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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
Corrosive Action OF Metals.

The corrosive influence of sea water
on various alloys has been made the
subject of an interesting investigation
by the German admiralty. Copper, tin,
zinc and iron aluminium alloys were
tested, twelve strips of the alloy be-
Ing taken in each case, nine of which
were immersed in sea water and three
OF which were reserved for standards.
At the end of eight, sixteen and TWEEN
ty-four months three strips of each al
10y were examined and compared with
the standards. The results show that
iron, tin and aluminium bronzes dete-
riorated very little, and there was 1T
tie difference in regard to decrease OF
weight or strength even after two
years immersion. When iron and tin
brOnZes were in contact the former
were very seriously attacked, one
specimen after two years having lost
two-thirds OF its strength and four
fifths of its elongation. The conclu-
sion OF the admiralty was that the
corrosive action between different
metals depends upon the relative posi-
ton in the electric scale. Metals were
practically unattached when in con-
tact with those electromagnetic to
them, but quickly destroyed when in
contact with Retrospective metals
Buffalo Express.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
a R,re Souvenir,

A curious souvenir is preserved In
the Bank of England, in the shape of
note for $1,000, with which Admiral
Lord Cochrane, the grandfather of the
present earl of Dundonaid, paid his
fine when he was falsely accused Of
spreading, with an interested object,
a rumor that Bonaparte was dead, In
1914, so as to cause rise in the price
of stocks. The sum mentioned was
raised in subscriptions of penny by
his Westminster constituents. The
note is Endorsed with the name of the
intrepid but ill-used salt, and has in
scribed on it sentence In which he eX-
presses the hope that one day he will
prove his innocence and triumph over
his accusers. That contamination was
not affected until eighteen years later.
when he was reinstated by William III
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
Working Coal Mines In India.

Coal Is widely distributed through
out india, except in Bombay and Sind,
the northwest provinces, and Oudh.
RaJputana and Mysore, where the
product is either scantily distributed
or entirely absent The seams in Ben
gal and Assam are frequently from 50
and 80 feet to as much as $50 feet in
thickness. The pits are often of con-
siderable depth At present the deep
est appears to be about 700 feet. In
many cases the working of the seams
leads to the escape of little or no fire
damp, so that the miners are able to
work with naked lights. At the pres
ent time Bengal produces more than
three-fOurths of the coal mined in In
dia. Indian coal varies much in COM
position and quality. Most of it Is
quite suitable for ordinary purposes,
while some Gf the samples, e. g., GER
tain of those from Bengal and CEN
trail India, are of excellent quality,
equal to that of the best British Goals.
The fixed carbon of the Bengal coal
ranges between 80 and 60 per cent, and
the caloriic value exceeds 5000
calOries-equal tc about 10 British
thermal units-while the ash often
does not much exceed and in some in
stances falls below 10 per cent, and
the sulphur frequently present in but
very small proportion. A great deal
of the Bengal coal is serviceable. steam
coal. Many samples cake well and
contain little sulphur, aud the coke Is
therefore suitable for iron smelling.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
A Hint to the SIeeniess.

If you cannot sleep at night. get up
and walk around your room a few
times. A long drink of cold water
will effect cure, and taking a bit to
eat-half an orange or apple or small
cracker-often will result in the de-
sired sleep. Try to compose your face
when you go to sleep and practice to
keep it that way. More wrinkles are
bred in slumber than the average per-
son has any idea of. The short, stout
woman will find too, that it helps her
to lie at full length, rather than curl
up. On awakening in the morning she
should push her feet down and hands
up as far as possible, if she would in
crease her height.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
PRECIOUS GEMS ARE GUARDED.
Dealers Make Careful Note of All
Changes In Their Ownership.


