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FREEZING ALCOHOL.
Some Interesting Experiments Conducted
by Prof. Dewar

Some Interesting Experiments Conducted
by Prof. Dewar.
The success attending Prof. Dewar's
experiments in the freezing Of abso-
Lutte alcohol has peculiar interest, in
view Of the fact that 200 degrees @.
was the utmost limit of cold reached
or obtained by man, viz, by the use OF
liquid oxygen. Prof Dewar allowed
some liquid ethylene to flow through
brass tube surrounded by solid car
bonic acid and ether, and, when this
cooled, it was passed into large test
tube, in the middle Of which was
placed q glass tube with a fiat
tened bulb at the end, the bulb
being full Of absolute alcohol. The
evaporation of the ethylene was
then accelerated by the use of the air
pump, and the alcohol was frozen
into a mass rs clear and transparent as
crystal. The tube containing it was
turned bottom upward, and as it melt
ed it assumed exactly the consistence
of glycerine, flowing in sluggish
way down the sides of the tube.
Ether requires less cold than alcohol
to freeze it, and In several of Prof.
Dewar's experiments ether ice formed
on the sides of the glass vessels. Be-
sides this, the warm air OF the theatcr
was constantly condensing as suow or
hoar frost on some of the vessels used
in the experiments, and the chief diffl.
Guilty of the occasion was the project-
ing of the experiments on the screen
by the electric light, &C that all present
might see what was taking place..
Scientific American,
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shed on wheels; hauling and depositing
were easier tasks. lie Genie Civil, q
French scientific publication says that
the frame of this building was COM
posed of twelve trusses, mounted on
twenty -four double posts. A dozen Of
the latter, obviously, werc on ono Side
and dozen on the other. Along each
row, and thence to the new site, tracks
like those of an ordinary railway were
laid, and then o car was constructed
around each post in such a manner
that, when all was ready, the whole
twcnty-four supports could be lifted
by jackscrews simultaneously and
fixed to the cars. Each dozen Of
the latter were then interconnected
properly by iron rods. Traction was
effected by cables fastened to piles
driven into the earth atthe end Of
the route, led through blocks on the
forward trucks and wound on winch
inside the building, where the power
was applied.
When the big Brighton Beach hotel
was shifted to new foundation I'M
April, 1888, to get 1t out Of the reach of
the waves, twenty-four tracks and 119
cars were used, and the pulling was
done by six locomotives. That struc1
ture, by the way, measured 400 by 1870
feet, and probably weighed five or ten
times as much as the one Just referred
to. So the undertaking on the Long
Island shore was more formidable
one than that in Roucn. Neither Of
them, perhaps, is quite SO remarkable
as the moving of large masonry build
ings, which have no elasticity what.
ever, in this country, within the last
year or two; but they are rare, and
novel enough to deserve mention.-N!
Y. Tribune.
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the first one mentioned like the stem
Of large I. Her head is upraised and
her bust is fitted into q basket shaped
like a woman's waist, which rests upon
the top of the horizontal T, or tho lit
tie board that Is visible. The basket
waist and bust are clothed after the
fashion Of lady's evening toilet, and
the very black background prevents
her body and lower limbs from being
seen even with the closest scrutiny.
One of the prettiest of all these IL
lusions is the aerial Lady" who is
described by the voluble spieler as
"fying through the air like a bird, de-
flying the laws of gravitation." A
young woman clad in crimson tights
apparently floats into circular field
of observation at the back of stage
and there performs any number of
graceful movements with arms and
legs as she hovers in the air without
any visible means Of support. This
feat has recently been accomplished
on London vaudeville stage, where o
woman is actually suspended in mid
air with invisible wires which are
manipulated from behind the scenes
by man who works . complicated
piece of mechanism, much as skillful
bell ringer plays upon the chimes.
But on the Midwinter Midway the
came effect is produced with much
simpler means.
In the center Of the stage Is a pit
(C), at the bottom of which is thick,
circular piece Of plato glass that can
be made to revolve, us it rests upon
small rollers like the casters of furni-
ture. At the back of the stage Is a
large mirror "a B) placed at an angle
of forty-five degrees, SO that 1t reflects
to the spectators a perpendicular i'm
age of anything in the pit.
The young woman in crimson tights
lies face upward upon the circular
plate glass, which is pushed through
an opening at the rear OF the pit. and
this is how the "Aerial Lady" appears
to the dazzled vision of the spectators,
who simply see her reflection in the
mirror. Then begin the motions of
body and limbs which appear SO grace
full to those in the auditorium, and the
effect of turning completely over in
the air is produced by turning the cir
cular plate glass around.
That is how the aerial lady defies
the laws of gravitation.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
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day largely depended on his individual
efforts, determined that large flag
should head the marching column, and
his CONSERVATION can be imagined
when he learned that not. another
shred pf white material could be pro-
cured for love or gold dust. 1t had all
