. Hardware merchandising January-June 1898 . f this expert is correct asregards the cause of dampness in ahouse, how muchgreater the trouble must be with the large amount ofmoisture exhaled by the residents of the can be made to prove anything. An aver-age healthy person, if in bed for eight hours, willlose one pint, or 20 ounces, of water, through theskin and lungs. One pint of water in bed everynight ought to be a serious matter, and yet we sur-vive, and our lives are longer than those of ourancestors, in spite of microbes, flueless gas stovesand beds which ought to be damp. Th
. Hardware merchandising January-June 1898 . f this expert is correct asregards the cause of dampness in ahouse, how muchgreater the trouble must be with the large amount ofmoisture exhaled by the residents of the can be made to prove anything. An aver-age healthy person, if in bed for eight hours, willlose one pint, or 20 ounces, of water, through theskin and lungs. One pint of water in bed everynight ought to be a serious matter, and yet we sur-vive, and our lives are longer than those of ourancestors, in spite of microbes, flueless gas stovesand beds which ought to be damp. The expertwill, perhaps, try to prove next that sleeping in bedis the reason why so many people die there. Per-haps we shall have this question raised in the news-papers during the next Parliamentary recess. WATERWORKS TEST. On Friday morning of last week a testwas made of the new waterworks system(not an official one) and the utmost satisfac- XIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIXIX I ARMSTRONG MANTG. CO. |. x AND steaH ^ TOOLS X ikixixixixixixik?BR1DGEPORT, CONN. Wixixixixixixix - HARDWARE AND METAL 31 tion was the result. The water was pumpedby means of electric power. There wereioo pounds pressure on, and the threebranchmen had all they could do to keepthe stream under control. A i % -inchbranch pipe was used, and a stream ofwater was thrown 135 feet with about twelveor thirteen lengths of hose on. The electricpower is all that was claimed for it, and thesystem here is the first one in Canada tohave, as duplicate systems, electricity andsteam. The company are now prepared tosell electric power to our manufacturers,and within the next two or three weekssome of those will be using electricity.—Perth Expositor. PARLOR HEATER WOULDNT HEAT. By S. Killed. WE had a big run on parlor heaters,and we had a young fellow in theshop who had put up a good manyof them, writes S. Killed, in Metal bragged how his heaters all worked,and that he ne
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