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k Electric Spark Helps Gas f Save Miners Lives. * ~Words of Br'er Williams The little postage stamp is one of a huge family, There were more than 18,000,000,000 of them born in Wazh-- ington last year, being suficient for guppiying each man, woman and child in the country with 160. -- They rep-- résented a face value of $450,000,000 and required 900 tons of paper and $70,000 pounds of ink in their' manu-- facture at the bureau of engraving and printing. Piaced end to end they would girdle the earth eleven times, The cost of producing them was about one cent for each 125. ' respects above the average, was caught in the snare of the following question : « ""Name two methods of setting on ruffies." "ITwo methods of setting on ruffies are-- as follows: First, smooth the ruffies out well before you set down ; second, if the ruffies are wide enough, raiee them up and do not set on them at all," was the well--organized, neatly the recent prediction made by Dr. Bernard GottHieb, of the University of Vienna. Tooth decay may be pre-- vented by eating certain foods, he de-- clared, and within five years the den-- tists hope to have erough data to pre sent a definite topth--preserving diet "Experiments with sea foods have en couraged us to beliere we are now on the right track," he sald. He-- named cabbage, Brussels sprouts and spinach as valuable tooth builders, for the reason that they contain lime This kind of mine "shooting" is ex-- x wted to proceed at any hour of the day while men all through the work-- Ings go ahead safely with their labor. Klectric loading machinery will thus have an opportunity to do its tall mhm.duw chehply to reduce the cost of coal, Before many years the dreaded visit to the dentist may be a thing of the past. In place of drillings and fllings to preserve the teth, we may subst# tute an easy diet of fAish and cabbage. 'This, says Popular Science Monthly, is with electric current. The gas inside the »cartridges, heated by electricity, generates terrific exrpansive pressure and the wall of coal is suddeniy blown down--but without a flame. As much as 42 tons have been loosened by one But during the latter part of No-- vember and the early days of Decem-- ber the mine at KElderado, Il., has been proving sout the new method. Carbonic acid gas, or CO2, compreased into small steel cylinders® at . about 2000 pounds per square inch, has been slipped into shot holes bored in the coal by swift electric drills and these cartridges are led of at southern Ilinols mine of the J. K. Dering Coal company at Eldorado, where, under experimental. conditions, it is replacing dangerous explosives. Nearly all of the 500,000 tons of coal mined in the United States nowndays is loosened underground by shots of explosive planted in holes that have been drilled into the coal "face." This dangerous factor in mining annually eauses many deaths, In 1925, explo-- sives in mines were directly responsi-- ble for 89 fatalities and underground explosions of mine gas and coal dust-- Ignited usually by fiames from powder and dynamite shots fired in the coal-- killed® 344 more, according to ' the Vhited States bureau of mines. In addition to the element of dan-- eause most state laws prohibit fring of shots with men in a mine. This nsually has meant that expensive load-- ing machines capable of fast work have been compelled to stand around idle during parts of each day, waiting for the night's round of shots to loosen parts 'to hundreds of coal miners' lives by do-- Ing the work of powder and dynamite in getting the nation's coal out of the ground. 'This harmless gas, so well known for the refreshing quality it im-- NO LONGER DANGER IN SHOOTIHNG €COAL Dict to Save the Teeth Stone Lantern Is Old to a wmine & total of but 366 votes, not as many Trepanier was the only man who §ot less than 100 vrotes--his totaled g:dnetsndun-dni: er when the last was in. to figure the frame of mind of the voting public. ltnututlfinm vote for this 'or that man to cast a vote against the other,. Yot Jc,t_:_h,_a_no'pig_nhown;roeflnl At that, Johnson got more votes for mayor than many folks expected. How a man who was practically unsuown could roll up 22300 votes is bard to figure out; it is difficult The tenth precinct had the distinc-- tion of having two candidates in the tield for commissioner--Orrin Stan-- ley and Earl Trepanier. The latter got 81 votes, Sta.x:le! 1006. & & # + 8 ' Balz led Péarsall on the returns from 13 of the 15 precincts first reported, but the <change. in post-- tions ~whereby Pearsall took third Police Magistrate Walter Taylor carried 13 of tho..is precinets, ; ; -- &usfim e c'l::tlm hqtd:c;é;l way man, with a 'smile: "Well, l" got what Loeb and Leopold were for & ELECTION BRIEFS * Mayor Yager carried every pre-- cinct in the city with the exception of the 13th where Johnson received a small .muv.." In the fourteenth precinet & stren-- nous fight for votes was waged by Gee and Balz, friends of both Can should be elected. Many express® thé beliet that the campaign that will be waged from pow on until election an April 19 has been no open "mudsliinging" and bitter personalities were eliminated so far as the public campaign was *Despite this fact the candidates for the most part 'worked hbard in their ~effort to bring out the vote. There have been many public gath erings at which the candidates ex-- Campaign is Quiet It has been a long time since Wau-- kegan has had a primary election which was conducted in such a Cig-- Old Council Renominated in Tuesday's Primary content. (Continued From Pags One) & -- nduind. daatatrediiiihals aiat»--Airarccbrenesismers. BR beisiv< And that's about all. sut when the County Rejoices in Obtain-- §3 minoofStateFannloet . 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