance
found iu an extinct volcano in Da
rna aland. Its aiomio weight is 0.5 or
, «xs Aly erne half that o t hydrogen,
ti|. k«vn« itspnhbw
ALASKA’S BIG GAME.
THE FIERCEST ANIMALS ON THE
CONTINENT FOUND THERE.
Ferocious Grizzlies Abound—The
Polar Bear Not Extinct—Great •
Herds of Moose and Caribou
—The Wolverine.
« A SPORTSMAN oT>cvM* Lis “ fill ant 3 in 'vr xr Alaska, 5. art who ! e c ,? wants n said
John G. McGrath, of the
United States Coast and r?«tic Snr
vey. Mr. McGrath has charge of the
work of determining the boundary
line between Alaska and the British
. and has just . returned
possessions,
from one of his annual trips north.
“If tho hunter seeks bear, moose,
and caribou, he will find plenty
there,” continued Mr. McGrath. “Peo¬
ple who believe that the polar bear is
almost extinct or that he is to be found
only in the extreme NorD* are very
much mistaken, for droves of these
fierce animals come as far south as St.
Matthew’s Island, in Bering Sea. The
island lies several hundred miles from
the mainland, and here the polar bears
Bpend tho winter. Nobody lives on
the island. Years ago it was inhab¬
ited by a colony of Russians, but the
settlement was practically wiped out
by the attacks of the white bruin. A
few years ago a sealing vessel left
three sailors on the island to hunt the
bears for their skins. The following
spring the sealer returned and found
one survivor. He was not able to tell
what had become of his companions.
They had left camp one day and had
not returned, and it is supposed that
they were devoured by bears.
“In midwinter St. Matthew’s has a
colony of several hundred polar bears,
while in summer there are none. When
the ice begins to break up in the warm
season they leave the island and follow
the seal and walrus into the Arctic
Ocean. These animals do not mind a
swim of from 150 to 200 miles if they
can find an occasional iceberg to rest
on.
“Perhaps the most ferocious animal
to be found in the Alaska country is
the Mount St. Elias grizzly. He is
even fiercer than the Rocky Mountain
variety and the natives have many
stories of his terrible doings. This
grizzly is very tenacious of life.
Lieutenant Evans, of tho revenue
marine service, told me of an instance
almost beyond belief. A hunter had
encountered a grizzly and had put a
bullet in hiu heart. The .bear rhshed
forward 100 feet and seizing the man,
literally tore him to pieces and then
dropped dead. Tho hunter’s bullet
was found embedded in the heart of
the beast. No Indian will attack a
Mount St. Elias grizz!y or the brown
bear of the region. The brown bear
is also very fierce and the sight of one
or the other of these animals will cause
the bravest native to take to his heels.
When ray party was making prepara¬
tions to start for Mount St. Elias last
year old Chief George advised me not
to go on account of the ferocity of the
grizzles. He said they would drag us
from our beds and that no amount
of bullets would drive them away.
these bears seizeu^P^HPWBpW^i
though the bear actually got the man’s
head in his moutii, the man escaped.
It seems that this man was fortunate
in having a very hard, bullet-shaped
skull and the teeth of the bear slipped
on it. Before he could attempt an¬
other bite the man fired the contents
of a Hudson Bay blunderbuss straight
into the bear and bruin toppled over.
When the man’s companions reached
the scene they found bear and hunter
lying side by side, both apparently
dead. This proved to be correct with
respect to the beast, but the hunter
showed signs of life and was eventually
resuscitated. He was crazy for a long
time after that.
“The wolverine is another animal
to be found in that country. It is
very valuable on account of its skin.
