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LAUGHING GAS.
CntereBtlng Information Given by
a Dentist
He Deacrtbea tlie rroce b Which the
Queer Stuff Is Made It:, iiemark
able Kn'prta 'mn Somr
I Viplp.
'I iuhule about twonly rallons of
lauirhinirffiis oviry day," Kiiil a suiycon
dentist who, nrem-rii,ij' to tlie Xi".v York
Mail and Kxpi'r. makii a business of
pulling ti'c'.li. "Mo. I don't do it for
pleasure, but for the purpose of show
ing patients how to take it. The im
portant thinj.r is to kinut-; the lungs
with a few bijr breaths from tlie gas
liaff; then complete r.nconseiousness
supervenes anil r.o pain whatever is
felt. On the contr:ny, the dreams of
persons under tho i-,i.':uenee of nitrous
oxide are usually :no;;i
Irish --i rl who came t" n
to have n tort,. w ':
awakir,;;': 'Sere. I th.
wake!" A li v:-.i '..i 1
dreamed l:e v. a:. ia a !.:
A little bey saiil that 1
:i-e.'!ibl. An
e : ln other day I
: ' ::; h!'ined on
:.t i wis at a
h' iae that ho
.i"-Kvr saloon.
1 'lliourrht he
was v.p in the air, hohlinj,' on to the
tall of a kite.'
"That enormous bar like a balloon
which you saw drajred into the offiee
a few minutes aro is filled with laugh
ing gas. . It is made of canvas coated
with rubber and holds two hundred
gallons. Tlie quantity suffices for only
abou' twenty-live patients, because
they waste a good deal from not know
ing how to take it. The stull does not
cost much to manufacture, however, i
It is made from nitrate of ammonia,
which is a salt obtained by boiling am
monia in nitric acid. We buy it in gran
ulated shape, and all that is necessary
in order to get the eras from it is to boil
it in water. In the laboratory we put
five or six pounds of it into a long
necked flask, beneath which is a lighted
Bunsen burner. The llame is veiy hot,
because atmospheric air is rapidly sup
plied to it.
"The nitrate of ammonia salt is melt
ed in the flask, and the gas which it
gives off by evaporation passes over
through a tube into u sealed jar partly
filled with water, liubbling up through
the water it passes through another
tube into a second water jar, and so
through four jars successively, lleing
thus passed through water several
times it is perfectly purified. When
first generated it contains a good deal
3f impurity, especially oxide of iron,
which comes from the iron vessels in
which the ammonia was boiled with
nitrate acid. But all impurities are re
moved 'n the manner 1 have described,
and the nitrous oxide finally goes
through a pipe into a great metal tank.
The tank is composed of two big cylin
ders, one partly filled with water and
the other set upside down inside the
first. If you will take a tall tumbler
and invert it inside of another tall
tumbler that is slightly bigger and
which has some water in it, you will
have the idea exactly.
"The expansive power of the gas is so
great that it lifts the inside cylinder
steadily out of the outside one, the
water meanwhile keeping the nitrous
nxidc from escaping. When the tank
s filled the operator knows it by the
Height to which tlie cylinder is elevat
;d. To fill one of those huge rubber
Dags with the gas he simply draws the
fas off from the tank into the bag until
:he latter is completely inflated andean
lold no more.
ALIVE IN HER GRAVE.
V Yaqul Girl Falls into a Trancn and 1
Revived After a Mo:itli.
"I noticed a suggestion some time ago
,hat science might yet make it possible
'or a man to go to sleep in the first
juarter of one century and wake up in
;he last quarter of the next," said Col.
left JlcLemore to a Globe-Democrat
nan, as he pulled away at a big black
jigar in the rotunda of the Laclede.
'The writer probably got his idea from
;he account given by Sir Claude Wade,
who relates that while residing at the
;ourt of Loodhiana bo saw a fakir re
luscitated after being walled up for six
weeks in a brick vault without the pos
libility of receiving a breath of air.
"1 was inclined to doubt Sir Claude's
story until I witnessed a feat fully as
remarkable among the Y'aqui Indians
;n Mexico a few weeks ago. An
Did widowed squaw had a daugh
ter, a rather comely girl of four
teen, who had an unpleasant habit
Df going into trances whenever she
iounted her beads, inothorand daughter
oeing devout Catholics. The girl would
lie like one dead until her mother mut
tered some cabalistic words over her
ind applied the envifix to her lips,
when she would revive on the instant,
ipparently none the worse for the lapse
mto a state of coma.
