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the sewer. Occasionally when copper and silver have accumulated in E in sufficient amount the mass is thrown into D, silver sulphate crystals are added and sheet copper is thrown in, instead of sheet iron. There results a hot, neutral, concentrated solution of copper sulphate, which may be run at once into a crystallizing vat for the separation of commercial crystals of copper sulphate. It will be readily understood, of course, that if there should be any advantage in manufacturing that commercial article, besides the amount prepared as described, which represents merely the copper contained in the bullion, copper sheets may be regularly employed for reducing the silver sulphate in D. The author trusts that the practical refiner will recognize that the manufacture of commercial copper sulphate is thus effected in a more rational and economical manner than by the present method of evaporating from 25 deg. B. to 35 deg. B., and of saturating by oxidized copper, generally in a very incomplete manner, the large amount of free acid left from the refining by the usual process. However, the sale of copper sulphate is but rarely so profitable that a refinery should not gladly dispense with that troublesome and bulky manufacture, especially the government establishments, which, besides, waste much valuable space with the crystallizing vats. The great saving in sulphuric acid, amounting to about 50 per cent. of the present consumption, has already been pointed out. Another advantage the author merely mentions, namely, the easier condensation of the sulphurous fumes in refineries situated in cities, because the larger amount of acid available for dissolving greatly facilitates working and makes the usual frequent admission of air into the refining pot for the purpose of stirring and testing unnecessary. The more air is excluded from the refining fumes the easier they can be condensed. Work may be carried on continuously, the vessels C and D being empty by the time a new solution is finished in A A. Thus, the plant shown in the diagram, covering 26 ft. by 16 ft., allows the refining of 40,000 ounces of fine silver in 24 hours; that is, four charges in A A of 800 pounds each.--_F. Gutzkow, Eng. and Mining J._ * * * * * A CASE OF DROWNING, WITH RESUSCITATION. By F.A. BURRALL, M.D., New York. As is usual at this season, casualties from drowning are of frequent occurrence. No clas
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