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EARTH SURVEYA эт
DOUBLE ATMOSPHERE-SWEDISH TRIC ILON-THE GAS TUGBOAT-COOKING
IN ALUMINUM FRENCH FORESTLY--SWED- ENS YUEL-SAN AUSTRIAN FIZE ENGINE
METAL HARDNESS IN COLDA NEW ITCH.
lapsmed, the slack rope formed into a loop, passed through it and over the animal's nose. And so, for the first time in his life, Mr., Roan
the
A little more than a century ago, 2,500,000 sores in the Landes, France, ware shifting and danes and disease-breeding marshes. The plant PENDULUM GUE ing of pines has changed this to one of the at the unwelcome pressure of head halter.
He did his bost to show his disapproval, ELEC-most productive and healthfal in France, but it was an easy matter to hold in now, Great forests have taken the place of the sand and to pull him fre this way, then that, |-dunes and marshes, and the wood, oharcoal. Protesting every foot of lost round, but
turpentine, rosin and ether industries have always forced to conoode it at last.
The brought prosperity to what was the most deso- the end of a fall half hour's apparently fruit-
patience of the mon was inexhaustible. At late region in the country. Forests now cover less "pulling," with slow movement and un- The site of a vanished mountain range in 18 per cent. of France or 23,500,000 acres,fed brow he would again fool his way along India was curiously revealed by the pendulam cost annually $5 cents au noro, and yield murmured encouragement and gentle strokings, rope to soothe the frenzied animal with, same years ago, late 'observations having con-yearly income of $5,000,000. firmed the discovery. Tho pendulum, as is well-
The ond came suddenly, as it often does. known, is deflected from the vertical by moun would yield 10,000 million tons of air-dried peat more of its own accord.
The boga of Sweden, it is now estimated, the horse advanced two steps, and took thres In answer to a more than usually severe pull, tains, and in 1992 Col. Burrard, travelling south-Compared with prosent coal imports, this would that by this means it could not only slacken It had discovered ward, found that the northward deviation supply the country with fuel for 1,500 years.
the pressure of the rope on its nose but ap gradually diminished, then was followed by a
parently satisfy the detestable little man deviation southwaril, that increased, reached a
A new electric fire-pump for the town of with the furry legs, for he promptly. turned maximum, diminished, and was at last succeeded Waidhofon-on-Ips, built by the manager of the round the corral, with the hors following like aaonchalant back, and strode raud and by a now deflection to the north. These obser- municipal electric station, is designed to throw a dog. "Got my saddle," he said, as he passed vations, on the vast plain of northern India, more than 100 gallons of water through two us. But the roan found it necessary to draw could be explained only by assuming the pre. lines of hose to a distance of 125 feet. The
the line somewhore. The halter, though un- sence of dense rooks whers had once been a pump, motor and sucessories are mounted on a structure of leather to be strapped to one's doxirable, had been bearable, but for an ungainly mountain ranga parallel to the Himalayas and four-wheel horse-drava car, and room is provid-back, converting one's grace of line into the 250 to 350 miles farther south. Since 1904 theed for costing four men in front and giving lumped ugliness of a dromedary, was sheer pendulum has been taken along two linge portanding space to three in the rear. A ten insult He reared and struck, snorted and pendicular to the axis of the Himalayae--extend the pump. The motor on reaching a fire is equally content.
bore power 150-volt three-phase motor drives
kicked: ing from Chatra, to Sandakphu and Am- connected to the electric maine by plug to a corral post, felt his way along it, and Very well. To detestable little man scemed ritsar to Maltan-and these observations show tacle or by hook couplings, sad, as several after rabbing the bridle over the animal's Ile anubbed the rope to that the deflection 250 miles south of the hundred yards of cable can be carried, the pump face, slipped the bit between its teeth, Then Himalayas may be due to s buried range, rocent test a stream was being thrown to a saldo. A turn of the wrist and the horse's can be operated in almost any place desired. In
he unbuckled the rawhide lariat from hie arrival The advantages claimed included and they were drawn together so that be increased rapidity in getting into working stood, swaying perilously In order; reduced first cost, weight and space the rawhide was snubbed to the fence, the a twinkling requirement; increased simplicity and safety saddle clinched into position, and the roan cost of operation. For a fire-extinguisher for stood tasting for the first time the vile dis- in operation; and reduction in wear, tear and factorica, Theatres, ferme, ele, the same type of his mune defiantly, beat the air with his comfort of tightly-booklod girth.. He shook engine will be mounted on a two-wheeled barrow, trassed fore legs, and finally resorted to be used by one man.