"The mother took service in a family
luite a distance removed and left her
laughter with the tribe. The latter
ioon passed into a trance, and all efforts
to resuscitate her were unavailing. A
messenger was posted olf for the moth
er, but returned with the answer that
he had accompanied her mistress to
Monterey. The girl lay for several
lays motionless, and was at last pro
nounced dead and consigned to the
jrave. A month later the mother re
turned, and, learning what had been
lone, proceeded to dig her child up.
The body had not changed in the least
since being cons igned to the grave, and
n,v,n thorn halistio wrds were repeated
ind the crucifix applied to the lips the
Sfirl started up, and, after partaking of
cup of water, accompanied her mother
wine."
A Wonderful Flg
Dr. Ilickman, of Ludlow, Shropshire,
England, has an alcoholic specimen in
his museum in the shape of a pig, the
matomical structure of which is as ex
traordinary as it is unaccountc'ile.
The minute anatomy is not given, but
-he external appearances are: One
lead, two eyes, four ears, eight legs
ind two tails. The internal structure
s: One tongue, one windpipe and one
tieart,-the latter having two sets of cir
;ulations, viz.: Two aortas to supply
the body and two to supply the lungs;
two livers, four kidneys, two bladilera,
two spleens and two sets of intestines.
THE INDISPENSABLE NAPKIN.
It Va First I nrtl ):!. Iir rhlldrrn and
it r e.i ij . :;:u-r-.
Curiously enotvrh that article now
considered almost, i-yiispensable, the
table napkin, was drst used only by
children, says the Youth's Companion,
and was only adopt'.nl by elder members
of the family about the middle of the
fifteenth century. In etiquette books
of an earlier date than this, among
other sage pieces of advice for children,
are instructions about wiping their
lingers and lips with their napkins.
It seems that the tablecloth was long
enough to reach tlie lloor and served the.
growoi people in place of napkins. When
they did begin to use napkins they placed
them first on the shoulder, then on the
left arm, and finally tied them about the
neck. A French writer, who evidently
was conservative and did not welcome
the napkin kindly, records, with scorn:
"The napkin is placed wider the chin
and fastened in the back, as if one were
going to be shaved. A person told me
that he wore his that way that he
might not soil his beautiful frills."
It was a dilihult matter to tie the
two corners in the ba de, and it is said
that thence originated our expression
for straitened circumstances: "Hard
to make both ends meet." This custom
led to the habit of the table waiters of
carrying a napkin on the left arm.
Napkins became popular in France
sooner than in England. At one time
it was customary at groat French din
ners to change the napkins at every
coarse, to perfume them with rose
water and to have them folded a differ
ent way for each guest.
About lO.iO Pierre David published
the "Maistre d'Hostel," "which
teaches how to wait on a table proper
ly and how to fold all kinds of table
napkins in all kinds of shapes."
The shapes were: "Square, twisted,
folded in bands and in the forms of a
double and twisted shell, single shell,
double melon, single melon, cock, hen
and chickens, two chickens, pigeon in
a basket, partridge, pueasaiit, two
capons in a pie, hare, two rabbits, suck
ing pig, dog with a collar, pike, carp,
turbot, miter, turkey, tortoise. 1 he holy
cross and the Lorraine cross."
WONDERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Soup Itubblcn Photoffruplied i i I h Art of
Jliir-stni!;.
Electricity has been doing mine pret
ty work in the pliot.i.Tiiiphinjf of
drops of water, and I'r .f. ('. V. Hoys in
a recent lecture gave illustrations of
what had been accomplished, says the
Detroit Free Press. He first showed
photographs taken by the electric spark
of soap bubbles in tli.oi"t of bursting,
and explained the process by which it
is possible to as-erlain the respective
speed at which dilfeivnt soap bubbles
burst. One photograph showed an issue
of liquid from a very small pipe, which
to the naked eye appeared to be a per
fect stream, but which, on an elctric
photograph being taken, was resolved
into a beautiful and regular series of
drops. In connection with this I'rof.
