Amador ledger., 1907-04-19


A New Elephant. - Color Photo
graphy.
That insanity especially in early
stages goes not always involve the
entire brain has been taught by DIR.
Bernard HelIander for FIVE or six
years, and he has shown that in GER
tain cases cure may be effected By
surgical operation. A year and
half ago he trephined the skull of a
mlddleaged physician, removing an
excess of cerebro-spinal fluid that
had been pressing upon the brain in
the spot to which the disease had
been traced. The patient had been
kicked in the head by horse seven
years before, and had since suffered
from severe headache, neuralgia and
partial paralysis, becoming emotional,
irritable, profane and melancholy.
Since the operation his mental and
physical health have. been perfect
DR.. Hollander would establish special
brain hospitals, III which mental and
nervous diseases would be studied
and treated by specialists, and be
would have no patient sent to an
asylum until fully proven to be in
durable.
The singular case of divided pupil
in young mans left eye-the result
OF unknown injury in chiIdhood-has
been recorded by an Italian oculist
The ordinary pupil is elliptic, being
about twelfth of an inch broad and
fourth as high; and the second
pupil, having about the same size
and shape, is usually hidden by the
upper eyelid, being at the upper por-
t1on of the iris. Both pupils are i'm
movable in the strongest light. With
both eyes or the upper lett pupil
alone vision is about normal, but
with the lower left pupil alone objects
appear confused.
The British Coast Erosion Com
mittee reioices over the discovery
that the sea has added 80, 752 acres to
the British Isles in % years, and
carried away only 4l9 acres. The
land cut off has been valuable, how
ever, while the sand banks added may
remain useless for many years.
Growing in favor seems to be the
theory that a ring or elIipse of tiny
fragments of solid matter extends
outward from near the sun in a plane
nearly corresponding to that of the
earth's orbit and reaching beyond the
orbit CT our pIanet. Varied evidence
suggests that the earth is plunglng
through such ring or dust cloud.
The bright ZodlacaI light may be the
reflection of sunlight from an enorm-
Gus mum Der of PARTICLES in the direc-
tlon of the sun, the scarcely detected
Gegenschein or weird midnight glow
opposite the sun-may be the refec-
tion from PARTICLES beyond the earth,
and the faint Zodiacal band extending
around the heavens between these two
glows may represent the lighting of
the dust cloud as its density lessons
with increase of the angle from the
sun. These fragments are being con-
stantly drawn to the earth, very few
falling as stones of weights ranging
up to hundreds and even several
thousands OF pounds, though most of
them are PARTICLES of only a few
grains in size. Mr. w. T.. Denning
estimates that more than 100 meteor
showers occur every night, those of
the daytime being unseen; and
another estimate is that from 100 to
200 tons of meteoric matter must be
captured daily, representing perhaps
hundreds of millions of Individual
meteors. Prof. Nicholson has cal
culated that the PARTICLES in the
earth's path large enough to become
visible as shooting stars must average
about $50 miles apart-a density
sufficient to give the ZodiacaI light
and similar phenomena.
One of the great, Developments of
science and system is the German
chemical industry. This has existed
hardly 100 years, but the 1907 pro-
duction of its 9, 1000 factories and 200, :
600 employees is expected to reach
S357, 200, 600. Success Is due to the
army of scientific workers. One plant
alone has 100 chemists engaged in the
search for pew products, and their
skill has been bought by years of
study and Investigation. Another
secret of great results is that factories
comblne AMI cooperate, Iessenlng
waste by assigning specialties to
each concern. The annual products
of the German chemists include a
million tons of sulphuric acid, half a
million tons of soda, fve-sixths of
the dyes used in the world, and $40, :
100000 of quinine, antipyrine and
antifebrine.