Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-29
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Compressed air was used in operat.
Ing the haulage locomotives handling
construction rains in the new Simplon
tunnel. The power-house supplying
compressed air to this system was in
stalled at Brigue, Switzerland.
An attempt Is shortly to be made to
balloon the Pyrenees, and the daring
~aeronautS have decided to start on their
hazardous oyage from Pau. This Will
be the first attempt thar has ever been
recorded to scale the Pyrenees by
means Of a balloon.
Pulverized clay is claimed as the suc-
cessful remedy of DR.. Stumpf of Wurtz-
burg for intestinal disease, including
Asiatic cholera. 1t is given the fasting
child or adult in a dose or ten to one
hundred grains, ard is supposed to act
by enceloping the microbes and check
Ing their development and the produc-
ton of toxins. Fever gives place in
half an hour to n crisis like that Of
pneumonia.
Most persons probably think that
winged seeds from trees travel to great
distances on the wind. But the studies
OF DIR. Ridley Of the botanic gardens at
Singapore indicate that winged seeds
have a far narrower range of flight
than do powder" seeds and plumed
seeds. The greatest distance Travelled
by the winged fruit, of a forest tree,
observed by DR.. Ridley, was 100 yards.
Under the most favorable circum-
stances, he calculates, it would take
his plant 100 years to spread 800 yards,
and 10000 years to spread from the
Malay peninsula to the Philippines, if
a land connection existed.
Official reports from Paris and Mar
seilles Indicate the immense strides
made by the movement to obtain cleo
trio power from waterfalls In that
country. Many factories and trolley
lines are now operated by electric pow
err brought over a distance of 800 miles.
The effects of the new system are par.
ticulnrly felt in the billy and mountains
Gus district stretching from the Med
iterranean Sea to the Alps, and along
the western borders or the latter. 1t Is
believed that 100000 horsepower may
be economically obtained. and of this
N'NtAA apo"L obAS MO Ks VIVA
utilized. or is in process of utilization.
The work now In progress on new
plants in the French Alps will, it is be-
lieved, revolutioniZe manufacturing con-
ditions in the whole Mediterranean re-
gion OF France, and greatly stimulate
and increase the industries Of that
country
The extremely sensitive salvanemeter
devised a short time ago py Herr Emit
hoven, a German electrician, consists OF
a silvered quartz fibre stretched be-
tween the poles of a strong electromag-
net, the passage of the ~faintest current
moving this fiber in the direction of tho
lines of the magnetic field. The move
ment can be measured directly by q
microscope or recorded by photography.
The new Instrument Will measure Tho
mfllionth OF an ampere, and Il suggested
use Is for studying the electric currents
of tho human nerves. Muscular contrac-
tons Of the heart had been already
shown to vary the electric resistance ok
this organ. 1t Is now GAINED that cleo.
trio waves corresponding to tho bert
Ing OF the heart have been photographs
ed, the electric phenomena continually
altering; and It Is predicted that we
may be able to record the state OF q;
persons health or the phases Of hys-
terra or other nervous disorders, or to
plot the waillng and fretfulness OF q
peeyish child.