While the Indians do not hold it in
the fear that they have for the grizzly
and the brown bear, they attribute to
it supernatural powers as great and
us many as those the Japanese ascribe
to the badger and the fox. When an
Alaskan Indian catches a wolverine—
or ‘mountain imp,’ as they call him—
in a trap, he attempts to sidetrack his
displeasure by blaming his misfor
time on the> white man. whose should
f S ar6 b 1 'T -f, 0 bee “?« h
to bear , all the ills of We. ‘White
men set trap, the Indians will say,
walking cautiously around the un
prisoned wolverine. ‘White nan no
g D od.‘
“But it is with the caribou and the
moose that the hnntm- will 1 ftmi hi* "
most . fruitful ,, ... , sport. , During . the sum
immense herds o these amma.s
a t e 1 between tho ianana
atu , , e v u t a t ^f
0 ' 3 C v '7 wea r
com ^ oat ,, travel , south-toward i ,
s e Y ,ae
°«“*- J ^ \ e ,° 13 ^“ the car tim e tbe "'"J buliv 6 ?. kh or ® ta8
3easaa 8 *>od The Alaska miners also
Winter onSsJ-gO^when^r eStSSvTa provisions
^ ° £ qJ ca r ^ on FortV m ^t Life p^cWd Urtk
from r “ th tae e miners miners a^ a. lorty mile Creek.
That T , "as the greatest hutting season
ever known in Alaska. The caribou
an d moose region is about 200 miles
MkntT-'five’ ibe ‘mifeT’from if ^ort 1
™on. Acee ? ? Ob, yes, t
sportsman has time ana money. At the
5 Bay am f, Company ,rt House they station have ol sometimes the Hudson
a
, , 25>000 or 30 ,000 pounds of
venison .C on hand< A miner told me
. h , ? a P^ , caribou so
thick in one of the iail migrations
t ha t the herd looked like the side of a
motmtHiu moviu q**, If the hunter
strikes one of these migratory herds
he can have as much sport as he
_
wishes. He may follow the animals
without difficulty until he tires of kill
ing them. The route of migration is
not always the same, and, knowing
this, the Indian hunting parties divide
up into sections in order to cover
more territory. Great bands of wolves
follow the herds and devour the young
and the sickly.”—Chicago‘Times.
—-
The heart beats ordinarily about
seventy times a minute, and throws
about two of ificod «t «»«h
Discarded Silk Hats.”
What is the doom of the discarded
silk hat, which is dimpled and framed
after the fashion of a year ago, and is
therefore an offeDse m the sight of its
fastidious owner? It may go on any
one of several waya. It may be
groomed and ironed e fresh and then
adorn the occiput of ■% herdic driver.
It may be torn to pieces and the com¬
ponent silk and lea her enter into
the construction of a fresh- article of
bea(3gear> and pur8U e a new lease of
existence in a humble sphere. It may
^ so j ow as f 0 decorate a scarecrow.
Or it may find a last refuge and mas¬
ter in the person of a member of the
hobo battalion.
The average life of a silk hat is
about a bfe vear, so, at least, estimated a
v enera repairer and cleaner. In
nine cases out of ten when a man or
ders a new tile he leaves his old one
wilh the dealer, receiving a fiftv-cent
rebate on the same, be its condition
good, bad or indifferent. The dealer
accepts the old hat merely to accom¬
modate the customer and not because
he wants it. He generally sells it
again at a uniform price of fifty cents
to one of the professional hat ironers
and revivers.
The hat is taen given a special in¬
spection. Its teeth are examined, so
to speak. If it is in tolerably good
condition it is given an ironing and
sold for a dollar to a coachman or hack
driver. These men are the best cus¬
tomers, and will pay a dollar or so for
a decent hat, no matter if its style is
that of the year before last.
But more often the hat is too far
gone for this purpose. If the silk is
not too much worn it is used in tho
making of children’s hats—those of
the shape of a truncated cone. The
top is new silk. It also goes into the
chapeaux worn by uniformed organi¬
zations like the Knights of Pythias oid
and Patriarchs Militant. The silk
is often used to line the chapeau
where it is folded in, and will last for
thirty years after previously doing
duty on a fashionable chimney pot.
As a last resource the poor old hat
is sold to make sport in a procession
of Antiques and Horribles. After that
the tramp, the ash barrel or the garb¬
age scow claims it for its own.—
American Hatter.
