The Clifton clarion., 1888-08-01
Territorial and General.

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 In the past five years the people of the United States have taken out of the ground in minerals of one sort or another S647 1895, ,041 more in value than the aggregate amount of our debt in 1886.
 Portable electric lights, ar ranged to hang on the button of ones coat, and with a parabolic reflector to concentrate the light, with storage batteries weighing one and a half pounds each, are made to enable persons to read in the cars by night.
 For the convenience of house. keepers sad or fatiron has been invented which makes use of the principle of expansion of metals by heat to ring small bell when the iron is hot enough to iron clothes with. A pot that will sound gong when about to boil over will be expected next.
 It has been proposed to do away with the use of explosives in mines where their use is attended with danger, and substitute the newly invented cartridge-one portion of which is filled with a mixture of finely divided zinc and zinc oxide, which collects in the condensers of the zinc retort, while the other part is filled with dilute sculphuric acid. Accord ing to the requirements in this case, the cartridge is placed in its intended place, and then, by suit able mechanism, the acid is all lowed to flow into the zinc. Fly drogen is then envolved, and, by its expansive force, the rock is broken off, without combustion or violent explosion.
 A Russian physician named Portugalof' declares that strych- nine is infalIible cure for drunk enness, administered in subcuta- neous injections. He asserts that the experience of physicians has shown the cure to be as rapid as certain. The effect of the strych- nine solution is to change the craving for drink into positive aversion, and this is effected in a day. After a treatment of eight or ten days the patient may be discharged. The strychnine is administered by dissolying one grain in 200 drops of water and injecting five drops of the soIu- tion every twenty-four hours.
 The publisher of a newspaper has one thing to sell and one thing to rent. He has the newspaper to sell and the space in the columns to rent. Can anyone inform us why he should be expected to give away either the one or the other? He can do so if he chooses, and he does as matter of practical fact, furnish great deal of space rent free. But it does not follow that he ought to be expected to do it. It ought to be recognized as a contribution exactly as would the giving away of sugar and cof- fee by grocerymen. But strange to say it is not looked upon in that light at all, yet everybody knows that the existence of a newspaper depends as much upon the rent of its space and the sale of the paper as the merchants success depends on selling his goods in stead of giving them away.
 Hon. c. NJ. Strauss, Territorial Superintendent of public schools, returned last evening after an absence of two weeks, having been in attendance on the Ma tional School Teachers Conven- tion recently held in San Fran cisco. There were, he says, over 60 educators from Arizona, thus making the largest per cent. rep resentation of any state or terri tory outside of California. Gila and Apache were the only coun- ties without delegates. Mir. Strauss is enthusiastic over San Fran cisco. He says it is the only city in the world that knows how to do things up in good shape. Visiting teachers were treated with the greatest consideration and the courtesies and hospitality that were extended to them was a sur prise to all. Excursions to all points of interests, wines and fruits were free to them without stint or price. The same may be said of the Southern Pacific rail road officials. MT. Strauss said at II