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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Fordwich Record, 1901-08-29, Page 2LOST THEIR MEMORIES. remained in his memory. Doctors could do nothing for him; and, though it was afterwards a puzzle to him that he had a wife and fainily, he was greatly attached to them. He picked up the thread of his work, however, and turned out another-use- ful invention—the Andrews steam- gauge—before. his death in the Dia- mond Jubilee year. Still more complete, and odder, be- cause there was no "clue" in it, was the loss of Dr. Graham Hearne's me- mory, the great throat specialist and bacteria expert. He had successfully treated over 4,000 people in his time and three years ago—in July, 1898— he went for one of his customary long tramps round London for exer- cise, returning, as usual, tired out. Next morning he awoke to wonder who he was and what-his business might be. Here, again, his entire family and circle of friends conveyed no memory to him; but he remember- ed one thing in the blank page his past life—his dog, and its name, Poppy. They were great friends. Yet, though his brother had given him 'Poppy, the brother himself was a complete stranger to the doctor's mind since that night. Of his medi- cal knowledge, A FAMOUS TOWER. The famous "Tower of Remem- brance," which was erected at Grave- lotte by the Germans in 1895, at a cost of more than $200,000, has been blown up by the military. engineers. Originally intended as a post of ob- servation over the neighboring coun- try, it was afterwards found that the existence of such a watch-tower was incompatible with the safety of the new fort outside Metz, which it com- pletely dominated. WHICH WAS ENORMOUS, he remeinbered nothing, and hardly seemed to know a vein from a nerve. But he took up a study entirely .hew to him—architectuete-.-Mid mastered it in the most wonderful way within a year. He was good company, kind- ly, and sane in every way, and was the only case of the kind • in Which everything eventually returned, for just twenty-four months after his lost memory. returned to him rapidly. 1Vithin six months he knew all and everybody he .had forgotten, dropped architecture, and took up medicine again. He died only three months ago, as sound in brain as he had ever been. It was one of these memory freaks that was the cause of the run on Gresford & Co.'s bank in Lombard Street, London. A gentleman was found in a train that ran into Queen Street Station, Glasgow, who seemed to know nothing about his ticket, nor any other matter of importance. The ticket was found in his pocket, but he could not say who he was, where he came from, or where he wanted to go to. He lied ample money. It was presently discovered, after as much trouble as tough. he had been an UNIDENTIFIED "BODY" that lie was Mr. Gresford, the popu- lar chairman of Gresford & Co.'s bank. No this-news got into the papers, an it gave rise to a rumor PEOPLE WHO FORGOT EVERY- THING THEY KNEW. Overwork Has Completely Wiped Out the Memories of Some • People. One of the most-talked-of people in Britain to-day is a young girl whose past life is lost to her. Without any apparent reason, her memory utterly vanished a short time ago, and she scan remember neither her family, with which she lives, her name, nor anything that she ever did. These wonderful memory losers are not so uncommon, and one of the weirdest cases was that of Mr. Quin- cey, a few years ago. A middle-aged gentleman was found AIMLESSLY WANDERING ABOUT Wimbledon Common, dressed in a silk hat and frock suit, wet to -the skin, for it had been raining heavily ale:night. Though .quite sane and clear-headed, he could not toll who he was or where he lived, and could not even recollect that there was such a thing as a police station, which might help him. A letter was found in his pocket—he had not thought of that—addressed to him by his son; but after reading it slowly he could not remember any such rer- son as the writer—had never heard the name. He was taken home, and was em- barrassed when received by hls fam- ily, none of whom he kneW, though he had left them the day before quite 'in possession of all his facial- ties. He did not know what he had meant to do. He was well-off, cheer- ful and contented, never had over- worked, and was a clever tennis player—and this last was the only thing he found he could do, except -read and write, since the adventure. lie soon got used to his family and became much attached to them, and also became an accomplished golfer, as many people know; hut to the day of his death, a little while ago, he remembered nothing