Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-12-10
The Furnace-Fiend.

We are more delighted at the prospect Of
their demise because we have warned
them of it time and again, and prayed
and begged and exhorted that they
would keep the social and glowing crate
open and let the wretched furnace stand
freless but in vain. We have told
them that the furnace would kill them.
We have explained that hot air (" was
destructive to health. We have pointed
out the operation of carbonic acid and
the effect of carbonic oxide when inhaled.
We have shown them how it poisons the
blood and shrivels the lungs-withers
the skin and makes headache the normal
condition of the family: but all in vain.
The fireplace costs too much" The
open CRATE is too dirty it takes the
girl half the time to dust up around it,"
They were welded to their idols and we
could not convert them. But one salts
faction still remained. We could con-
tinue to remind them of their approach
ing DEATH and quietly estimate the num-
Der of years it would take that fur
mace " to kill them all off.
But now the gods, as the ancients
would have said 1--WE call them chemists)
have come to our rescue, and we feel
strong to renew the fight, The French
Academy have investigated the facts
and determined them by abundant ex-
periments. The following sums up some
of the results of these experiments, and
6 tells just how the furnace-fend kills folks.
The friends with whom we have pleaded
to use open CRATES instead of the blood
poisoner in the cellar, can imagine the
! Joy we feel in placing this delectable bit
. of reading before them as condensed in
the Tribune"
GA French physician of eminence no
ticed that peculiar class of disease was
prevalent among the occupants of GER
tain wards in the hospital at Savoy,
but not in other wards His studies
led him to the belief that the blood of
those patients was poisoned by the air
:. they breathed. The symptoms were
similar to those observed where persons
had attempted to kill themselves by the
favorite method of suicide in France
a a close room and pan of burning char
coal. 1t has been ascertained that the
poison in that form of suicide is due not
:, to the carbonic acid, but to the carbonic
A. InlaIaI Of tho twn tho latter 1s
70 far the more deadly, acting as blood
"a poison. Both gases are produced when
1. hard coal is burned in furnace, but the
!, oxide is chiefly the result when the draft
}, is partly turned off after hot fire has
been started. 1t has no smell. 1t is not
IL absorbed by water hence if it gets into
= the air outside the furnace it will not be
inc taken up by steam or moisture Next
~ came the discovery that this carbonie
orc oxide passes through red hot iron as cas-
.bo lily as water through a sieve. The French
;vo Academy investigated the facts, and de-
termined them by abundant experiments
49, Meanwhile the stoves of the Savoy hos
led pital had been replaced by open FIRE
no. places and the whole train of peculiar
al. symptoms among the patients disappear
ed. Gen. NORM afterward showed thai
cylinders of cast iron allowed the gases
on of combustion to pass freely through
r;t their substance even at heat much be
not low redness. Quite recently Mr. w
,od Chandler Roberts has demonstrated sim
;ob liar facts as to other forms of iron. Ii
NOT short, the furnace to heat air is very lit
ION tie better than the open pan of burning
-. charcoal. 1t sets free the same case
- when its iron is near red heat and fill
nh. the apartment above with more or les
no. diluted poison. If the pores of the irol
obt were filled with some fire-proof glazing
foy perhaps the escape of gas could be pre-
vented but nobody has yet, we believe
come forward with such an invention.
We trust they never will. Oh, no
was we would not have those 'pores" file
e mp for anything 1t is so delightful
ons sit in the room above with "just tn
,wo least bit of headache, you know" or
Mrs ''kind ofsuffocating feeling in the lungs,
,ars and think of those "pores standin
She wide open and the poisonous gases steam
,ws ing through them and pouring up throug
,au the register into the room where 20
,rk are We trust there will be no effort t
mn. reconstruct such an Internal machine q
she hot-air furnace, but that it may contir
buv ue to poison the blood of the young, an
an kill off the old until the intelligence, tn
~ affection and the common sense of tn
/ is country shall rise up, and one voic
hos Danish it from the land. If you war
fine family comfort, if you want health an
90. cheerfulness of an evening, the watcf
;ant word is Open Crates Pass it on froI
ill house to house. Down with the hot-ai
car. blood poisoning furnace Up with th