Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-25
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The safety insured by lnterlocklng
signal apparatus may be shown by the
fact that about three million trains
have passed over the Chatham Square
crossing of the New York Elevated
Railway with but one collision, which
was owing to an engine driver passing
the danger signal
DR.. Donald c. Hood has collected
many facts relating to the use of
salicylic acid for rheumatism. Of 720
patients treated with salicylates 523
were relieved of their pains within
seven days, whereas 612 patients treat
ed by other methods only 140 were re-
lieved within the same time.
DR.. w. l.. Candee, of Milwaukee,
Wis, who is nearing the century mark
in life, saw the first steamboat ascend
the Hudson and rode upon the first
railroad built in the United States
between Albany and Schenectady. He
was intimately acquainted with Robert
Fulton, the inventor of steamboats,.
The handmade time pieces OF the
Swiss and French, who have so long
held the supremacy as clockmakers,
are not now regarded as superior to
those of American machine make.
The American machine-made watch is
as finished and accurate as its foreign
competitor, and is, of course, vastly
cheaper.
AS an example of the rapidity of
the processes of American artisans the
recent feat of Georgia paper-maker
is noteworthy. A tree in the forest
near Augusta was cut down ats o'clock
in the morning. Before night it had
been converted into newspapers, which
people were reading at in the eve
ming.
A fakir in the West is advertising a
recipe which will tell you how to
make your horse an artist. When you
forward him 81, not necessarily for
publication, but as an evidence of good
faith, you receive by return mail
neatly printed cardbearing the words:
'GiYe your horse drawing exercises
and he will get there. Ia Ia"
A liking for candy when it is salts
fed by an unlimited supply is found to
last just one week. A new girl at
candy store, who has received per-
mission TO eat as much rs she likes,
does not eat half as much the second
day as she does the first; Oil the third
she devours even less, and at the end
of week her appetite for candy is ex-
hausted.
The pug dog as pet had an inter-
esting origin. He was first imported
from China and Japan and came into
fashion in the reign of William III.
If ic ho JoI;o-r1 l.
life to have been saved by q dog of this
breed awakening him to his danger
when q murderous attack was about to
be made on the prince.
At the recent meeting of the British
Association the professor of pathology
at Cambridge read a paper in which he
claimed that 1.-The slight pressure in
volved in wearing stays has bene-
fetal effect, and reasonable lacing in
creases mental and physical activity"
Several medical gentlemen opposed
this view, but lady member defended
it.
Firing is only done properly when
the fuel is consumed in the best possible
way-that is, when no more is burned
than IS necessary to produce the
aHlOuHG VI SItdlu Itt uiiCd auo W Accp
the pressure uniform. To obtain this
end, complete combustion must be
obtained in the furnace, and this is go
ing on when the fuel is burning with
bright flame evenly all over the CRATE.
Blue flames, dark spots and smoke
are evidences of incomplete combus-
ton, due to lack of air.
The arc lamp in the St. Catharine's
Lighthouse, on the Isle of Wight, is
said to be the most powerful electric
light in the world and equal to $4,000
candles. The carbon pencils have a
diameter of two and one-half inches,
and the electric arc bridges space of
about one-half inch between the car
bon joints. The lamp is of the Serrin-
Berjot type, and the dynamos by De
Meritens, of Paris, while the engines
to drive them are of the compound |
type, by Robey & Co., of Lincoln.
The Pail Mall Gazette publishes
novel suggestion in sanitary science:
A French colonel ascertained that he
could wash his men with tepid water |
for ceptime, or one-tentb of q penny