before that rainy night, and practically be- gan life again at THE AGE OF FORTY-ONE. In several cases overwork ban whol- ly wiped out the memories of lever people—for, whatever the cause, it is seldom a stupid man or woman that falls victim. And it will Maya the brain just as fit as ever for the fu- ture. though blotting out the r. aft, as in the case of John Andrews, the inventor of the Truefitt Orr:ajar-saw; the Andrews valve, and a dozen other clever works that bear his name all over England. One day, when his family was away a batch of letters came to 1:is house at Cainpden Hill, complaining of im- portant appointments he had not kept. Next day a deluge ef tele- grams, and then a string of callers. Andrews was found locked in his study. He had shut himself in, with a spirit lamp to cook his own food, as' he did sometimes when tackling a big problem, and slept on a couch when tired Out. This time ho was found merely sitting and smoking. He had forgotten all his appoint- ments, could remember none of the callers who came for him, and stared blankly at his own family. When asked if he would take his dinner in the dining-room, he replied: "What dining-room?" He did not know his way about his own house, and knew no more about London than if he had never seen it. Not ONE OF HIS INVENTIONS CAV9SSWASW01.& Household. SEVS6StSSWOSSSI FLOOR COVERINGS. Mats or rugs are the best floor eoveriag, because they are not tack- ed ;loan and can be lifted easily. The floor should have close joints and an oil finish. Open joints in the floors are receptacles for dirt, and they cannot be cleaned out. The dust on the closely jointed oil surface can easily be removed with damp mop, and no dust will rise to vitiate the air or settle on the furnishings. The damp. mop- is--also of service in cleaning an impervious floor, such as MI-cloth, lin,oleura, oiled wood, rubber, flagstones, mar- ble, tile, etc.. Linoleum is a thor- oughly hygienic floor . covering, and especially desirable for kitchens. pantries, dining rooms, bath rooms and halls and passages, particularly If there are children around. The best thing with which to sweep a carpet is a modern carpet sweeper of approved make. This picks up most of the dirt, throws it into a receiv- ing chamber inside the sweeper, and reduces the amount of floating dust to a minimum. Especially objection- able is the "despicable feather dust- er," which simply scatters the dust to other places of lodgment instead of removing it. JELLY MAKING. While jelly .can be made from, all fruits some contain a much greater proportion of pectin than others. Pectin. is . the clement that jellies and it resembles both starch and gelatine.. There is considerable more pectin in the peel and sore of fruits than in the softer portion and this is why it is better not to peel them. The best fruits for jellies, are currants, crabapples and quinces. Barbeeries and blockbereies also make excellent jelly. But other fruits need more careful handling to get satisfactory results. Do not pick fruit for making jelly just after a rain because the extra water must evaporated -by boiling, and, too long boiling changes the character of the pectin and the jelly will be both poor in quality and color. Do not expect to make good jelly with a tin-kettle, iron-spoon, brown sugar and over-ripe fruit. Have -an enamel porcelain-lined or earthen stewing kettle and silver or wooden spoons. Pick or buy fruit that is just ripe and use granulated sugar. When jelly glasses with covers cost but 25 cents a dozen it seems un- necessary, to put nice jelly in old cups • and bowls, bit, if even this small outlay cannot be . afforded put - Lhe jelly' into small dishes or glass- es and not into . large jars., 'The old Limo way of putting sugar and bran- dy and paper dipped in the white of an egg over the top of • jelly glasses is unnecessary trouble ; a coating of parafline is much better and the paraltine comes in cakes for the purpose. Melt a piece in. a small saucepan and . pour a thin coating over the jelly ; it will harden on the sides of the glass and make an air-tight seal. been touched by frost; rub them, cut in eigths without peeling or coring, add water to cover and cook until soft, which will take a longer time than for most. fruits. Strain and follow the general rule. Another and an old-fashioned Way is -to pare and core and slice' the quinces thinly. Make preserve from the slices and use the parings and cores for jelly. Crabapple jelly is made like apple jelly, but the little apples need not be cut. Be careful not to overcook this jelly, as it may become too thick and leathery. Plum jelly requires