Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-31
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Superstitious people formerly regard
ed with awe the turning red at I'm.
intervals of Lake Moret in Swit,oS
land. Botanists have now shown tbo.
the phenomenon is due to nIant
which propagates every tenth VOC,
and which, though very minute. grows
so rapidly that the whole lake is soos
turned crimson.
| While George w. Stevens, marr
years ago, was repairing the road IN
front Of his house in Bolton. VT bo
hung a hoe in tree and forgot it.
! few days ago the tree was cut down
and, when sawed up, the blade of tbo
hoe, with the exception of a part ~
the crook and the handle, was found
embedded in the body Of the tree, hay.
ing been covered by the wood and bark
by natural growth.
| The motor cultivator of Prof Y
Hudson Beare, a Scottish mechanism
is designed to do all the work of IRE.
pairing the ground for seed at ona
operation. 1t can be driven at three
times the speed Of the ordinary blow
and each trip covers three times the
breadth of the usual furrow, ana well
pulveriZes the ground. BY a Simp1p
attachment the sowing also can be
done at the same time.
Of thirty accidents from electric
shock in Switzerland last year, twenty.
one were fatal, while Austria had but
six fatalities in fifty-six cases. A fifth
Of the accidents were from currents Of
25O volts or less, and a mason was
killed by a 120-volt three-wire supply,
while in another case shock from
| twenty six thousand volts did not kill
Of fifteen attempts at resuScitatiOn,
only one was successful.
A remarkable hair ball from the
stomach of a young girl has been
brought to notice by Prof. Won Bra
mann of Halle. She had a habit Of
swallowing ends bitten from her long
hair, forming in time bulky accumu.
lation, though felt only as a slight
pressure, and when the mass was re.
moved by an operation it was found
to have shaped itself to the cavity,
like a cast in a mold. Iron tones had
changed the light color to black.
Prof. Elihu Thomson says that eX'
pertinent has proved that alcohol, pro,
l. do n1,n 1Crh iC
entirely suitable as a fuel for internal
combustion engines. Although the heat
| ing value of alcohol is much less than
that Of gasoline, yet gallon Of alec,
hol will develop substantially the same
power as a gallon of gasoline, because
of the greater efficiency Of operation
| Less heat is thrown off in waste gases
from the alcohol and mixture Of al
cohol vapor with air stands much
higher compression without premature
i explosion than does a mixture OF gas
oline and air. In fact, Professor Thorn
son says, the efficiency, or the ratio
of the conversion of heat units into
power, is probably higher in the alco'
hol engine than in engines operated
with any other combustible.
The principle Of the rified gun has
recently been applied to pipes lot
pumping OIL The crude oil of Callfor'
MIA is mostly thick, viscous, and dill
cult to pump through long lines. Heat
ing cannot be successfully applied 70
long pipe, and mixing with wafer
results in an emulsion from which the
oil cannot be readily separated. Line
latest scheme for dealing with these
viscous oils comprises pipe rfied Cd
the inside, so that the oil, mixed WIN
about 10 per cent of water, is caused
to whirl rapidly. The water, Oeins
heavier than the oil, seeks the OUTSIDE
and forms a thin film, which luDrlc'IeS
the pipe for the passage Of the OIL
The friction is thus so far reduceu
| that the oil has been easily pumleu
! through line thirty-one miles Ions'
| The water and the oil come out ehII!V
| ly separate at the end of the line.