• What is gee coke ? Gaa coke is nearly All; carbon, and carbon properly burned will (iv» ent, 1* round numbers, 14,000 units of heat per pound, or very nearly as much as the beat English steam coals. Indeed, coal only surpasses it because of the null quantity of hydrogen which it contains anoosnhlaed with oxygen. It is often urged that coke canaot bmi good as coal Because it has lost all the heatorodnciac power «quiral*n.t to that of the gas driven off. •■• Jti» quite true that the coke resulting from out ton of coal does not possess the same calorific vata* as the coal from which It was made. ' But it must bt borfee in mind' that we are comparing < coke • with ecil weight roß.wneqr.,: Thus, lOOlbt.. •! ' coal wtei duces eeibs. of coke: so that some , SOowt, ol coal It required to produce one ton of coke, and the <dif«* enoe satisfactorily allows for the heat produdig power of the gas driven off, .■ .; ; ■■ rjji A Gold Hill, .Nevada.—A poor sufferer* who wasfa»t Sinking under the n-igh' of a compltoatiaß' of diseases, writes to as from Gold Hill, stating how he had tried one medicine after another, without benefit, until he got Bristol's Pills and Saisapanlla, three weeks' use of which healed his sons, and maM him a new man. • ' ' *. "Rough ok Corks."—Aßk,for Well* , "Ronehon Coras." Quick relief. ooaplete,?*™; nent cure. Corns, warts, buaions.-New Zealand Dm* Company, Auckland. J i^l. Ladies, hrtify against the fatigue. *» tude, loss it appetite, and t'e™* l ?*?^** NOMA heat, with Mrs. Dr. Stuart's Jemale Xonlo. Bet. -;^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7268, 5 March 1885, Page 3
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