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Manawatu Herald, 20 March 1897, Page 4

ALL THAT tS LEFT OF HIM. Chiko, the Famous Gorilla— A Triumph of the Taxidermist's Art. In a corner of a room in tho American Mnseura of Natural History, in New York, Bits the once renowned Chlko, gorilla or chimpanzee. After his lamented domise all the arts of the taxidermist were spent on S»im, and, according to tbo New York World, these were the proceedings: First they skinned Chiko. Then they dissected him. They macerated hia bones, and vrhen they -were dry and white and shining afcain they measured eaoh one aoCHIKO AS HE NOW APPEARS, curately and made its counterpart in wood. They did this becauso the skeleton of Chlko was in itself a prize for tho museum. The skeletons of theso anthropoid apes are very rare. Cbiko's skeleton will be mounted by tho osteologist of tho museum. Having hia wooden skeleton, tho taxidermist articulated It nnd set it in the dignified position in which Clriko must hereafter remain. Then, instead of the mighty muscles, the skillful taxidermist clothed the bony frame with excelsior, 'which is used ordinarily to stuff mattresses and chairs, on which the present progeny of Chiko sleep and sit. Mr. Rowloy imitated the bulge of tho muscles und filled their attachments by winding thread around tho excelsior. Housed 10,000ynrd9 of thread to give tho proper conformation to the figure. Then OTer the oxcelslor he spread, with careful hand, a thin covering of modeling clay. There sat Chiko, but without bi9 coat. Chiko's coat had suffered during hia incarceration. Ho loved osercise. He fretted against tho bars, ilo fubln'tl ills coat bare in Bpots. But Mr. Rowloy has restored the coat, and Cbiko, clothed with it again aa in life, will bo placed iu a glass caso in tho museum. The Largest Magnet In th« World. Think of a magnet 17 feet long, 4 feet in diameter and weighing 05,000 pounds. Suoh, according to tho Now York Herald, is the great instrument as it stands today on its carriage, looking liko a huge cannon wrapped to keep it from the cold. And it is a huge cannon resting on its carriage and pointing out to Long Island sound. It is also wrapped, but not to protect it from tho cold, but to transform it into a magnet. This covering ia more than ten miles of insulated copper wire wound layer on layer around it. Though this magnot cannot draw tho nails from approaching ships, like the great loadstone of tho "Arabian Nights," nor deflect their compasses nt a distance of Blx miles, as has been declared it could do, It can do astonishing things through its silent and mysterious power. Tho magnetic power perceptibly reaches a distance of SOO feet, for at that point it will deflect the needle ol a compass 8 degrees. At tho distanco of 70 feet from its muzzle its power is equal to theearth's magnetism, for there the needle is deflected 45 degrees. Iron in contact with the magnet is held in spite of the effort of the strongest man to remove it. All iron within tts'mugnctic field becomes magnetized, and five cannon balls, each weighing 825 pounds, aro held suspended from its muzzle, ono clinging to the other. Iron chains banging near be«ama rigid. • The- heaviest crowbar brought near will at once fly to the magnet and drag with it the strongest man if be peisistein clinging to it. . . . • As magnetic force cannot be insulated*, but manifests itself through all substances, even though they be the best known nonconductors of electricity, a man can stand in front of tho magnet, •nd Its mysterious force acts through hia body without diminution or without in •ny way affecting him. One interesting feature in the experiments so far as conducted is the location of the "neutral" point, or the point in the eleotrio field where tbo magnet exerts no force. This point is on the axis ol M;e magnet extended and eix inches from the uauzsle. A piece of- iron— a tack, fcr instance— held at this point is not affected by tha magnet Briefly About Copper. Copper has been known for centuries. Zt is encountered native in many places. The Cornish copper ore ia the copper pyrites. Sheet copper is worked into many domestic utensils, und the alloy with zinc, termed brass, is both useful and ornamental. Red brass is beaten into thin NATIVE COPPER. . teavet and 1s by some supposed to be "gold leaf." It is used in decorative work. Bronze is also an alky of copper, as aro gun metal, bull metal, etc. Copper is an excellent conductor of electricity. It is bard and tough, yet clastic, and possesses malleability and ductility. It forms two oxides and several sulphides. The principal of the latter are found native and worked as ores. The sulphate of copper, termed bluevltllol, is used in calico printing, and from It all the (copper) pigments aro derived. When copper or its alloys are exposed to ■lr and water, a carbonate of copper forms, which is termed verdigris All copper ■alts are poisonous. White of eggs .is an txoellent remedy in sucfi cases ol poisoning.