Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-12-11
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In he electric furnace Of III. Gold
schmidt, a ton of steel is made from
the ore by 1000 horsepower hours of
energy, and from scrap iron by 1900
horsepower hours.
Anaemic persons and c~onvalescents
seeking strength find great benefit in
the grape cure, which is an autumn at
traction at Wiesbaden. The effects are
explained by the sugar, which forms
% to so per cent of the grapes.
The hot springs that contain living
bacteria are much below boiling point
In temperature, but j. Adams, Of Dub
lin, reports having observed eggs of a
certain mite (~Tyroglyphus histiostOma)
that survived boiling for five minutes.
Traction tests with electric automo-
biles in London have shown a sur
prising increase of the starting pull
on oiled pavements. A pull of thirty
nine pounds per ton was needed to
start on dry asphalts, forty-nine and a
half pounds on wood pavement and
104 pounds on dry macadam. On
greasy asphalt a pull Of nearly sew
enty-nine pounds per ton was neces-
sary.
The wireless system Of telegraphy
has been tested successfully in the
Coast Survey. Last summer, as an
experiment, one of the surveying YES
sells, using short-distance apparatus,
transmitted the half-second beats Of its
c~hronometer to a shore station more
than sixty miles away, where they
were automatically recorded on a NOV
ing tape. 1t is anticipated that for
the determination Of longitude the
wireless system will eventually take
the place Of cable and telegraph lines.
Human life is possible under varied
conditions, and, if a recent report Is
correct, British New Guinea has a
tribe whose environment has made
them incapable Of walking. These
people live in a swampy region, and,
as walking and canoeing are alike i'm
practicable, they remain constantly in
their dwellings, which are built In the
trees just above the marshes. Disuse
has caused their limbs to shrink, while
their trunks have become bloated, CIV
ing them an ape-like appearance and
gait.
German experts say that wood which
has been 1oated in RATS, or otherwise,
gives a more trustworthy material for
joinery and building purposes than
does that which has been carried, OF
otherwise carried dry, to the sawmill
and workshop. The reason is that
while the wood Is lying in the water
it's sap and albuminOus and salty ma
terials are dissolved out. If these sub
stances remain in the wood they read
lily absorb moisture from the atmos-
phere, after coming out of the drying
rooms, and the wood swells. Artif-
cial processes of washing out the by,
| %groscopic substances from wood which
has not been fioated are practiced in
Germany.
In describing experiments made for
the Department Of Agriculture on the
| effects Of lime and magnesia upon ami,
NAL production, d. W. May of the
Kentucky Experiment Station remarks
that it is a w%ell-known fact that the
| greatest development in live stock has
been attained in limestone regions. He
| adds that in the bluegrass region OF
Kentucky, long noted for the beauty
! and quality of its live stock, and espe'
| cially of its thoroughbred horses, the
! soil has been formed largely by the
disintegration of a limestone very rich
in phosphates. But even in that ia
vored region experiments are under
way to determine whether the quality
of the animals may not be improved
by the addition of certain mineral ele
| ments to the food.