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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1899)
^ BLA3TINQ WITH STEAM. 4 To Be Generated la a Cartridge by --*» Electricity. H. Schaw, an English engineer, sug gests high pressure steam instead of inflammable explosives to blow out coal or ore in mines. Briefly the sug gestion is that a cartridge of pure wat er lodged in a shot-hole should be converted Into steam at a pressure of about 150 pounds per square inch by means of electricity of low tenslon.the cartridge or boiler to be made of such strength that it would burst at about this pressure, when the force set at liberty would break dov>n the coal. Mr. Kchaw made an experiment to as certain whether it would be possible to boil water by the heat produced by a current of electricity passing through a platinum wire similar to that used for firing mines immersed in water, and found that it was successful. Mr. Schaw is of opinion that at the mo ment when the boiler bursts the wire will fuse and the electric circuit will be broken, and no risk of Ignition of fire-damp or coal dust will remain from the heated wdre. But the main question is, Would this force be suffi cient? It is, of course, very much in ferior to the expansive force of gun powder, or other explosive. Mr. Schaw continues: “Under the supposition, however, that the force so developed would be sufficient to break down the undercut coal in a mine, the writer thinks that the practical working of the proposed method would present no jjyeat difficulties, and that it would be perfectly safe in any coal mine; and this is its only recommendation, for it certainly would be more expensive and troublecome than the usual methods of blasting. As an approximation, the writer would observe that a water car tridge 1% inches in diameter and 3% inches in length, to be used in a two inch blast hole, would hold about 8.4 cubic inches of water. It would be converted into high pressure steam and burst the cartridge in about 1% minutes’ with the electric power the writer suggests, and would thus exert a sudden force of about one and one third tons. STRANGE UMBRELLA DISEASE. The ‘‘umbrella disease” is a strange new affliction. William Michaels, a lawyer of Parker, Pa., has just re turned to his home, after a seven , months’ unsuccessful stay In this city, where he came in the hope of being cured of this strange disease. A few years ago Mr. Michaels got into the habit of carrying an umbrella * about with him everywhere, no mat ter how favoraDle the weather might be. The umbrella was no inconsider able weight, and the constant pressure of the bend of the handle on the ball of his thumb finally resulted in the formation of a callosity there. Short ly afterward the calloused part began to sting at intervals, unil gradually it became so that the pain was contin -ttous and almost unbearable. When Mr. Michaels came to this city eight months ago the first phvsician he sought told him that his hand was gradually turning to stone, and that the only thing for him to do was to have the hand amputated. Michaels refused to give up hope, and went about from physician to physician, un til when, a few weeks ago, his hand had become as rigid and cold as mar ble, he reluctantly agreed to have his hand amputated at the wrist. Now he is relieved of all pain. A somewhat similar case occurred in London a short time ago, when a member of paliament had his hand turn to stone from carrying a hea.y cane. It will be remembered also that the since dead ossified man claimed that his ossification began in his feet and _ (hat the doctors attributed the cause to the wearing of extremely tight shoes. “Corns” are simply a modifi cation of ossification.—New York Jour nal. A» Ancient I’edlgrec. The “tuattera lizard” is said to be perhaps the most remarkable a^.uiai now living in New Zealand, a...1 the “oldest existing type of re;'tile. ’ So deeply are naturalists interested in this curious species of animal,, which seems to be as closely related to tur tles as to lizards, that legislative pro tection has been secured for it. Un fortunately, the eggs of the creature ’appear not to be covered by the pro tective act, and Nature expresses grat ificaticn that only one man, a Mr. Henaghan, who can be trusted, knows where to look for the precious eggs. Before they are all destroyed it is hoped that the biologists will have an opportunity to determine how the strange animal is developed, and whether it is more a lizard than a tur tle, or more a turtle than a lizard. statistics on ChU.lron. As the, .esult of a careful investiga tion of 24,000 cases. Dr. Jarosie pre sented to the director of the Hunga rian bureau of statistics the following conclusions: The offspring of parents between the ages of 20 and 25 are like ly to be weak and delicate,but between 25 and 45 will probably be strong and thrive. The mother bears most ro bust children between her twenty-fifth and thirty-fifth year. When the mother is ten years younger than the father the proportion of healthy children is greatest, the chances being 10 per cent more favorable than when the parents are of about the same age. Ail Elephant.