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LEXINGTON, KY, Dec l9.-The remains
of Senator Randall Gibson arrived here at
6 O'Clock yesterday afternoon. They
were removed to the residence of Col.
Hart Gibson on the Herrodsberg pike just
beyond the city limits, from where they
will be taken to St. Paul's Catholic
Church at II O'Clock this morning, where
tie funeral services will take place
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CENTS WANTED ON SALARY or com
Y mission to handle the new Patent Cneml-
an Ink Erasing Pencil. The quickest and great
est selling novelty ever produced. Erases INK
thoroughly I'm two seconds NO ABRASION OF
profit One agents sales amounted 70 eosJ IN
six days Another l32 IN two hours. Previous
experience not necessary. For terms ahu w
particulars address The Monroe MFG Co, La
erosse VIA. x489 5-2ily
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non.t want to BE ooadIutor.

PEORIA, his, Dec. 19,-Bishop Spalding,
who has just returned from the st. Louis
conference, said when spoken to about his
proposed appointment as coadJutor TO
Archbishop Kenrick that he does not
want TO go to St. Louis, and is satisfied to
remain bishop Of Peoria.
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To pemnna HIgher ray.

WABASH, Ind, Dec. 19-The telegraph
operators on the Wabash railroad system
will in few days demand an increase in
wages and modification in existing
rules. If the company rejects the pro
posed new scale strike is almost certain
TO follow The Wabash company, it is
said, will hear the men as employees, but
will not recognize the order Of telegraph
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Investiture of Rev. Thomas f. Moran.

TRENTON, Dec. 49, The investiture of
Rev. Thomas Il. Moran, whom the Pope
has appointed as Domestic Prelate with
the title of Monsignor, will take place in
St. Paups Church at Princeton on Tues
day the 9th inst. The ceremonies will
include sermon by Vicar General Nc
Faul of the Trenton Diocese and addresses
by Dean Murray Of the Princeton faculty
and others All the Catholic clergy OF
the Trenton diocese will be present.
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rIr.t rntIent in Yale Inarmary.

New HAVEN, Conn, Dec 10.-Emory
Halves, a member of the freshman class in
Yale has been taken to the Yale iniirmary
critically i'll with rheumatism he is a
son Of eX-Judge Hawes Of New York city
and is the first patient to be treated IN
the new infrmary
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AIpbouse RothschiId wounded.

PARIS Dec 19.-While Alphonse de
Rothschild was hunting near Ferriere in
Allier yesterday his companions gun
went off accidentally and the ball cut
deep furrow in his right cheek just below
the eye The surgeon who dressed the
wound says there is no immediate danger
of blindness
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READING R. R. SYSTEM.
Lehlgh valIey Dlvlsion.
ARRANGEMENT OF PAssBN.
GE3 TRAINS.