The dealer in precious stones keeps
remarkable account Of the valuable
gems which come into this country.
His business does not end when he
succeeds in disposing of precious
stone or mounted piece at a good
round figure. He can tell how many
times it has changed hands since it has
reached these shores and usually he
can tell every person in the country
who owns anything in gems worth
knowing about. This city is the great
center of these dealers, as it is through
this port that practically all gems en-
ter. The American woman buys the
finest diamonds that can be had in
the medium sizes, in which the purest
stone comes. The mine from which
the most beautiful stones are taken, at
Jaegersfontein, in the Orange Free
State. has been shut up, as great reef
encountered made it Improbable to
mine further. The next best diamonds
come from Wesselton, about fifty-twO
miles from Kimberley, and that, too, is
shut up on account of the war. The
finest large diamond which ever came
into this country belonged to the Nor
gan collection. 1t weighed twenty-five
carats and sold for about 100000.
There was one diamond of 1913 carats
sold in this city and another Kimber-
ley stone of seventy-six carats, but
both were tinged with color and not
nearly so valuable as the Morgan gem.
Another single diamond sold in this
city less than three years ago for $42,-
coo and it Is now owned by a western
woman. The American woman likes
her diamonds, not by ones or twos,
but by dozens and hundreds, and these
are formed into tiaras, necklaces, COR
selets, corsages and hair bouquets and
sprays, all arranged with or without
other stones, and so that they can
be easily detached and worn in sep
arate pieces As the wealthy families
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
Curious Effects OF Lightning.

A Russian scientist writes an inter
esting letter to knowledge respecting
the effect of lightning upon trees and
buildings. He says that If the whole
surface of a tree is damp when thu
lightning strikes it little harm is done
but If it is dry the spark will take The
course of least resistance along the
damp wood beneath the bark, and thf
latter is blown off by the steam sud
denly generated as a result OF great
heat. Water steam at very high
pressure is the force that generally
causes the actual disruption in tree
struck by lightning. The baron quotes
a curious case in which monumental
column at Gatchina, in Russia, was de-
stroyed from much the same cause. t
was fifteen meters high, and its stone.
were held together by interior iron an
giles. After a period of very rainy
weather much water had collected be-
tween the stones, and when lightning
struck it the entire column was blown
TO fragments. In this extraordinary
case there is no doubt that the light
ming spark, retained by the intervals
between the iron angles, instantly pro-
duced a great quantity OF steam OF very
high pressure in the interior OF me
damp column, and the latter was ac-
tually blown up by its explosion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
Defacfiye Mirrors.

A mirror may now be regarded as
something more than promoter of
vanity, since it is often set to do the
work of detective. BY well-arranged
mirrors shopkeepers can watch their
customers, even when they turn their
backs on them. Thus they save their
costly stock. and avoid giving offence
to honest buyers. One jeweler in the
west end of London has caught several
well dressed culprits simply by the
aid Of the looking glass. Owners OF
street corner coffee stalls find the de-
tective mirror very useful. Petty pill
fering goes on briskly around such
stalls. One London coffee stall owner
declared that he used to lose a dollar
a week in this way. Now he has mir
rors fixed to the back and sides Of his
stall, and when his back is turned he
can still watch his customers and pro-
tect his interests. A book stall clerk
told a similar tale. The theft of maya
zines and books represented serious
loss to the firm until adroitly placed
mirrors proved an effective check.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
Now and Then.

Sixty years progress in steam navi-
cation has brought many and great
changes i'll the ocean ferry" which
forms a connecting link across the At
lantic, and in an article by Sir William
H. White, director Of naval construc-
ton to the British admiralty in Cas-
sier's Magazine for November the i'm
proyements are summed up in a very
concise manner Speed, we are told,
has increased from eight and half to
result that journey today takes about
3S per cent of the time it occupied in
1910. Vessels are now three times the
length, double the breadth, and have
since the year quoted, while the engine
power is forty times as great. Coal
consumption, measured per horse
power per hour, is only about onethird
of what ii was in 1910. With the old
type of engine and boiler each ton Of
weight produced only about two horse
power; now, with modern twin-Screw
engines and high pressure, each ton of
machinery produces from six to seven
horsepower. Had the modern engine
been proportionately as heavy as those
of sixty years ago, the machinery, boil
ers and coal of such a vessel as the
Campania would have exceeded the
entire weight of the ship as she floats
today.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
A BEAUTIFUL MODEL
WAS DOROTHY DENE WHOSE
LIFE REMAINS A MYSTERY,
She Posed for Sir Frederick Leighton
for Thirty Years-When Death Came
to Him Her Heart Was Saddened by
the Event.
(London Lottery

