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Show A New Vte for Coal Go. A leading English technicul journal points out that now that the electrio j light is so rapidly supplanting gas in-i in-i ventors are eagerly searching for new fields of usefulness for the older illuminating illumi-nating medium. As a heating agent it is almost perfect, and the by-products have been utilized to an astonishing extent. ex-tent. It is strango that inventors have overlooked tho utility of the asphyxiating asphyxiat-ing properties of the monoxide of carbon contained in coal gas. Workmen in gas works cro frequently poisoned by fumes which render them insensible, and have to be brought to by the liberal exhibition of alcohol. It is suggested that this treatment omitting the alco- hoi might lead to a solution of th problem of the humane execution of criminals. |