Boys remarked that the science of
liquids and of the forces involved in the
phenomena of the surface of liquids
was one of the most interesting branch
es of physical science. The elrei't mi a
fountain of playing or singing was to
change its appearance into one, t.ro or
three apparently separate, clear streams
of liquid, but a plnt.rri'uph talc.'! as a
tuning fork was stii-!c dem in ;lr;:U'd
thai the wafer was dispose:! in lr ;p ; in
perfect regularity. A picture of a ri c
bullet, passing thron;-li t lie air si ihe
rate of twu thousand feet a s"enml. v. as
also exhibited. Pruf. Boys, however,
showed that if it were wished fs i' ves
tigate wdiat was really happenis-;- w'vn
a rifle bullet was being p.- j fed
through the air at the ma::ii:nr i 'e js i-
ble speed, it would be ii"eess::ry f ; h ve
recourse to a method nf illuminsii " ' i
finitely more rapid then the e! ! eie.
spark. I or this purpese a rilr:- v ' f
steel, ubmit 1h(! size nf a twenty .. ;
cent piece, is now used. Jt is s i moiist
cd as to revolve with ease w ith -a', t
tirig hot at t he enorsi e.s : ;v I - f e
th'Misand 1 imes a se n:il. an ! i" : ' , I.
the b a iii i,f light iv.e. ,:'' lr- , .1 s'.'s
miiT'ir pa. scs across the sere::! ;;l.,uh
a ru le that, it enables photographs to be
taken in about one ten-millionth of a
second.
UTILITY OF SAWDUST.
A New Substance !H:i:lc I'rnui It by till
(.criiiaus.
For several years certain Merman:
have been experimenting, with a vicv,
to utilizing sawdust as a material foi
mechanical purposes. It wa.s discov
ered, years a'.'o. that vegetable fiber
after being subjected to certain ehem
ical action, and afterward to a pressure
siillicient to expel all liquids from it.
could be made into a substance almost
indestructible by the elements, and of
great utility in the mechanical anc
ornamental arts.
The diflieulty has been that but few
kinds of fiber were capable of the trans
formation by any known process. It
might almost lie said that the fiber of
cotton alone produced satisfactory re
sults. Scientists are aware, however, that
all vegetable liber is, to a certain ex
tent, identical; that is, it is cellulose
more or less mixed with other sub
stances; and they have believed thut
there must lie some means by which
the coarser kinds can b" made useful
for the purpose as well as cotton, which
is nearly pure cedulovs
A (ierman scientific journal gives the
results of experiments in that country.
A substance has been made from com
mon sawdust by means of tin acid
process, that promises (o be of great
value. It is describ'-d as being exceed
ingly firm of texture and of great hard
ness, incapable of being bored by a
common gimlet, more impervious to the
action of tl lean nts than the ordi
nary metals, and pra ticaily indestruc
tible by fire.
It is said to tie stronger than timber,
and but a fraction of the weight of iron
or steel. The cost of manufacture is
asserted to be so low as to bring it into
competition with both wood and iron.
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'.he result will be a great change ia j
many important industries
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FISHING CORMORANTS.
A. Pleasant and Profitable Paitlme In
Which the Disciples of Confucius
X Are Always Willing to En
- gage.
( "The Americans love to go fishing
for sport," said an educated Chinaman
to a New York Commercial Advertiser
reporter. "I wonder that some of the
sports of Long Island and its waters
have not thought of adopting the Chi
nese idea, which is not a sport but a
thrifty industry in the great rivers and
canals of China. It is valued at mil
lions a year."
The Chinese fishermen who live in
houseboats in the harbor of Hong Kong
and along the great canals utilize the
cormorant and train him just as a setter
dog is trained to "stand" game birds.
The cormorant is a voracious fisher
man, and the gullet of the bird is of a
character that permits it to swallow
fish of considerable size headforemost.
He pursues his prey beneath tho water
like the ottcr.and the address with which
he dives and the pertinacity with which
he hunts his quarry is only equaled by
the rapidity of his evolutions under the
surface.
