Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — Liqui 1 Air Cocktails. [ARTICLE]

Liqui 1 Air Cocktails.

A Russian physician has already begun to experiment with liquid air. He placed a dog in a room with the temperature lowered to 100 degrees below zero. After ten hours the dog was taken out alive, and with an enormous appetite. The physician tried the test on himself. After ten hours’ confinement in an atmosphere of still, dry cold, his system was intensely stimulated. So much combustion had been required to keep warm that au intense appetite was created. The process was continued on the man and dog, and both grew speedily fat and vigorous. It was like a visit to a bracing northern climate. “When will liquid air cocktails be available?” asks a medical expert. Sir William Gray, the millionaire shipbuilder, who died recently at his residence, the Cottage, Greatbam, West Hartlepool, some 50 years ago kept n little draper’s shop In Old Hartlepool. As the business grew he began to invest bis savings in shipping, and before many years bad passed was building ships to order. Now his wards employ at least 5,000 men and pay over £to,ooo a week In wages alone. The railway'and postal officials of Belgium have adopted the twenty-four-hour system for railway, telegraph and postal work. It greatly simplifies time tables, and Is generally convenient, as It dearly does away with mistakes la “a. m.” and “p. in.” < i