been consumed in the manufacture of
small individual flags.
But Gabe's bump Of ingenuity was Of
true Yankee. growth. There was but
one woman in the camp, the wife bf a
pioneer who had dared the dangers of
the plains in the early SOS and crossed
from the states behind an OK team
with her husband, and toward her
cabin Gabe somewhat reluctantly bent
his steps. To his embarrassment he
found that her husband was absent at
work in his claim, for it was through
him that he intended to transact the
business upon which he came. When
told by the wife that the man was ab'
sent he contemplated retreat, but re-
alization of the great responsibilities
which rested upon him nerved him to
action, and he made known his errand.
lie wanted to purchase a couple OF
her old white skirts to aid in the con-
struction of the glorious stars and
stripes.
To his intense delight she expressed
her willingness to contribute that much
to the cause of liberty. Nay, more.
She had in her rag bag an old red flan-
mel petticoat which had performed its
mission and been retired, and if Gabc
would furnish the thread she would
not only contribute the material, but
would cut out and make the flag. He
muttered something about the spirit of
the Daughters Of the Revolution being
yet alive and kicking, and hastened to
the store to secure the thread and COM
mend Mrs. Porter's patriotism to all
whom he should chance to meet.
The matter of music greatly worried
the committee of arrangements. The
only musical instruments in the camp
were Big Sans banjo and an old bat
tered brass tuba owned by man who
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now the Aerial Lady Dcfles the Laws of
Gravitation-A Trick That Has PROVED
= Mystery to Thousands OF Visitors TO
the MidAintse FAlr--Iiow tho Eject Ia
Produced.
OF the shows al the Midwinter
fair, the most successful ones, fiiiafi-
cially, are the Illusions There was
only one of these at the beginning of
the exposition. 1t was artistically
done, and the little performance cap
tured more dimes than any other at
traction on the Midway.
This success led to number Of other
illusions, until they are thick down
the westand south sides of the grounds.
Most of them are based upon the
many optical pranlxs that can be
played with mirrors, and they are pop
ular, for they catch the crowd. Some
of them are the same us delighted our
ancestors when travelling showmen
and professors of leeerdemain first
learned to vary the routine of tossing
three balls and the disappearing egg
with the talking head" In fact this
last trick Of the illusionist's art is ono
of the chief attractions among the
Midway illusions, and is done precise
ly as Heller and the older magicinns
accomplished it twenty-five years ngo.
A woman sits with her head up through
= hole in the top of a table, the sides
Of which are mirrors that conceal the
woman's body while they reflect side
scenes that are exactly like the renr of
the little stnge, SO that one imngincs
he is looking underneath the table and
that the smiling, painted head is actu-
ally without body.
There is variation Of this illusion
which shows q woman's head and bust
resting upon narrow board, which is
suspended from the ceiling with
slight chains and sways gently to and
fro with motion impaired by the
woman's arms which rest upon the
board at each side OF her bisected
waist. She speaks and smiles wearily,
II 1t is toward evening, and waves her
fan beneath the board to show that
"there is no deception" while the spec
tators are permitted to approach close
TO her.
1t will be noticed that the back
ground is very black. The woman is
simply lying 1T full length on her
stomach upon another board joined to
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tlcal chair in which he sat, I've laid
this identical right hand on the old
pell that fust pealed out the news that
Yankee Doodle had knocked the chin
o1f'n the shoulder O. Johnny Bull an
dared him to take it up, I've seed with
these identical eyes the identical
dockyment that declared we'd be for
evermore free an omnipotent, an when
o boy ! have often peeled off an gone
IN swimmin' in the identical water that
was once used to make pot O. Yankee
tea out o British material. NV moth.
er was Darter O. the Revolution an
my father a continental soger, an |
was rocked in cradle cut out O the
identical tree O. liberty. l say most
eihphatically that I'd be traitor to my
country If | didn't celybrate the day
as she'd ort to be cely ybrated."
lie ceased his patriotic speech and
ground at his tobacco with an earnest
ness which indicated how deeply the
loyal emotion, of his soul had been
stirred
"S'posin we should decide to cele-
brate,' said Judge Ramsay, the justice
of the peace, "w'at's your idee of how
1t should be did? Wat sort of paterotic
bill o fare would you dish up for the
occasion?"
Music an speeches, songs an ring
in cheers, flags a fyin' an salutes
shootin'. All the people congregate at
one place, little an big, red an white,
an listen to the obsekies bestowed upon
the day by our most eloquent orators,
chief among whom are Judge Ramsay.
| tell you, feller citizens, we kin grind
out celybration that'll shake these
hills an cause the air to trimble with
paterotic chills an fever"
The compliment paid to the judges
oratorical talent completely won him,
and he followed Gabe's enthusiastic
utterances with speech that effectu-
ally settled the matter of celebration.
A meeting was called for that evening
in front of the stage office, and, with
unanimity seldom observed in public
meeting, a programme was drawn up
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
oil Found In Callfornis.

