The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-25

adding much to the weight. 1t is sup
piled with acetylene gus and is des-
tineu for use on the battlefield to assist
the search for wounded.
An examination of the books of the
Cincinnati Gas Company is said to
have disclosed the fact that the by
products of the gas works, chief Of
which is coke, pay the entire expense
OF manufacture and that any price re-
ceiyed for gas is clear profit.
Barcelona is to have a national ex-
hibition of coal and it's products. 1t
appears that Spain imported last year
l,O36,Oo0 tons of coal, although the ma
tive product amounted to 100000
tons. 1t is believed that in few years
there will be more importations.
The Paris fire department has been
provided with an electric wagon, which
will carry eleven persons in addition to
supply of ropes and ladders. The
vehicle was recently tested with loaG
of passengers and equipment and sue
ceeded in maintaining speed Of ff-
teen miles per hour.
A chemical and pharmaceutical lab
oratory has beer established q.
Rajlzote, Western India. It's object is
to improve the practice of native medi-
cine, and to make known to western
science the valuable Indian remedies,
as we'll as the possibilities of yet un-
familiar native herbs.
Greek divers have discovered treas
urc in q Russian flagship sunk in
Greek waters in 177O. Gold coins to
the value Of $4,000 have already been
recovered and the divers report great
stores of silver and jewels which the
storms of century have washed out
from the hulk Of the old wreck.
DR.. Felix Brunei, q surgeon of the
French navy, has perfected a means
of removing tattoo marks. Many who
bear these marks grow tired of them,
and, with advancing years, desire their
removal, but, heretofore, they have
found it expensive and difficult to do
so, and in some cases ordinary methods
fail altogether.
Frank Winn., of Worcester, Mass,
has invented typewriter that prints
the music, the lines Of the staff, notes
and all, and makes as clear copy as
ii it came from q lithographic stone.
The machine is like a typewriter in
appearance. 1t has forty-four keys,
thlrty-five for notes and nine for the
Arabic numerals.
Berlin's police reserves were all cali
ed out early one morning not long ago
by telegram received the night be-
fore stating that there would be a
general strike of street car employees
next day and signed by an inspector.
The telegram turned out to be a for
gerry, but no one seems to have thought
of trying to verify the information dur
ing the night.
The funds invested so far in the
Paris Exposition amount to S7,6OO,OOO.
OF this sum $5,600,OOO has been paid
away during the present year. The
Paris municipality has contributed ST.
100000 of the '$4,OOO,OOO promised by
the city and $5O0,O00 has been sup
piled by the Western of France rail-
way and other various undertakings.
The state has contributed $1,30O,OOO
and has agreed to pay it $1,4OO,Oo0
more before, the end Of 1899.
Rosa Bonheur just before her death
put her foot down on a scheme of the
ri 70 tor fo 80
fame for their own ends. The picture
she sent to this years salon was the
first she had exhibited in many years.
The "femininistes" thereupon assailed
the jury with demands that the medal
of honor" should be awarded to her
because she was woman. The artist
wrote note to the jury forbidding the
use Of her name, "as it would be ridicu-
lous that the insignificant picture ex-
hibit this year should receive so high
an honor"
Professor Dewar, whose success in
liquefying hydrogen and other gases
startled the scientific world, has made
another discovery which may be Of the
most widereaching Importance. It is
a new process Of casting steel, by which
he says the metal will be rendered
much harder and stronger than by pres
ent processes. The principal feature
of the process is that the metal is to be
cast in vacuum. If the plan can be
successfully adopted it is said "the air
bubbles that now cause flaws and
weakness will be done away with and
a metal will result such as the world
has never seen."
Remembered one Thing.