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flow Tin PlBts Art Mt. The following particulars of the More wood process of tinning plates, now in nw in the United States, may he of in terest. The plater are rolled in the or dinary manner into black hheets, eight of these sheets being rolled at one time, and affr being sheared to size are put in the black pickle bath of sulphuric acid, where all oxidation is removed. They are then placed in an annealing furnace for thirty-six hours, after which they uro p.xwd thrngh the cold rolls, receiving a smoothly polished surface. aneyare annealed agaiu and put luto the white pickly where they are thor oughly cleauwd from any oxidation Ihey are then ready for tho tinning jirocesa. The mode of putting on the coating of tin ia very simple. The plates are lir.-t submerged in a buth of palm oil until ali the water disappears, the oil forming a flax for the tin, the first coat of which i received in the tin pot; the plates ar next dipped in the "wash pot," and when taken out the tin ia spread over the nur face with a brush by hand. Tho final act in the tin coating process consists in passing the plates through rolls running in paliu oil, whereby the tin ia evenly distributed and a smooth surface oL tained. There are five of these rolls used, three running on top of two, and the plater" make tvo passes through them, in the first place being lot down, through the first and second of the uppekset, and by a cradle arrangement being returned through the second and third. This com pletes the tinning operation proper, and the polish ia obtained by rapid move ment of tho plates through bran and middlings, respectively, and then polish ing with sheepskin.. The result obtained ia a very excellent article of bright tin plate. Iron. A BOOK OF PICTURES. lEMARKABLE CHANGES SEEN SOME ILLUSTRATIONS. IN I'olnta That Pnrzled an IiiqlnltlTe Boy ul Convulxnl III Hiiniumui Father. Characters That Appear to Have an Estenaive Warorobo. STAYING THE HAND CP DEATH. bo looking up man grow a real What Vertigo, Cornea From. One of -.tho principal causes of the more serious forma of vertigo, or dizzi ness, ia a diseased condition of the in most portion of the ear, the labyrinth. Vertigo of greater or less severity may result from whatever disturbs the blood pressure, either within the Labyrinth or in the middle ear. Similar effects are also produced by false impressions re ceived through the eye, or through the sense of touch, and by disease of the spinal cord. Since the great nerve which goes to the stomach is at its cerebral center inti mately associated with the auditory nerve, disturbance of the stomach may cause the vertigo, and on the other hand, a disturbance of the auditory nerve may occasion nausea or vomiting. Vertigo is sometimes brought on by paralysis of a single muscle of the eye, or even by the temporary weakness of an overtaxed ocular muscle. The form of vtrtigo now known aa "Meniere's disease'- is that form which the famous Dean Swift suffered, and under which he often appeared like a staggering drunkard. The patient on Rising in the morning i'etls as if the room were whirling round, cr as if he were floating or sinking. Sometimes he falls when attacked, but he never loses consciousness. There are noises oome times quite loud in the ear and more or less deafness. There may be also faintness and vomiting. The attacks in cline to be repeated with increasing fre quency. In the intervals, however, the patient - remains well. Youth's Com panion." Those New Net Dresses. "Have you seen the new net dresses? I don't like them, they are two com municative." "Why, for pity's sake, what do you mean T "Just what 1 say, they are too com municative. You buy one, and see what a fix ycu will be in. I have one, and every time 1 put it on I wish 1 never had been born. Everything sticks to it. If you sit on the beach when you get up you are covered with shells, minnows, dirt. If you chat confidentially with a young man and get interested and sit a little near him, the wool from hia suit clings to the netting, and every one of your friends knows right away with whom you have been spending yonr time. Oh, they are horrid things 1 The merchants are advertising them big, but I wouldn't have another for any money." The speakers were two women ravag ing the Broadway dry goods stores for wardrobes for a season at Newport. New York Recorder. Contagious Disease. Individual resistance to contagion is none the less remarkable. A physician or nurse will be brought into the most intimate contact with a case of contagi ous disease without contracting it, while the same patient may communicate it to a person passing him in the street, in the early stages of his trouble, before it has developed sufficiently to cause any alarm. We have known of a most ma lignant attack of diphtheria communi cated to a