** Pmell An elephant is possessed of such a delicate sense of soell that it can scent a human being at a distance of 1,000 yards. When you talk of the responsibility of Uncle Sam in the liquor traffic, re member U. S. spells us. Preserves —fruit*. Jellies, pickles or catsup ora 1 more easily, more quickly, mors t healthfully sealed with Relltied ; . I’araffine wax than by any other f | method. Dozens of other uses will be V '““'"Refined ‘ I Paraffine Wax ! 1 In every household. It Is clean, J I tasteless and odorless—air, water ( and acid proof, Oct a pound cake of 1 It with a list of its many uses , from your druggist or grocer. t | Bold everywhere. Made by I | STANDARD OIL CO. 1 MORE TAXES ARE TO BE ADDED How the Policy of Expansion Works In European Countries. From the Springfield Republican: The French cabinet is elaborating a scheme of progressive income taxa tion. It is designed to raise 175,000, 000 francs a year, and it will apply es pecially to the wealthier classes who manifest their means in living and pleasure expenditure. The rental value of the habitation will bo used primarily to calculate the income of the occupant, and this calculated in come is increased so much by each ser vant employed, carriage owned or em ployed, and other evidences of income, such as yachts, dogs, motocycles and the like. Additions to taxable income from these evidences of wealth vary according to place. Thus, the em ployment of a female servant adds 800 francs to the taxable income of a per son in Paris, and so on down to 400 francs for the country villages. The enormous demands upon the exche quer incident to the maintenance of the military and naval might of the nation necessitate radical measures of public revenue, and wealth must accordingly be placed under special contribution. Great Britain’s imperial policy has forced upon the wealth of that nation the most radical system of graduated income and probate taxes existing anywhere outside of Switzerland and New Zealand, and it is only a question of a brief time at the present rate of imperial progress and navy and army expansion when the burden must be increased per capita or per unit of wealth. France is now to follow suit, and all over Europe wealth will be made more and more to contribute to the support of the luxury of colonial and military expansion—not so much because of the justice of this course, but because of the poverty of the masses and their Inflammatory state of mind. There in no large nation in the world today where wealth is rel atively so lightly taxed as In the Unit ed States. But with the entrance of the nation into the arena of the world grabbing and military powers all this must change. Wealth will be made to foot the bill. Nothing can be more certain, unless we are to suppose that the middle and lower classes of people in the United States possess less of the spirit and strength of resistance to the encroachments of privilege and power than the crushed and broken masses of Europe. OASTOniA. 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Ceylon >ii:a ; out to approach an lepha.it i v/j. ie.l by its keeper to stand *• la t iso the aninn.1 was vic.ou.*. ; ii> • en gineer paid no head to . ea ion, and went etri.-ght to the . .. I ... the creature, whic.i be. an to ar.’3s him with its trunk. See n IV ; s./ange thing, the keeper s * tc.i ; an ex planation. The i i 1 ; ingt >oer said the elephant had < ut6 >eeu employed during the construe ten if a road from Jaffa to Kandy. On > <"a r a large thorn of an acacia tree—"n. . uagio uai .” as it is well called—ente his t het j at below the eye. ' b > • t orn li oki short whilst the a'.te .d: t r n . ring to take it out. nnt r . mgr.', infla led wound followed. '.'In engineer fed and talked to the ( k ph n. and then ap plied hot w.it< ■ oo Iticit t> iha wound. This ho »'i *. for a dr y o- two. when, having tjun wc tho ( feature’s confidence, lie cut e.o vn noon the thorn and got it out. The elephant had never fo’ go tc i this act of kind ness, although yerrs had passed since the engineer saw it a ain. Old NolN fi> <' .lob. Grandmamma hat been explai ling to the little girl how our earth ia kept from flying off into Infinite space by the attraction of the sun, which is con stantly trying to draw the canh to ward itself, while the fatter always keeps its distanco. "Gramma," said the little girl, “I should think tM sun would get discouraged after awhile and let go.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. It will not be a surprise to any who are at all familiar with the good quali ties of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, to know that people everywhere take pleasure in relating their experience in the use of that splendid medicine and in telling of the benefit they have received from it, of bad colds it has cured, of the threatened attacks of pneumonia it has averted Hnd of the children it has saved from attacks of croup and whooping cough. It is a grand, good medicine. For sale by P. C. 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