Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-08-11
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20 little, comparatively, a correspond
emit OF the London Times has written
to that paper making a novel sugges-
ton. He would have the canals drain
Cd and their beds converted into road
ways for the use Of automobiles.
Users of tobacco should. according
to a German investigator, filter rh(
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 ank
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, amountin.
to As candle-power with a small port
able lamp. The light Is said to be
steady and smokeless.
An interesting novelty In railroading
u the gasoline motor-car recently con-
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 30 miles an
hour.
Horseshoe fall, Niagara, has reced-
cd more than 26O feet within the mem
ory 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 inn
plies, has the general outline of a
horseshoe, and its length is about 5000
feet, but II the present rate Of erosion
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, a 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, at any rate in WON
en-, weak-rimmed eyelids, for which
reason in mixed assemblage of WON
en- it is easy to pick out the smokers
by the ugly pink tnge Of the eyelid
sdges"
10 q ehQra nor vet 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 tree at Wimbledon. Wher
the body was being placed in the cot
fin at the mortuary it 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 a
the time when he was struck"
Since the fearful eruption Of Mon
Pele in 1902, when the city of st
Pierre was destroyed, that remarkable
volcano has furnished many extraor
ainary phenomena for the study of ge
ologists. Its wonderful spine" o
tower" has now been replaced, II
scientific interest, by vast dome o
andesitic rock, half mile in diamete
at the base, and about 1920 feet high
which stops the aperture at the bot
tom of the crater like gigantic cork
The Able won and Franz Beaufran'
recently descended into the crater
and climbed part way up the dome
Avalanches of dust and ashes fire.
quently plunge down the sides of tn
dome, and from fumaroles about it
base issue clouds Of smoke and vapors
Incandescent spots occasionally appea
AGAR the summit Of the dome.