Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

!; This is comforting to know, and | ap'
prehend the old vision of the sunshine
streaming through chink in the shut.
ter of darkened room and revealing
the notes dancing in it's track will re-
call forcibly to mind an illustration of
the all-prevalent dust that renders the
air, as Tyndall put it, a stirabOut OF
atoms. Guardian.
SunfIoWer Seed.
Professor Wiley, chemist of the agri-
cultural department, has been making
experiments in raising sunfowers with
a view to the general Introduction OF
the industry in this country. In Rus
STA this plant is cultivated as a staple
crop. There are thousands of tons Of
the seed raised in the Ohio Valley and
elsewhere every year, but it is be-
lieved that the acreage can be increas-
ed many fold to advantage. In Rus.
STA the sunfoWer seeds are an article
of diet, being eaten either raw or
roasted. The oil is also used literally
in cooking, being practically equal to
olive oil. 1t is also useful for dressing
wool and for soap and candle making,
etc. The seed makes an excellent
food for poultry and stock, the oil
imparting peculiar sickness to
them. Any soil that will grow corn
is suitable for sunfowers. The aver
age crop is from 800 to 1000 pounds to
the acre, worth from 81 to $2.75 hun
drnH WOi crhf hI1i1f
to extract the oil the value of the crop
will be increased.
Liquefied Air.
M. d'ArsOnval made some astonish.
ing demonstrations with liquefied air
the other day in the Paris Museum Of
Natural History. BY enormous pres
sures he reached temperature Of
minus $50 centigrade. The liquefied
air was contained in double-sided
silver-covered bottle, and did not evap-
crate. Experiments with india-rub-
Der bottles showed that, under the in.
| fuence of the intense cold, they be-
came as hard and brittle as glass. The
rubber could be pulverized, but be.
came elastic again when the air was
evaporated. Similar results were
shown in the case of butchers meat
| M. d'Arsonval exhibited a beef-steak
dipped in liquefed air and then let it
fall on the floor, where it sounded like
a stone and broke to pieces. 1t was
eventually reduced to pink powder,
easy to masticate and assimilaie, and
! likely to be of important service in
hospitals. Ice dipped in liquefied air
cut glass like diamond, mercury be-
came hard as anthony Metals, said
M. d'Arsonval, especially steel, had
their qualities increased tenfold by the
application of liquefed air. Conduct
ing wires could be reduced to hairs
breadth in thickness and remain as
however, do anything to preserve
meat, he declared, as it is in no way
an antiseptic and will not kill microbes.
Moreover, it is now five times dearer
than ice. 1t cannot be used for motor
carriages or submarine boats, because,
when heated it is such powerful
| explosive that no metal yet known
could resist it's shocks. M. d'Arsonva1
warned the French public against
schemes for preserving meat or pro.
polling motors by liquefied air-Lon-
don Times.
When We are Hungry.
We feel hungry when the bloodyes-
sells of the stomach are comparatively
empty. When food is taken and Oh
gestion begins there is rush Of blood
to the stomach and the hunger IS ap-
peased. Many anemic patients have
no appetite even when the stomach IS
empty: but the bloodvessels OF the
stomach are not empty in such cases,
but rather congested. In healthy peo-
pie lack of blood in the stomach acts
upon special nerve and all the
characteristic symptoms OF hunger
follow. Now, this hunger nerve and
the nerves of the mouth and tongue
are branches of the same nerve trunk,
Hence stimulus applied to the tongue
by spice for example, creates or
increases appetite. On the other
hand, when the nerves of the tongue
I are dlOCL0U ny d u1S0doSE CO1Au1CAOA
of the mucous membrane of the mouth,
the patient has no appetite, though his
stomach may be empty and he may be
in actual need of -StaatZ-Zeitung
kammatograph.
Mr.. Kamm has invented a remark
able device which dispenses with the
| long celluloid film used in the exhi-
bition of moving pictures, circular
glass plate taking the place of the long
| film. On this plate the pictures are
made in a spiral curve. A remarkable
feature Of the Kammatograph is that
it serves the purpose of a camera and
| protector combined, thus dispensing
ammunition for the Lee-Metford and
| other weapons with which the troops
| in India are armed, which are
| frequently sold by the soldiers, or
stolen, finds it's way into the frontier
district in the way Of trade.-London
| Times.