Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-01-04
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According to French and Swiss ply
sicians, 1t is dangerous for elderly and
weak persons to visit the higher alti-
tudes of the Alps. They assert that for
such persons to do so is to invite cere-
bral apOplexy cardiac LESSONS and pull.
monary embolism.
By police order now in operation
in Paris laundries must disinfect all
garments as soon as they are received.
Clothes must be conveyed to the laun-
dries in hermeticaly sealed bags and,
on their arrival, be scalded in an anti
septic solution. The work people are
to wear special clothes, which also are
to be disinfected.
With the assistance Of the Danish
government scientific station for the
study Of the life of the arctic region
Is to be established on the southern
coast Of the island of Disco, in Danish
Greenland. The biological laboratory
will contain full installment of appar-
atus for research, and Investigators
from other countries will be welcomed
to pursue their studies there 1t Is
intended to have the station in readi-
ness for the first visitors in 1907. The
expenses are to be paid partly by the
government and partly by A. Holck Of
Copenhagen.
The recent discussions concerning the
decimal system of weights and meas
ures render more interesting a curious
paragraph reprinted in the Journal des
Debats, from its issue of the same date,
Aug. %, 1906, when Napoleon l. was at
the height Of his power. 1t states that
there were two dlals on the principal
building Of the Tuilleries, one counting
the hours by ~ and the other by 10.
Taking advantage of the need for re-
pairs, the dial divided into 10 hours
was destroyed, since, as the paragraph
goes on to say, 1T had served for nc
purpose except to show to what point
the mania for innovation was capable
of mounting in opposition to the settled
habits of all times and all peoples"
Darwin relates that the Gauchos OF
the American pampas live for months
on the fat meat of the oxen they watcf
over. The Eskimos can get along very
we'll by eating from five pounds to six
pounds a day of reindeer, or seal:
flesh, so long as 1t Is not too lean, but
contains due proportion Of fat. Say:
the author of "Diet and Dietetics
"Some men obliged to live a very ia
; tigulng life, the trappers and hunters
} of the pampas of America and Siberian
: steppes, the inhabitants of very colo
climates, the fishermen living on the
, banks of the frozen sea, can eat almos
exclusively, without suffering from it
enormous quantities of meat or fish
, but on two conditions-that the indi
, vidual subjected to this diet lead {
! very active life in the open air."
According to the views of Philippe
, Champault, the Odyssey of Homer /:
really a valuable record Of ancient
, geographical knowledge Mr. Cham
r pault shows that Homer's descriptions
of the land of the Cyclops, the land OF
the Ph@acians, the Isle Of Circe, and
so FORTH correspond in remarkable
manner with places surrounding the
Bay of Naples. The great staring eyes
formed by the extinct craters of the
Phlegrpan Fields suggested Polyphe
mus and his one-eyed race. One Of the
, most striking of the typographical iden
: tifications suggested by Mr.. Champault
Is that of the floating shield" seen by
Ulysses. From point northwest OF
Ischia identified as the island OF
Pheacians) one sees rising from the
water a remarkable rounded HILL whose
, outlines, even to the molding of the
edge, perfectly resemble those Of O
, great shield of the ancient Greek pat
tern, floating on the waves.