.F S51 @5; TsAIss, q Isss
Anthracite coal used exclusively, insurng
Passenger trains leave Shenandoah for
Penn Haven Junction, Mauch ChunK' Le- !
highton, Slatington White Hall, Calasauqua |
Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Philadelphia |
Hazleton, Weatherly, Quakake Junction, Del !
ano and Mahanoy City at 6Oi, 74O, 9Os m.'
20 For New Nc W YORK, q GA, 9Os a. m 1889, $40
For Hazleton, WikesBarre, White Haven,
Pittston Laceyville, Towanda, Sayre Waxerly'
fllmlra, Rochester, Niagara Falls and the West,
lO.41 a. m (310 p. M, no connection for Rocbes'
ter, Buffalo or Niagara Falls, SOB p. m.
For Belvldere, Delaware Water Gap ana
| StrOudsburg, 604 a. M, 527 p. m.
For Lambertville and Trenton, 9,Os a. m.
| For Tunkhannock, 1041 a. M, BIO, 3 Oh p M
For Auburn, Ithaca, Geneva and LYONS, lO4
For Jsanesville, Lewiston and Beaver Meadow
| 7.40. 9.08 a. M, 5.27, SOB p. IN.
| For Audenried, Hazleton, Stockton and Lum-
Der Yard, 6.04, 7.40, s.O8, 1O.4l a. m, 1252 SlO,
For Scranton, 6O4, 9Os iO4l a. M, $40 5.27 p.
For Hazlebrook, Jeddo, Drifton and Freeland,
| 6.04, 740, 9OS 10.41 a. m. 1252 3.lO, b.27 p. M
| For Ashland, Girardville and Lost Creek, 4.H,
74e, s52 1918 a. m, 100, 14O 41O, e.S5, $40, 9lb
For Raven Run, CentraIia, Mount Carmel and
Shamokin, 852 10. 10 a. M, 40, 44O S.O7 p, m.
For Yatesvilie, Park Place, Mahanoy City and
Delano 557 7,40, 9.0s, lO.4l m, 1852, SlO, 52o,
IT Trains viii viii leave shamolin at z55 1l55 a. m,
2lO 4.30, 2. m. and arrive at Shenandoah at
eos a. m, 12.52, 8 TO- 5.H p. m.
Leave Shenandoah for Pottsville, 55O 7'4Oi
9.O8 10.41 a. m. 1859, TO- 410, 5.27, sos p, m.
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah, 500 131,
905, 1015, 1l4S m, 1882 300, $50, 700, 7l5 sSO
pm. 400
l0.4l a. m, 1859, 310, 527, s.0S p. m.
Leave HaZleton for Shenandoah, 7Sb, slo
i1.O5 a. M. 12.l5, 310 $50, 7.l0, 756 p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Trains leave for Ashland, Girardville and Lost
Creek, 729, $40 a. M, 1890, 2.45 p. m.
For Yatesviile, Park Place, Mahanoy City
Delano, Hasleton, Black Creek Junction, Penn
Haven Junction, Maueh Chunk Allentown
Bethlehem, Easton and New York, $40 a. m.
2.55 p. N.
For Philadelphia and New York, 1890 p m.
For Yatesville, Park Place, Mahanoy City anc
Deano, $40 II .35 a. m, 1890 255 i.4O 6.oJ p. m
] Leave Hazleton for Shenandoah, s.SO, lib
j q. m. LOS, 437 p m.
Leave Shenandoah for PottsVille, b.5O, b.8O
$50 a. No., 1890 LAS p. m.
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah, $50, lO4
am. 30, 5.l5 p. m.
1 A. SWEIGARD, Gen. Mgr.
G. G. HANCOCK, Gen. Pass. Agt:
Philadelphia, Pa,
. A. w. .NONNEMACHER, Asst. G. p. A.
y South Bethlehem Pa.
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DROpOSTTIONS FOR GOOD BUSINESS
| Nen-Th- Prlvidsnt life Association,
No 207 y Liberty street Baltimore, Nd. de-
sires 10 engage "a manager IN TINS plrt OF lhe
VINO can present proper testimonials, ms TO
character and ability, and VINO is willing
20 90 personal work, IS offered a permanent
and pfoBtabl position. The Association also
rl quires e seryic.s of sp cal, district, ana
local agents. Address.
2s wv "AGENCY DEPARTMENT"
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n7E PAYS for home lot az Mays Land
DlO Ing the fine suburb OF Atlantic Cityi
SQUARES from r. r.; Communication fare TO Phila.,
25 cents: has court house, hotels schools,
churches cotton, paper, clothing, cigar sash,
brick and numbering mills, with finest water
power fine driving, fishing, cunning bathing,
selling; city and country combined; 81 houses
built last year and not one empty; safe and
sure investment; $50 invested viii Increase
$500 in 6months; mills built this year lots are
80 feet above ocean; 10 per cent on for cash;
2 lots for 825; title insured, Send for circular.
MAYS LANDING IMPROVEMENT co, boo
Franklin St, Pniladelphia. 9-8im
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oenrrin I.erislntnre AdIourns.

ATLANTA, Ca, Dec 10. The Georgia
Legislature adjourned early Yesterday
morning after 30 days session. The
main session was devoted largely to ap-
preparation bills, the most notable act be
ing It's refusal TO accept the home FOR
Confederate veterans.
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ALBANY, Dec 19.-The ,''Argus" says
this morning: There is reliable author
ity for the statement that the position Of
Assistant Postmaster General under the
incoming administration will be filled by
the Hon. Robert A. Maxwell, OF Genesee
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cnr. rnr tnn chlonro rrnnlc.

MONTREAL, Dec. 19.-The Grand Trunk
railway is already arranging for the
Worlds Fair, They are having 26O
special cars built for the Chicago traffic,
OF these five are already completed and
are now in operation on the Inc. They
have all distinguished literary names,
such as Dante, Dickens, Goethe, Scott
and Rurns.
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Take the Nickel Plate Holiday Excursions.
One fare for the round trip between all points
ON the line. Longest limits Cali ON agents
or address B. F. Horner, General Passenger
AGENT. Cleveland. o.
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TaoY. N Y, Dec. 1910 e. Van zile,
cashier of the Troy City National bank,
dropped dead last night His son, who is
a New York journalist, was with him al
the time of his death. The cause o.
death was paralysis.
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ANOTHER SUPPOSED VICTIM.



