Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-24
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so little, comparatively, a correspond
ent of the London Times has written
to that paper making a novel sugges-
ton. He would have the canals drain
ed and their beds converted into road
ways for the use Of automobiles.
Users of tobacco should, according
to q German investigator, filter the
smoke from their pipes through cotton
soaked in ferric salts. BY this process
the fumes Of the ESSENTIAL oil, of the
hydrogen sulphide, the cyanhydric
acid and about half the nicotine and
its products Of decomposition are got
rid of, while the smoke is not deprived
of it's aroma.
A substitute for the kerosene lamp,
lately introduced in western Europe,
consists Of an alcohol burner and g
Welsbach mantle, which Is suspended
in a small glass chimney. Wood-al-
cohol is burned. and the illumination
obtained is very brilliant, amounting
to 45 candle-power with a small port
able lamp. The light is said to be
steady and smokeless.
An interesting novelty in %railroading
is the gasoline motor-car recently con-
structed by the Union Pacific Railroad
for local passenger service near Oma-
ha. The six-cylinder motor possesses
100 horsepower, and the car has seats
for % passengers. 1t is heated with
water-pipes supplied from the cylin-
der packets of the motor, and the oper-
ating speed is from 20 to 80 miles an
hour. r
Horseshoe fall, Niagara, has reced-
ed more than 26O feet within the men,
DRY of living men, and Is now travel
ing toward Lake Erie at the rate of
fully 500 feet a century. At present
the crest Of this fall, as its name I'M
plies, has the general outline of a
horseshoe, and its length is about 5000
feet, but If the present rate Of erosion
continues teh length of the crest may
reach 5000 feet or more within the
next half-millennium.
A writer has this to say about smok-
ing by women: Smoking develops
the mustache. q fact which is well
known by small boys and is at once
the Of juvenile smoking in the
sex and the alarming development
of mustaches in the other. Moreover.
smoking produces, at any rate in wom-
en-, weak-rimmed eyelids, for which
reason in a mixed as%sembIage of wom-
en- it is easy to pick out the smokers
by the ugly pink tinge of the eyelid
edges"
Is there some not yet understood
Photographic power in a stroke Of
lightning? Many people say that there
is and many scientists call the claim
absurd. The following item comes
from a recent English newspaper:
"a young man named Frank Goodson
was killed by lightning while stand
ing under a tree at Wimbledon. When
the body was being placed in the COT
fin at the mortuary 1t was observed
that there were marks imprinted
upon the right thigh which bore a re-
markable resemblance to leaves. Good
son was, of course, fully clothed Mt
the time when he was struck"
Since the fearful eruption OF Mont
Pele in 1902, when the city Of st.
Pierre was destroyed, that remarkable
IVOlcanO MS IurnlSneu many extr00r-
binary phenomena for the study of ge-
ologists. Its wonderful spine" or
tower has now been replaced, In
scientific interest, by a vast dome of
andesitic rock. half a mile in diameter
1T the base. and about 1000 feet high,
which stops the aperture at the bot
tom of the crater like a gigantic cork.
The Able WON and Franz Beaufrand
recently descended into the crater,
and climbed part way up the dome.
Avalanches OF dust and ashes FREE
quently plunge down the sides OF the
dome. and from fumaroles about its
base issue clouds OF smoke and vapors
I~ncandescent spots occasionally appear
near the summit Of the dome.