The morning news., 1899-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] IhiOCyanic acid, claiming that matches
made Of this material are not poisonous,
| or explosive strike on any surface. and
/ burn brightly. The perthiocyanic acid is
| male from the by-products of several in
! dustrial processes, among which are the
| publication Of coal gas and the Leblanc
! soda manufacture, and its cost Is less than
| that Of phosphorus.
When Miss Sarah Norlin of Topeka.
Kan. entered the house of Charles Eek
strom, a friend, to attend reception. ne
| met her at >rhe door and 50 vigorously
! shook her hand that Sarah fell and broke
! her leg. Eckslrom, who is well-to-do, paid
her doctors bill. and thought the matter
| was settled finally until he got notice that
| Miss NOrlin had entered suit for $1,000 dam
I ages. When the case was called Eek
| strom testified that his violent handshake
, was merely an exuberant expression of
a, his joy al seeing Miss Norlin again and
J that he meant her no harm. The jury
| thought that Eckstrom had done about
! the right thing when he paid the- girls
| doctors bill, and rendered judgment in his
favor.
! A dispatch dated Geneva, n. Y, Oct. a.
! says: Forest fires have been burning
along the west bank of West river in the
| town Of Italy. twenty miles southwest Of
| Geneva, for several days The point where
| the fires are burning is in valley where
! there is but little breeze The smoke
! hangs over the river and lies close to the
| surface of the water. The water in the
| river is unusually low The overhanging
! smoke prevents the contact of fresh air
! with the water surface. The fish are
! being gradually smothered. They rise
| gasping 10 the surface in great numbers
| and are easily captured by farmers along
| the east bank The farmers remove their
! shoes and stockings, roll up their trousers,
/ III in, o,,I t,L, -, G-l
| this way George Truman, farm laborer
| caught fifty pickerel yesterday. the small
| est of which weighed twelve pounds For
! don Bristow caught over 200 pounds Of
! perch to-day. Black bass in great num-
bers eels. bulheads and pike are also
caught The dead fish lie in heaps along
the river bank.
1t has been found that if an exposed
| Photographic plate is subjected to the ac-
lion of ozone for a few minutes, it is not
possible to develop the image. but the
| plate so treated can be used for another
| exposure. Some recent experiments have
| been undertaken to determine the feast
| bility of restoring a logged plate by this
process. and it is possible that the ozone
| treatment may in time become useful to
| photographers. The explanation given of
| this phenomenon is that the ozone oxi-
| dies the silver compounds which have
! been reduced by the action of light. In
the experiments referred to two dry
plates were wrapped one-half of each in
tin-foil and then exposed to brilliant sun
| light for two seconds. They were next
carried to the dark room and subjected
to ozone for four minutes, and afterwards
| employed with the tin-foil removed to
make Rontgen-ray photograph. The ex-
pertinent was successful in so far 5 the
image was visible over the entire surface
of the plate, but the two halves of the
plate were not equally transparent.
While the peculiar pacing gait of a
moose will not carry him over the ground
as rapidly as the deer or caribou his en-
durance far surpasses that of either of
those animals, says the Lewiston Ne,
Journal For a short sDurt or in very
deep snow the caribou can easily discount
the moose, but for an all days jaunt.
where the course is fairly Open the moose
has no rival. Many years ago when Sir
Edmund Head was Governor of the prov
ince he owned a tanned moose that per-
formed remarkable feats of speed and en-
durance. On one occasion the Governor
wagered $500 that his moose could travel
from Fredericton to st. John over the ice.
a distance of eighty-four miles, in faster
time than any team of horses in the stud
of Lord Hill of the Fifty-second Regiment.
A siedge was attached to the moose and
dIOlueI 10 lL6 horses. i ne river Ice was
covered with about eight inches of snow.
The start was made opposite government
house at o'clock in the morning. In
seven hours the moose and his driver were
on Market Square, St. John. Lord Hill s
team was distanced, one of the horses ex-
piring at Gagetown and the other reaching
St. John three hours behind the moose.
The most ancient copper mines of
which we have record are those of Sinai.
which were worked from about 500 B. c.
until about 1900 or 1900 B. c.. the reason
for their abandonment being the poor
quality Of the ore. From these mines, the
possession of which was the occasion OF
several wars, was obtained the copper
used in making the scepter of Pepi l. a
King of the sixth dynasty, which is now
preserved in the British Museum. Certain
! portions of the mines, including the ruins
of the furnaces. the huts of the miners.
crucibles and fragments of tools are stin
eXtant and form relics of considerable
archaeological and metallurgical interest
The ore in this locality occurs in some
specimens as turquoise and in others as
copper-hydro-silicate or sandstone impress
mated with copper. In some of the frac.
ments of tools arsenic is found matter
of interest, as its use for hardening cop
per was a feature of the work of Greek
and Egyptian alchemists. That processes
similar to those employed by modern me-
tallurgists were made use of is shown by
the devices used and the finished product.
A young American woman on her way
home from service in the hospitals in and
near Manila was interviewed while at CO.
lombo by a representative of the CeyIon
Standard, and as a result that paper
prints about as interesting an article on
military conditions in the Philippines as
we have seen anywhere, says the New
York Times. Chief place in it is given
to the opinion that the hostility to Gen.
Otis though it is felt by almost every Of
tcer and private in his command should
really be directed over the Generals head
and toward Washington. \ member of
the family of one of the brigadiers is
quoted as saying: Don't blame The Cen
eral for everything. When our old man
wired, Shah l attack Otis replied, I
must first wire to Washington It was
two weeks before we got an answer. -
Speaking of the two classes of troops in
the field, this observer said: THE most
/ III for ~ al 10 tba e