Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24

,,qse will not admit of going into detail,
besides. those technicalities would not be
- interest to the general reader. The
,,riter adds that this Denver plant, the only
,,ant in operation as yet, holds to even tenn
,arature the butter-room of large COM
r,;ssian house at - degrees, Fahrenheit:
-,,,er,' meat-market rooms at 81 degrees,
,-obrenheit; the beer vault of an extensive
brewery at proper temperature, while nu-
r,arous stores. saloons and private r, 81
s.s,es are kept at exactly the temperature
oor,racted for by their occupants: also
r,nher Of hotels, club-houses, lodge-rooms,
at,,,.ilas, and so on. Not few residences
,.,,e artificial ice factories in closets ad
,,;rfngtheir kitchens, and hosts Of ice-cream
,.anufsrturers are putting up their goods
,',or!rr without the necessity Of patron
-,nr any ice company.
The Denver club, an extensive institution
r.r ,nown to club men throughout the
I,rr4d States. and located one mile from
,f-s. -f.tral plant. has six different compart
,,l,-- rcfrigera ed. maintaining as many
,+4,rnr temperatures. One for fruit
stands al forty five F., one for meats.
f.b 5ame, etc, stands at thirty-siX F., one
f,r wines and liquors at forty T., and one
I'm. freezing carafes of water, ice cream and
,yfDrs Ut about ten below zero. Fresh meat,
,.oul'rv. game Iish and ali k nds of delicate
hoods are thus readily preserved for weeks
IN the warmeSt weather, or as long as one
rasjrcs 10 preserve them.
And here we may introduce an idea all
,vrown. not advanced by the Scientific
American 1t will be remembered by the
readers Of scientific works that we got our
,,rrert Information relative to the long ey
'io,t uastodon from finding Il carcass of
Ina, animal frozen in an iceberg stranded
mon the shores of Newfoundland. 1t had
hen ia the ice thousands of years, doubt
less, but there it was, just as it had died,
,5y.rrd with its heavy growth of hair, aud
with flesh SO perfect that people hauled it
away rs food for their dogs and hogs.
Nothing decays SO long as it is entirely
frozen. The body of a human being would
keep As long under complete refrigeration
As would the body Of hairy elephant.
p5pb, css the reader already understands
what we are driving at Who can now say
thai many people of the far-future ages will
no, be afforded the opportunity of looking
upon the perfectly preserved remains of
heir fOretatherS who walked the earth at
the close Of the eighteenth century:
Vfr. E-al Iu1ipnpI. InifllOp SAYS If will he
remembered that last year Nj. joseph Val
lot erected an observatory and hut of refuge
OIL Mont Blanc on the Rocher DIES Bosses,
1872 feet from the summit of the mountain;
but this undertaking is now TO he eclipsed
b. the construction of an observatory on
Tie very summit of Mont Blanc l5,7sl feet
about SEA level. The idea originated with
n Jansen. who stayed on the mountain
sgrre time last summer for the purpose of
making meteorological observations. In
conjunction with NJ. Eifel, and with the
support Of " Bischofsheim, Prince Ro-
land Bonaparte and Baron Alfred de RothS-
.hild he has now elaborated a plan which
IS lis daring as the Juugfrau railway
scheme The observatory is to be entirely
VI IRON and is TO have a length of of eighty
i've feet and 4 breadth of twenty feet. The
iron roof is TO have the spherical form of an
irll-rlad turret, which the construction
Ni.. much resemble. The erection of such
building on the highest point
II Mont Blanc naturally involves thor
ugh preliminary studies, with which
Zurich engineer experienced in works on
nigh mountains has been charged by NJ
tiife and NJ. Jaussen. In the first place it
Necessary that firm foundation should
be found for the supports of the building on
he rock of the mountain. For this purpose
horizontal gallery is to be driven through
he Ire OF the highest glacier until rock is
me' with. and by means of this gallery the
formation and position of the rock buried
beneath The ice and snow are to be ascer-
tanned and examined If once this has been
accurately determined, a structure is TO be
designed which viii give to the observatory
a firm hold by iron pillars founded in the
'ors II is not stated how these pillars are
u7.~ist The movements of the ice. The
PRESTON of how the heavy materials are to
be- moved 10 the top of the mountain does
Lot appear to give much concern, but what
ryermethod is adopted. it will certainly
Prove laboriuus and costly. More is thought
Q: tine work of surveying, which was to
have been commenced this month. Should
hr surveys prove the practicability of the
plan. j is Intended TO proceed with the
Election 81 once.