Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-01-26

Clark, an electrical engineer, have an
nounced the success of their expert
ments to find a better medium than
carbon for electrical lamps. They say
they have a substance which they
have named helion, composed largely
Of silicon, but containing some other
ingredients not mentioned. The mix
ture is deposited from gas on q thread
Of carbon. To prove its superiority
they turned an electric current into
two bulbs attached to the same wire.
One was the ordinary sixteen candle
power carbon fiIament and the other
Of the same size, but supplied with the
helion flament. A slight dow or cleo
tricity that made the carbon lamp APP
pear as dull red wire produced In
the new bulb a white light that you
read by. AS the current was increased
the old light changed from red to vel,
low and increased In brilliance until it.
reached sixteen candlepower, while
the helion light went to forty candle
power. The latter would stand mucR
more overlooking than the former and
Is expected to last twice as long, be-
sides operating with much less current
Helion is not metal and can be man
ufactured in unlimited quantities, but
Is more expensive to make than carbon
6lament at present.
Consumption by Infection.
DR.. e. C. Schroeder and w. E. Cot
ton Of the bureau Of animal industry
hox rod ho:r
periments, which tend to show that
tuberculosis may develop in the lungs
no matter through what channels the
bacilli gain entrance to the body and
that the location of LESSONS in the
lungs can no longer be considered as
evidence that infection entered by
means Of respiration. Cattle and hogs
were inoculated with tubercle bacilli
near the end of the tail and died from
lung tuberculosis in twenty three days.
These experts believe that ingestion is
a greater danger than respiration.
Electricity to Prevent Age.
Professor d'Arsonval, an eminent
member of the French Academy OF
Sciences, has made public his discoy~
cry Of high frequency current cleo
trio treatment, or bath, which, he be-
lieves, will indefinitely defer, il not
actually prevent, old age aud death.
He says that the majority Of people
die Of arterosclerosis. He uses a
sphy gomometer to measure the tension
of the blood in the arteries If the
mercury of the instrument marks fif-
teen or sixteen centimeters, 1t shows
normal tension. If the tension is
higher or lower, Professor d'Arsonval
states that six baths Of high frequency
current will bring it to the normal
where it will remain, all danger Of
arterioscerosis being removed. These.
baths of five to ten minutes each may
be taken three times a week They
give the patient absolutely no sensa-
ton. 1t only remains to find a method
Of checkmating microbes from with
out, and the Matin believes we will
possess the means of perpetual health.
Records of a Vanished Nation
DR.. Won Lecoq Of the Berlin Elmo
logical museum, who has been con-
Quoting extensive researches in north
eastern Turkestan, has now returned
with large quantity of manuscripts
and articles testifying to the existence
of highly cultured and artistic people
that once inhabitated those regions.
1t appears 10 have been d nation COM
posed OF Tartars, Christians from
Syria, MIlichaeans from Persia and
Buddhists from India and China The
discovery OF Manichaean writings will
throw much light upon the early
speech of the Persians. Most of the
writings are on paper but some are
on white soft leather. Most OF the pie
lures represent Buddhist art and may
furnish proof of how Indian art ad-
across Asia to Japan For this
the government appropriate
ed $4,000