The most beautiful model that the
world has ever known is dead. In the
masterpieces of the great English art
list, Sir Frederick Leighton, the per-
lection of her form, face, coloring, car
riage and bearing are portrayed. Who
her ancestors were and whence she
came are mysteries yet unsolved. For
twenty years the world has worshiped
this practically unknown woman, and
Tor generations to come people will
rave over the matchless beauty Of
Dorothy Dene, as represented on the
canvasses of Sir Frederick. Ii is said
That the great artist was intensely
jealous of her rich beauty, and paid
Der handsomely to keep out of the
glare OF publicity, and that she willing
ly made the sacrifice because of her
unconfessed love for him. During the
last few years Of the artists life she
always arrived at the door of his
studio soon after sunrise, and never
departed until twilight. He declared
that she was the most perfectly mod
eled and most intelligent and versatile
woman who had ever sat for him. In
his paintings Sir Frederick has given
to the world more than a hundred
Dorothy Denes.
When Sir Frederick died in 1895
there was great rivalry among artists
to secure the services of Dorothy Dene,
but she declined all offers and refused
TO ever pose again as a model Then
1t was noted by those who knew her
We'll that the roses We're fading from
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12

Prof Spring reports Oh MS expert
ments of many years to explain the
color of the water. He has come to
the conclusion that pure blue is the
natural color of water, for when we
look through long tube filed with
distilled water against a brilliant
white surface, pure blue is seen,
such as shown by the Lake of Geneva
in quiet weather. color which is not
influenced by superficial or interior re-
Fiction. When pure water becomes
slightly turbid by extremely finely d.
vided white or colorless particles
floating therein, they reflect, even in
the case of ground mountain crystal.
a yellow light. which unites with the
natural blue into a brilliant green col
or, such as is exhibited by the Neuen-
burg and Boden lakes. The peculiar
fact established by various observers.
that the water of ordinarily green
lakes turns perfectly colorless at
times, is not due to Qualification, but
on the contrary. to an influx of red
dish mud colored by ferric oxide,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
THE EVIL OF FRIED FOOD.
What Can lie Done to Lessen This
NuisanceY

No one who has taken the trouble to
sean the average American bill of fare
can fail to recognize the Importance of
the frying pan with us; fried ham or
bacon and eggs. fried oysters, fried po-
tatoes, fried steaks. and SO on, ad
nauseum, seem TO be staple articles Of
food, says the Philadelphia Medical
Journal. What can be done TO lessen
the friedfood nuisance? Perhaps moth
ing SO long as present conditions exist;
so long as the highest ideal of the peo-
pie is to accumulate dollars rather than
to develop and preserve healthy bodies
which shall be the servants of healthy
minds. Yet if those who teach physi-
ology in our public and other schools
understand their subject and its prac-
teal application as they should; il
there We're more schools in which
wholesome, economical cookery were
taught as it should be; if physicians
took every opportunity to impress such
facts Of practical hygienic importance
as they should, there can be no doubt
tina. by some sensible and well-inform-
ed people. the fried denominations
would be avoided.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
HARD WORK AT THE VATICAN.
It's Uncessing Grind youched for by
Busy Prelate

met prelate employed in the Vat.-
can the other day, and in the course
of our conversation began to deplore
my hard lot in having to stay in Rome
during the heat OF the summer and
work, says Pail Mall Gazette. "Oh,
well" he said, you are not worse than
we are in the Vatican. Now that most
of the employees are away we who are
left have to work hard" Work" J
exclaimed. Eyes, walk in the Vatican
gardens and count the grapes Of the
pope's vineyard" do you know that
every evening the mail brings to the
bronze doors of the Vatican an avera &c
Of 10000 letters and newspapers, to saw
nothing of kilograms? All the letters
have to be opened, sorted and CLASH
fed, while the newspapers are read
and selections cut or extracts made
during the night to be ready for pc
rusal by the officers of state early next
morning" And where does the pope
come in?" l interrupted. They say
he works so hard " Much of this
work is submitted to him, and he
should read all the letters addressed
'Sanctitati Suae Leoni Papae XIII.
feliciter regnanti.' However, as the
whole twenty-four hours of the day
would not be enough for the pontilr
to even glance over them, he only sees
what Cardinal Rampolla thinks neces
sary for his inspection"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
.Tinanasn Babies.

