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poles. Liquid fuel is coming into general use among engineers. and there can be little doubt. that. if road carriages are to be propelled by steam, the only fuel admissible will be some form of pe- troleum. ‘Jsays the National Recorder. At a late meeting of .the Northeast Coast. institution in South Shields, Mr. B. 11. Wallis read a paper-giving the results of many experiments to ascer- tain the calorific and evaporative value of various oils as fuel for steam raising. In comparing coal and oil he shows that. the value of each varies greatly with the quality' and Icircumstances under which burned. oil doing from one and a half to two and a half times the work of an equal weight of coal. This is aeeounted for. first, by the com« plete combustion of oil without loss of heat in soot or smoke; second, because there are no fires to clean with the accompanying loss of heat and {all of steam pressure. the pressure and revolution of the. engines being main- tained; third. because the boiler tubes are always clean and in the best) condi- tion for theheat from gases passing through them to the boiler, and fourth. because the temperature of the escap- ing gases may be lower than is neces- sary to create the draught necessary for coal firing. There are no bars nor thick fire for the air to force its way through; the required amount of air can be drawn. through the furnace by a lower uptake temperature. and the admission of air being under complete control and the fuel burned in fine par- ticles in close contact with the oxygen of the air, only a very small excess of air is required. It occupies. more- over. only half the space needed for coal. LIQUID FUEL. on not“! That Coal tor lair Pur- Though In New York They Had Lived for Years In the Same Hon-e. “It is a familiar saying,“ said 3 MW Yorker. as reported by the Sun, “thut people may live next door to each other in New York and never know each other at all, and it‘s quite true; and the same is trite also of people living in even closer proximity in tluts. l have lived for years in 11 flat mul‘have never known even by sight the people living above or below me, In the ease of u tluthouse. however, you nre pretty sure to learn the names of the tenants. You hear them spoken in the elevator shuft by the grocer and the butcher. or you may see them yourself on the, letter lmxesin the vestibule of the building; but that in most cases would he us far as your neâ€" qunintnnoe would pt‘m-eed. I did once become uequuinted with my neighbor in the floor below. but it was by ehnm-e, and in Yokohama. “ ‘Ynnr name him. “‘And yours to me] said he: and when we r-nme to onmpnrv notes wv- fmmd that they had hN-mno so through the names on the lettvr hoxos in the flnthousv nt plow-n hundrml and 'lovrn- t\'â€"'Ie\'en “'Pszt ‘Imwntv‘levpnth strert. MET FIRST IN YOKOHAMA. is familiar,‘ I said to THE'HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. “For years we had lived only 15 feet apart. but we became acquainted 10,000 miles away." New York, where we both lived. ExplI-ntlo- of Why - Swelling Fol- lows "on a Blow. The swelling which follows from a. blow is nature's effort to protect the part from further injury and to keep it, at rest while repair is going on, says the Philadelphia Times. What actually takes place at. the seat of injury is not even now quite understood. The in- jury to the smaller blood vessels inter- feres with the flow, of blood through them and the white corpuscles, with part of the serum, the watering part of the blood, escape into the surrounding tissues. At the same time the blood ves- sels in the neighborhood dilate and the increased flow of blood with the thoroughfare obstructed increases the swelling. It is probable that the white corpus- ;eles of the blood .pass into the tissues to assist in the repair, as bees or ants assemble at an injury to their store- house, but with this difference, that the substance of the corpuscles is probably converted into the tissue of repair. From one point ofview the human body is only one gigantic colony of individ- uals, and the swelling that, follows in- jury but the rush of these to repair the breach. "= Once [lad Earthfihlkel. Southern Scotland and northern Eng- land are visited by multitudes of strangers each year, and many get as far as the Western Isles. Few of them. however. are reminded of volcanic phe- nomena‘ though eolumnar basalts.sueh as those of Fingal’s eave. may some- times suggest the thought of lava. Yet for long periods. of time in the far past this region has been covered with voleanoes like Heela, and lava sheets like those of the Snake river. Japan is not more plagued with earthquakes than England has been. and the quiet little, island has had its Krakotoas. It mav have them again. but there is no NATU RE’S OWN PROTECTION. may haw them 3;: immediate danger. Queen Vlolnrln'u Voice. Queen \‘imoriu's voivo is exceedingly winning \z'hvn th‘ ohonsos to he gra- cious, although it mm ~lw sharp and imâ€" perious in n-pmnf. It omirely lacks that spm-ies of harsh grutturul tone and accent which is so rvmurkahle in' the vnivo of the prim-e uf Whips and of his brothvrs and sisters. lrls‘n (Anni-(ll. It. is quite possihlv that hvr majosty's jubilee your will he Still further marked by thv creation of a rogriment of Irish guards. («insisting of two battalions. one of them to he always on duty in London. with Dublin for its headquar- tern. Hun I \ [lulu-r. Parisian l‘l"".".1l!:‘)‘.' lwexmrsz mix a lit- ”? hnm-y v. ith Hn-ir butter. This givm i1 an nngnhlo taste and flavor and makes ”10 mfnrim‘ huttl‘r more pain?- 'Ihlt‘ Travol- lrom Finland to Ala-kn lla- nble to Speak English. Traveling from Finland to Alaska with- out speakinga word that anyone under- stood. without a single traveling com- panion, or without meeting a person who knew him from one end of the journey to the other, is no small under- taking, but it has just been completed by an eight-year’old boy, says the Se- attle Times. Magnus Nessler left :\ pleasant home in far-away Finland on June 3 to join his father and mother. who are working at. Douglas City. He made his lonp,‘r journey across the great. pond in the steerage of one of the big ocean steamers. Here he was not so lonely. as there were other Finlanders on the boat who talked the language he, eould understand. ‘At New York there was no delay,‘ owing to a care- fully-written shipping card which had been sewed s€t~urely on the back of his coat before-he started on the long journey. This did away with the necesâ€" sity of talking as far as his getting through without delay was concerned. His ticket had been purchased to cover the entire distance, and the card idrect- ed him to Circle City hotel, at Juneau. He reached Seattle in time to make good connections with the Alaska boat, and was forwarded to Douglas by friends. His father and mother have not seen him since he was a baby, over seven years ago, when they left Fin- land to come to the United States. ngn'u’s is a wellâ€"built bhy, with hair and eyes characteriétic of his race. He is exceptiouably bright, and has al- ready picked up some English. He made friends with everybody on the steamer with‘ whom he came in sonnet, although he could only talk to them by signs. , Modern Methodl Insure Better and LQII Dnngeroul Work. In nothing has the superiority of modern over former methods been made more manifest than in the various pro- eessea employed for gilding, says the St Louis Globeâ€"Democrat. Now the greater portion of gilded articles are gold-covered by means of the electrical bath. Formerly gilding was done by laborious and troublesome processes. in certain stages very detrimental to the health of the workmen. The old~ timeglider used an amalgam of gold and mercury. causing it to adhere to the bronze article by means of nitrate of mercury. the nitrous and mercurial fumes being poisonous. always en- dangering the health of the. workman. and sometimes inducing incurable dis- ease. Now the article to he gilded is pint-ed in an electriv hnth, the current is turned on, and in n short time thP ])l(‘('(‘ is ready for the burnisher. Gild- ing by means of gold loniand gold pow- der is still practioed. the work being mostly done by hand, but its delicacy is such as to require long practice and great experience. An amateur gilder has no earthly chance of succemâ€"his work will Always show the inexperience of the workman. A CHILD'S LONG JOURNEY. IMPROVEMENTS IN GILDING.