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328 Freight Steamer "Teucer"
Holt Shipping Company
Length 482 feet
Beam 54 feet
Depth 42 feet 6 inches
When fully laden Carries 12000 tons Dead Weight
Has no Masts, Only 4 heavy Pillar Derricks
Carries 26 Derricks and has 36 hatches
Twin Screws, Built by R & [and] W. Hawthorn
Leslie & [and] Co. [company] of Hebburn on Tyne England
Launched late in 1906 No.1611
Copied from Scientific American Supplement
November 17 - 1906
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COLLATION OF THE TESTS FOR
DEATH
The following useful summary of
the tests for death is published by
Dr. Henry J. Scherck, chief dispen-
sary physician of St. Louis:
"By listening carefully to the
heart no sounds will be heard.
"On cutting the skin no blood will
flow, nor will a puncture made by
plunging a large-sized needle into the
skin close up, as would be the case
if life were not extinct.
"On applying heat to the skin no
water blisters will form.
"By hypodermic injection of am-
onia, no reddening of the skin oc-
curs.
If the hand of the subject be held
to the light, it will be found to be
perfectly opaque instead of the light
showing through pink, as in the nor-
mal state.
"On tying a ligature around an
extremity, no swelling occurs beyond
the ligature.
"Again, as the blood follows
gravity, and sinks to the most de-
pendent parts of the body, it will
render the dependent parts livid
while the upper surfaces become very
pale.
"The test of the mirror is a very
good one as the surface will not be-
come moistened when held over the
mouth of one deceased and no respir-
atory sounds will be heard in the
lungs.
"A shallow dish of water placed
on the chest will indicate by ripples
the lightest motion of the chest.
"When death occurs, the eyes sink
into the head from loss of power in
the recti muscles; the globes become
flattened, the cornea loses its lustre,
the iris loses its sensibility to light
and hangs loosely, thus rendering the
pupil irregular in shape. There is
also loss of elasticity of the eyelid,
the conjuctiva loses its white,
transparent color, and often becomes
black or gray."
Even, however, with all these
mutually confirmatory signs there
may be no little difficulty at times in
being positive as to the fact [of]
death.
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The way to determine good and bad mush-
rooms apart is that the good ones have a
delicate lining of red or pink meat under the
round shaped head, and when this does not
exist the mushroom is unfit for eating pur-
poses, and is very poisonous. The shape of
the good mushroom is also different from that
of the poisonous ones. The round shape is
more complete and it is very seldom a poison-
ous mushroom is found which is perfectly
round.
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SMOKERS AND OLD PIPES Dr. Foveau De Courmelles
Tobacco contains a poison, nicotine, to
which the public is apt to attribute the
ill-effects smokers are liable to experi-
ence. On reflection however, it will be
seen that the cause of cases of acute
poisoning through smoking lies elsewhere.
The combustion of the tobacco destroys
the greater part of the nicotine, and the
injurious effects are due to the combined
action of several poisons, among which
is one produced by the slow combustion
of tobacco leaf--oxide of carbon. These
poisons--pyridine, cresol, and odide of car-
bon--have very little effect on pipe smok-
ers who do not inhale the smoke, but
much more harm is done to smokers of
cigars, and especially of cigarettes, who
generally draw the smoke into the lungs.
The result shows itself in attracks of gid-
diness, palpitation of the heart, and cold
perspiration in persons who smoke twen-
ty or thirty cigarettes a day, whereas
smokers who are hardly ever without a
pipe bewteen their lips are free from
these troubles.
There is, however, another and a much
more serious form of poisoning to which
pipe-smokers are liable. It is caused by
tobacco juice and waste which have ac-
cumulated in the bowl and stem. M. H.
Wikuhl, who has just published an elab-
orate essay on this subject in the Wiener
Med. Presse, points out that this kind
of poisoning never occurs among men
who smoke the same pipe regularly every
day, even when they take no special pains
to clean it; but the use of a pipe which
has been put aside for a few weeks and
in which the tobacco juice has complete-
ly dried up, may bring about serious
symptoms of poisoning, characterized by
vertigo and tendency to vomit and some-
times by diarrhoea, with cold sweats, pal-
pitation of the heart, headache, and es-
pecially a burning sensation and feeling
of dryness in the mouth and throat.
