It was reported some time back that a Yankee had invented a machine for cork* ing up daylight, which would eventually supersede gas. He covered the interior of a flower barrel with shoemaker's war, held it open to the, sun, then suddenly headed up the barrel. The light, of course, stuck to the wax, and at night was cut up into lots to suit purchasers.
A sad case of death as the result of gross ignorance is reported from Soldiers' HiU (Victoria.) A servant girl named Catherine Moran placed a tin case of charcoal in her bedroom to warm it dur* ing the cold weather, and in the morning she was found dead in bed, having been suffocated in her sleep by the char* coal fumes. Burning oharcoal or red hot coals of any kind, give off carbonic acid, a stupefying poison, under the influence of which persona go to sleep never to wake again.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5177, 20 August 1885, Page 2
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155Untitled Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5177, 20 August 1885, Page 2
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