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Removing Impurities From Wools. For above purpose (according to the process just patented in Prance and England by C. Delerue, of Roubaix, Prance), the wool sliver is fed by feed rollers in between a pair of cylinder brushes, and from them it is removed by a rapidly revolving comb in contact with which there is a more rapidly revolving cylindrical brush with a tapered casing, having an opening through which part of the periphery of the comb projects to meet the brush. By the current of air caused by the rapid revolution of the brush, the wool stripped by it oft the comb is projected toward the small end of. the casing, where it is caught by a (Air of hollow wire gauze cylinders, and by them delivered to a pair of feed rollers to be again subjected to the action of a cylindrical comb and brush. These wire gauze cylinders, feed rollers, and combs, and the brushes and their casings, are repeated eight or ten times in the machine, the wool passing in sucession through them all.

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But by this method the gas is made in minute Quantities only, and serves merely for experimental purposes in the laboratory and lecture room. It remained for T. L. Wilson to discover a means by which the gas could bo produced in sufficient quantities for practical purposes. Mr. Wilson discovered the method by mere accident. He was working in his laboratory with an electric furnace, endeavoring to form an alloy of calcium from some of its compounds, when he noticed that a mixture of powdered lime and- anthracite, under the influence of the electrical current, fused down to heavy semi-metallic mass. This substance was found not to be the one sought, and it was thrown into a bucket of water. The strange results which followed its contact with the water immediately attracted Mr. Wilson's attention. A gas was given off whose chief characteristics seemed to be its penetrating and disagreeable odor. On applying a light Mr. Wilson found that the gas burned freely, with a smoky but luminous flame. Here Mr. Wilson became interested and immediatelybegan his investigations. He repeated the experiment, and found that the mixture he had cast into the bucket was a substance called calcic carbide, containing forty parts by weight of carbon. At this point Prof. Venable, of the University of North Carolina, took up the matter, and it was there that experiments looking to the utilization of acetylene as an illuminant were first carried out. Experiments soon proved that a pound of this calcic carbide would yield 5.3 cubic feet of acetylene gas, which immediately gave it commercial value, and a company was formed to manufacture the gas on a large scale. From an economic point of view this gas is of great value, for it has been found that it can be generated in a house as it is needed by a very simple apparatus. This would undoubtedly be a boon to fami lies living in the country. Perhaps the most remarkable quality of the gas is the fact that it can be liquified by pressure, and put in cans that can be tapped when the gas is needed. A very simple device has been arranged by which the pressure of the gas will be regulated while changing from its liquified condition, and then pass into the various pipes. Acetylene is a most powerful illuminant It is dazzling in the brightness and steadfastness of its flame, and when compared with the ordinary coal gas its superiority is wonderful, the latter appearing dim and flickering. There is no dark center to the flame, as is the case with the ordinary gas. The illuminant is somewhat peculiar, viewing it from a popular point of view, in that it gives only one-half the heating power of the ordinary gas. It is also impossible to use it in the ordinary burners, for they are too large, but this apparent fault has been easily overcome by constructing burners which admit a smaller amount of gas. It has been proposed by promoters of the enterprise to do away with gas piping through the streets, for they say that lamps can be made containing the necessary chemicals by which the gas can be generated and consumed on the spot. This method may be a solution to the car-lighting problem, to which the elevated and surface railroad authorities have devoted considerable attention of late. The cost of the gas is dependent upon the cost of the carbide. It is said by the company which is about to place the carbide on the market that if the substance is sold at $50 a ton the gas can be furnished at 50 cents per 1,000 feet, which will give light equal in amount to that given by the ordinary illuminating gas. Of course this would not represent the actual cost of the acetylene, which has not as yet been decided, but the cost is sure to be only a small proportion of the cost of the ordinary gas. It has been found that when the gas is passed through a tube heated to redness that benzol, the substance which is the foundation of the aniline colors, is produced. Even this feature alone would serve to make the discovery one of great value. TYRANNY OF RED TAPE. It Is as Powerful in France aa It Ever Was m England. British red tapeism is bad to beat, but the record just now is with Paris. There the front of the Ecole des Beaux Arts is adorned with a statue of Puget, the once-famous tenor. Four years ago a passer-by made the discovery that the statue's nose had come off. He called the attention of the policeman on duty to the fact. The po.iceman reported to his brigadier, who reported to the commissary of the quarter, who reported to the Px-efecture of Police. The Prefecture of Police decided thai

