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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 79, 25 April 1918, Page 2

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/(3, 2/(3 NEW EXPLOSIVE STRONGER THAN DYNAMITE. Trotol is the name of a new high explosive which is twice as powerful as dynamite, and very much safer to handle. , Six ounces of trotol will do the work of 12oz. of dynamite, but nothing' will explode it except fulminate of mercury, and that can be stored within Gin. of it without danger. When packed in a 12in. shell and fired at armour plate 1,000 yards away, during a test at I* ort Wadsworth, trotol remained unexplodcd in spite of the terrific concussion. In appearance it resembles wet brown sugar, and is made up in sticks. I ulike dynamite, trotol can be kept in water for years without deteriorating. The new explosive was discovered by an officer of the New York National Guard through the study of an old German book contains 2,000 formulas tor high explosives. From on® of these, taken at random, trotol was developed. The discovery is to be presented to the government without reward. A NOVEL COOKING APPARATUS. A littlo cooking apparatus that ieenis destined to render real service to persons out camping or travelling, and even to the commissariat departments of armies, has been invented by a Frenchman. It consists of two hollow metal plates fitting into each other, and when one is reversed, fitting almost air-tight. Each has a removable handle. A small tripod completes the apparatus, which weighs a trifle more than fourteen ounces. It is intended for rapid cookery. In it, according to its inventor, a chop, a. steak, or vegetables can be cooked in from two to four minutes. The material is placed in, one of the plates with a little butter, dripping, or oil, and covered with the other plate. It is placed upon the tripod. Three torches are made bjj tearing the pages of a newspaper 1 lengthwise and twisting them. These are lighted one after the other, and placed successively under the pan in such a way that the flame licks the “whole under surface. By the time the third torch has burnt itself out the cooking is finished. It is due to the heat retained within the tightly-closed Vessel and to the steam generated in it that the cooking takes place bo rapidly.