The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
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While Iiuht motor carriages have
been brought to practical stage ny
the introduction of pneumatic tires
and gasoline engines. great IN prove
n,ents has been made in the use of me-
chanical power for heavier road vehl-
Giles. Steam is thus far the only prom
ising power. france has taken
leading part in the experiments, ana
a hat manufacturer of Epernay, M.
Scotte, has been esp cially successful
in working out satisfactory steam
omnibus, after ten years of effort. In
it's latest folm this consists of steam
carriage and trailer, the former seat
ing IA passengers and the latter "a.
The forward half of the steam carriage
is occupied by a two-cylinder vertical
engine of Is horsepower, vertical
boiler, and fuel box for 440 pounds
of coke, a 4-hours supply. The steam
carriage is II feet long and feet
wide, weighing 100 pounds when
empty; the trailer, II fest 10y 6 feet,
weighing 1900 pounds. The train can
turn in circle of III feet radius.
Trials in the department of the Meuse
seem to justly the belief that steam
omnibus lines must soon become gem
eral in cities and suburbs.
Surprising things have been told of
formic aldehyde, " hich recent exper-
fence Recommends as a disinfecIant
in place of destructive sulphur fumes,
chlorine and bromine, or the OisnnOuS
corrosive sublImate. DR.. Paul R"srn-
burg, of Bvrlin, finds it To be undoubt
eddy the most powerful gFrmIcide
known as "a solution of to 10000 kills
all disease germs. but most won ierful
of all is the effect he reports it To have
ON whoopiug cough. A 60 per cent.
solution of commercial fornIalhyde in
nrthlic lcOhul j. used, with the at
dilion of nIenthel to overcome the ir-
ritating property. From sixth to a
third If an ounce is placed in an evap-
Grating apparai us on the floor, and II
il claimed that inhalation of the air of
the room at once reduces the paroX-
ysrns at whuopIng cough from 10 to
20 per night to or 5, and soon causes
them to di-appear entirely. Children
in the early stages entirely recover
from the cough in a few days. The
fnrnIic aldrhyde, administered in small
doses in milk-sugar luton, was
thought to have favorable effect also
in tuberculosis, ervsipelas aud diph-
liberia.
Phellosine is the name given by
French Inventor t. substance claim
Ell to serve The purposes of cork. An
investigation to determine whether
factory should he permitted H. ar Paris
has disclosed the fact that the product
is rally cork bark finely powdered
aud agglutinated 10y SOLUTION of nit
rUcellulose in acetone, the doughty
mixture beiug nodded, compressed,
and allowed to dry. The material 81
prepared is practically very tiue-
grained cork. 1t Contains only ten or
twelve per Cent. of nitrOcellulOse, and
is little more combustibe than cork
itself, but the manufacture is attended
by much risk on account of The COM
bustilbilIty of the fine dust and the va
porS OF the extremely volatile acetoue.
"A veritabl. picture of the early resi-
dents in "a remote part of Europe-uf
the Chuds, who lived in western and
northwestern Russia-has been pre-
sented by one of the very remarkable
archaeological finds of the past season.
Near Perm, on the billy left bank of
the Kama River, NJ. S rgueeff discov-
cred tIace of an earth fort, with all ex-
tensive hur' al-piace, from which has
been taken an immense quantity of
relics, including many earthenware
vessels and Carloads of fragments.
Many of these are engraved with
men on horseback aud in boats. bees.
flies, MAMMAL, snakes and Ot her pic
lures. There were also fOunu engraved
plates of silver and bronze. bronze
masks, and an immense
number of rings, stars, TELLS, small
models of sledges. thinbles, arrow
heaps, hatchet-, knives, gilded bronze
pearls, skulls of ags. carniverous an
lmals' aud other objects.
A patented sanitary coffin, described
ny Welsh physician in the London
Lancet. consists of an outer using of
wood, which Is lined with zinc. aud
inside OF this with q half-inch layer Of
y very absorbent cement-lIke material |
whose composition is not stated. The !
Iiu 10 SeCuIou ny IreSu nlXesi cement, |
sailing the coffin. The |
absorbent layer takes up the gases as |
they are generated from the corpse.
thus dung away with the moist de.
The C ,rcas of q sheen /
Was found after eighteen months to be |
lar advanced in decay. but quite dry |
and emitting DULY faint musty odor.
The latest catalogue gives IL ,O92 spe-
:i'nens as the numher Of snakes In the
British Museum. This is the most com.
oiete collection ever made, re, resent
ng, according to DR.. g. A. Boulpn-
ser,. 1897 Of the 1859 species that
ire known to have existed.
Few metallurgical facts are of greater
interest and Importance than the
''nazlng influence exerted uuOn iron
~ minute adnIixture of carbon.
y rOuxht iron being nearly free from
bis substance, the alloys known as the
,arlous steels coutaining from o. 5 to
Per cent, and cast iron having a
lgmer proportion. A recent lecture M
,nrmeId, England. brought out the
rOa'ying propOitiOns of carbon in steel
TroI. AruolnS stated that experiments
rave SHOWN theNnlaximum tenacitv az
larueneO Steels cNntnininv ~ o,t O