Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-20
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Tyndalrs plan for purifying water
by means Of electric currents has been
tried successfully in the Bruges Canal
In Belgium. After being subjected to
current Of 1000 volts the water be-
came pure and palatable.
The acids Of apples are exceedingly
useful through their stimulating infiu-
ence upon the kidneys. whereby poi
sons are removed from the body and
the blood and tissues purified. The
acids of apples are all highly useful as
means Of disinfecting the stomach.
since the ordinary germs that grow in
the stomach, producing biliousness,
headache and other troubles, will not
grow in fruit Juice or fruit pulp.
Attention is called In medical Jour-
mas to the desirability of testing rail-
road employees for defective hearing as
well as for color blindness. A recent
examination in Europe developed the
fact that out of eighty-two fremen and
engine drivers only three possessed
perfectly normal hearing. It fs sug-
gested that there should be standard
Of hearing power for the examination
of employees who have to depend upon
sound signals.
According to Prof. Moritz, writing in
a German medical periodical, the most
speedy absorption Of drug into the
human system Is secured by admins
tering 1t with water on an empty
stomach. In many cases, he says, a
definite effect will thus be produced
when no effect would be perceptible
from the same dose administered short
ly after the taking of food. Food taken
Immediately after medicine retards the
absorption Of the drug.
Scotch and Austrian pines have only
two needles to cluster. These tres,
not being native to this country, are
found only as ornamental foliage in
parks and gardens. The Norway spruce
so generally liked for Christmas trees
has needles that do not grow In clus-
ters, but singly along the short stems,
and are not more than an inch or two
long. Their great virtue is In being
slow to fall; often the needles hang on
. a growing tree for six or seven years.
Among the places visited by the Ger
man exploring ship yaldiyia, recently
returned from the Antarctic Ocean,
was Bouvet Island, which, although
discovered In 1739, was only known
to have been sighted twice since its
discovery, and until the Valdivia's
visit had not been seen for more than
seventy years. The island Is the sum-
NIT of volcanic mountain rising 1900
feet above the sea. Its crater is entire
ly covered with ice, which caves down
in steep wall to sea level. 1t Is situ-
ated about 1900 miles west of south
from the Cape Of Good Hope.
The sky Of Italy is noted for It's clear
ness. The blue is deeper, not because
the dust there is finer than in the north
ern countries, but because In the coun-
tries of the north, due to the greater
coolness Of the air, the vapor more
readily condenses upon the dust parti-
cles. The dust particles thus become
larger, and consequently not SO effec-
tive in turning back the blue rays
alone, but others are also reflected and
a grayish effect is produced. In single
location the blue of the sky may ap.
pear bluer at one time than another.
The sky is oftentimes said to be very
blue when some white cumulus clouds
are outlined against it. The sky is then
a deep blue by contrast with the brill
liant white. After a shower, when the
lower stratum of air is washed of it's
coarse dust particles, deeper and
purer blue is the result.