The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-05-23
Information for the People.
,origaai sud Selected. By Charles NJ OIara Druggist
Bolivar, Tenn

A'li4'ats AeAiA
The Science Of Eatinguishing a Fire
Mr., NJ. Van Marum, in the Scientific An1er-
icaa, says: The flame Of any burning
substance must cease, according to well
known principles end experiments, as soop-
as any cause prevents the atmospheric air
from touching It's surface; thus, when g
small quantity Of water is thrown upon a
body in a state Of violent eonaagration, this
water is at first partly reduced to vapor
which, rising from the surface Of the burn
ing substance, repels the atmospheric air,
and consequently represses the flame, which,
Tor the same reason, cannot again appear
whilst the production Of the vapor con
tinues
From experiment it appears that the art
OF extiRguishing violent confagration with
very little water consists in throwing it
where the fire is most powerful so that the
production Of vapor from the water, by
which the flames are smcthered, may be as
abundant as possible; and in proceeding to
throw water on the nearest inhamed part, as
soon as the fire ceases in that part where
you began, till you haye gone over all the
burning parts as expeditiously as possible.
In thus regularly following the flames with
the water, they may be everywhere extin-
guished before the part where you began
has entirely lost, by evaporation, the water
with which it was wetted, which Is fire.
quently necessary, to prevent the parts from
taking fire again; after the flames of a burn
ing body are extinguished, it cannot again
take fire. for the above mentioned reason,
till all +. the water thrown upon it be evap-
GRATED"
Mr.. Van Marum has conducted a number
of experiments with small hand pumps, ex-
tinguishing fires in houses constructed Of
the most inaamable materials, and saturated
with turpentine and pitch, in about three
minutes, with three or four buckets of water.
A hand pump or garden engine can be pur-
chased for fifty or sixty dollars, and a hun
dred feet Of rubber hose for as much more,
with which any fire that we have had here
"a year could have easily been extin
guished. 1t will pay some of our real estate
owners to take steps toward procuring such
an apparatus, and it win pay every one of
you, my readers, when you want any thing
nice in the way of stationery or cutlery, to
purchase it at o Hara's drug store.
Too much noise drives away thought.
No man can have any variety of ideas, nor
any connected train, beneath the deafening
roar Of a cataract DR. AZerander
This reminds US of the anecdote of the
old Georgia Baptist preacher, who, when re
monstrated with for being in his old age, a
calmer speaker than in early ife replied
"When was young man, l thought it
was the thunder that killed, but have since
found that the killing belongs to the light
Southern Pres. Reoiel0
There is neither thunder nor lightning at
OHara's drug store, and you may walk in
with the money in your HANDY and ask for
and get any thing you want
The Rap1ic PlaRt-As this plant is at
tracing considerable attention, and some Of
our onterprising farmers may wish some in
formation on the subject, we quote from the
Scientific American The fibre made
from this plant is beautifully fine and white,
and very strong 1t may be started with
root cuttings, and will flourish in any climate
where the ground does not freeze over a foot
deem. and never needs replanting. Well
rooted plants viii produce from two to five
cuttings of the stalk in a year, each giving
one hundred and fifty pounds to the acre.
A native of Java, the plant has been do
mestieated in Mexico by D. Benito Roezl, a
BeIgo-Austrian botanist, who has also in
vented machine for cleaning it. circu-
lar and any further information may be OBJ
tanned from Mr. a. B. Bacon, Chairman OF
the Section of Agriculture, New Orleans
Academy of Science, at the P,caylsne Office,
n. O." and any thing in the drug line may
be obtained at O'Hara' drug store.