The record-union., 1899-11-10
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Interest.
oakland Enquirer: Some of the news
papers continue to reprint an article
emitted 'Ingersoll on Imperialism,
which purports to be speech made by
Ingersoll a short time before his death
1t begins: IT have one. sentiment fol
the soldiers. cheers for the living ana
tears for the dead" and then it wan
ders Off into remarks about the war il
the Philippines. Before his death niger
soil denounced this compilation as 9
fraud, saying that only the first parl
OF 1t had ever been uttered by him
while the last two-thirds of the mosaic
had been constructed by some one else
The first portion of the article is ar
extract from a speech which he made
as long ago as 1876, and some un
scrupulous person took this and tackled
on to it a political argument What
ever one may think Of imperialism OF
expansion, the continued circulation OF
a literary forgery is not to be defended
LIQUID AIR.
Stockton Record: Notwithstanding
|
liquid air could be produced in such
quantities at a cost that would make
its use profitable. the new agent Is com.
ing right along. It is already ex-
tensively used in hospitals and in the
preserving of perishable food, and will
soon be used to keep fruit cars cool
Those who once declared it to be q
ridiculous fake will hold out as long
as possible, and imagine their opposi-
ton to the new discovery to be worth
something. Real scientists go right
1 ahead awaiting themselves Of it, leav-
ing the resistant siluMans to thelr
grumbIings Like the old-fashioned
tailors who fought the sewing machine
the back-number scientists in all lines
must go to the rear.
A SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY
FROM WELLS.
Los Angeles Times: The remarkable
development of water on General Bou-
toms land, near Bixby Station, on the
line of the Terminal Railway, to which
reference has been made in this de-
partment, has led some to believe that
there may be found at this point val
liable source Of additional water sup
ply for Los Angeles City The last of
the three wells bored there has demon
strated that the supply is practically
unlimited. The we'll borers estimate that
10000 to $4,000 inches Of water can be
developed at that point, which comes
up to the well pipes with a force suffi-
Gent to carry it sixty to seventy feet
| above the surface of the ground. From
a sanitary point of view, this water is
excellent. A recent analysis of water
from the last well bored, made at the
University of California, shows but 2.SJ
parts in 10000 of all substances and
not even a trace of lime or any car
Donates of lime, in this respect differing
greatly from the Los Angeles River
water. Professor r. H. Loughbridge,
in charge at the University during the
temporary illness of Professor Hilgard.
remarked: 1.-The above analysis shows
this water to be remarkably pure for
all purposes. Its low percentage of or
ganic matter, and the fact that the
residue did not blacken on ignition also
shows that 1t is free from all con-
tamination and from bacterial germs. %
This water does not coat tea kettles,
steam boilers or matchmaking pipes,
but cleans those already coated, and
competent engineers state that this will
| effect saving of 20 to % per cent in
| all fuel used. Laundrymen who have
used the water report that it enables
| them to effect a saving in labor, soap,
chemicals, ETC., over hard water form
erly used, of four times the cost of all
water used. The water also possesses
medicinal qualities. It is said to have
proved remedy for kidney troubles,
and people of a bilious temperament
and those complaining Of stiffening OF
joints, and rheumatic troubles report
having derived much benefit from its
use Engineers estimate that by mod
ern methods this water can be raised to
the city for one-half cent per LOU
gallons, which expense would be about
covered by the interest on the proposed
new head works and the necessary
additional property. 1t is notable
fact that Brooklyn, Philadelphia. Gin
cinnati, Chicago and most cities fur
nishing the cheapest domestic waters
supply it by pumping. Wheeling, which
| is said to furnish the cheapest domestic
water of any American city, raises it
about the same hight as from the Bou-
ton wells to this city.
OF ,JURIES.
! Tulare Register: DR.. Crothers a
Hartford psychologist, has been making
a study of juries and finds that the
conditions under which the jurors live
while hearing q case are such as to pre-
Eclude the exercise Of such good sense
Las nature has given them. Jurors
taken from an out-ef-door life, and
cooped up in an lily ventilated Court
room and fed at strange tables soon get
Their digestive apparatus. out of condi-
tiop and when that occurs they are no
longer mentally capable of discriminat-
| ing thought If they happen to be
chuckle heads to begin with this bull
wark of Saxon liberties becomes a sorry
instrument for dispensing justice. How
Lever, unless the jurors are so bilious
and constipated as to be dead on their
seats and can still experience emotions
| the lawyers may be able to wrest an
! impartial verdict out of them by ap-
pealing to their sympathies in lieu of
their senses. There is some hope of a
juror SO long as he is not dead to all
feeling as we'll as to reason. Most peo-
pie think with their feelers anyhow.
| SAMOA.
| San Jose Mercury: The proposition
to. break up the tripartite arrangement
by which the United Staes Great Bri-
tain and Germany are united In the
protectorate of Samoa is in all respects
good one. This country has no nat
ural interests In these islands. They
| lie far outside the lines either of our
political or commercial dominion, pres
ent or prospective. Both straxegically