The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-02-04
Random ThOughts---No 5.
By THE EDITOR.

| In the first settlement OF this county, nearly
all the houses were made of logs, and the doors
Of clapboards. The ceiling overhead was also
made Of loose clapboards. Thefoofs were made
Of puncheons md the air could get in at thou
sand places. To render the room any. way com.
fortnbly warm, greatlog fire had to be built in
the winter. This required avery wide Fireplace
'--often eight or ten feet wide. When the great
fire was built, 1t caused draught to rush up tile
chimney which drew up the most Of the foul
air, or tarbonic hcld gas To I'll the vacuum,
the cold, pure air rushed in through the loft,
door, doors &C. Thus there was pure air in the
room. Now all is changed Rooms are plastered
and thus made air tight Doors and windows
are made to tit closely, and thus all pure air Is
excluded.
1t is difficult to yentllate one of the modern
rooms. II must be borne In mind thatcarbonlc
acid gas does not in all cases rise to the ceiling
and float out If you let down a window sash q
few inches at the top. This gas has greater
specific gravity than common air, Hence 1t
settles to the lowest point, when cool, and thus
gets down to the bottoms of wells. This lsone
Of the provisions of nature. This gas,as before
stated, Is essential to vegetable life and to be
utilized, must settle down where 1t can reach
the leaves Of vegetables, TO be absorbed. II Is
often raised by throwing burning substances
into well where It exists. This hea Is IT, and
rariles lt, and thus II Is raised. SO In heated
room, 1t goes mostly to the top Of the room,
With The heated air, and the cold, pure alrconlcs
IN ut the bottom of the room when Il can andan
opening. TO prove thls,open the shutter Of the
door slightly, whom the weather IA cold, and the
room warm. Set candle on the ioor Just in
side Of the opening aud the flame will bend
inwards showing that the air at the bottom of
the opening is coming into the room, Then
hold tho candle near the top Of tho opening, lust
inside and the fame will bend outwards, show
ing that the air at the top of the room Is going
out
Now the only way to ventqto room Is to
have access for the air at some point at or near
the bottom Of tho room Openings in the floor
itself are best. Then openings at the top forthe
impure air to escape.
Ever inee congregations have been meeting
In ar light churches, It has been proysfbiai that
people so to sleep in churches II is generally
charged TO tho dullness of the minister's dis
courses This Is unjust. The minister Often Is
the greatest sufferer Perched In abox called a
pulpit, up nearly to the ceiling he Is compelled
to inhalo much Of the heated poisonous gas
by his supplied congregation. | |
have seen ministers become so affected by this
poison Us to be compelled TO come down to keep
from falling. 0pmhg the mouth, as IN speak
ing makes il much more unpleasant and even
dangerous for the speaker than for the congro-
cation. ! have experienced this slupor in
church, aud II IS entirely beyond control and
ls one of the nost unpleasant sensations lnlagln-
able. In factit is ncplent death, and only the
commencement Ut what is couEummated so rapidly
where death results from foul air In a-wsll,
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