a little less sugar than currant or apple jelly. A good combination jelly is made from one-half each of apples and barberry juice. Currants and rasp- berries are also combined well. Finally, remember that in all pre- serving, canning and jelly making it is the sterilization more than the sugar that protects from fermenta- tion. Our foremothers made their preserves "pound for pound," but kept them in unsealed jars. The large amount of -sugar failed. to keep the preserves from "working." Their remedy was to scald the preserved fruit and this was in reality steriliz- ing it, but as it was put back into the saute jars the cure was but tem- porary. CHILDREN'S MANNERS. As children are imitative beings, and as home influence is atmospher- ic, the best table manners among the yoenger ones will, all things being equal, be found where the children are in constant association with fastLdious and refined (ethers and mothers. How to 'handle fork and spoon, how to take soup, how to help one's self with grace, what to do, and what not to do, little by little will be learned in the best school of rreadners in the world —the refined home—by children whose ad- vantage it is to live there. The mother will not pass over awkard- ness or blunder in etiquette -; she will gently and tactfully call the child's attention to _the mistake, never wounding her child by a pub- lic reproof, nor embarrassing the rest of the family and sympathetic guests by nagging and fault-finding in their presence. Children have rights, and one Of their rights is to be reproved and corrected in private. If atten- tion is given to small details from the beginning few children will ar- rive at the age of seven or eight without having acquired ease and familiarity in the use and practice of the accepted conventionalities of the table. ENGLAND'S NEW Loom-. Weaver Crossley's Invention Will Revolutionize the Industry. If all is realized that is promised on behalf of the patent for a new au- tomatic weaving loom bought up by a British syndicate, then the cot- ton trade of Lancashire—or that part of it concerned with weaving—is on the eve of brighter and more import- ant developments, says the London Daily Mail. Only a few 'days ago the Secretary of the Manchester Chamber of Com- merce referred to a patent of the kind perfected in the United States but the patent purchased by the British syndicate, ana already sought after by a numecr of em- ployers, is claimed to be superior to any yet invented. It is pointed out, by Mr. Richard Marsden, consulting examiner to the City and Guilds of London Institute, and editor of the Textile Mercury, that by its application the weaver who now attends to four looms can easily attend to eight, and that, on the assumption that he earns 5s per loom, he will now earn £2 a week for attending, to the looms. More- Over, as each loom, by the obviat- ing of stoppages, will produce l'/e per cent. more cloth, the eight looms will bring the weaver's earn- ings up to £2 5s, as against £1, although it will be clear that some Of the increase will go to benefit the employer and the consumer. "This patent," said Mr. Marsden to a Daily Mail representative, "is the invention of a young Brunley weaver named Bernard Crossley. It is capable of attachment, at a . com- paratively small cost, to existing single-box looms. There are 850,000 power looms in this country. Out of this number Crossley's invention will be capable of being applied to 600,- 000. "Among the competitors for the favor of the trade the Crossley loom, in my estimation, stands first be- cause of its adaptability to existing looms, the simplicity of its mechan- ism, the speed at which it can run, and the rapidity with which. it af- fects the shuttle changes. "There is no commercial limit to the speed of the loom of that adjust- ment. Assuming that a loom is working at 200 picks per minute, ceilidh is a good average rate, this loom, without any pause in its action, changes the. shuttle in one four-hundredth part of a minute-- that is, half of a revolution of the first shaft. "It effects this change and at the same time entirely avoids the faults made in looms as ordinarily con- structedthat Is, making what ,are termed thick and thin places in they cloth, either by putting too much or too little weft in. "This loom after a change of shut- tle, itself resumes work in such a manner as to leave no vestige of the change having taken place, save, perhaps, a broken pick, which might, extend half way acress .the shed. .It thus makes a superior cloth . to the existing loom." 4 The oldest monkish order is the Basiliana, haYing been established in A.D. 