druggist by a person calling at the store before his disease had fully developed itself; and a lady suffering from the mumps succeeded in communi cating them to a sympathizing neighbor who stopped for a moment at the door to inquire after her health, while other members of the family residing in the 'feame house remained unaffected. Popu lar Science News. Yh A One Sided Bargain. The champion horse trade of the vicin ity took place recently. A well known Lee jockey secured a showy colt, and hied himself to the Dale to see tne boys. en he came back ha was driving a . t i - a i 0 DiaCK norse, leaoing a goou Day, wlnle there fouowea Denina a pair or oxVn, a cow, an old sow and eight pigs. Springfield (ilass.) Republican. Beautiful Shell Money. The most beautiful shell money in the world is made of the abalone of our western coasts. When polished the abalone shows lovely green, purple and iridescent colors, and the Indians from California to Alaska value it highly, as do the manufacturers of pearl buttons. Philadelphia Press. "Papa,' asked the from hia book, "'can a beard in one day?" "1 should say not." answered the father cautiously, being mindful of the fact that within a week the boy had put to him this question "Why does a woman walk on her heels in crossmi a muddy Htreet," and when he answered that he did not know, the boy had said "To get across." But there was no sell about the question the boy asked, nor about the next one, which was this: "Can a man get bald in one night? "lie might in an Indian country." an swered the father, whereupon there was silence for a little time. Then the buy impatiently said: "I don't understand these pictures at alL Everybody in them keeps chang ing around, and 1 don't know who in who, and I don't see how they kmv each other half a day running." The book was "The Swiss Family Robinson," and the title page declared that there were "100 illustrations. Jt was worth while to follow the "family through the pictures. Putting aside a colored frontispiece which depicted a lusty barelegged boy on a rock, with a polo cap crowning a shock of yellow hair parted in the bark. a bow in his hand and hia eyes fixed or a spouting whale that looked like a sar dine sneezing violently, the panorama opened with the "family" kneeling in grateful prayer for its escape. The father, with head bald on top, smooth shaven face and long locks of white hair falling on his shoulders was the central figure, and made an. ideal vicar of Wakefield. Fritz, the eldest son, wore a long coat and long trousers, and Franz, tho youngest, was distinguished by a large button on his coat in the small of the back. This was in the fore noon. IJOnTXIN'O CHANGES. A few hours later, in the afternoon, behold the change! The father had grown fine, closely trimmed side whiskers, and he and hia sons had changed their st raight locKs ror crisply curling nair. r rom a gentle faced Madonna the mother had been changed into a vivacious looking Jewess, and, strangest of all, two St Bernards in the first picture had become trim bulldogs, with every appearance of being able to make a good fight. Then there came a lightning charge. In five minutes their father's whiskers had grown an inch or two, Fritz and he had gotten into knickerbockers, termi nating in the fathers case in blue stock ings and buckled shoes, both of them had lost the curl out of their hair, and one of the bulldogs had been metamor phosed into a setter standing over a red isn Drown raooit tnat waa declared in the text to be an agouti. Noon, the next day, and the father and Fritz were again presented, seated this time by a brook, but conveniently near a stone jug that might have held molasses and might not. The father looked like a Highlander in a farmer's clothes, and Fritz, who had grown three or four years older, was dressed like Dan ton when that gentleman was of some con sequence in Paris and looked like him. One of the doga had become a King Charles spaniel. The other did not ap pear, but was probably in seclusion, 6et tling on the breed in which he would next appear. The pair were on a hunting excursion on their deserted island. A few hours Jater Fritz had gotten his shock of yel low hair back, and traded hia Danton costume" for knickerbockers, blue stock ings and a sack coat, while his father had somewhere picked up a Russian peas ant's dress, and grown a full brown beard, and the King Charles had become a setter. The jug had disappeared. PERSONAL APPEARANCE. That night the father shaved himself down to the side whiskers, dyed his own and Fritz's hair black, put a sailor shirt on himself and a pair of striped lawn tennis trousers on Fritz, and the next morning went out sailing. While they were absent the Jewish faced mother changed her countenance for a subdued Irish, arrayed herself in a dark blue gown that disclosed a red petticoat, and put a yellow