Petroleum of good quality has been
struck on the big island in Mono lake,
back of the Yosemite valley. The
lucky finders were boring for artesian
water when they were surprised by
the flow of oil. The discovery was
made eight months ago by two French
Canadians, but they shrewdly con-
cealesl their find uptil they secured
naturalization papers and were able to
locate their claim.
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
Tho Manur.cturc of DlamondS.

M. Moiosan, the distinguished French
chemist has made some more crystals
of the diamond by plunging the cleo
tric crucible containing the carbon at
q temperature of 1900 degrees cent?
grade into cold water The diamonds
thus obtained scratch rubies and burn
with the production of carbonic acid
gas, but the largest weighs only six
uilligrams.
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BUILDING AND SCIENCE
WONDERFUL ILLUSIONS.

now the Aerial Lady Dcfles the Laws Of
Gravitation-A Trick That Has PROVED
Mystery to Thousands Of Visitors TO
the Mid3intse FAir-Ilow tho Effect Ia
p.ot,caN
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MOVING A HUGE SHE'D.
Two Railroads Required to Perform the
UercuieHn Task.

v" s'-<
Uercuiean Task.
The art of moving large buildings
has within a few years reached a Won
derful dcvelt pment. A few weeks ago,
for instance, an immense shed. con-
structcd from timber and iron, in.
Rouen, France, was transferred dis
tance of several hundred feet from
its original site without being taken
down ard rebuilt The structure had g.
length of 164 feet and a span of 07, and
weighed 1870 tons. :
OF course the most difficult part Of
the undertaking was to mount the
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
PRETTY EXPERIMENT.

Showing In striking way That GLASS u
Electrified by lsubbfhg.
Cut from fourfold piece OF paper an
arrow shaped like that in our illustra-
tion; then place on the point Of {
needle, vertically situated, this arrow
at its central part (Which will be al
the meeting of the two folds), but
without causing the needle to pierce
the paper. The head of the needle
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-11
COAST NEWS

August Raynor, superintendent of
the construction If the Nevada
Southern Railroad, committed SUI
eide near Marvel, San Bernadino
Co, Cal.
Ben iamin Hamilton, II years old.
while jumping on and off an electric
street car at San Jose, finally jumped
off in front Of team and his skull
was crushed 10y the horses
Edward Holtzheimer. a farmer,
living five miles south Of Tacoma,
was shot and seriously wounded by
an assassin Monday. Andrew Md
Ter, an uncle Of his wife, has been ar
rested and charged with the murder
suit has been begun at San Jose
against the Southern Pacific Com
pany for damages caused by the care
lessuess Cf its railroad employees
while burning grass hear Alma
Charles Ellis brings the suit, the fire
causing a loss on his ranch estimated
at 81, zoe.
JUDGE Ross at Los Angeles has de
cided in a case where a registered
Chlnaman crossed into Mexico for q
few days of pleasure and on his re-
turn was arrested aud ordered de
! ported. tina, the act of the ChmamaI
did not subject him to Deportation
under the law.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-11
HANFORDS CARD.

The cowart y attack made on
the reputation vi General Jones,
had its miserable life crushed out
of it yesterday, by the card of
Deputy Surveyor General Han
ford, In the absence of his SUI
perior officer, he took up the cud-
gels in his defense, and his reply
is mastery piece of work. He
has met the inuendo and covet
insinuation with facts, figures
and logical reasoning, and laid
bare the wretched conspiracy
which the man Coffin attempted
to carve with such tools as he had
in his possession.
When the Republican party of
Nevada have any specially dirty
work to do, they select Coffin to
attend to it. The bungling at
tack on the State Land Office has
baen made 50 contemptablet that the
Republicans admit that the com
mittee made a very bad e ak
when they started in making
charges which could so readily be
refuted. The Republican Cen
trail Committee is not having very
much fun with the Jones family.
Collins letter to SenBtor Jones
made at least 1000 votes for the
Silver ticket and Collins attack
on General Jones will defect as
many more.
There is another thing in Han
ford's letter that the enemy can
chew on. He charges that when
four people take 40 acres each
and pay - apiece, the State Land
Office gets SIS, but only turns over
81 o the U. S. Government, peck
citing the other So. Explanations
are now in order from the I. s.
Land Office.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-11