the nose had dropped off the statue, and had not been maliciously knocked off; the matter, therefore, concerned the Prefecture of the Seine. It was then August, 1891. In October a committee of three was appointed to decide which department had to put the nose on again. The committee inspected the statue in January, 1892, and reported in December that they were unable to report. In February, 1893, this report reached the department of public works. The head of a room found it in June, and made the lives of his subordinates so many burdens to them with it. Somehow or other it got into print that, but for this zealous official, there would be hardly a statue in France and in Navarre with its nose on. In July he was decorated for special services. Somebody else took up the report. Between January and December, 1894, it had got into parliament. On Feb. 25, 1895, the house sat upon it, and MM. Jaures and Carnaud got off some virulent attacks upon the government for its want of public spirit. The next day the same passer-by who had reported tho absence of the nose happened to pass again. He discovered that the nose bad not been replaced. He reported to the policeman on duty, who, etc. The nose of Puget is in for another round.

IN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN. Extract From a Lady Traveler's Interesting Lcltpr. Late In November, a few years ago, I took a stage ride into one of the mountain-locked valleys of California. As we followed the winding grade that led over the summit, I observed weather-worn shakes nailed on the trees, far above our heads. Every few rocl3 they appeared, and, disliking to express my ignorance to the driver, that facetious terror to inquisitive travelers, I studied the problem for some time in silence. I was compelled, however, to fall back upon the driver, who proved to be gracious, and informed me that they served to mark the routs, not in summer, since the road itself was sufficient, but in winter time, when the road was buried in snow. "They look high, don't they?" said be, "but come along two months from now and you can sit down on them." And so I found it when I returned; for, in a few days, storms rendered the summit impassable, and when, at the end of two months, the stage took me out of the mountains, we glided across the frozen surface high up among the ice-encrusted and suow-laden branches of the pines, and I saw those same shakes just far enough above the snow to form a good seat. Moisture falls in those high altitudes in the form of snow. In the earlier and later parts of the rainy season, the mountain-locked valleys are refreshed by copious showers, while at the top they are whitened with snow. The heaviest fall of snow occurs on the ridges or "divides," which separates the leading watercourses, and across which communication is maintained for long periods only by messengers on snowshoes, who carry the mails and such express packaces as may be transported in such a manner. The snowshoes is the mountaineer's friend. It is the only means by which pedestrians can go from place to place, unless they wait for the stage to break a road through the snow, which, as stage lines are few and the snow everywhere, would amount practically to a suspension of all travel on foot for weeks at a time. Climbing the hills is not an easy matter, yet it is rapidly done by an experienced skater. Snowshoeing is an art, anv' o becomo an expert in the use or these implements requires considerable practice. Like skating, it requires natural strength and dexterity to become an adept All through the mountains are to be found men, and women, too, whose skill in using the Norwegian shoe or skate called "skae" in Norway is little less than marvelous. MAGGIE M. KEOGH. THE WOODS BYNIGHT. Sounds and Sights Among: the Trees and Hushes. "Sit still in the woods at night, and look and listen," said an old time naturalist to me one day, "and you will see or hear strange things, not to be seen or heard, save by rarest chance, in the busy hours of the day." I thought of the remark as I sat perfectly still, resting on a stump in a small opening of the Adirondack woods at the close of one day last summer. It was twilight, and out of the dim, uncertain light loomed the outlines of the trees in the valley, and of Ampersand mountain in the distance. Quickly I saw the shadow of a moving figure, which I madeout to be that of a fox. " How stealthily the sly fellow crept along! He made no noise, not a twig broke beneath his cat-like tread. As he turned, for the first time he noticed me. He looked at me, and I looked at him. Then Reynard revealed the cunning of his kind. Still keeping his ej'e on me, he sidled away until he reached the dark shades and recesses, when he disappeared in an instant. I knew Reynard was out on his nightly foraging expedition. Perhaps he was looking for a wild rabbit or a fat partridge; or, perhaps he intended to rob some farmer of his choicest fowls. The fox is a-night traveler; he makes his journey after dark, finds his dinner, and retires always before the break of day. Later, that night, I was really startled by a sudden, barking cry, so loud, so hoarse, so strange, that I jumped to my feet to see what manner of bird or beast had uttered it. This peculiar note was repeated, and then I laughed outright at my momentary scare. I recognized it ass the voice of the yellow-breasted chat. This bird has unusual ventriloquial powers. Its songs has been described a3 tones resembling the barking of young puppies, with a variety of -gutter a 1 sounds terminating in something like tho mewing of a cat. Our Animal Friends,