handkerchief on her head. Taking Jack, one of her other 6ons, and putting a trim polo cap on his yellow locks, the two, accompanied by one of the St. Bernards, went out for a walk. A day or two later the father had got ten back his full, yellow beard, which he seemed to wear with his peasant cos tume, and one of the dogs had changed into a hound. But if you hoped the father would stay that way long enough for you to get acquainted with him, di vest your mind of that thought. Before night he had returned to his trim side whiskers and curly hair, while Fritz had shrunk in length, broadened in girth, and put on long trousers that were too short for him and heavy shoes. And so the pictures run. The father changes his clothes, his beard and his hair at least once, and often two or three times a day, Fritz is a good second in this kaleidoscopic performance, the mother facially runs through all the races and exhibits a bewildering number of differ ent costumes, the little boys must have been branded or their parents would never have been able to keep track of them, so extraordinary were the changes they underwent, and the dogs offered enough varieties to have given a capital bench 6how. The "one hundred illustra tions" were altogether the most entertain ing things about the copy of "The Swiss Family Robinson" over which the boy puzzled and the boy's father laughed. New York Times. V'tiei-e Is Raid to ll a Certain und Ilxpl.l Means of ltnuii'itMl tori. Colonel Henry Elsdale. ol the Real engineers, claims to have discovered a certain and rapid myitis of resuscitating persons from the effects of sutfocaiion. A sapper among the men under his com mand at Chatham was oue day found enveloped in the folds of a half einptj war balloon The coal gas with which it had been inflated had Pirifwated him. and to all appearances he was a dead man But efforts were made to restore him. though tha pulstdeka heart and ca daverous face of the man gave no en couraeiuent to persevere. In a mo ment of something like inspiration it occurred to Colonel Elsdale to send for some tubes of compressed oxygen, which had been prepared for the oxyhydrogen light. This pure oxygen, at a very high pres sure, waa uurriediy conveyed into tlie mouth of the prostrate sapper by means jf inserting the nozzle of the valve be tween his teeth, and the supply was 'gently turned on" to the smallest ex tent. The effect waa absolutely instan taneous. In an instant he opened his eyes and seized the nozzle between his teeth. In short, the sapper was not onlj thoroughly revived within a few min utes. but in half j'.n hour r.-alked away, quite well, to the barracks, and refusal to go to the military hospital, as was suggested by his commanding officer Of course the objection will be raised that everybody has not tubes of pure oxygen at high pressure in readiness to apply to such cases. Happily oxygen in quantities as large as thoso administered is not needed, and it can be stored "m small, strong bottles made of the finest steel, with a valve giving an absolute hermetic seal." These vessels may be as small as a soda water bottle, and may be made part of the medical stock of every doctor. Oxygen at any degree of compression required can, in fact, now be obtained, and the whole apparatus for restoring vitality can be packed in a small box quite portable. What possibilities may not such a dis covery as that to which we have drawn attention involve! It is equally availa ble, we are assured, for those persona who have been asphyxiated by choke damp in coal mines, or by ordinary coal gas. People apparently drowned, and those insensible from long exposure in the rigging of a ship, might also be saved from an untimely end by what Colonel Elsdale calls "a dose of oxygen." It would probably be invaluable, too, in cases of suffocation from the fumes of charcoal, or in cases where chloroform had operated injuriously on a, weak heart. Such a discovery should at once occupy the attention of the Royal Col lege of Physicians, with a view of ascer taining whether Colonel Elsdale has overrated the beneficient effects to be an ticipated from the administration of pure oxygen. London Chronicle. The New Silver "It is not likely that ti:or; will ever be 1 '.ed titjii of debigns for '.'nit another comrx br the pr-M 'ic- I St.V :'S coins," said As.-:stant Di" ctr of the .'.'i:;? Pr i tori. " the one jn.