Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-11-08
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Because England's canals are used
so little, comparatively, correspond.
ent of the London Times has written
to that paper making 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 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 its aroma.
A substitute for the kerosene lamp,
lately introduced in western Europe,
consists of an alcohol burner and
Welsbach mantle, which Is suspended
IN small glass chimney. Wood-al-
cohol Is burned. and the illumination
obtained is very brilliant, amounting
to 40 candle-power with 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-
ma. The six-cylinder motor possesses
100 horsepower and the car has seats
Tor 20 passengers. 1t is heated with
water-pipes supplied from the cylin-
der packets Of the motor, and the oper-
ating speed Is from 90 to 80 miles an
hour.
Horseshoe fall, Niagara, has reced-
ed more than 26O feet within the mem.
DRY of living men, and is now travel
Ing toward Lake Erie at the rate of
fully 800 feet century. AT present
the crest of this fall us its name i'm
plies, has the general outline of
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. fact which is well
known by small boys and is at once
the cause of juvenile smoking in the
one sex and the alarming development
OF mustaches in the other. Moreover.
smoking produces, ut any rate In wom-
en-, weak-rimmed eyelids, for which
reason In mixed assemblage Of wom-
en- 1t is easy to pick out the smokers
by the ugly pink tinge of the eyelId
edges"
is there some not vet understood
Photographic power in 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 tree at Wimbledon. When
the body was being placed in the cof-
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
volcano has furnished many extraor-
binary phenomena for the study Of ge-
ologists. Its wonderful spine" or
tower" has now been replaced, In
scientific interest, by vast dome of
andesitic rock, half mile in diameter
at the base, and about 1900 feet high.
which stops the aperture at the bot
tom of the crater like 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 fire..
quently plunge down the sides Of the
dome, and from fumaroles about tts
base issue clouds of smoke and vapors.
lncandescent spots occasionally appear
near the summit of the dome.