Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-10-12
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The insect Vedalia cardinals, intro
duced to California to feed on scale in
sects, has succeeded so we'll in its work
that there is nothing left for food-and
they are now in danger Of disappearing
through starvation.
The earth within the Arctic circle
supports a considera BILE population, but
the Antarctic circle is without trace of
human life. Upon eight million square
miles surrounding the south pole, the
foot of man has never trodden.
In the islands near Singapore a new
Industry has been developed, that of
producing pure gutta-percha from the
leaves of the gutta-percha tree. The
leaves are ground up and pounded in
boiling water. Dry leaves contain as
much as II per cent of sap.
Two of the largest Ruhmkorff coils
ever made have been ordered in this
country for foreign government, and
Will give an electric spark forty-fve
inches in length, eXpending energy
amounting to three or four-horse pow
er, and having a potential of half a
million volts.
1t is said that the nut trees o., tAe
world alone could If necessity arose,
provide food all the year round for
total population three times greater
than the present. 1t has been pointed
out to the Washington Department Of
Agriculture that Brazil nuts around
Para grow in such profusion that thou
sands of tons of them are wasted every
year; with cocoanuts it is the same in
many centers.
Every sufferer from nerves knows
that gloomy day affects him unfavor-
ably, while the first ray of sunshine
makes him gay again. 1t has been
suggested that the green Of vegetation
the blue of the sky and the blue green
OF the ocean may thus have a power
ful influence in calming the spirits.
Parville, however, cautions his readers
against too sweeping conclusions. All
! that we can say Is that colors certain
/ ~ appear to affect the organism, and
that the subject will bear further in
| vestigation.
In winter months tornadoes oecur
only in the Gulf States. but in cLm-
mer they occur in the North, in Ne
braSka, South Dakota, Iowa and Min
nesota. The average Is twenty-five a
year. They are simple examples Of
vortex motion. A mass of air rotating
at low level runs into vortex, and
a tube is projected downward. The
velocity of the lower end of the tube
may reach two hundred miles an hour,
and ii is the partial vacuum caused by
the whirl and the sudden thrush of the
outside air that causes the disastrous
explosive effects.
The black sands containing gold
which are spread along the shores of
Norton Sound, near Cape Nome. Alas
ka, are said to differ from similar
sands found on the coast of California
and elsewhere, because they show no
indication of having been transported
by streams of water. The flakes and
nuggets of gold that have been found
ut Cape Nome are not water-worn, but
sharp and angular in outline. A wide
ly accepted theory is that they have
been transplanted from a great dis
tance by glaciers. their original source
being yet undiscovered.
The report of United States Commits
sioncr of Labor Carroll d. Wright for
1899 on Hand and Machine Labor
sets forth some very interesting facts.
Aided by machinery, 100000 men
turn out a product which would re-
quire the labor of nearly 40,OOO,OOO
men If produced by hand. In America
the advantage derived from machinery
is about twice as great as in Europe,
so that the actual population of the
United States is equal In productive
power to 150,000000 Europeans. With
labor-saying machinery, one generation
Of men can do the work of four or five
generations of hand workers