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Fair of Wasps That Have Been Taught to Perform Wonderful Tricks. A young woman residing near this place in the river country has a pair of pet wasps, which are as interesting as they are unique in their way, writes a Monroe, La., correspondent of the Philadelphia Times. She has trained them to perform a great many wonderful tricks, and it Is indeed marvelous to what degree of intelligence and agility her kindly care and patient perseverance has brought them. As the young lady is an invalid she manages to get a great deal of profitable diversion from her queer pets. Among other things she has taught them to drink water from a thimble and to perform the "skirt dance," as she calls it, by fluttering their wings as they rest in the palm of her hand. They will sing at her bidding, making a faint, almost inaudible music. The young lady Is quite a fine musician, and when she plays on the piano the wasps take up their positions on the music rack and never budge until the performance is over. The wasps would seem to have quite a good deal of vanity, and nothing delights them more than to be allowed to walk aboat and Eyesight of Syaln's ynecn Rgcut. The failing eye-sight of the Queen Regent of Spain is causing considerable i alarm among her entourage. Her ! majesty was always like all her family I shortsighted; but it is an accepted j opinion that, as a rulo.slioitsis ii ted pooj pie experience a gradual strengthening of their eyesight as they advance in ! years, and it is a well-known fr.et that in many instances shortsighted people I in old age are not compelled to wear ' the glasses generally used by those ml- ; vanced in years. The Queen Regent of I Spain, however, has, during the past i twelve months, experienced a rapid ; weakening of her sight, and is now ol- ; liged to wear strong glasses when at work. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy tho sense o smell and completely derange tho whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the Wood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. 83 Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills, 25c. Will Not Be Ousted by Women. Said a prominent member of the Cincinnati Typographical Union: "The introduction of type-setting machines into the various newspaper offices has forced a number of men into other fields of activity, though a number have been doing some artistic job printing. Like all sweeping innovations, it has brought some suffering, but the men will adjust themselves to the new conditions. And as for the operators of the machines being supplanted by the gentler sex there is too much nervous strain connected with their manipulation to make it at all likely that a man will have to rely upon his wife to procure him a living while he attends to the housekeeping." The I-ast Two Excursions to the South. April 2 and April SO tickets will be sold via C. & E. 1. R. R. to various points in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi. North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia and to points in Florida west of River Junction at one fare for the round trip. P'or tickets and information apply to vour nearest ticket agent, to City Ticket Office C. & E. I. R. R.. 230 Clark street, Chicago, or to C. W. Humphrey, Northern Passenger Agent C. & E. I. R. R., 170 Third street. St. Paul, Minn. Low Kate Excursions April 3 & 30, 1895. On April 2 the Iron Mountain Route will sell excursion tickets to all points in Arkansas, to Lake Charles, La., and to all points in Texas, except El Paso, at the very low rate of one fare for the round trip (plus two dollars), and on April 30 at one fare straight for the round trip to points in the southeast. Liberal limits and stop-over privileges allowed. For full particulars and illustrated and descriptive pamphlets address company's agents or H. C. Townsend, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis. In parts of Maine the inhabitants secure the crop of marsh grass by waiting until the marshes freeze over and cutting it on the ice. USUAL PRICE,

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