Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27


IIs.-Eggs Supplied by the Sea.
The scientific training of children
adapting education, mental and
physical, to the indlviduaI-is a re-
form that is becoming more and more
urgently needed. a step in the right
direction has been made by Pref.
Alfred BInet, of the psychological
laboratory at the Sorbonne, Paris.
By great number of measurements
including height, weight, width of
shoulders, memory. attention, sug-
gestibility, the color SENSE. head
development, strength of the hand
ETC.. tables have been pre-
pared showing the average develop
ment for each age, and children
differing much from the average are
to be specially considered as abnor-
NAL. The brilliant child is separated
from the dull one, the nervous and
emotional from the calm aud calcu-
lating. A beginning in the forma-
tion OF classes of the abnormal child
rem has been made, and it is hoped
that the work will continue until all
pupils in the land are classified and
taught according to capacity, and
special requirements.
In Srui- 81
culture described by Prof. Barde, two
series of metallic conductors traverse
the plant roots at depth of two feet
in the soil, each series forming an
electrode, one of which is connected
to sixty-foot lightning rod terminal
ing in copper points, while the other
is attached to metal plate in the
ground. Tested two seasons on
phylloxera- infested vines, the atmos.
pheric electricity destroyed all in
sects, while the vines showed extra
ordinary growth.
Many wells near tidal waters
huctuate with the tides. AS some
cannot be connected with the sea, it
is now believed that food tide forces
up the we'll water by compression of
the land under the increased weight
of the ocean.
Defining long fever as one having
a temperature above SO degrees con-
tinuously for at least two weeks, DR..
K. q. Cabot finds only three long
fevers common in New England-a
region where malaria yields quickly
to qu1nlne and tropical feve1s are I'M
known. The three are typhoid, tuber-
culosis and sepsis. At the Mass
aohusetts General Hospital, where
the proportion of these three is
lowered by the rule excluding pull.
monary tuberculosis except thu ough
mistake, 1874 fever cases were investi-
gated, and $50 proved to be typhoid.
"a tuberculosis and 10 sepsis, making
80 per cent of the whole, while of the
long fevers not common there we're q
cases of meningistis, III of influenza,
9 of acute rheumatism, of Ieucemia,
4 of cancer. and 10 of all Others.
Painstaking physicians should dis
tinguish between the three common
fevers, yet mistakes in diagnosis are
made-sometimes with fatal results.
Typhoid is general poisoning of the
blood by bacteria, and is liable to be
mistaken tor tuberculosis when in
testinal symptoms are absent, as is
sometimes the condition. Tuber-
culosls may exist without cough,
when the patient may be shut up in a
darkened room as a victim of typhoid
this being the worst possible treat
ment. Sepsis includes all blood
poisoning by pus, such as assesses,
wounds, appendicitis and all hidden
alterations, and Is most difficult to
detect when arising from assesses of
the liver, as this organ has no nerves
to signal trouble. 10 the modern
educated physician there is no such
thing as "simple continued fever" or
"slow fever" or ''Iow fever" OF
"bilious fever" or GASTRIC fever.''
The abundance and variety of ants
is striking feature of the animal
life of the southern slope of the
Himalayas. The snow line rises 6. 500
feet higher than in the Alps, and DIR.
toreI has recorded four species at a
height OF 1900 feet, while of III
species known In these mountains.
not less than 80 are local, found only
in the Himalayas.
The novel watch for the blind in
vented by George Meyer, a German
matchmaker, is designed to supply a
reliable timepiece at a much more
moderate cost than any yet used by
the sightless. The dial has an ordIn
airy minute hand, while the hours are
indicated by twelve buttons in relief,
each button sinking into the dial in
turn with the passage of the hours.
10 find the time, the fingers are pass
ed over the dial. when the depressed
button makes known the hour and
the hand gives the minute by its posi-
ton. The dial covers a circular plate
which takes the place of the ordinary