Tom Watts n, the eli tie Giant
of the South, has given the gold
cDmbiLe in Georgia It's death blow
The latest news is that the Peoples
party has carried the State in the
late election If not, that the usual
Democro tic majority of 10000 has
bsen reduced to few hundred. The
revolution goes bravely on.
In Nevada the reason why the Re
publican party should be sustained
is because it is in favor of free coin
age, SO say the immaculate and select
Repubs. Chauncey Depew had HIM
self interviewed soon after the repeal
of the Sherman act, and gave it as
the reason Why the party should be
sustained in the East. "J'hat if 1t had
not been for the Republicans Cleve
land would have lost every battle he
fought for the gold dollar and would
have been coorced to submit to the
views of the silver cranks."
IL is very evident t. man up a
tree that Charley Withereil is no
ma tch for Bill Hartford in newspaper
writing. Tribune.
The APPEAL in justice to the Trj-
buue will say that it has acted very
fairly in the attacks on the Land Of
tice, The lying story was first of
fered to the Tribune and the paper
refused it, having sens. enough I
| know that such a whole cloth liz
would do Jnr,s more good than
harm.
A wealthy Californian who ha,
! inst died leaves one collar apiece il
his will for any woman who ma,
turn up claiming 10 be his wife O
any kid who TANKS tie dead man il
Mr.. Nrwlands aptly says that |
the United States were still colony
of Great Britain and she should SAY
as she has, 1--WE deny you the RICH
10 coin your silver without our con
sent, it would arouse such feeling
that an immediate call to arms woult
be made.
The Silver party will come from
the east To Wads worth with $500 ma
jorsy for the ticket and we defy tn
wholegang of old party followers an,
siders in the western part of til
State to overcome that.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Edward Nanderleith aud Geo.
Richards are sweeping everythi
before them in Douglas county.
They have already disbursed over
two dollars worth OF cigars and
havu't gone over half the country.
The Reno Gazette feels very much
put out over the Tact that the Silver
party did OF pay up the Gazette III
order To- q, it out of the campaign.
Tne Silver party has concluded
very wisely that it don't want such a
picturesque figure as the Gazette out
OF the campaign. It's something we
out lat we'll sptre.
J i'm j. Jones Is coming hete in
side of thirty vs. t. talk some pol
tics to the people,
The Springfield Republican adj
vises Kate Field not to grieve over
her matrimonial state and speaks
ab ut there being as good fish III the
sea a ever were caught etc.
Kate replies by remarking in her
cAaract .rlstic way, that she ncve
eats fish.
II che ever a,tsml Is 10 break her
fast some malicious newspaper Will
be sure to say:
"Cnme off the perch.
|. tile Nixon, of the Silver State,
SAYS Jim Ieringtun will suffer an IL
nomininus defeat III Esmeralda fol
State Senat ". Just wait and note
tie sort of prophet Nlxy is.-TrI
bune.
IF be does not it viii not be be
cause lie should not, Two years ag'
jim was a red hot Silver man, bn
when his father returned from tn
East he drew the young man over HI
knee and threatei ed him with tn
parental slipper if he did not at one
change his politics. and he changes
them. A man who on arriving a
wears OF discrs ton still allows Iii
father 10 dictate his politics, hasn'
back bone to make good State Sen
ator. James Yering on in tie Ser
a,e would simply be H. NJ Yering
ton there and hats all his cand
dacy amounts to.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-11

For Congress:
FRANCIS 6 NEWLANDS
Ot..N ashoe
For Governor.
JOHN E JONES.
OF Ormsby
For Lieutenant Governor.
r SADLER
OF Eureka
For Associate Justice of Supreme
Court:
VI S BONNIFIELD,
OF Humboldt
For Secretary of State:
EUGENE HOWELL,
Of White Pine
For Attorney General:
ROBERT BEATTY,
OF Eureka
For State Controllers:
c y LAG2 AVE-
OF Humboldt
FM State Treasurer:
w ! WESTERFIELD,
OF Washoe
For Surveyor General:
a { PRATT,
OF Douglass
For State Printer:
JOSEPH MCCARTHY,
OF Storey
For Supt. Public Instruction:
II c CUTTING,
OF Esmeralda
For University Regent Uong Term:
w E F DEAL,
! OF Storey
For University Regent (Short Term:
II 5 STARRATT
OF Lander
For District Judges:
First District C T MACK, Of Store,
Second District y f CHENEY, O
Washoe
Third District y L FITZGFRALI
of Eureka
Fourth District Geo. F TALBO'
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-11
Notice Of Registration.

Notice is hereby given that the Register
will close on Saturday the 2Otl, day of Oc-
tob.r, 1894, at O'Clock p. m, and that the
Registry \ cent WI be in hiL Office from
the 10th day of October until the Goth Gay
Of Oct Der, fr' IN to . o'cluck D. m, sun
dag $ excepted, t. register legal voters,
when said Et giStcr viii close.
Empire City, October Ist, 1891.
CHAs. HENBE son,
Register q gent.