The Grange advance., 1876-12-13

A Chapter on Gas.
sNew York; says a writer, "burns
! 200, ,OO0, 900 cubic feet of gas per an
mum Chicago, 400, ,O00, 1000; St. Louis,
I250, 600, 900; Cincinnati, O,000, 900 !;
Pittsburg, 200, ,000, 900: San Francisco,
l25O, ,OOO,O 600, and Baltimore, 400, ,O0O,.
lOOO.'
''H0w do they make gas p
"First they put about two bushels of
bituminous coal In a long air-t:ght iron
retort. The retort is heated red hot,
and, Of course, the coal if heated red
hot, when the gas bursts out of it, as
you see it burst out of Jumps of soft
coal when on the parlor fire. The gas
as it leaves the coal is very impure"
GLOW do they purify it!''
"First, while hot, it is run off into
another building; then it is forced
through long perpendicular pipes,
surrounded with cold water. This
cools the gas, when good deal of tar
condenses from it and runs down to
the bottom of the perpendicular pipes.
This tar is the ordinary tar which you
see boiling in the streets for walks
and roofs.
They now wash the gas. They call
it scrubbing it.
This is done by filing a large vessel,
which looks like perpendicular steam
boiler, half full of wood, laid cross.
ways. Then ten thousand streams of
water are spurted through the boiler.
Through the mist and rain, and be-
tween the wet sticks of wood, the gas
passes--coming out washed and
cleansed. The ammonia c0ndenses,
joins the water, and falls to the bot.
tOm.''
"What next?
"Well, next the gas is purified. 1t
is passed through watts of lime and OK
ide of iron, which takes out the car
bonic acid, sulphureted hydrogen and
ammonia.'
"What next p
1.-The gas is now pure. It is passed
through the station meter, then through
the mains and pipes, till it reaches the
gas Jet in your room. Then it burns,
and you all scold because it don't burn
detter.''
After the Sedan disaster, when the
Republicans in France asserted that
Napoleon III. was possessed of enor-
nous property, the statement was in
dignantly denied by the Imperialists.
It now, however, appears from an Of
ticial document, to which only few
have had access, that in Paris real es-
tate to the amount of over 81 200, 900
is held IN trust for the ex.Empress
Eugenie and her son. The late EN-
peror had. besides, acquired property
at Vichy, Marseilles, Biarritz, Bay
onne, and Algiers. !; also the domain of
La Joachere, near Paris, and property
in the Landes. Moreover, the ex-Em-
press Eugene holds numerous mort
cages for loans on real estate in all
parts of France, and the Bonaparte
family possesses large estates in Italy,
Spain, Switzerland, Corsica, and Eng
land. The personal property of the
deceased Emperor has been valued at
Sis, 5,Oo0,0 900. He evidently was not
forgetful of the force of destiny, and
his hoardings may, at no distant time,
serve rs the sinews of war for an at
tempt at another restoration Of the
Bonaparte dynasty.
A beautiful young lady who had al.
lowed the tendrils of her heart to
twine fond1y around strapping great
conductor on horse car, had her af-
fectionate nature crushed by the dis
covery that he was taking fare from
her, and dead-heading another girl
who lived in the same street. She did
not eat pickles and pine away, but
wrote him an affecting epistle, which
read "You want to knock down enuff
stamps to buy me a paister shawl & a
dolley vardin before Sunday, or will
put an awning over that girls Eye the
next time meet her in Society. You
heer me-"
Privateering is game in which great
prizes are won. For example, in l745,
when the Scotch rebellion embarrassed
the English Government, the proprie-
tors Of two privateers waited on King
George II, and offered S., 900, 900, their
share of prizes, as loan to be imme-
diately employed in the royal service.
It was thankfully accepted. The sum
represented in purchasing power tire.
BILE what it would now, and the value