| Show OJ THINGS WOBTH KNOWING A PAKT of the white pepper of commerce com-merce is bleached with chlorine hence its inferior quality A SOLUTION of thymol used as a mouthwash mouth-wash after smoking will remove the unpleasant un-pleasant odor of tobacco A RICHLY cut solid glass bedstead has been recently made at a Birmingham England factory for a Calcutta millionaire mil-lionaire The king of Burnish also has oneBOTH BOTH SYDKNHASI and Boerhave grent names in medicine asserted that acute pneumonias were rarely cured withOUt with-OUt blood the abstraction of forty ounces of I M E JULIEN has been awarded the Cross of the Order of Leopold In recognition recog-nition of his services in the application of electricity for traction purposes as employed on the Brussels tramway lines SOME CURIOUS results produced by exploding ex-ploding marked blocks of gun cotton on fiat pieces of wrought iron have been described by Mr C E Monroe The gun cotton blocks were placed I with the lettered side down and the leers le-ers stamped in relief appeared in relief lief upon the iron after explosten while on the other hand the letters depressed in the gun cotton were also depi eased on the iron plate IN ADDITION to supplying crops with the necesary moisture rain has a distinct dis-tinct manurial value At Ilotnanisted the wellknown farm of SIr John B Lawes it has been shown that with an annual rainfall of little leas than thirtytwo inches each acre of land receives every year in the rain water over fourteen pocnds of pure chlorine seventeen pounds of sulphuric acid and between two and three pounds of ammonia am-monia THE DYiiAHic value of one pound of good steam coal baa been estimated by Prof W D Rogers as equivalent to the work of one man one day while three tons would represent his work for twenty years containing 300 working days in the year He has further estimated esti-mated that a fourfoot seam would yield one ton of good coal to the square yard and that one square mile in area would represent the labor ol over 1000000 men for twenty bears ACCORDING TO Fire and Wafer the soda water tank now appears in a new rolethat of a neat and efficient extinguisher ex-tinguisher of firo Some days ago a vessel nlled with varnish was a < cldent5 ally yet on fire in the cellar of a Louisville Louis-ville drug store and it blazed up through a graingin front of the building as high as the second floor Before however the flames could gain headway in the building the heat had melted the lead pipe connected with the newly charged soda fountain and the flames were instantly extinguished |