Have Reen Poisoned by HON mesteaders'
PrrrsBuRa, Dec. 10 49, Louis Sim, a
Hungarian, who worked at the Carnegie
steel works at Homestead during the
strike, is dead at the Allegheny genreal
hospital, and the physicians say it is be-
lieved he was poisoned.
This is the FIRST case Of the alleged pois-
oning reported to the coroner, and a
thorough investigation will be made.
Coroner Mcdowell says he will have a
chemical analysis made Of the stomach,
liver and kidneys to ascertain IL the man
died Of poison.
Sim was AZ years of age and was en-
ployed as a laborer He had been sick
eight weeks and was reduced in weight
from 1870 pounds to 30 pounds. He was
taken to the hospital Saturday.
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nnrhnn rrlnl Mn, ne pelayed.

TAuNToN, Mass, Dec. l9.-Chiet JUS
tice Mason is authority for the belief that
the Borden trial will not take place be-
fore February, and perhaps for not a
month or two later
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A voice From Florida.

DR. W. y. ByDum, Lave oak, Floflde. says
Red flag on II one OF the most successful
nain cures We sell. It's an unfhiling remedy
ior Rheumatism, Neuralgia ana SpIalns
Red flag Oil costs Is cents. sold Al I. +. ID
III Hlrlin 4 drug store.
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Holiday Excursions via tho Nickel Plate
One fare for the round trip between all
stations. Tickets on sale Dec. 2srd to Jan.
snd inclusive Good returning until Jan.
5th. 1893
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To End the strIK with tile Telephone
CHICAGO. Dec 19.-It is said here that
the Rock Island will supplant the teie
graph with the telephone, in order to out
wit the strikers.
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rinnI Aotlon I'm the Ysle Trouble.

NEW HAVEN, Dec. 49, The Yale faculty
will hold a special meeting next Tuesday
for the purpose of passing final sentence
upon the freshmen concerned in the dis
order OF Dec. g.
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CtALARY OR MMISSION-To agents 70
y handle the Patent Chemical Ink Erasing
Pencil The most useful and novel invention OF
tlie age Erases Ink thoroughly ia Two seconds
Works like magic. 200 20 $50 per cent proat.
Agents making $50 per week. We also want
general agent to take charge Of territory, and
appotnt sub agents. rare chance to make
money Write for terms and sample OF eras-
iug. Monroe Erasing Mfg, CO. 1858, La Crosse,
Wis ll.5.lm
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stril,n of coa1 Miners rhreatened.

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 19-Negotiations
between coal miners and operators look
ing to an agreement for double shit entry
work, has failed. A strike may be the
outcome.
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d, - to si5 per day at home, selling Lightning
ID Platter and plating iewelry, watches,
tableware &C. Plates the finest OF lewelry
siIver or nickel No experience. No capital.
Every house has goods needing plating
IO.95.2n II X DELNO & CO., Columbus, o
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DANK ELECTION.-The annual election Of
ID the stockholders OF the Merchant Ma,
All the Banking House, Tuesday, January lOth
ISg8 between the house Of ] and p. M, for
the purpose OF electin{ thirteen Q3) directors
n 10 5t-es E -. HUNTER, Cashier
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NOR SALE-CHEAP.- One OF Chambers s.
Il Co.'S copying presses, the present owner
having no use for IT. being good as new Call at
HERALD office.
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NOR SALE "A valuable property on East
4 Coal street. One half cash only required.
Possession given April list, 1893. suitable Tor
wholesale house or factory Apply at HERALD
,fi.1. II
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WANTS, SIC.

TOR RENT.-Society and club rooms in the
{ post once building Apply TO NJ NJ Burke,
Attorney Room 3. l2-l4-I
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HOTEL AND RESTAURANT

PAUL SUNGNEA
Respeetfully informs his old friends and the
puhiic generally that he has taken charge Of the
oid stand lately occupied by Felix Adricks,
where he will keep on hand iresh STOCK OF
porter. Ale and Lager Beer Finest brands OF
Liquors and Cigars.
A @. Franey's Building,
run cuHIHUu' Cor. Main and T. plar Sts
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The Herald.

PUBLISHED DAILY, SUNDAY EXCEPTED
WEEKLY, BVHBY SATURDAY.
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The EVENING HERALD has a larger circula-
tion in Shenandoah than any other paper pub
ltshsd. Books open to all.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-02

Bills were also allo wed: r. j. FuelCo.
81 900 on Garnsey Square account,
Rockford Construction Co. 1900 on
Third auenue account, and Sweeney d
Walker $60.50 for assessment alb
stracts. Sundry bill were referred to
proper committees.
Alder man Corken from the Fire and
Light Committee submitted a report
of electric experts as to the condition
of the police and fire alarm system
which was favorable. On motion the
report was received.
Alderman Corken moved that the
apparatus be accepted by the city and
payment therefor authorized. Mo-
ton carried.
Alderman Evans from the Commit
tee on Health and Police offered q
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-02
THE CITY COUNCIL.
The Regular Monthly Meeting
Last Evening
Omcial ceediags of an Important
SessiOn-VarfOus Matters OF i'm
portance Receive Attention.
OFFICIAL REPORT.

