Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-02

the boxes or frames are piled upon
other to keep them close. After
oil-soaked cloths are sufficiently charged
with the perfume, they are placed / q z
press and the oil Is squeezed out.-Nea0
York San.
FOLLOWING THE OLD TRACES.
Modern engineers think they have
carried the art OF surveying to very
great perfection, but a good deal of it
must have been known Ill ancient times.
No road is SO imperishable as Roman
road, which indicates that the engineers
not only built well, but chose good
routes, especially in their exemption
from the action of floods. The Indian
engineers seldom find that they can i'm
prove on the routes selected for ancient
native canals, or the sites chosen for
huge tanks, and Col. Turr quoted still
more striking instance. He has been
surveying for the canal to be cut through
the Isthmus of Corintb; and, after q
most careful examination of three alter
native routes, has decided that the one
selected by the Emperor Nero's en-
gineers is by far the best. Not to men
ton that it is shorter than all
others, the traces of Nero" ter
inmate at each end in calm and deep
water; and "another advantage of the
Nero trace consists in the disposition of
the slopes, which favors it, inasmuch as
the canal would be then protected against
the floods in the ravines along the slopes.
while the two other lines would catch
these waters" That shows scientific
i - l. l., III IL L
Nero's engineers, like Alexander's,
had freed themselves from the
singular superstition which SO great
ly influenced modern opinion, that
the waters of the two seas were never of
the same height. This argument was
actually thrown at N. de I.esseps as. a
serious one, not only against the Suez
Canal, but the Canal of Corinth. 1.-The
Spectator.
VENTILATION AND GAS STOVES.
All stoves for burning gas, oil or
naphtha, whether employed for heating
or cooking purposes, should be provid-
ed with means for carrying the products
of combustion into the outside air. We
should no more allow the products of
combustion to pass out into the atmos-
phere of our rooms than we would allow
a coal fire to burn in our dwellings, with
out chimney. 1t was very well to hear
of stoves which consumed their own
smoke or condensed all their products,
but IN an ordinary method of combus-
ti0n such things were next to impossible.
Wherever there was gas burned there
must be good ventilation to carry away
the products, and when we had seen
small bathrooms and kitchens
heated by gas. with gas for cooking,
and also water heaters in use IN confined
places without chimneys, We had never
marveled at the COMPLAINTS of headaches
from the occupants, but had wondered
that the so.called accidents" had not
been more frequent. Every gas stove,
whether used Tor heating or cooking,
should be connected with chimney, or
with the outside air, in order to carry
away the sulphurous and carbonic acids.
No stove should be allowed In any dwell
ling house except under these condi-
tons. 1t should be universally known
that the chief product of the combust-
ion of gas is carbonic acid, non-sup-
porter of combustion or life; and when
present in very small quantities in the
air we breathe has decided effect upon
the living organism. It was essential,
then, that this gas be eliminated from
our room as fast as it is formed. The
other impurity arose from the presence
of sulphur compounds In the gas, which
could easily be removed at moderate
cost. The sulphur compounds burned
into sulphuric acid, commonly called oil
of vitrioI, and as such found their way
into articles of furniture, binding of
books, brasswork, etc.