MANY USES FOR ALCOHOL.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 402, 21 January 1904, Page 6

MANY USES FOR ALCOHOL.

r- I (hnilljr-Il Knrnxtrntxintc Itm Appll- ' oatloa tor Kutl-and for t*oner " , BiScSr Ss*«" Porpoees. ] The Kaiser of Germany is encouraging every effort toward Ihe use of al-" eohol for lighting, fuel and power i purposes, and under the stimulus of • prizes offered to inventors and engine i constructors it is being largely util-.{ Ized in various ways. Alcohol is eco- ' nomically made from a number of ! products in Germany, and conse-H quently the supply of it is very large. At a recent exhibition demonstrating! the use of alcohol there were shown: a number of motors, farming imple- "- ments and similar things propelled ! *-by- an alcohol flame. * There were ' also lamps which displayed great effi- ' eiency. In a report recently made , to Washington, Consul General Guen-j ther writes from Frankfort that the chutf of the fire department of Hanover has recently invented an alcohol .Bring apparatus, used in connection. with an automobile fire engine," which is said to be very satisfactory fat practice. The engine is driven to' the scene of the fire by an alcohol motor, and while on the way the •team is gotten up by the new invention noted above so that the engine is ready for operation immediately on its arrival on the ground. Ordinarily it is necessary to keep the engine constantly fired in order that the steam supply may be immediately available. Otherwise much time is lost in getting up steam. BEAGLES WERE TIHY DOGS. pMlallii Cooftaeo of Aaefea*PHil fc,_ CTTurt Could Bo Cants* tat ■ki _ » 01anre>- ' Share is no question thai the beagle' la s> very oldi breed. Early Soman accounts' of England contain references to the beagle, even by name. Books published from about 1580 to 1610 describe several varieties of hounds, innludfitg "the little beagle which may be carried in a man's glove." That the miniature hound was extremely popular at the time was evident from Queen Elizabeth keeping a pack which were also said to be small enough to put' in a glove, says the Country life in. America.

This statement la frequently ridteuled when it is not understood that (gloves of that period l were not the present-day Mud, but gauntlet* reaching nearly to the elbow. "What became of those glove beagles we may surmise from what we know of the results of later attempt* to maintain packs of beagles of eight to ten inches frfgh, the result after some years, being weak puppies that fall short of the fine qualities of the little hunting Hog when they are grown up.

UIfCLE SAM AS MISSIONARY. ■««r We Uaefeaa Ptoses to Ct*» I arcee B«»ov«it*d br tke Anee* I Cuban cities, like Havana and Santiago, previous to the Spanish war, jvere great breeders of pestilence, and menaces to the world. Now yellow lever and smallpox have been practically stamped out, and the death rate In the island has decreased one-half; and was lower in Havana last winter (than in New York, says the Woman's Home Companion. In Havana an engineer corps institut«d a general system of housecleaning. Every house in the city was cleaned from top to bottom under the supervision of American officers, - whether the tenant was of high or low remonstrances availed nothing. A*'many as 16,000 houses were cleaned in one month. The sewer system was given equal attention; the American authorities cleansed and repaired every foot of sewer, and did it so thoroughly and scientifically that not a man in the cleaning squads was token iIL .~j

A DIAMOND'S WORTH. SfeS X-Bat Osn Be Relied On wWt Absolut* Certain*? t»» Mifctna *•#■ '-.- : tke Tost. In from a gentrine, th* X-ray. says an article on X-ray photography, in Leslie's Monthly, can be relied l on with absolute certainty. Diamonds,, as is well "known, are pure carbon; and carbon, - which is opaque to ordinary light, is transparent to the Roentgen light, 6 while glass, which is transparent tot ' ordinary light, is opaque to the Roent- * gien ray. On an X-ray photograph of a real diamond nothing will show but the shadow of the gold setting. An interesting experiment was made "' recently in watching with the aid of an X-ray machine and a fluoroscope, motions carried on inside of an opaque body. A.goose, was fed with food mixed with subnttrrte of bismuth salt, " which absorbs the X-ray. The passage of the food down the long heck of the gooie could be plainly traced by the moving shadow east on the fiuoroecope screen. Be TCever Talk*. Geo. Kitchener recently declined to be interviews-*! by a soldier who has since h;s rstfirn t,c.n South Africa " turnirf jonm-llst. **Always pleased to see and «!?' anyJhtTtg i:>r auyne win? has served under me. but yoji know I never—" Tken he smiled and shook , bis head. ,-. ■ ■ - An Eircrfnsr T"3*U. A woman has written 4 07» words oi. one side «ff a post: ; ;-•' re". X: ■ v.rsd i * of less thai! ;hrec lyttt-rs, ami v. tit, erosvupe was us «rtorompi?te thetu»l Bora? «j» : I hy Knott. A bo>t bitten.; rfa v.:«g- n is nsed*by the rnrr.i. me '-•!i» , rv ih»;I •■arf.tera'i S >VirSi-:i, -k. I- .'. Tk« r« i-.t .* -. ; { the shores ..«* a .-. vr r : ;--.-.n.i U>»! b«r.