Electric Light Bath,
Dr. J. H. Kellogg, who was the first
to uphold the therapeutic efficacy of
the electric light bath, put the re¬
sults of a long course of elaborate ex¬
periments before the convention of
the American Electro-Therapeutic
Association in New York the other
day. Dr. Kellogg finds that in its
power to promote protoplasmic activ¬
ity the electric light is fairly compar¬
able to sunlight, and that it acts as a
true vital stimulus of plants, convert¬
ing their night into day and counter¬
acting the deleterious effects of arti¬
ficial conditions, such as subjection
to stove heat. The bath devised and
used by Dr. Kellogg is in the form of a
cabinet with sixty incandescent lamps
arranged in rows along its interior
walls, the light being intensified by
glass mirrors which aie placed in the
spaces betw imps, Other
forms arar^" tor local appli
five degrees Fahrenheit—and in half
the time required to produce perspir¬
ation iu a Turkish bath at 180 degrees
Fahrenheit. Another singular j)hen
omsnon is that the action of the elec
trie light is entirely independent of
the surrounding air. The specific
advantages of the electric light bath,
when compared with Turkish, Rus
sianj vapor and hot air baths are (I)
the penetrating power of radiant heat,
which is far greater than that of the
convection heat of the last named
sources ; (2) the superior stimulating
effect upon tissue metabolism; (3) the
readiness with which perspiration may
be induced when desired—one to three
minutes; (4) the low temperature re¬
quired in the surrounding air, which
permits the full virtue of the bath to
be experienced; (5) the ease aud ac¬
curacy with which the dorsage of the
application may be regulated ; (6) the
wider range of application which ad¬
mits of the use of the bath as a tonic
and sedative as well as for alterative
aud spoliative effects. —Boston Tran¬
script.
The Kangaroo at Bay.
pnrsaed tho kanf?ar00 if
possible, ‘i directs lii. flight toward the
If he roeches it he enters,and,
thanks to his greet height, °e ’ is able to
, L . , .v
S ° “
5“!?““ »bhg«l „ w ,“‘“^ *? swim SfJjfL?n There he plant.
fcal1 aml u P. to 1119 1 . shoulders in the th«
’
water he awaits the attack of the dogs.
WHh his torepaws h , seize9 by
b j tb t dog that approaches
« he - more sohdly bal
ancec i than his assailant he holds the
dog's nose under the water as long as
^ ca n. Unless a second dog speedily
cornea to the rescue the first one is
sure to be drowned. If a companion
arrives and bj his attacks on the kan
gar °° manages to set the ca P fc ive free
the *»-«-drow*iod brute is glad , to re
gain the sh ° re &S a9 possible.
Ia thl9 %vay a strong aaJ courd S eo113
male ban g aroo will hold its own
against twenty or thirty dogs, drown¬
ing some and frightening others, and
the hunter is obligedto intervene with
a bullet.-—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Co|o Colossal . s al bla Ma.neo. .„—„„ I fllmm am Pcln Penn.
The colossa statueof William Penn,
to crown the high tower of the new
city hall budding in Philadelphia, waa
placed in position without any cere
momal . , observance and , , fortunately
witnout accident of any kind since
work was commenced upon it. The
figure, which is some thirty-seven feet
high, stands on an elevation about 547
feet above the street level, Save the
statue of “Liberty,” ... in New l’ork, it
is the largest figure on the Western
Hemisphere, and is undoubtedly the
largest in the world on so lofty an ar
tificial elevation. Unfortunately, the
architectural conditions of the build
ing require that the statue should
front tu the north, insteal of south
ward, in which position the features
be properly lighted during the
entire day. As it is, the face will re
main in deep shadow constantly, so
that much of the artist e effect
La lu»t«—«%V H«hin aton Slot,
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Fafeasonable egotism is disgusting,
He j 8 the greatest coward who fear*
himself
Looking for trouble is one way to
make it.
Where is the man who loves his
enemies?
Fraise when yon can; censure when
you must.
Every day you should learn some¬
thing new.
Distrust of others is the result of
distrust of self.
Ardor in love is the great conquorer
of female hearts.
Men’s follies often cost them more
than their wants,
Keading feeds thought, just as food
nourishes the body,
No matter what calamity befalls
keep astiff upper lip.
It is far better to keep still than to
promulgate platitudes.
Persistency is the proper channel is
certain to be rewarded.
A man who does wisely should not
indulge in foolish talk.
Slander deserves almost as severe
punishment as murder.
It is nearly always prudent to put
your best foot foremost.
