Amador ledger., 1906-09-28

AntltoXin. The Flat Irons Heat
A Week in Waterless Desert.
Of %, 087 flies collected by Prof. L..
y. Howard in the dining rooms of
different parts of the United States,
9S.S per cent belonged to the species
of Musca dumestioa, or common house
flies, the remainder representing half
dozen9or more species. The com
mon fly usually lays its eggs on horse
manure. The life period varies with
climate and season, and the insect
hlbernates not only in the puparium
condition in manure heaps but also
as adult hidden in crevices in houses.
At Salem Mass, Packard bred a
generation in IA days. At Washing
ton, in midsummer, Mr. Howard has
found that each female lays about 120
eggs, which hatch in 8 hours. the
larva period lasting days and the
pupa days, making the total time
for the development of the generation
10 days. The Washington climate
gives time for twelve or thirteen
generations every summer.
The new cellulold patented in Italy
by British inventor is made unin-
tiammable by mixing glue, gum arabic
and COLA oil with the ordinary com.
position. When purified from sedi-
ment, the new material I-can be used
as an inexpensive substitute for any
kind of tortoise shell, and under the
most unfayorable conditions it simply
Cal boniZes, without ignitIng or
spreading fire.
Oxygen bids fair at last to take the
place of the carbonic acid used in
effervescent beverages. Oxygen charg-
ed lemonade and other drinks have
been meeting with favor IN France,
and are found to stimulate digestion
and to produce various beneficial
effects. They ale especially recon-
mended to sufferers from diabetes,
anemia, etc.
| HhAO WdIoI Is So SSS6uGldl To
vegetation that millions of dollars are
spent for irrigation, it can become
most powerful sterilizer. Paul
Combes, French writer, points out
that desert lands and polar ice-iields
may support certain low forms of
plants, but mountain tops and even
slight elevations exposed to frequent
rains are kept quite destitute of any
life. The rain washed cIays of
Mekran, Persia, of moderate height
and considerable extent, have remain
ed since Alexander's time without
trace of living thing. Most of the
fertilizing material taken up by the
mechanical and chemical action of
water is lost in the sea and so great
has the waste become through the
increased stirring of the soil in plant
culture that alarm is felt at the poss-
IDLE approaching barrenness of the
world. The Tigris and Euphrates
have carried into the Persian Gulf all
the fertility of Mcsopotamia, running
powerful empires. The Nile valley
now profits by the rich mud brought
down by the river, but in time the
fertilizlng materials must be entirely
dissolved out of the rocks at the head
waters.
. In the Pan Angle Telescope of Dana
Dudley, of Wakefield, Mass, vision
is conducted around corners by
mirrors in the angles OF the tubes.
A telescope eyeplece receives the
image, and if the distance is con-
siderable powerful lights are placed
at the transmitting stations. Re
volvahle hoods mounted above build
lngs or on ships masts make it poss-
IDLE to obtain extended outside views.
The tubes may be placed underground
or elsewhere, and with the apparatus
installed in factory, with electric
switches controlling suitable mirrors,
superintendent may look into any
room or building at will. or may view
person at telephone
The wettest place on earth is reput-
ed to be Cherrpunji, India, and
recent fall OF Az inches of rain in
five consecutive days must discourage
other competitors for the record.
That fatigue results from a toxin
generated in the overt taxed organism
is conclusion reached two or three
years ago by Weichardt. The toxin
was supposed to be similar to those of
diphtheria and Iockjaw, and it was
found that an antitoxin could be
developed that would neutraIize 1t.
Continuing the investigation, Wolf.
Eisner has now proven that the toxin
is produced in the muscles, while
the blood contains the antitoxin.
When toxin from a fatigued animal
is administered in small doses to
another animal-as by spreading on
the inside of the eyelld or other
mucous surface -drowisness and other
symptoms of fatigue follow, and the
poison is often sufficient to cause
death. Athletic training seems to
give an immunity, enabling the
trained athlete to perform more work
than the unframed. The fatigue toxin
greatly resem bies the albuminous
bodies, and on breaking down the
albumins by electIolysis, toxins are