The Japanese baby is a queer, brown
creature with swapping black eyes, and
a full crop Of stiff, black hair That is,
he would have crop if his mother did
not shave his head, sometimes as bare
as a croquet ball, but oftener into all
sorts Of fancy patterns. A favorito
fashion is to have two little tufts at
the side and larger one at the top Of
the head. He is seldom carried in his
mothers arms, but as soon as he is 2
or months old he begins to travel on
the shoulders of an elder brother or
sister. His little body is entirely COW
cred by the kimono, and the children.
when they are carrying their small
brothers and sisters, look as though
they were twO-headed. But they play
tag and prisoners base, and fly kites
and play ball just the same, whether
they carry the baby or not, and he
seems to enjoy it, too, for he hardly
ever cries. but when the game is espe-
cially lively he will laugh and crow
as though he understood it all. AS
soon as he is able to walk he takes
his turn in bringing up the baby next
younger than himself
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
Lie Saving CnIInr.

A life-saving collar has been Invent
ed by Hubert de Wilde of Client, Bel
GUM. 1t is a cork collar, sixteen and
a half inches outside diameter and six
inches inside, made of two half-collars
hinged together and backed by a
strong spring tending to keep it
closed. The apparatus weighs about
five and half pounds, and it dis
places about Twelve quarts of water, or
represents buoyancy of about twenty
pounds. Tests made with it show that
the collar is better than the life buoy
or cork jacket; it is not liable to cap
size; the body is submerged and less
liable to chilling; the arms are free,
and it is simple and instantaneous in
adjustment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12

her cheeks, the flashes of mirth and
fire from her eyes were disappearing
and that her wonderful neck was grow
in! hin. 1t was whispered that she
had loved Sir Frederick and had hoped
to become his wife The physicians
who were called from time to time
said that she was dying from consump-
ton, victim of her work. in spend
ing long hours, scantily draped, in the
not too comfortable studio. Slowly
her beautiful form and features vast
ed away and finally she died. The last
four years she was practically a recluse
and at her death was almost forgotten.
1t remains for the searcher of the
misty volumes of the past to find the
key to the secrets and mysteries OF her
life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
Knife Which WIZ Cut Wire-Disin-
fecting snetism of the
Earth-COrrosive Action of Metals
The Color of Water.
N.arneflsm Of the Earth.

II. A. Rowland, professor of physics
at the Johns Hopkins university, has
just announced remarkable discov-
cry of great Importance, being no less
than an explanation of the cause OF
the magnetism of the earth. DR.. Row
land commenced his experiments near
ly year ago. The subject attracted
him. owing to the lack of explanation
of the theory of the earth's magnet
ism. The apparatus he used consists
of simple metal wheel revolved upon
a shaft by means of an electric mo-
tor. The wheel itself Is wound with
several miles of fine wire, and III THIS
magnetism is developed when the
wheel is reyolved. About the wheel Is
a casing of brass about half mch
from its circumference, leaving space
between which may be said TO repre-
sent artificially the layer OF atmoS-
phere about the earth. DR.. Rowland
is now working to show that the raster
the revolution of the wheel, the great
er will be the magnetism developed
He has already shown that magnetism
is produced in this revolving body;
and although upon such an innnitesl-
NAL scale in the laboratory expert
ments, DR.. Rowland is convinced that
the principle holds good for the eafth
and other bodies as they revolVe
through space. The immense welgh'
and great speed with which these Doo-
les rotate add to the magnetism
which they produce. 1t will take d
long series of delicate experiments 10
bring out the various phases of the
relation of magnetism to the speed OF
the revolving bodies. The results
which have been obtained so far have
been so satisfactory that work Will be
continued ON this line.