Bernoulli describes a process applied on a large scale in Silesian zinc works, where the gases were passed through towers filled with lime.It was found that there was no trouble on account of the absorption of carbonic acid by the lime, and that the latter acted very efficiently in reducing the quantity of sulphurous acid. Before entering the tower, they contained 0. 258 per cent. by volume of sulphurous acid and 2. 45 per cent. of carbonic acid; while, after their passage through it, they held 0. 017 and 2. 478 per cent, respectively. The process, however, is declared by Herr Hasenclever to be too costly for ordinary working, although he does not deny its value under special circumstances. The removal of anhydrous sulphuric acid from the gases from roasting-furnaces has hitherto, as at the Waldmeister works, near Stolberg, been effected by means of water trickling down in a tower filled with coke, the gases entering below and moving upward.

So far as the metaphysicians are carpenters, and there is much carpentering in most of them, Goethe was right, and the larger part of their industry endures wind and weather but for a short time.Spinozas object was not to make a scheme of the universe. He felt that the things on which men usually set their hearts give no permanent satisfaction, and he cast about for some means by which to secure a joy continuous and supreme to all eternity. I propose now, without attempting to connect or contrast Spinoza with Descartes or the Germans, to name some of those thoughts in his books by which he conceived he had attained his end. The sorrow of life is the rigidity of the material universe in which we are placed. We are bound by physical laws, and there is a constant pressure of matter-of-fact evidence to prove that we are nothing but common and cheap products of the earth to which in a few moments or years we return. Spinozas chief aim is to free us from this sorrow, and to free us from it by THINKING.

The door opened and Huggo walked in. His face was very flushed and his articulation a little odd. When, after greetings, he sat down, he sat down with a curiously unsteady thud and gave a little laugh and said, Whoa, mare, steady! It appeared, after explanations, that he had come to talk about this Oxford business. I really cant very well go to Oxford now, father. I really ought to start in some money-making business now, and Ive got a jolly good opening promised me. I really ought to take it. There were some hard and bitter things said between his father and the boy. The boy fumbled--he obviously had been drinking--between would not or could not say very much as to who it was that he had married. Huggo, very red, increasingly difficult to understand, said, Its a plain enough question. Its a plain enough question. Ive come here to be perfectly frank and plain and plain enough question. The fact is I dont know very much about her plain enough people.