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...Sulphur. The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. of San Francisco reported having recovered from manufactured gas thousands of tons of a sulphur compound valuable to agriculture as an insecticide and fertilizer. There is much sulphur in gas coke, the smelly compounds of which are removed from gas made for household burning. Hitherto these compounds have been wasted upon the air of the gashouse district...
...performing experiments of "natural philosophy" in makeshift laboratories. Extremely versatile, never idle, he learned all that his contemporaries knew about electricity and wrote a history of that mysterious force. By hit-or-miss methods he obtained in his retorts "marine acid air" (hydrochloric acid gas), "vitriolic acid air" (sulphur dioxide), "fluor acid air" (silicon fluoride), "alkaline air" (gaseous ammonia). One day, he tried passing electric sparks through his "alkaline air" and found that it decomposed into nitro gen and hydrogen. Then, "having a notion" that ammonia and hydrochloric acid gas, mixed, might produce a "neutral air," he obtained some...
Married. Natalie Hanna, to one Stanley Carr, Washington, D. C., broker; at White Sulphur Springs...
Recently Governess Ferguson opened her campaign. She spoke at Sulphur Springs. As her right hand was bandaged, she did not have to do any handshaking? she is not good at it and has a poor memory for names and faces. After she had read a brief speech, her husband, who was the main attraction, got up and opened with his big guns and then hand-shook everybody. Jim said that the Klan and other evil interests were trying to put him aud his wife out of office. Dan Moody, on the other hand, says it is well known that...
...Coach Cowles, on the basis of their past showing, to go on the southern trip during vacation. The schedule for the southern trip has been announced as follows: April 17, the Agawan Hunt Club in Providence, R. L; April 19 and 20, the Mason-Dixon tournament in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; April 21, Norfolk Country Club in Norfolk, Va.; April 22, Country Club of Virginia in Richmond, Va.; April 23, Chevy Chase Country Club in Washington: and April 24, West Point at West Point...