The fool thinks his death would
leave a hole in the world.
It is well enough to be critical, but
it is better to be sensible.
The woman who tries to be mascu¬
line betrays her ignorance.
A woman will never confess to thir¬
ty until she has reached forty.
A Curiosity of Lunacy.
There is a special form of mental
disease .first described in France,
whose definite character is given to it
by its periodicity, and hence it is
called folie cireulaire. In it there are
three sections of the mental circle
that the patient moves in, namely, ele¬
vation, depression and sanity, and in
this round he spends his life, passing
out of one into another, for it is, when
fully established, a very incurable dis¬
ease.
The patient takes an attack of
mania, during which he is joyous,rest¬
less, troublesome, extravagant and often
vicious. He eats voraciously, sleeps
little and never seems to tire. His
temperature is a degree or so above
the normal, his eye is bright and
glistening, he is enamored of the
other sex, he shows diminished self
eontrol and no common sense.
This lasts for a few weeks, or a few
months more commonly, and then he
passes sometimes gradually and some¬
times rather suddenly into a condition
of depression, during which he is
sluggish, dull, looking differently,
dressing differently, eating differently,
fearful, unreliant and sedentary in
habits.
This state will last a few weeks or
months, and the patient will brighten
up into what seems recovery, and is
to all intents and purposes in his
normal state. This, again, lasts for a
few weeks or months, and he gradu¬
ally gets morbidly elevated. You
passim' through -every min
■ML phase and habit ho did at
ffijie-ssion E&ity 1 follows and this as round before, of
vo^inRwt feeling, of .intellect, of
<g/f>es on, cir¬
cle after circle, till the patient dies.
He lives three lives.—The Hospital.
A Big Cedar.
G. A. Dyer, of this city, has tho
largett tree on exhibition ever shown
in the State, says the Tacoma (Wash.)
News. It is a cedar, cut near Ocosta,
Wash. It took eight men twenty-four
days to cut and load it on the car.
The part exhibited consists of four¬
teen feet of the butt, together with
sections of the roots. The marked
features of this tree are that it was
solid to the base.
After it was felled it was split into
sections that could be handled and
the centre taken out. It is now set
up, so that from the outside it appears
in its original state, but within it is
hollow, into which entrance is made
through a door. Mr. Dyer says the
tree was 407 feet in height, and that
it me&sures seventy feet in circumfer¬
ence. This includes the “ins and
outs” of the base, while at an eleva¬
tion of thirty-three feet its diameter
was fourteen feet. It was sixty feet to
the first limb, which is said to be
seven feet in diameter. The first 300
feet was fifteen feet in diameter at the
butt, tapering to one foot at the top.
Some one estimated the board meas¬
urement at 100,000 feet. If this is
correct the tree would have cut 10,
000,000 Star A shingles, or 100 car
loads. The tree will be taken East for
exhibition.
Coloring Wool.
To produce upon new wood the ap¬
pearance of age is something upon
which a great deal of time, money and
thought has been expended. A new
dye or stain that promises to be more
satisfactory than any heretofore used,
is made by adding to one thousand
parts of water fifty parts of comrner
ciai alizarin. Into this the ammonia
is put, drop by drop, until a portion
of the liquid taken from the bulk and
agitated gives off a distinct ammonia
odor. This stain will color maple to a
red brown, giving it the appearance
of age that is so much desired by lov¬
ers of fine furniture. Under the same
treatment, oak takes on a yellow
brown. After-treatment with calcium
eKloride gives a much darker and
rieher color. The value of many
sorts of wood i3 greatly increased by
dark colorin g, and as this stain strikes
deep into the wool, it is at once prac¬
tical and of a good deal of commer¬
cial importance.—New York Ledger.
Mixed Tiio.se Babies Up.
A most curious affair recently oc
curred at Fort Howard. A married
•woman BUlliOU of that city and her married
daughter one'day reside in the same house aud
last week both gave birth to
baby boys of about the same complex
ionweight and size. Several neigh
bors were in soon after, and in passing
the babies around for inspection thev
became mixed, and now the mothers
will never know whether they brought
their own child or not. The
mothers don’t care so much, but the
father* insist the dilemmaia safi****# .Rsr
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