863. The next, the Benedic- tines, date from 529. The telegraphs of Great Britain were transferred to Government on February 5th, 1870. The Post Of- fice now controls 280,000 miles of telegraph wire. Tenants Occupy 21 million acres of England, owners 8,700,000. In Scotland owners occupy but 604,000 acres against 44 million occupied by tenants. A BUSY SPOT. The Greatest Telegraph Office in the World. The. Central Telegraph Office at St. Afarthi's-le-Grand is the busiest spot in London. Day and night, Sunday and weekday throughout the year, the place is the scene of great ac- tivity, for the building is never closed. At this one telegraph office be- tween 125,000 and 150,000 tele- grams are handled daily. The re- cord number of messages received and despatched in one day is 195,- 411, which was the number reached on the day before the late Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 1807. There are no fewer than 1,226 telegraph in- struments and a staff of nearly 4,- 600 persons is employed. There are 2,470 men telegraphists, about 1,- 200 lady telegraphists, 880 messen- gers, and fifty special servants. - It is wonderful what the little clicking machines are capable of ac- complishing and the variety to be found in this immense building. There are hundreds of duplex ma- chines, which signal two messages at the same time over one wire in' opposite directions. More wonderful still is the multiplex machine, by which a clerk can despatch six mes- sages at the same time in different directions. For very rapid working the Wheatstone apparatus is called into play, whereby a speed of 350 words a minute can be obtained ; indeed, the instrument has a record of 600 words a minute. When anything important occurs the Central Telegraph Office is ex- ceedingly busy sending reports across its numerous wires. Often as many as 500,000 words are despatch- ed in the early hours of the morning of a famous Parliamentary speech. When Mr. Gladstone introduced his Home Rule Bill, in 1886, over 1,- 000,000 words were despatched over the wires from the head office. This is regarded at the Central Telegraph Office as a "night's" record, Messages can be sent from this of- fice to all parts of the world. In ad- dition to the telegraph wires there are numerous telephones, ono of the most interesting being that from London to Paris. As many as 300 persons have used it in a single day, and a charge of his. is made for ev- ery 'talk of three minutes' duration or less. MENACE TO PUBLIC HEALTH. Londoners' Bread Baked in Cellar Bake-Houses. Half the bread'supplied in London comes from cellar bake-houses that violate the first principle of sanita- tion, and frequently cause typhus and other filth diseases, according to Dr. J. F. Waldo, the newly elected coroner of' the City of . London. "The total abolition of these plac- es," says Dr. Waldo, "is the only means of ensuring the production of bread under healthy conditions. Years of investigation as health ale- cm. of Southwark have convinced me that the Ccivernment must take the most stringent measures, otherwise the opposition of the trade, backed by the supineness of the local author- ities, will render powerless all efforts to remove a public scandal and a grave menace to the health of the community. • "I believe that conditions are worse in London than anywhere. Germany recently took strong remedial mea- sures, as did New York, some time ago. . It is almost impossible to exag- gerate the unsanitary state of more than half the bake-houses of the me- tropolis. Scarcely one is specially constructed for the purpose. The majority are cellars in ordinary dwellings. The air is vitiated, and there are many sources of active con- tamination, to say nothing of rats, mice, beetles, and spiders, found in many places. "The theory that baking renders absorbed particles harmless is en- tirely unwarranted, and is insflat Con- tradiction with medical science. So long as underground bake-houses are tolerated, so long will the public run the risk of being poisoned by the bread it eats." THE POPE'S BIG MAU., Gets About 23,000 Letters and Pa- pers a Day. A Berlin newspaper publishes some curious details respecting the letter- bogs of the principal European sov- ereigns. The Pope holds the first place, as he receives every day from 22,000 to 23,000 letters and news- papers. King Edward VII. comes next, with 3,000 newspapers and 1,000 letters. The Czar and the Ger- man Emperor receive each from 600 to 700 letters, appeals, etc.; the King of Italy, 500; Queen IVilhelmina from 100 to 150. The Pope, says the same authority; employs no fewer than thirty-five secretaries. Emperor William writes a great deal himself, -and since Queen Victoria's death he has used black- bordered paper. In ordinary times he uses large sheets of light blue or dark grey paper. The world produces a million pounds of silk a. week. Portugal is the most illiterate countryo in Europe. 