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Show To Kitlngulah fir nn Slilliboard. A novel and most effective uuimtui for extinguishing lire In ships' holds and for rapidly ventilating the holds In emergencies has been brought out in England. The cif ntifln bum of the Invention In-vention is the fact of carbonic oxide gas being Inimical to couibusti Fire is extinguished In the ship's hold by tlm apparatus Idling it rapidly with fumes extracted from the boiler funnel, and cooled and punned on their way to the hold, venu heiug left for the expulaion of fresh air contained in tho bold. The fumes are injected witli such rapidity as to produce an outflow through all vents aud crevices in the hold aud thus prevent pre-vent the ingress of fresh air, which would otherwise occur. New Orleans i'lea-June. |