Show A new use for formaldehyde has been discovered by tho officers of the law in I Kentucky Some offenders were defying defy-ing arrest and threatened death to any who came Into the house where they had locked themselves in The officers inserted a formaldehyde tube in the keyhole and pumped the stuff in The fumes were too much for the inmates and they begged to be let out where they could breathe That speaks strongly for tho effectiveness of formaldehyde for-maldehyde but not precisely in its favor fa-vor ns a preserver of milk and cream for which it has hitherto chiefly boon used There are those in Utah who have claimed that formaldehyde is beneficial and lifirmless when so used UH a preservative but evidently the Kentucky officers do not take that view of it and their successful experiment will tend powerfully to destroy any idea of the boneficlnl qualities of the stuff as an article of diet |