67 per cent. of its population cannot write. In It- aly the proportion of illiterates is 53 per cent., in Russia 36, in Spain 9, in England Si. Bronchitis is the most fatal dis- ease in England, next consumption, and then heart disease, pneumonia, and scarlatina. Of 100 European immigrants the United States takes 63, British Col- onies 11, South America 18, and the rest of the world the remaining 18. The average duration of human life is about 33 years. One quarter of all the people born in the world die before 6, and one-half before 16. The most important tunnel in the world is the Mont Cents, 71 miles long. Through it passes the main overland route from London to the east. It took 23 years to construct, and cost fifteen million dollars, STROWGER'S NEW LIQUID GAS. MOST POPULAR NAMES. List of Those Which Are Usually, Given Children. Some romantic parents love to christen their infants with high- fain-, tin'. names. Religious parents search' the Scriptures before the baptismal: ceremony. Parents in search of a fortune will label their luckless babes with the surname of the expected tes- tator. But, nevertheless, the list of common English surnames is a very small one. Out of every hundred fathers and mothers of male children. some eighty-four limit their choice to fifteen' familiar names. The favorite name is undoubtedly William. In all ranks of society—in the peerage as in the workhouse— William is the commonest of all Christian names. Stop the first thousand men you meet in the street. No fewer than 170 are Williams. A long way be-, hind come the Johns, closely follow- ed by the Georges. Of every thou-I sand men ninety-four are called John I and ninety-two George. The next commonest name -is Thomas, which has seventy-four own- ers, while James claims seventy-two. I Henry and Harry between them are( seventy in number. Of these about one in four have received the name of Harry at the baptismal font. Fel- lowing them come Frederick with fifty-seven, Charles with forty-eight, Alfred with forty-five, and Albert' some. way behind with ,thirty-one.; The popularity of Albert has arisen entirely from the personal popularity; of our late Queen's beloved consort. I It was practically unknown in Eng-I rlande.before Queen Victoria's mar-' ing The good old Saxon appellation of; Edward is given to five arid twenty' out of every thousand citizens, Ar-I thur and Robert having each twenty-I three, while of the reenae te indacercoosf thousand men you vav the street seventeen are called Jos- t4hoisn i those' thousand eph and fifteen Herbert. S9 we have accounted for no fewer than 856 out of every thousand Englishmen, and they divide between them only fifteen out of the many hundreds, nay thou- sands of names from which their par- ents are at liberty to choose. Of the remaining-144 of our repre- sentative thousand a few, such as Richard, Percy or Ernest are claimed' severally by two or three men, bun all the rest are the sole and exclu- sive property of one in a thou- sand." Nurse—I lost track of the child mum, and—" Good gracious I Why didn't you speak to a police. man ? Nurse—I was speaking ti wan all the tohne, mum. that there was something very wrong with the bank. The result was the "run" on Gresford's, in which crowds of anxious people ga- thered, drawing out many thousands in a few hours. The bank, of course, was as sound as a rock, and there seemed no sort of reason for the strange loss of me- mory of the chairman, who was al- ways cheery and contented and had no worries of any sort. The strang- est thing was that he remembered about half the members of his family but had no recollection of the other half; and as for the bank and its af- fairs, they were a closed book to him. Two years later; however, he regained part of his memory; but that memorable journey north never found its place in nis mind. e--- HEALING THE SMART. An Incident of the Tact of the King of England. Everyone who has known the King of England concludes that he is a man of tact, and in the best sense a good•fellow. Sometimes his ex- sited position forces him to take an authoritative course which his kind- pliinoerses of heart may cause him to de- One night some distinguished men were at his house, and one of them, after dinner, took his place at the piano, and began to sing a vulgar song. Every eye, save that of the singer, was turned on the Prince of Wales. He made no effort to dis- guise his disapproval, and moved leis chair slightly. A terrible silence fell upon the room, but the singer took it for attention and kept on. The prince coughed and fidgeted. arid then, as the offender continued to be oblivious, began talking. He talked more and more loudly, and the singer' stopped, looked round, and • grew crimson. He had been snubbed. There was no mistake about it. There the matter might have end- ed, so far as tire prince was con- cerned, but there it did not end. The guests of the evening went away ..