The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-01

precaution against accident.
WILLIAM II. BEARD, the animal
painter, is as full Of originality, humor.
nuaintness, fancy and pomp as he was
when he went to New York from the
vest twenty years ago. The visitor at
bis quarters in the Tenth street studio
building is sure to see some striking
novelty on his easel OF his walls.
NUMEROUS conger cells, killed bv the
Eost have been washed up on the
southern coast Of England. Some of
them weighed seventy pounds, being
eYen feet long and twenty four inches
In Observation-Disclosures sea-ser
penis, in fact No similar occurrence
aas been known since the Crimean
war.
AN immense iron pipe is being laid
connecting the oil fields Of Pennsyl-
vania with the city Of Chicago. The
pipe will be eight inches in diameter
Ind 2lO miles long, and will require
'ixty-four barrels Of oil to fill it. The
largest pump ever made has just been
completed to force the oil through the
pipe.
The specific heat Of snow or ice Is
nearly that Of water, hence it requires
about the same amount Of heat to
raise the temperature one degree. The
latent heat of fusion is 40, that is. it
requires 14O pounds OF water, less
the one degree in temperature, to
change one pound Of snow or ice at
800 T. to water Of the same temper
lture. One pound Of water at 172 , F.
added to one pound Of snow at 32o
would barely melt it, producing tota
mass Of water at 32o, OF just ready
TO freeze.
REPRESENTATIVE ALLEN, Of Massa-
chusetts, is devoting good deal of his
time in Washington to amateur photo
graphy. Recently poor widow in
Lowell wrote to him saying that her
husband. a private in q Massachusetts
regiment, lay buried somewhere in the
National Cemetry on Arlington Hill.
She had long wished TO see his grave,
but has always been too poor to make
the journey to the capital. Mr.. Allen
thereupon seized his camera, found the
grave, and made clever photograph
Of the spot.
NITRO-GLYCERINE freezes at tenn
perature considerably above the frez-
ing point of water, and many accidents
have happened from the ridiculous
methods employed for thawing it. A
German heated q poker red-hot and
started off TO thaw parcel Of nitro
glycerine. Not only the surrounding
objects, but the operator were pulver
sed. A man in New Jersey brought
Iome blasting cartridges to thaw them
put by the fire. He accomplished this
result by holding them on the flame for
considerable period, and is supposed
to have dropped one during the pro-
cess. for his remains were found in a
lragmentary condition sixty feet away.
SKELETONS Of two Akkas, the pign..Y
people discovered by Schweinfurth in
1890, have been acquired by the Brit
ish Museum, and show that this race is
undoubtedly the most diminutive
known. The stature of the male skel-
eton is about an inch below four feet.
and that Of the female about as much
above. The few previous measure
ments recorded indicate that these
heights are rather below tho average,
though a living adult female Of three
feet ten inches is known. Prof. Flow
Br finds that the Akkas belong to the
black or Negroid branch Of the human
species, and that they are not allied to
the Bushmen OF Andaman Islanders,
which tribes they most resemble IN
size
Most people are aware that piece
of ice roughly hewn into the shape OF
double convex lens will, if placed in
the direct sunshine, concentrate the
rays Of the sun to such an extent as to
ignite an object placed certain dis
lance behind il. but the fact is not
generally known that it is able to pro-
vide materials for supporting the lire
thus produced. Ice taken from
marshes and other localities where
vegetable or animal matter is under
going decomposition often contains
bubbles Of defiant gas. Some Of these
cavities in the ice are of considerable
dimensions, and if pierced the gas
escapes with great force and may be
lighted, burning for Q few seconds with
bluish-white flame.
IT is said that during the last Presi-
Dental crisis in France newspaper
correspondent at Rennes wrote rcgu-
larly to his newspaper. Every time
the political police" opened his let