Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-29

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 Experiments with formalin vapor as l disinfector of books have proved its efficacy. Books infected with scarlet fever and erysipclas germs were eX- posed under q glass bell jar in which saucer of fornalin was placed. Fiji teen minutes exposure to an atmoS- phere containing one three-hundredth If its volume of the yapor was sufficient to kill the germs.
 For years the St. Gothard tunnel has been famous as the longest In the world. extending nearly nine and a half miles. The glory of this tunnel is about To depart. as the longest tunnel Is about 10 be constructed in England. 1t is to be on the line of the London and North western Railway Company, which has decided to bore through the steep in- cline known as Shapfall, with which travellers to Scotland are more or less familiar.
 Consul DeuSter at Crefeld. Germany, reports to the State Department dis covery made there which. 1t is said, will revolutiouize the methods of illumina- ton. It k an incandeScent gas. A sin gle jet of ordinary size car emit light Df much more than 1,U0o candle-poWer, the fine print can be read at distance If 10O feet. The inventor says the cost for light of 1.50O candle-poWcr k only Ila cents per hour. while tha, of an or linary electric light of 100 eandle-poW- er is II cents per hour.
 It is now generally recognized that no more forcible example of the value of labor as against the raw material can be cited than that demonstrated by thr manufacture of watch springs. Hair springs have been manufactured of only oue-teuth of q grain weight, or, in other words. out of one pound of iron as many as 5O.O1O of these delicate springs have been made, the value of which was 100000 times as much as that of the raw material employed in their manufacture.
 On the approach of thunder storm French peasants often make up very smoky fire, says Industries and Iron, Ill thc belief that safety from lightning k thus assured. By some this k deemed | superstition. but Schuster shows that che custom k based on reason, mas much aS the smoke acts aS q good con- luctor for carrying away the electricity slowly and safely. He points out that in one thousand cases of damage by iShtning. G.3 churches and S.o mills have been struck, while the number )f factory chimneys has only been o.3.
 Not long since q beautiful white fox terrier was injured by wagon while chasing rat. The wheels passed oyer Dnc of her slender paws. crushing It terribly. but the plucky little creature held on to the rat and shook the lie out of it before she erept, moanln%' to her master. He immediately earned her to d surgeon. who anputated her leg above the first joint. For days tine little creatures sufferings were intense ind she was nursed like baby. When the wound healed, her master had .ork leg made for her, which she used with ease.
 It has been remarked that the ne yroes in sugar-cane regions depend to considerable extent upon the juice of the cane for nourishment. By the Use of Mosso's ergograph. Doctor Harley found that sugar promoted muscular power wonderfully. On a fasting day it increased his ability 10 work dl to I6 per cent. Taking ordinary meals, he found that S'il ounces per day increased his work capacity 22 to 3G per cent. In these days, when athletes are so much inclined to use special stimulants for immediate preparation for their con tests. 1t might be interesting to try sugar as a substitute for the possibly in furious preparations sometimes ill vogue.
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