buck"-ducking his heal, hunclang his
detestable little man's pay weight was thrown was repeated, and then, oh, ignominy the back, and leaping into the air. Twice this on the rawhido rope, and the roan landed sprawling in the dust.
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deep depression between this place and the Himalayas.
Balloon soundings have gradually separated the air into two layers so distinct as to form really two atmospheros. The lower, up to eight or ten miles, grows colder with height, is the region of clouds and weather disturbances, con: tains two thirds or three-fourths of the oxygen and nitrogen, still moro of the carbonic soil gas, aud practically all of the water vapour. The upper layer, dry and calm, floating on the lower mach like oil on water, has a tamperature that is fairly uniform or rises with incresse in hoight from the earth.
Eloptric smelting has made such progress in Sweden that a ton of pig-iron produced by electtle snorgy from natural water power fa
Robin has tried bars of metals two inches long In testing the effect of cold on hardness, and one inch square, upon which a falling ball gave a blow of three tons. The freezing producing a temperature of 4 deg. F. below mixtures were used-ice and calcium chloride zero; carbon dioxide snow and 95 per cent. alca, hol, 112 dag,; and liquid oxygen and a very large proportion of nitrogon, 300 deg, below air, the increase beginning suddenly at 112 deg. Ordinary steel was greatly hardened in liquid below zore, Chrome steel; tungsten steel, vaaditame
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the halter rape wou alipped from about his By the time he had scrambled to his fest neck, and the man was in the saddle. For a full minuto the horse stood, sulkily digesting this surprising condition of affairs, The did his furry legs press undaly, what more weight of him was a mere nothing, neither simple than to throw in from the leather
estimated to cost about three-fifthe ́se: much as cutting col, molyblenam, steel and rapid-hamp and trample him in the dust? But st
the charcoal for a ten in the ordinary Swedish formace. The lits of the electric oven is longer than that of the blast furnace, and the iron produced in of excellent quality.
The new auction-gas tugboat that bas been tried this season promises relief from the smoke nuisance along the Rhine. Between Mayence and Cologne the dense clouds from continually passing tugboats have been a source of great annoyance, and have been ruining fine resi dences and vairabio, vineyards, along the banks of the river. The Kupicheer II. the first of the new type of bouta, has successfully stemmed the strong entrent with cargoes of 350 tons in tow, proving very cconomical as well as smoke, IFRE The lignite or brown coal used is mined in the bins provinces and supplied at very low cott, and is fed into the producem by a simple aatomatic arrangement, with a great caring in labour. The best of fuel for the gas angines is found to be from 50 to 70 per cent. less than that for the steam tags now used.
steel were hat alightly hardened by the siderable change. Cast antimony was modomach 'greatest cold.
Quenched stools showed con- harder, but aluminum, copper, lead, tin and nickel were little affected.
and at the third a black felt hat descended and ribs; at the second, the process was repeated, the first "back"something pricked the horzo's
dusted" him from ear to tail. Round and round the corral they sped The horse back Cement-makers' - itch, one of the latest man, shaken and jolted like a rag doll,
ing," twisting, and squealing with rage; the resembling true itch, but, instead of being bucked himself cat, and settled into a steady. disesses due to occupation, is an intense itching whooping triumphantly. When the horse had caused by a parasite, it results from some chem obedient gallop, the man doow rain, all off ical or mechanical action on the skin not yeter his fonk, and came towards us with the
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Streaming with perspiration, half-blinded by dust, and clinging with numbed but tenacious fingers to the end of a Lard twist repe, we were dragged round the corral for the second time. to sanh lam to the fence," And break his "Let go," gnaped my partner, we shall have neck, I suggested, not much! Stay with it!" And again we made a protesting, groninions circle, the ugly red roun at the other end of the
rope still unfired, and still apparently revelling in the ease with which he could drag mere man in the dust. "Why" he was probably asking himself, "why did his brethren capitalate to such feeble antagoniste?"
alling, bandy-legged gait of the born rider
Got any bad horses the inquired.