Cry COUNCIL Rooms, Rock ISLAND,
Aug. 1.-The Council met in reg
ular semi-monthly session at p. NJ,
Mayor McConochie presiding and all
the aldermen present. The minutes
of the last meeting were read and ap-
proved Reports of city officials were
read and ordered placed on gle. The
Mayor stated that Mr.. Thomas Dolly
declined to quality as director of the
Public Library and he therefore ap-
pointed Mr.. C. j. Larkin and
asked his confirmation. Confirmed
unanimously.
Alderman Hetter from the Bridge
Committee submitted report as to
the difference in prices of iron and
wooden floor beams for the second
bridge and recommended that wooden
beams be adopted. On motion of
Alderman Guyer the report was re-
ceived and the Recommendation
adopted. The matter OF
painting the bridges was
was referred to the Bridge Committee
to investigate and report.
Alderman Knox reported the AUDIT
of the monthly bills and offered an
ordinance allowing the same which
was adopted unanimously to the
amount as follows:
ACCOUNT.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-14
The Migration of Reindeer.

The annual migration of the reindeer
from Lapland in search of food has now
become serious matter. In the first
place, it necessitates the migration of
man, for if owners want to keep their
deer and their property they must fol-
low them wherever they wander. Sec
ondly, the migrating animals travel in
such great herds that they do not little
damage to the meadows, plowed lands
and forests. There seems to be no stop
ping it. The deer migrate with more or
less regularity, and within week OF
two of the usual time hundred thou
sand reindeer come to Tromsoe, which is
the meeting point. The owners simply
see that their herds do not get away.
But this invasion of reindeer is viewed
with alarm by Scandinavian farmers,
who have their crops trampled down.
The farmer may sue for damages, but if
he obtains a Judgment in his favor how
is he to find the defendant? Some seven
or eight years ago special law was
passed to meet the case. The country
is divided into districts, and if the own
ers of the destructive animals cannot be
found the district is held for the dam
age, each family paying in proportion to
the number of reindeer they possess.--J.
L.. Vance in Our Animal Friends.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-14
The Danger of metaphor.

Metaphor and simile, poignant wear
pons in the armory of skilled debater,
produce disastrous effects in the hands
of the inexpert. Certain figures, orig
inally of force and freshness, cause a
bleak sense of depression from the fire.
quency of their employment by halting
speakers, and one who desires to engage
the understanding of an audience ought,
at whatever sacrifice, to take pledge
of total abstinence from such outworn
phrases as "the thin end of the wedge,
coil on the troubled waters" etc. Some
times, it must be confessed, the audience
derives unexpected and lasting enjoy
ment from the delightful incongruity Of
figurative discourse.
The pages of Hansard bear, OF at least
ought to bear on record, the poetic
flights OF a certain honorable baronet,
who became in parliament the very dar-
ling of postprandial debate. Those who
were fortunate enough to be present on
the evening when he was denouncing
the course taken by one of his colleagues
in the representation of Ireland will re-
member the rich brogue in which he re-
ferred to him as s'the young sea serpent
from County Clare" and how he was
promptly called to order by the speaker
for using the expression. Every well,
Mr.. Speaker" he rejoined, 81 bow to your
ruling Of course and beg leave to with
draw the sea serpent. "-Blackwoods
Magazine,
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-14
Some "old Iron. from Cuba.


Twovery rusty and very ancient look
ing cannon, which look as if they had
been buried several centuries, were
taken off freight train at the Fort
Wayne depot yesterday. They were I'M
mounted and were boxed up carefully.
The two pieces were consigned to the
Worlds fair and listed in the way bill
sent to the custom house as ''scrap iron. !"
This 'scrap iron" came all the way from
Cuba and goes to make up what will
probably be one of the most interesting
exhibits at the Worlds Columbian ex-
position.
The two old cannon were secured by a
United States naval officer detailed or
Worlds fair service on the site of an old
abandoned Spanish fort on one of the
West India islands. 1t was on this
island which history and tradition says
the son of Christopher Columbus built a
fort to repel invaders, and the two can
non were said to have been part of the
armament of the fort. The guns were
made in Spain and brought over in one
Of the vessels attached to the great navi.
gators Aeet. The valuable. relics will
sprobably be part Of the governmen nj
exhibit at the fair.-C Chicago Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-14
zine nale Bass Hatohes one Young

