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scarlet fever, or pneumonia, after a period of great restlessness, fall into a quiet sleep
when a rouple of ounces of cool water had been given." Ex.
The basolKill reporter of the i)rcsent day lias a literary style peculiarly his own, and
his productions are held in low esteem unless they are marked by a certain piquancy not
to be found elsewhere. The occasion of these remarks is a passage in a recent issue of
one of our great daily papers, in which it was said that "Van made one of the most
remarkable tI\rows on record. lie stopped a hot grounder, looked at Hinckley a moment,
and then hurled the sphere through a rat-hole in the grand-stand."
We have received the first number of the Quarterly Boiler Review, which is said,
on the title page, to be "a magazine published for the perusal of those interested in steam
boilers, in which are teciinically reviewed theory and practice relating to the design,
construction, and operation of stationary, marine, and locomotive boilers with tlie view
of helping those connected with their use or purchase, to form an opinion as to the
merits and demerits of all boilers, unbiased by certain prejudices due to erroneous asser-
tions and claims made in behalf of many constructions." The present issue is largely
devoted to a discussion of the circulation of water in steam boilers — more particularly
in water tube boilers. The Review is edited by Mr. John J. Hogan, and is published in
Middletown, N. Y.
"There is a time for everything," and a writer in iha TisnuessQe Bulletin of the
Board of Health cautions the people of that State against indiscreet zeal in disturbing
the soil, even for the construction of new and indispensable systems of sewers at the
wrong seasons of the year. There is a great awakening throughout that State on the
subject of water supply to towns— and large sums of money are being raised for achieving
it — and the system of sewers must follow, for the water brought into a town must
find an exit: but the health authorities warn the people that they shoidd remember that
the hot months of the year are not the ones in which ditches for any purpose should be
excavated. They say that the months in which this work can safely be done are from
November to May inclusive, when the weather is cool enough to disinfect the noxious
exhalations criven off.
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Ex.
AccoKDiNG to the account we have received of the explosion in Haycock's flour
mill, in La Moure, S. D. [See No. 154 on page 119], there was great excitement in that
city over the explosion; and we read that "the excitement has been augmented by sub-
sequent developments. . . Superintendent Strickles says the water-gauge showed the
boiler to be nearly full of water, but at the time of the explosion there seems to have
been no water in the boiler. Suspicion is directed towards a discharged employe, and
it is generally believed that the boilers were doctored." We have noticed a marked
tendency, recently, to attribute boiler explosions to interference by malicious outsiders,
and we often hear it said, too, that "the explosion was due to the carelessness of the
fireman." In our opinion there are very few cases, indeed, in which discharged em-
ployes, or any other persons, willfully meddle with boilers for the purpose of encourag-
ing them to explode. Certainly a suspicion of this kind should not be entertained with-
out the most abundant evidence to support it; and so far as the "carelessness of the
fireman" is concerned, it is easy enough for idle persons to make this accusation, and
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