The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06

physician, states as the result of ex-
periments that, In all forms of ami.
NAL life, insects included, exists the
Taste for alcohol. He says that fishes
are the only real teetotalers'' in cre-
alton.
Liquid ar instead OF powder for
cartridges is the latest French nov
city. These cartridges must be fred
within Ave minutes after their prepa-
ration, however, as the liquid air
evaporates rapidly. They are. there
fore, of no value commercially.
1t has been observed that the num-
ber of accidents increases progress
sively from hour to hour during the
first half of the day, says an Eng
lish scientist; after the midday rest,
in the first hours of the afternoon,
the number is notably less than In
the last hour of the morning.
Recent experiments have shown
that fatigue causes a chemical change
In the blood, resulting in the produc.
tlon of poison resembling the Gu.
rare poison, which certain savage
tribes use for arrows. Arrow poison,
however, is of vegetable origin.
When the blood of tired animal is
injected into the arteries of fresh
one, the latter exhibits all the symp-
toms of fatigue.
The authorities of the Smithson-
ian Institution, whose Investigations
concerning the venom of serpents
and other poisons have attracted
much attention during the last few
years, think that the bile, which is
secreted by all animals, serves to
render non-effective a variety of or
ganic poisons which get into the
stomach undetected, along with the
food, and against which we should
otherwise have no protection.
That many people are poisoned by
eggs, and not by spoiled eggs only.
but often by those that are freshly
laid and apparently good, is asserted
by a French chemist. Numerous
cases of poisoning due to eclairs, or
cream cakes, have occurred recently
In Paris, and 1t was in the course of
an investigation of these that the
conclusion was reached that the toxic
action was always the fault of the
eggs in the custard, never of mineral
ooisons introduced accidentally or of
The other ingredients of the cream.
French eggs, it is said, become in.
gected before they are laid.
1t has been suggested that the
Himalaya Mountains, which are
known to have increased in height
many thousands of feet since the
Eocene period, are still slowly grow
ing; and according to this view, the
earthquakes in India of late years
are said to have affected an area
larger than that shaken by the IA
nous Lisbon quake of 1856, giving
rise to the belief among biologists
that they were the result of the
gradual uplifting OF the mountains,
A careful investigation of the cir
10 bCliS Wy III
and American scientists.
DR.. Eydam, noted German me-
teorologist, has discovered a new and
extremely simple kind of barometer.
1t consists of telegraphswire which is
strung from pole to pole along the
roadsides. DR.. Eydam declares that
by listening closely to the sound
made by the wind blowing across the
wires any one can tell exactly what
The weather is likely to be several
lays in advance. II the wires emit
deep, mellow and sustained note,
like that of an organ, it means that
.he weather will be showery, with
possible gales. A sharp, high tone
'oretells cold. stormy weather, with,
N winter, snow and sleet.