El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-24

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! withdrawal of our trade with Man
churia if Russia keeps her clutch on
| it, as she is likely to do. will seriously
| affect not only the southern cotton
| manufacturers. VINO represent Sl5,-
600 900 capital. but the thousands and
thousands of employees engaged by
| them, not to speak of the planters
| These southern mills have been run
ming on half time since the Boxer out
break. Biddeford. Maine, sends In
similar plant on a less scale, but then
Biddeford voted for strong foreign
policy. Wonder what the south would
have done with Bryanite admins
tration and what the administration
| would have done. Probably about
what the Mckinley administration will
do.
McKinley's Cabinet.
Cabinet makers are disappointed by
the announcement that the present
cabinet will remain substantially IN
tact except that Griggs OF New Jersey
now attorney general, will go out. On
the whole it is a pretty good body OF
pretty good men and it's retention is
a pretty good thing. Nearly all the
members, except the secretary of agr1-
culture. are strong forceful men. Of
the secretary of agriculture. not hav-
ing anything good to say. l won't say
anything.
A Gun That Shoots Around the Corner
The war department is considering
the invention of an English man who
has devised a rifle for shooting round
a corner year or two ago the street
fakirs were selling what they called an
'X-ray machine" which enabled one
to look through a book or brick, ap-
parently. 1t was an arrangement of
Of yyhi
reflected a ray of light round the cor
ners of an interposed object The new
device is built something on the same
order. A false stock is fitted to the
rifle a foot or so lower than the regu-
lar butt. enabling the piece to be held
above the trenches. On the barrel is
a mirror fitted at an angle and trans
hitting the light to another on the
false stock. whence it reaches the eye
of the soldier. BY this arrangement.
the man can aim and fire without eX-
posing any portion of his anatomy to
the enemy. The thing is called an
microscope"
Converted Democrat
James R. Campbell. was one of the
democratic members of the Illinois
members of the 55th congress and is
now a lieutenant colonel in the Thir- |
ippines. He is back in Washington |
and proclaims that his soldering ex-
perience in the orient has converted |
him into a republican. He expects |
the elusive Aguinaldo to come down |
and in. now that Bryan is shelved. |
and says that organized opposition to |
our rule in the islands is confined to |
the "TulisaneS'' or robber bands who |
have fiourished from time immemorial. |
1t is safer now everywhere in the is
lands than it ever was before.
Liquid Air and Perpetual Motion.
Washington men contemplate put
ting up big liquid air plant in dis
used street car power house. What
they are going to do with their pro-
duct does pot appear Liquid air is
a great thing in its way, but its way
has not led to any commercial utility
so far In fact the various inventors
booming it would be extremely CRATE
full to anybody who would suggest
use for the substance. 1t is no good
as a chilling agent for preserving
food. as it costs more than ice, is not
so efficient and has a lot of disadvan-
tages. Of course temperatures far be-
low those given by ice can be obtain
ed by liquid air-but nobody wants
such temperatures. AS for the recent |
and magazine statements
that liquid air will give free power,
or the prospectuses of two or three
saying the same thing, they
are fakes. plain and simple. Perpetual
motion is perpetual motion and i'm
possible under recognized physical
laws no matter whether the motion is
to be obtained by the old fashioned
scheme of keeping a wheel turning
by the force of weights-those on one
side turning it that way because
they are twice as heavy as those on
the other side, and then the latter
turning it the other way because there
are twice as many of them-or wheth-
err it is to be obtained by making
quart of liquid air run an engine
which produces two quarts.
Ice Stoves for Fruit Cars.
recent patented process uses ice
in an interesting way. Through fruit
cars are to be provided with ice
that is regular stoves filed
with ice. The latent heat of water
and ice-which is scientific slang for
the power to absorb or give out heat
lis something enormous, being great.
er than that of any other known sub
In other words it takes more
heat to warm pound OF ice one de-
gree than it does to warm a pound of
else one degree. and similar
ly it is harder to chill the ice. So
when the fruit car in question strikes
weather of IS below zero in crossing
the Rockies. the cold which leaks in
gets tired before it has succeeded in
fully convincing the ice and the inter-
ior of the car remains at a general
average" which amounts to the
warming of the car. But heating by
means of ice sounds like paradox.