The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-06-21
ELI PERKINS At THE CENTENNIAL.


and Experiences.
PHILADELPHIA, June 19.-There is man
here with that same old invention for making
Gas out OF water. This invention comes out reg
ularly once In twenty-ave years. This time the
inventor halls from Peoria. He Is a tall, spare,
Raunt, half starved inventor, wbos5 tongue ways
like q mill hopper. He does not 20 about
ike Mr.. Keey, silent as a sphinx. whispering
here and there, and with stock to sell.
on, mol He talks loud, and his enthusiasm
shows itself In Resticulaton. In fact, he's
wild over nis great invention, which. he says, is
TO turn the Hudson and Schuvikili. and even
Lake Superior, into pure burning gas.
yes, SIR" argued the gas man, as he crossed
his fingers exctedly In old farmers face, " it's
just as easy to make gas out Of water as out Of
coal, and -"
"wonderfuIi How do you do ~ asks the
farmer.
"wby. just boil the water, and run the steam
through a red-hot tube. The tube, mind you,
Ia heated almost to a white heat In furnace.
This separates the oxygen from the hydrogen.
From the red-hot pipe the oxygen aud hydro
gen passed over burning coke and pieces Of
iron. The iron takes up the oxygen, and the
pure hydrogen comes out. Hydrogen burns, YOU
know. Now simply change the burning n.y.
droRen gas to lumin ting gas, and mere we have
It," said the man, pointing to a bright fame.
" Oeewhlllikensl aud wn does ~ CDst To
make this wa,er gas p asked an old fellow from
"It costs just 20 cents per thousand feet TO
make hydrogen heating vis, and IS cents per
Thousand TO ct, inge heating gas to Illuminating
left this sangune inventor In the middle Of
his sentence.
STEPHEN WHITES PATENT.
DO you know that this same Invention has
roped In thousands Of CAPITALISTS In England
anu America during the last IL ny yearsr DO YOU
know That stephen White took out patent Tor
making Y 3 this way In LJndOn In 1877, aud that
| Samuel Clegg, the father OF English gas men.
exploded is praeticaolity years asoP Then
| again, and roped Ia moro clpitnists, even after
Mr. George Bower exposed the humbug Ia the
| Gas Ltght Journal And 50 every few Years this
wafer gts Invention comes out. and capitalists
| are called upon to take stock IN It, A gas
chemist tells me that the invention works well
| on small scale. out that when large quantities
Of gas are made. II costs 81 per thousand to sep
arate the oxygen from the hydrogen.
Somebody asked Commodore q lrrison, the
| Pre.ident Of the Metropolltl in Gas Light Com
| pany, what he thought OF making gas out Of
Making gas out Of water repeated the Com
modore; "making-sas out-of water2 Why, we
| make all OF our gas out OF water"
You y" asked the astonished questioner.
"Why. ofcOurse We do. You don't suppose we
make our gas q, water do your Two hundred
| men down la the water making gas would be
nice performance, wouldn't itT aud the gas
King bit the end Of his cigar.
AuGERs.
| The Douglass manufacturing Company makes
| great display OF augers In Machinery Hall.
They have small augers that VIII bore a little
like Count 10 tnnes, aud big augers that will
bore a great deal like De Witt q. ralmage. Some
| OF them have long stems, and can bore a long
way OF ike Private Dalzell. One is IN Ide Of sill
| yer steel 1t will bore long line. Mr.. Evarts
| ought to have had II when he bored the Beecher
| Jury a whole week. One very nne auger, so fine
YOU can hardly see II. Is called the Richard Grant
| White auger. IL does 1ue boring. They send
| all their old, dun augers to the editors OF the
| Nation, who only use them to bore out old holes
| made by the daily press. The young editor has
! ordered nine small s"ft eimiat- for Re ss,t,-
mental young ladies VINO bore Tribune readers
| from time To time with gushing articles on
"Spring," ID nciDr," and True Love-"
An effort is being made to Introduce augers
| ana gimlets into social life. That Is, young la
| dies will keep them TO present to STUPID young
| gentlemen who stay after IL =. ~, and editors
| will hand them to sentimental young people
| who bore newspapers WITH original DIR. Holland
| poetry. Like the ha Chef the auger Will become
| symoolicsl II YOU catch MIN Colfaxine, hand
| him Ratchet, and II ne tries Sergeant Bates on
| you, throw an auger at him.
MUSIC SET UP.
| I've seen good many musicians set up,
| but yesterday was surprised 10 see the music
| Itself set up. Mr.. j. NJ. Armstrong set
| TING up sheet music almost us fast as Chino IRE
| tlayeu u. He saws music can tie reported by "A
| musical reporter Just "a well as a speech can he
| reported. The music that Mr.. Armstrong was
setting up from type looked exactly like ithogra-
| Dhic sheet music-clear and beautiful BY his
! music to Ave cents per sheet. Mr. Armstrong
| saws any one who can set type can set music
| DO you mean to say can set up music-Gil-
| more's music p asked.
| Certainly II you can sling type. Try itv
| made few passes at he case, Topped a few
| notes around, and Ia three minutes by the watch
| l produced this beautiful piece Of music
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