This often looks like stomach trouble
following upon slow poisoning, but if
there is a colleciton of pipes in the pa-
tient's house, the medical attendant would
do well to inquire whether, shortly before
the first symptoms, the patient began
to use another pipe and, if so, how long
it had been left unsmoked.--New York
Herald.
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COMFORT FOR SMOKERS
Lovers of tobacco in its many seduc-
tive forms who have been at times a
trifle conscience-smitten by reason of
the alleged deplorable effects of the to-
bacco habit upon the mind and body
should henceforth be able to smoke their
pipes in peace, since no less an author-
ity than the London Lancet, the fore-
most journal of the medical world, has
risen up to in the most deliberate
and positive way that tobacco smoke con-
tains an appreciable amount of formal-
dehyde, one of the most powerful of anti-
septics and germ killers. It is because
of the presence of this chemical agent
in tobacco smoke that users of the weed
are largely immune, it is said of certain
dread diseases of the throat, lungs
and nasal passages. The reasoning,
which seems to be quite conclusive, is
that the smoke, passing through the
mouth and nose, effectually disposes of
the microbes constantly deposited there
and thus supplies the needful ouce of
prevention for many diseases. While one
part of formaldehyde in 10,000 parts of
water is sufficient to destroy all bacterial
life, the amount of the poison found in
tobacco smoke is so infinitesimal that it
has no injurious effect upon the human
organism.--Leslie's Weekly.
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MEERSCHAUM IN NEW MEXICO
[1906 handwritten across article]
Because of the discovery of fast de-
posits of meerschaum in the mountains of
New Mexico it is likely that the monopoly
of tht mineral heretofore held by the
Turkish government will be broken and
pipes of that material will be lessened in
cot.
Until recently all the meerschaum used
in the commerce of the world was pro-
duced from a mine in the plains of Eskihl-
sher, Anatoly, Turkey, in Asia. In those
mines are employed 10,000 men. The out-
put of the mine was owned by the Tur-
kish government and it kept the price up.
It is said that enough meershaum has
been discovered in Grant's county, New
Mexico, to supply the world's needs.
There is a popular belief that meer-
schaum is petrified sea foam washed up
ages ago and solidified by some strange
process of nature. Meerschaum is a
mineral known to scientists as "sopolite"
It is composed principally of silica and
magnesium. It is found in fissures in the
rock where volcanic action has forced it
up to the surface.
Meershaum is used not only for making
tobacco pipes, but because of its unique
properties of resisting a high degree of
heat and its ready absorption of water,
it is put to various electrical and me-
chanical uses.
In the maines of New Mexico a solid
block of meershaum weighing forty-two
pounds was taken out. It was the largest
block of meershaum ever mined. -- Kansas
City Star.
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Transparent Cement for Glass 329
Digest for one week (cold) 1 part by weight
of Casatchouc, 67 Parts of chloroform and
40 parts of Gum Mastic. Feby [February] 24, 1906
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To Clean Aluminum Articles
For large objects, soak them for a time
in water, in which put a little Sulphuric Acid
For small objects, use a brush dipped in
in a weak solution of Carbonate of Soda
Februy [February] 24 1906
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Cement for Iron
Ten (10) parts Iron dust or filings, in 3
parts Chloride of Lime. Mix with water
and press together. Sets in 12 hours.
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To remove Rust for Nickel
First cover the nickel with grease,
and in 3 days, rub over with a rage soaked
in ammonia. If it will not come off,
put on a little Chlorhydric Acid and rub
at once with a cloth. Wash, dry and polish.
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Chinese Glue
2 parts Ammonical Gum, 24 parts of
Brasilian fish glue, 48 parts distilled
Water, and 96 parts Wood Alcohol. 1/3
of the Wood Alcohol is first added to the
water, in which the fish glue has been
dissolved under a gentle heat. Then
the gum is dissolved in the rest of the
Alcohol and added to the first solution.
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Ink for Writing on Glass
Dissolve 500 grammes of water, 36 grammes
of Flouride of Sodium, and 7 grammes
of Sulphate of Potash. Make another
solution of grammes of Zinc and 65
grammes of Chlorohydric Acid in
500 grammes of water. For use
mix Equal parts of the 2 solutions
and write with a pen or pencil.
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