„nd told their comrade's dis- grace. The papers caught it up and ndmonelee. the most of it. The singer was, so far as England was concern- ed, socially and professionally un- done. The sequel came to the ears of the prince, and he was sorry. The man had deserved punishment, but he had not deserved ruin. So at the next entertainment where lie sang the Prince and. Princess of Wales were present. They sat in the front of their box, and warmly applauded a man who had been punished enough without the interference of their fel- lows. Then they sent for him and his wife, chatted cordially with them and did not forget to have the cir- cumstance duly chronicled in the pa- pers. VERY USEFUL AMMUNITION. An army officer, now in South Af- rica, tells an odd tale of the Sikh War in India. Lalla Moolraj was be- sieged by tire British in klultan and put up a stubborn defence. One day some of his men came across a stock of calmed provisions, left by the for- mer British occupants, and which were then quite a novelty. Lelia supposed that the cans contained ex- plosives of some kind, and ordered them to be fired at the besiegers. So for one whole day the British army was bombarded with showers of kip- pered herring, Yarmouth bloaters, corned beef, and condensed milk. LOOKED LINE NCR. Sir, said the gentleman, angrily, as he burst into the photograph gal- lery, you have insulted my wife and I demand satisfaction ! Believe me, sir, said the photo- grapher,' soothingly, I am innocent of any intended offence ; what have I done 7 You will have to fight, sir, went on the man ; you took a picture for my wife and it looks like her, HE COULDN'T. Oh, Mr. Spooneigh, pray rise. It is not right that :you should kneel at my feet. Rise, I beg of you 1 implor- ed the fair lady. But he didn't rise. His Irish did, though, and he replied, solemnly I'm- afraid—er—Miss Grace—I'm afraid I'm kneeling on your—er— that is, you dropped your chewing gum, and, oh, Miss Grace, I'm stuck on you ! LONG-CHERISHED DELUSION. The "longest day," a correspondent writes is nothing more than a cour- tesy title this year, since there were no fewer than nine days (June 18th to 26th) on which the sun was above the horizon for the longest period of the year. There are also no fewer than twelve shortest days (December 17th to 28th). It is a delusion to suppose that in any year there is a single longest or shortest day. IN DOG DAYS. I notice you've got summer pants on, remarked the dog fancier. Yes, gasped the exhausted terrier, but they're not loud; certainly not as loud as some of this season's flan- nels. • True. Nevertheless, what you need is muzzlire. THE PART HE TOOK. The Don—And what part did you take in this disgraceful proceeding of holding Mr. Waters under the pump? lindergrad (modestly)—His left leg, sir, Jelly glasses and covers should be sterilized by setting them in a pan of cold water, and letting the wa- ter come gradually , to the boiling point. Lay a cloth folded several times into a shallow pan, of hot wa- ter, drain and set on the hot, wet cloth; it is also well to place a sil- ver teaspoon in a glass while filling lt, as the silver• absorbs the heat which might crack the glass. Dip the spoon into boiling water before putting it into the glass. - To make a jelly bag, fold two op- posite corners of a piece of cotton and wool flannel three-quarters of a yard long. Sew in the form of a mornucopia, round at the end. Fell the seam to make it more secure. Bind the top with tape and finish with two or three heavy loops by which it may be hung. For currant jelly pick over the currants but do not pick them from the stems; if needed wash and drain them; then put into a preserving kettle. Mash and cook slowly until the juice seems to be extracted leav- ing the skins white. Put into the jelly bag and strain. Measure the clear strained juice and allow an equal measure of granulated sugar. Put the juice back into the kettle end the sugar on to a plate • and heat it in the oven, but do not let It melt or caramelize. Let the juice boil