A small mouth black bass, the variety
sought by anglers and the only kind
caught about the islands in Lake Erie,
attains weight of about one pound in
two years, at which time it also arrives
at maturity in productive sense. 1t
then fans off clean place on the gravel.
deposits it's eggs, which are ilnpregnated
by the male member of the family,
when, contrary to the general rule laid
down by nature, the female goes off to
some favorable watering place, while
the old man attends strictly to house
hold duties, and by the most constant
care fans with his tail all the sediment
off the eggs and drives off all intruders,
even to a 10-pound mud turtle. He
brings forth his little family of several
thousand individual fishes about as
large each as the end of broom splint
and about quarter of an inch long, to
become as long as broom handle and
weigh all the way up to ten pounds, ac-
cording to the conscience and eyes of
the one who for the first time pulls him
permanently out Of aqua pura He
seldom attains weight of over four
pounds, although those weighing six
pounds have been caught. Cleveland
Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-14
Treatment for overheated Horses.


DR.. Zuill says he believes that in most
cases horses are exhausted from brutal
Indifference on the part of the driver
more than from ignorance. On hot days
he says horses should be watered at short
intervals with all the water they will
drink, and their heads frequently bathed
with cold water. If the horse appears
to be much exhausted fifteen or twenty
minutes rest in shady place will often
afford sufficient relief. If at the end of
this time evidence of exhaustion con-
tinues, nothing will give more prompt
or efficient relief than to bathe the en-
tire body with water. In more extreme
cases, when the exhaustion Is complete,
the animal must be secured SO as to pre-
vent him from injuring himself until he
can be removed in an ambulance, and
in the meantime ice should be applied
to his head and ice water to his body to
reduce the temperature. Stimulants in
the form of alcohol are indicated, but
should be used with the greatest care,
and always under the supervision of a
veterinary surgeon.-Ph Philadelphia Led
ger
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-14
A Valuable Fonndlinr.

At the railway station of Fuente-
Palmera, near the town Of Ecija, in An
dalusia, a man whose face was half con-
cealed in slouehed hat approached the
station master and handed him box
and an open letter. Then the-mysterious
individual wont away. The official read
the letter, which was without signature.
1t simply informed him that he had just
received a present. He Immediately
opened the box, and was astonished to
find that it contained newborn baby
richly clad. A switchman who was
present took pity on the little thing and
offered to adopt it then and there, and
the station master was glad to get rid
OF it. The switchman took it home to
his wife. She was delighted with the
present, and while undressing it letter
fell out of its clothing upon the floor.
This, like the one which the station
master received, was also without sigma
ture. It was ais follows: "Whoever
takes this child and cares for it will be
happy" When the good womans sur
prise was over she resumed the work Of
undressing the baby. During the opera
ton a heap of bank notes fell from its
clothing upon the floor. Husband and
wife carefully picked up the notes and
counted them. They footed up the
handsome sum of 125,000 francs. Now
the station master wants that baby, OF
rather that money, but the switchman
won't give it to him, and a suit is pend
ing in the Spanish courts.-San Fran
cisco Bulletin.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-14
Fluorine Gas.

Fluorine gas 10 of q yellow color, with
a smell resembling bleaching powder.
1t has not leen iquefed. and still re-
mains gaseous at 140 degs. Fahrenheit.
Every precaution has to be taken in
studying it's action on other bodies. both
on account of its dangerously irritating
action on the eyes and mucous mem
brane of the operator and its marvellous
and wonderful energy, far exceeding
that of anything hitherto discovered.
There is hardly O gas, liquid or solid,
that. it does not attack, usually with the
greatest violence; in fact its mere ceh-
tact with any other substance is nearly
always signalized by the sudden evolu-
ton Of intense heat and light and fierce
detonations. 1t almost realizes the fond
est dreams of the alchemists, and might
fifty be their long sought liquor, alka-
hest, or universal solvent, for even dull,
inert flint takes fire instantly it is ex-
posed to the vapor, and the whole mass
becomes luminous with grand incan-
descence.
AS a supporter of combustion it leaves
oxygen far behind. Lampblack bursts
Immediately into brilliant flame and
gets red hot in a current of fuorine gas;
and charcoal is made to give an inter
esting exhibition of its porosity by first
filling it's interstices with the gas and
then burning spontaneously with spar
king scintillations. The diamond, how
ever, is able to Withstand its action even
at high temperatures Chambers Jour-
nal.