-t ended w is too wretched a fa', are Doubtlen it was th" firt centes: of the sort -v r opened by any government to the public at large. The result ia not very flattering to the boasted artistic development of j this country, inasmuch as onlv two of the 8(0 suggestions submitted were good enough to receive honorable mention. So the affair has been handed over to the eugraving force of the Philadelphia mint, which will produce the dies re quired according to such patterns as its own sense of the beautiful suggests." The designs for Undo Sam's coins hitherto have been produced at the money making establishment at Phila delphia, where the dies for all the mints are turned out. Anticipating a severe popular criticism, tne cuier engraver will do his utmost to render tho five cameo pictures called for ;;s unexcep tional as possible, esthetically speaking. There must be a substitute of some kind, representing Liberty, fortheschoolmarm on the dollar, the reverse of which re quires a better type of bird than the present buzzard. Also the unprepossessing female, seated upon a cotton bale, ia to bo removed from the half dollar, quarter and dime. Plaster casts of the patterns evolved will be submitted for approval to the director of tho mint and the secretary of the treasury, and as soon as they have been pronounced satisfactory dies will be made and small change of new and love ly mold will thereafter jingle in the pockets of the people. No alteration is to be made in tho gold coins, because they aro really exquisite now, and could hardly be unproved upon. It is realized that the ruonev of a nation is expressive of its art culture. There fore, lest posterity imagine the present generation to have been barbarous, it is desirable that our silver pieces should be as handsome aa may be. Washington Letter. rj.i ' . K "iX SANTA CLAUS SOAPi w wyurzz ' ----- r 1 1 - - ' i i ' . wJ id. There's baqks of violets, Banks of roas, fju Dsns wrjere njiriers grope Arjd baJjks trjai handle golder coin, BtJtFAIRBANK nakeaTHE BEST SOAP. OSES SahiaClausSoar N.KjAIRBANK&CO. CHICAGO. N W LUMBER YAAR J. !). (2 HAVES & c'J. DEALERS IN FINE LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH, HASH. DOORS, mJNDS.rind all building material Call and sec us at the corner of 11th and Elm street, one block north of Ileisel's miS. A veteran Provincetown (Mass.) fish erman, who claims to know, says that when mackerel are on the move the ad vanced body is entirely composed of fe male fish, while the rear column is formed of th male. II ow It Feels to Date a Hug in One's Ear. "A bug in his ear," ia a figure very ex tensively used in common conversation. But, reader, did you ever have a bug in your ear in fact? If not, you have no idea how it feels. B. F. Tomlinaon, who experienced the sensation, says he never suffered such torture in his life. The bug crawled into his ear while he waa lying in bed asleep, between 11 and 12 o'clock one night. It was only a com mon candlebug or fly, but the degree of torture one of them can inflict while in the ear is beyond the scope of the imagi nation. Mr. Tomlinson said that when he awoke he dreamed that a railway train had jufnped the track, struck him in the ear and was plowing its way through his head. The train kept going, but it seemed that it would never get through. Occasionally it would 6top and then start again with renewed force. Then again the train seemed to be at a stand still, but the wheels would be turning with lightning rapidity. The train would move off gradually with a grating noise, and would not stop till the whistle blew for the next station or it ran off the track or collided with another train, which frequently occurred. Mr. Tom linson stood the torture till daylight, when he sent for a doctor, who succeeded in fishing out the bug, which in the meantime had died. Mr. Tomlinson said that if the bug had remained in his ear an hour longer he would have been a raving maniac. Mexico (Mo.) Intelli gencer. Strengthening Cast Iron. borne or tne most promment iron founders are introducing a new and sim ple practice in order to secure stronger castings, the method in question consist ing in placing thin sheets of wrought iron in the center of the mold previous to the operation of casting. This method was first resorted to, it appears, in the casting of thin plates for the ovens of cooking stoves, it being found that a sheet of thin iron in the center of a quar ter inch oven plate rendered it practi cally unbreakable by fire. This result has led to the process be ing now applied to the casting of large iron pipes, a core of sheet iron imparting additional strength and lessening the liability to any fracture. As an evi dence of the additional strength capable of being imparted by this means, it is stated that a plate of iron one-fourth of an inch thick, cast with a perforated sheet of 27-wire gauge wrought iron in the center, possessed six times the strength of a similar cast plate with no core. The quarter inch plate had the strength of a plate one inch thick. New York Sun. The Safe the Kaiser Took vritli Him j.nose wno saw tne emperor s luggage brought ashore at Port Victoria will re member the iron safe which formed part of it. In this safe was the large collec tion of jeweled 6nulf boxes, silver ciga rette cases, diamond breastpins, signet rings, etc., which the