live minutes, add the sugar and boil five minutes more. Skim thor- oughly and carefully, that none of the scum or cloudy portions falls into the clear liquid. Fill the glass- es; kaep in the sun or a dry place for 24 hours then coyer with paraf- line and put on the tin cover. ' For blackberey Jelly follow the same rule; raspberries should be un- der ripe in order to jelly well. For barberry jelly be sure that the fruit has not been touched by frost. Allow one- half cup of water to four quarts of barbarries, because they are so dry ; then follow the general rule. For grape jelly the wild grape is much better than the choice cultivat- ed kind. Pick, wash and drain the grapes, put into the preserving -ket- Ile without water; then heat to the boiling point; mash with a'-wooden potato masher and boil one-half an hour before draining. Green grape jelly requires on'e-quarter more su- gar than ripe grapes. Pick the grapes when fully grown and just beginning to turn. - Cut apples into quarters and take out specks, stem and blossom. Put Into a preserving kettle and add cold water so that it can Just be seen among the-pieces. Cook slowly until soft, but take care not to let it burn; drain through a jelly bag. Boil the juice 15 minutes, then add an equal measure of heated sugar. To have apple jelly of first quality do not squeeze the strainer bag at all, but use the clear juice for the first grade of jelly, then squeeze the bag gently and make a second grade which will not be quite as clear, but will be good enough for cake fillings, tarts and many other uses. Be Sara' that quinces have not Can Be Compressed and Placed in a Bottle or Wheelman's Lamp. Important scientific advances have been made by Walter Scott Strowger, of Rochester, N.Y., the inventor, in studying the nature of his new liquid gas. He has succeed- ed in liquefying it at pleasure and in producing it by cold chemical pro‘ cess. He can also compress it so that a quantity can be placed in a bottle, and by placing a pipe with a gas burner on top, the tap may be turned and a brilliant light will re-. cult, just as though the regualr gas of commerce were being used. The history of the discovery is somewhat interesting. When Mr. Strowger first talked with Prof. S. H. Lattimore, the professor was dumbfounded and declared that it was contrary to chemical action. Mr. Strowger took the professor in- to his confidence and they together accomplished what the professor said could not be done, viz: com- pressed the gas until it liquefied without 'risk of accident. An 'im- portant feature of the gas is that in its production there remains a , residue of great value, the sale of which will cover all expenses of mak- ing the gas, so that actually the gas could be dispensed free of charges and the proprietors would get rich. The gas is said to have an added ele- ment of safety, in that it gives forth. A RICH, PUNGENT ODOR, easily detected when escaping, se. that in case of pipe leakage heti.- holders can be warned of danger, just as they are now with common gas. In demonstrating the use of the gas to some friends air.. Stowger used two small steel tanks, weigh- ing about fourteen pounds, 3 inches. in diameter and 14 inches high, con- ' taming gas compressed 500 to 1 Mr. Strowger attached a tube to tho- neck of a tank and with a wrench turned on the gas, which, on being Ignited, gave &brilliant light, not-. quite as white as acetylene, but su- perior to common gas. It burned with a steady glow, having at its base a beautiful bluish tint. Mr. Strowger explained that by using a burner suitable to the nature of the new gas, greater brilliancy will be obtained. This was the first exhibi- tion of Mr. Strowger's gas under liquefaction, with very primitive ap-• . plia.nces, but he assured those who saw it that when administered. through a simple apparatus that he is nose perfecting the light will be. very clear and beautiful. Mr. Strowger says that his inven-' tion will supersede the present modesi of lighting in railway cars, steam- boats and private residences and must eventually be adopted by the. great gas corporations. It is equal- ly adapted for use in horseless care riages instead of gasolene. The - smaller lamps for wheelmen and ar-1 tistic illuminations can be filled by his gas, he .ys, end supplies of it can be carried along by travellers campers, explorers and tourists' without danger. Mr.- Strowger's new electric stor- age battery, which has been tested after lying dormant for seventy- two days is being further tested. It has now lain dormant for: over three months, and retains all the electrical power with which it ill stored.