The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-11-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HOW THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IS VENTILATED.  In a special number of Industries just issued, an interesting and exhaustive account of the engineering features of the Houses of Parliammt Is given with numerous excellent illustrations. Immediately beneath the House of Commons the fogfiltering apparatus is placed, which consists of two layers, each three inches in thickness, of cotton wool. Should the atmosphere be foggy, the air is forced, by means of the propelling fan, through the double layer of cotton wool, which, acting as a thick screen, arrests and holds in suspension the heavy particles of smoke and vapour, while the clear, filtered air passes through at a reduced velocity, owing to the large area of filterine surface, exceeding 1,000 superficial feet, present, al to the current. Even this large surface becomes in time insufficient, owing to the clogging of the filter with sooty matter, so that should there be a continuance of foggy weather, frequent renewals of the wool become necessary. In ordinary weather, however, the air is not passed through the wool filter, but only through the canvas screens, from whence it finds its way threugh openings provided with regulating doors or flaps into a chamber overhead, wherein is placed the warming apparatus, consisting of rows of steamheating batteries. From this chamber the air, whether heated, cooled, or filtered, rises into another chamber through a floor furnished with numerous openings controlled by flaps or valves, and which corresponds in area with the Debating Chamber, immediately overhead. Over each of the openings a thermometer is suspended, which guides the ventilation attendant, who is on constant duty during the sittings, in maintaining an equable temperature throughout the whole floor of the House. He may, when desirable, send a larger quantity of air through one portion of the chamber should it be more crowded than another without a corresponding diminution of temperature; in like manner, when the attendance on the one side of tlw House only is small, the attendant, by means of the valve beneath, can reduce the quantity of air passilu through, while, in order to prevent an increase oh temperature, the amount of heating surface of the batteries may also be reduced by an adjustment of the covering cloths. The air in its upward course passes through the floor of the House, composed of perforated plates of cast iron, covered with a coarse eetting of whipcord which acts as a mat,aiet through which particles of mud, it brought into the chamber on the boots of the inembers, fall through the floor into the vault beneath, in,read of being pounded into fine dust, as would In the case if the floor was covered with a carpet. lo front of the seats or benches, where the menilwre feet rest when in a sitting posture, and also when in the act of addressing t_b_f House, the floor covered with wood, over which is placed a continuous mat, corresponding in length with the benches, in order that the incoming air may not affect the feet or ankles of the occupants of the seats, either when sitting or standing.  M. Dumas fits says that lie has had enough of Paris and its noise and buele, and is determined to spend the few years that remain to him in reflection and perhaps philosophical authorship in the country. He has, the Daily Noes says, a line place in the midst of the tirest at Marty, which was left him by his father's old friend De Ribbing, whose Immediate ancestor was involved in the masked ball tragedy which brought the reign and life a Gustavus IV. of Sweden to an end. M. Dumas ills sold his collection of paintings some time ago, and a few days back his house in the Avenue de Villiers. Tha buyer of the latter was M. Ferdinand Dreyfus, deputy of the Seine-et-Oiae, who poid £lB,OOO for It. M. Dumas bought it 23 years ago for £4,800,  Sixteen persons have been indicted for murder, and 18 for assault, at St. Stephen's, in Washington County, Alabama, for having taken part in the lynching of the ex-convict Climblies in tune last. Chambliss's house was burned down,and he accused a man named William Wood of arson. Wood was tried for the offence and was acquitted. At tilt preliminary examination Chambliss attempted tr assault Wood,but was arrested, and placed in chair of live men, to be taken to the nearest gaol, whicl was at Waynsboro'. On Tune 9th, Chambliu was Found hanging near the Red Creek-bridge, Ravin; evidently been lynched.