Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — Fahnehjeim’s Light. [ARTICLE]

Fahnehjeim’s Light.

Mr. Otto Fahnebjeim, of Sweden, invented a combination of suitable substance and flame lor producing l ght from ah incandescent solid. The flame of water gas has intense heating power. An ordinary fan-tail burner is used, the flame from which passed between two rows of vertical teeth ccyn.posed of magnesia, baked and molded, with starch, under high pressure. The teeth when heated become beautifully luminous, and the light shows colors correctly, and can be used for photography, Seveßal cyclopedias contain the statement, in substance, that no land in Connecticut rises above a thousand feet in height. Professor Asaph Hall writes to Science that, according to Mr. G. M. Bradford’s surveys, several points in the northwest part of the State are higher than this, and mentions six mountains that exceed 1,600 feet. They are: Ivy Mount, Goshen, 1 1,642; Hliystack Mount, Norfolk, 1,072; Bald Mount, Norfolk, ,1,770; Bradford Mount, Canaan, l,0l6; Bear Mount, Salisbury, 2,100; and Bruce Mount, Salisbury, 2,300 feet. M' Peat bogs cover about one-seventh of the surface of Trebled. Some of these bogs are supposed to Represent twenty thousandydarn’ growth.

Has M. Pastenr discovered a cure for hydrophobia? Why should he not? Greater discoveries have been made. For instance,, Red Star Cough Cure contains no narcotics, is purely vegetable, and,Vet quickly cures the worst throat or long trouble. Only 25 ccutk?