In his wild state when he catches a
fish transversely he rises to the surface
and jerks the fish into the air, ca tching
it in the right position for swallowing
when it descends. Ravenous as the
cormorant is, it is easily tamed, and be
comes as attached and familiar with its
friends as a chicken who scratches in
the bread-tray. Col. Selby, an English of
ficer who captured a youngster and
reared him in his bungalow, writes in a
private letter that his bird, which was
a handsome cock, had got "trouble
somely tame." It would waddle after
him with its uncouth, inturned feet and
sometimes would surprise him by
alighting at his heels, after a flight of a
mile and paddle aftcthim to a meeting
of the officers' association of the regi
ment with the most absolute assur
ance that he had a right to go wherever
his master went. He cared nothing for
the dogs and cats around the bungalow,
and would walk in and out along the
passages, a monarch of all he surveyed.
The Chinese train and order the cor
morant as the falcon was trained in
medieval ages, not for sport, but for
profit. They are kept in a dark room
on the junk, and are started to work be
fore sunrise. A small leather thong is
tied around the neck so that they can
not swallow the fish that they catch.
The birds are then thrown into the
river and presently dive after their
prey. Soon a bird will come to the
surface struggling with a big fellow
probably twice his weight. At the call
af his master he will come to the junk,
bringing his booty, and is as eager to go
after another as is a retriever to fetch
a chip. ,;
The use of the cormorant as a fisher
man dates back almost to Confucius'
empire. They were imported by the
Hollanders in the sixteenth century for
use in the dikes, where they made noble
sport for the royal hunters of those
lays. William of Orange carried them
with hiin to England and furnished
great sport at Hampton court. Even
before they had been known in Eng
land, Whiteloek says he had a cast of
them manned like hawks which would
soma to hand. These were presented
to him by Master Wood, who was the
trainer of cormorants to Charles I.
At the present day the bird is bred
and trained to fish and bring its prey
even without a ligature around its neck.
The boats and rafts built for this
especial kind of fishery have in coops
ten or a dozen trained birds, and it is
astonishing to see the size of the fish
which they bring back in their beaks.
"Mark you," said the Chinaman,
"these birds may bo thoroughly ac
climated in America. They are very
summon in the waters south of the
Chesapeake bay. I should think the
swells who go trolling for bliiciish or
lasting swivel chains for Statcn island
sharks would have lots of fun if they
would only import a cage or two of
Chinese cormorants, and dropping down
on their yachts into the waters where
the weaktish and the sheepshead
abound, lake their fish in this way,
I'igeon flying is nothing to H."
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The paper this month contains many
new and valuable features. The illus
trated series on the schools of the state
ia introduced by a paper on the Friends
Polytechnic Institute at Sulem, Oregon.
These papers cannot fail to be of great
value both to the schools an 1 to the
public.
There are also severol fine articles
by our best writers and the departments
"Current Events,""Saturday Thoughts,"
"Eduoatiouul News" "The Oracle
Answers, Correspondents," eto., eaoh
ooutiiin much valuable reading for
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The Fate of the BulTalo.
Twenty years ago there roamed over
the plains and mountains of tho far
West nearly 8,000,000 buffaloes. To-day
there are less than BOO head of the animals
in existence. Thero are but eighty-five
head of wild buffaloes, 804 alive in cap
tivity, and about lino under tho protec
tion of tho Government in Yellowstone
Park. Thero is also sail! to be about
5.')0 head in tho British possessions,
north of Montana, but this is rumor.
Of the eighty-five head of wild buffaloes
which are known to exist, twenty-five
urn in Texas, twenty in Colorado,
twenty-six In Wyoming, ten in Mon
tana and four in Dakota. Tho statistics
have been carefully ffathored by the
officials of tho Smithsonian Institution,
and it is absolutely known that the
number stated compriso all the wild
buffaloes of the wo.-ld. The skeletons
of tho numerous herds of a score of
years ago are bleaching on tho Western
plains, a tribute to tho powers of tki
American Js'inirod.
New I'se fur Old Huge.
While dredging on the oyster beds
near New London, Conn., recently on
oysterman brought up something,
which at first sight looked like a life
less sea serpent covered with immense
scales, hut on examination it turned
out to be a strip of hose seven 'eet long
and three Inches in diameter, complete
ly hidden by the bivalves, which had
become fastened to it. liy actual count
there was over 1100 oysters on that
piece of hose.
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