Popular Science Monthly 

 This Store Sets a New Style in 

 Exterior Decoration 



671 



ON the front of the only store at Point 

 Isabel, Texas, on the Gulf Coast, a 

 local artist has painted in their natural 

 colors a representation of some of the fish 

 that he has seen caught in the Gulf near by. 

 Most of these are well-known varieties, but 

 there are 

 some strange 

 ones, as for 

 example the 

 large monster 

 to the left of 

 one door. 

 This animal, 

 of which the 

 name is un- 

 known, was 

 Washed 

 ashore some 

 years ago in a 

 storm. 



Hand-painted representations of different kinds of fish caught in 

 the Gulf Stream off the coast near by decorate this store front 



canoes. Volcanoes are necessarily exempt. 

 It is possible to collect this sulphurous 

 gas and make sulphuric acid out of it, 

 but some plants are so located that trans- 

 portation costs forbid. Sulphur, on the 

 other hand, may be stored out of doors as 

 long as desired and sold whenever there is a 

 good price available for it. 



Two methods are known, a wet one and a 

 dry one, but 

 both depend 

 primarily 

 upon the 

 French leave 

 which sul- 

 phur invaria- 

 bly takes of 

 its oxygen 

 content in 

 the presence 

 of certain 

 other bodies. 

 — Ellwood 

 Hendrick. 



Getting Sulphur Without Liberating 



the Fumes 



IN regard to getting the sulphur fumes 

 out of smelter gas, Professor S. W. 

 Young, of the Leland Stanford University, 

 lately presented to the 

 American Institute of Chem- 

 ical Engineers a paper on pro- 

 posed methods of procuring 

 crude sulphur. When copper 

 and other ores are smelted 

 they must also be roasted to 

 get the sulphur away from 

 the metal. This is easy 

 enough to do, but the 

 fumes that escape into the 

 air are the fumes of sul- 

 phurous acid, and if there 

 is anything that disposes a 

 farmer to carry a pitchfork 

 and a double-bar'l 

 shotgun along with 

 him when he goes to 

 make his protest, it is 

 the stifling smell of 

 these very sulphurous 

 fumes in the air. In 

 fact in some states the 

 laws now forbid the 

 liberation of the gases 

 of burning sulphur in 

 nearly every activity 

 except that of vol- 



The umbrella-holder suspends the 

 umbrella, handle-downward, so that 

 the water drains off into a pan beneath 



What to Do With That Dripping Um- 

 brellaWhenYou Come in out of the Rain 



IN order to properly dry out an umbrella 

 it should be suspended by its tip so 

 that the water will drain off toward the 

 handle. This prevents the 

 accumulation of water at the 

 point where the ribs are 

 joined, which results in rust 

 at that point — and the pur- 

 chase of a new umbrella. 



An umbrella - holder has 

 been patented by Hermenia 

 Bocker, of Buffalo, N. Y. ( 

 which is designed to suspend 

 the umbrella in the correct 

 position for drying without 

 causing unnecessary incon- 

 venience. The tip of the 

 umbrella is held in a clasp 

 arranged at the top of a 

 vertical bar. This clasp is 

 adjustable in height so 

 that umbrellas of dif- 

 ferent lengths may be 

 accommodated. A 

 drip-pan is arranged 

 beneath. Into this the 

 water runs and is held 

 until the pan is emp- 

 tied. Rubber blocks 

 are shoved under the 

 umbrella handles. 



