Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-11
JRsDAY MORNING, AUGUST IL, 1892.

are to be and per cent. This amounts
practically to the repudiation of one-hali
of Argentine's Indebtedness, and is in the
direction of total repudiation, which is fa
vored by growing party in the republic
Professor Dewar, in lecturing before
the Royal institute, London, handed
around to the audience an entirely new
taing in the way of tipplss, in the shape
of claret glasses filed with Hquefied air.
The boiling point of liquid air is 19s
degrees centIgrsde, or 10 degrees lower
than that of oxygen. After hquefying
oxygen Professor Dewsr said that 1t is not
true, as has been supposed, that the oxy-
gen in the air hquefes before the other
elements in air; on the contrary, the air
Iquefes as air and is not resolved into its
elements before nquefying. If this globe
were cooled down to 200 degrees below
the zero of centigrade it would be COW
cred with sea of liquefed gas 35 feet
deep, of which about feet would be
liquid oxygen.
An investigation as to the relative dan
ger of ether and ohloroform has been con-
Quoted by . committee of the German
surgical congress, and some interesting
statistics were given at its recent meeting.
Professor Gurlt, the chairman, states that
109, ,230 narcoses have been observed, of
which thirty nine terminated fatairy; of
these, "a, 1913 nsrcoses were by means of
chloroform, the number of deaths being
thirty-six-that is, a proportion of 1 to
2,614; either was employed in 6, s,431 cases,
with one death; chloroform and ether,
2,891 times, with one death; ether and al
cohol, 1880 times without fatal termina-
ton; bromethyl, 2,17s times. also without
deaths; pental, the new remedy, 219 times,
with one death.
Some of the parliamentary contests in
the recent English elections turned on very
insignificant incidents. This was particu-
lArly the case in the defeat of Captain PEN
ton, which was brought about by a ohild
which unluckily sprawled beneath pass
ing carriage and received slight injuries.
The carriage belonged to lady who was
conveying three voters to the polls, and
who, on observing the accident, took the
youpgster upon the seat and drove to q
neighboring hospital. 1t was then late in
the afternoon, and by the time the car
riage reached the polls they had closed. So
close was the voting that these three bal
lots would have made the race between
Captain Penton and the Psrsee merchant,
who defeated him, dead heat, to be de-
cided by the returning officers casting vote.
About year ago the Humane Society Of
Detroit placed a large number of little
tubs about the streets of the city, to be
kept filed with water for dogs, and 1t is
said that the good results are apparent
Next summer, says an officer of the so
ciety, eve will have 100 of the tubs out.
l have not heard of a single mad dog since
we put the tubs in the streets, and do
not believe there would be any frothing
animals running and swapping on the
streets IL the dogs had all the water they
wanted. A great many people make a
mistake about dogs in this particular. In
the extremely hot weather dogs eat
very little, but they want lots Of water,
and will go almost any distance to get It,.
II everybody owning q dog would keep a
pan of water In his back yard and renew
II daily his dog would never go mad. Why,
dogs come here for q drink from every
n hnyan nj
them that oall my regular customers.
This is not the only country where
fraud fourishes. A very discouragiDg
fraud has come to light in Germany, where
n number of workmen and engineers en-
ployed at tho great Bochum Association for
Mining and Steel Foundry have been ar
rested on u charge Of selling defective
rails, wheels, axles. etc, by means OF q
systsm of forgery. This material was
supplied to tho German State railroad, and
thon some foreign corporations. II mp
pears that tho State railroad employed MI
inspector TO stamp nuoh goods as had with
stood the regular toats. The incriminated
workmsn are accused Of having made false
| stamps, with which they marked material
which had not been examined; with repair
ing holes. cracks and other defects In the
rails with a particular cement, and so Civ
ing tho inferior and useless materia' thu
appearance of finished work, and with
substituting rejected rn;::= for those which
the officials had handed over to be stamped
as satisfactory, and marking the goo' rail-
with the forged stamps. The incentive t.
the frauds was the fact that the workmei
are paid premium on the amount of worl
passed by the inspector.