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A nonthly Re But the "feeble antagonists" were furtified view, under the title "United Empire"--the motto To determine the possible contamination of by the anger of humiliation, and for a brief of the Institute. The now Review will be consider foods by aluminum kitchen utensils, a German moment held their captive with legs spreadably large in size than the old Journal, and will ohomist has boiled huminum foil in fresh wide, postrils distended and head held obsti endeavour as far as space permits to cover the and sour milk, wires, mineral waters and nately low. We breathed again, and my include slitoral notes dealing with current
whole field of Imperial activities.
It will ten per cent. solutions of salts in common use
partner commenced to work his way gingerly The boiling continued half an hour, and the foil up the rom towards the horses hend in questions of interest, pegers by Fallows of the notes from the overseas Honorary approved fashion. In a flash it went up- showed no appreciable loss of weight from the and still up, and the fore fest with it, striking record of notes and news covering not only the Corresponding Secretaries, and a monthly action of sweet milk, red and white wine, sodium thud of obstinate defiance. Then, as though other Power United Empire" will be edited frenziedly at the air, and. descending with a chloride, sodium nitrate, potassium fodida, some fresh caprice had seized on its equino by Mr. Archibald R. Colquhsan, who has long British Empire, but the Colonial possessions of potassium sulphate and calcium nitrate. The imagination, the horse turned, pirouetting on sour milk produced some loss of metal. The its hind logs like a ballet dancer, and dashed been an active member of the Royal Colonial madly up the centre of the curral, hurling us Institute. It will be capplied free to Pellows, sented in the dust. It was at this unfortunate Issa Pitman and Sons at the price of one moment that I became aware of our audience..
and-will-be-published-to-non-Fellows by Sir He sat perched on the topmost rail of the silling. corral in a bles shirt and taftored Angora shares, & cigarette and not even I nodded. So did he, and we ad- journed to our 15 by 20 house.
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In Europe our home would have been. called a hut a hovel, or a zhauty. In the United State, a shack, a cabin, or a lean- to; in the Canadian West it was-as I have saides house Our guest spoke twice during the meal-a fair average of table conversation for the Westerner-thez we returned to the corral. The roan was ausing himself by trail. ing the hard twist rope at a gentle trob until it touched his heels, and then stopping to kick it vicionaly
Say said the visitor, in a weary drawl, "you want this plag broke, don't you" We. admitted that such had been our intention, thong hh might not have thought it from
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our efforts, Waal, I fix him," he said As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF slowly.c and without the least assumption "you go and sit down some place." stepesurely, and picked up the rope's it round to the small of his back with his right hand, and grasping it firmly in front of him with the left. Then he braced his short, fur-clad legs and waited to be jerked into the dust. Bat there was a vital error some where in oar calenlations. The jerk came, but the man stod firm, and the horse sang in roluutarily rannd to face his adversary. He, 100, seemed to doubt the evidence of his eyes the thing, was so obviously impossible. But again and again it was repeated, the frightened rush to right or left always ending in a sudden check and turs, so that man faced horse.
Presently, hand over hand, without haste or hesitation, the man felt his way up the rope towards the horse's head, and with secret satisfaction we watched the roan answer these tactics as he had our own, roaring, striking with his fore feet and descending with lega as granite pliers. But the man had given rope, and now he was hallway to the horse's head, clear by perhaps a of the beating boofs and crooning one horm language in a low, persuasive undertone. The suimal stood stock still, teemingly to Histen, with ears pricked and legs set wide, while the man's hand crept out and touched its atroking it gently with a fingers, the palm of the hand, finally working finger, two up to the side of the head to the tight-drawn neoso about the neck, for all the world as one would tickle a trout, Very gingerly this was
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