Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — Smell and Metals. [ARTICLE]

Smell and Metals.

Sonie metals have a very much more pronounced smell than others. Th« smell of tin especially when newly cut Is unmistakable, but It (s n moot polfil whether gold or platinum has any smell that could be recognized by human ol factory organs. Of tbe rarer metah uranium and all Its compounds give th( strongest smell and this gives us the reason why metals should have ar odor. Uranium Is always giving ofl what are known as the Becquerel raysj consisting of streams of excessive!] minute “corpuscles.” The Hanua combine ha been formed, with Daniel R. HanmJ son of Senator Hannn, as president Democrats and Reyplfllcans alike wll have to suffer when winter comes ajil the trust begins to get in its Work. I Backing up civil government by bn J onets is perhaps the best Republican ean do In tbe Philippines, but It Is n<| the kind of civil government that til United States has hitherto boasted ol