Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1895-03-01 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

MON TA AND ACK:IDES.  t he number of those seeking suicide by swallowing some form of poison, probably t here ! are few who have sought to kill themselves by means of atninonia. Nevertheless, ammonia, although it is ttm active agent in most of the nails sold to women for their gilt-decorated and perfumed scent bottles, is poisonous when taken internally in a concentrated form. There have been several cases where death took place in a cniiiviralively short time after. the ammonia 'NM taken. There are on record, also, cases if slow poisoning from ammonia administered with lilt ent to commit murder. Furthermore, the appearance of workmen in gnaw, factories where ammonia is se b free by grinding, guano, has been noted, and in every case there is an unmistakable system of poisoning. This is discolouration of tile skin of the face, which assumes a blotched, dirty appearance. First to take on this appearance is the skin of the nose and forehead. Autopsies of those who die from ammonia reveal a dark hue on the mucous membrane lining the et mooch and intestines.  As an :Tent for oausing, death by slow poison. Mg, ammonia is one of the most certain and most difficult of detection, owing to its volatile iiinre. This quality has led physicians to believe that some of the mysterious deaths that have taken place in the history of modern and edimval crime are due to ammonia. It is known now that months have elapsed between the first symptoms of sickness and the death of a person from ammonia ppisoning.. On the other hand, death has resullea in four minutes from the time a large draught of ammonia has been swallowed. It has been found in eases of gradual absorption of ammonia in the human system, that there is a general elimination of healthy oxidation of the blood, and a constant lowering of tie bodily strength. In the cases of immediate poisoning, death comes with frightful agony. Blood gushes from the nose and mouth. Statistics in England put ammonia thirteenth in frequency in the list of poisons. Dr. Alexander Winter Blyth cites thirty cases of poisoning by ammonia, swallowed for the purpose of committing suicide, or administesed with the purpose of committing murder, or absorbed um eonscionsly in food. Of the suicidal oases sik were fatal. Of twenty accidental eases twelve were fatal. Of cases of murder with ammonia, Dr. Bluth, notes two, both of them children.  "Silver bronze" has a tensile strength of 57,000 pounds per square inch anil 20 per cent. elongation. It can be rolled into thin plate, and has been drawn into small wire. k electric resistance conifiderably higher then rhat, of German silver, and it is anticipated that it, may afford better and cheaper wire for rheostat Allan any other known alloy. When the mosque of St. Sophia, in Constanti. maple, was built, more than 1000 years ago, he stone and brick were laid in mortar and miamil with a solution of musk, and the Willing, it is said, has been iNfected with the Mom ever Probtibly age has imparted a nit,ty odour, from which the musk story was falai.  rte nas a tun or unowteage, uuc rue oortona is out.  _ Nu num ever lived a sight life who had not been °hastened by a woman's love, strengthened loy her courage, and ;Naiad by her diecret/ion.  bp Auction.  JOIIN 1U:11Ni iToN, DE( EA.sED.  These Gojrie would have iteett sea to Dindon hilt it would interfere with the trade of the firm with the wholeSall. louses there. To THE NoBILITY. IiENTRY, CLEMY, INTEL PROPIIIETOBS, VlslTolts, AND LiENEHAL INHABITANTS OF NELSON AND DisTlll(t.  Hlctll.l7 I