kaiser brought with him for distribution among the members of the queen's household and many other officials with whom he was brought in contact during his visit. These assorted gifts, which have been cased up by the emperor during the past two years literally by the gross, have now been duly distributed, and have probably for such ia human nature caused more heartburning and disap pointment than delight. Large as the stock was, it did not prove quite large enough, and several members of the kaiser's suite were en gaged for some time at the West End in buying a further assortment of trinkets to serve as presents from the kaiser. The German Orders which the latter has distributed were brought over in a sep arate car.e, and in a quantity which re calls the incident of the Russian baron in "Ninicha." London Figaro. uth, Nebraska Everything to Furnish Your House. AT I. PE ARLMAN'S . EMPORIUM. -(JREAT MODKltN- HOUSE FURNISHING Two Miles a Day by Rail. Some illustrations of modern railway speed cited before the parliamentary committee on the cross country railway bill merit special attention, showing what can be accomplished when a rail way company makes an effort. A Bux ton coal merchant says that sometimes the Midland company manages to con vey coal from Buxton to Chesterfield in eleven to tnirtj'-four days, and as the towns are more than twenty miles apart it will be seen that sometimes the coal trains dash along the line at the rate of two miles a day. Once the witness found a bird's nest in a truck which had been thirty days on the way, and he reasonably believes that the nest was built and the eggs laid during the month. Yet this Buxton merchant is not happy and desires a change. Engineering. Having purchased the J. Y. Weckbach store room on south Main street where lam now located I can sell iroods cheap er than the cheapest havinir Hist put in the lar?est stock i J. - - C3 of new goods ever brought to ,the city. Gasoline stoves and furniture of all kinds sold on the installment plan. I. PErVRLMAiV WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HANI) A Full and Complete line of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, and Oils. DSUGGISTS SUNDRIES AND PURE LIQUORS Prescriptions Carefully Compounded at all Hours HAVELOCK A Door in an Old Church. Now and then a small door may be seen high up in the piers that divide the nave from the chancel. This is the door that once gave access from the winding stair within the pier to the footway on the top of the screen with which most churches were once provided. When screens were found inconvenient and were removed, these doors were left. Rss church, Herefordshire, has a no ticeable example; Hinckley church, Lei cestershire, has another. Gentleman's Magazine. Bogged the Dead Man's Pardon. A curious scene was witnessed at tie funeral of David Ruben, a prominent pawnbroker. Ruben started in business ave years ago with A. Kline. Business Falling off last winter the firm dissolved. A few weeks later Kline rented quarters next to the old place and started in oppo sition to Ruben, and went around ask ing the latter's customers for their busi- cess. This so preyed on Ruben's mind that he was taken sick and died of ty phoid fever, and his funeral took place from an undertaker's establishment. When the friends were all assembled, to the surprise of everybody Kline walked into the room, and advancing to the cof fin humbly begged the pardon of the dead man for the injury he had done him. Those present were deeply affect ed. Helena Cor. St. Louis Republic ARE YOU - GOING - TO - BUILD - THERE? IF SO- Vialons of a Brother's Death. A special from Richmond, Ind., says: "Some months ago Sarauel Nutting, of this city, was run down by a switch en- eme ana instantly milea. .tie naa no relatives here, but hr.d a sister some where ia the west, of whom nothing had been heard for years. Yesterday Post master Jenkinson received a letter from the 6ister, who lives near Davenport, la., asking for information as to her brother, and stating that she had dreamed that her brother had been killed in an acci dent and had felt worried over the mat ter, so she determined to write and learn if something had happened to him. Par ticulars were s5nt to her today of tho death of her brother." Remember that R. O. Castla & Co have an immense stock of LUMBER AND ALL1BUILDIDG MATERIAL -A.T HAVELOCK And Guarantee Satisfaction in alljr jifns R. O. CASTLF. & CO HAVELOCK, NEFJRASKA. An Cgly Predicament. John Qeiss, a Michigan blacksmith, got his foot tangled in a rope attached to a balloon at Wenonah Beach, on Sagi naw bay. He called to the folks to hold him when the balloon went up, but they could not. However, he got his feet un tangled before he had gone more than three or four rods, and falling on soft sand, he escaped injury. Philadelphia Ledger. 1 fiTS& i rl b POSITIVE CUR FT Si