Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-01-10
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According to the evidence given re.
:ently by DIR. r. T. Williams, an Eng
lish physician, in London police court,
he distinguishes seven stages of drunk
enness-irritable, mellow, pugnacious,
affectlonate, lachrymose, followed, II
the total doses were large enough, by
collapse and death.
That the finest stone buildings and
monuments Of many cities are dlsinte-
grating through the action of the sui
phuric acid produced by the combus-
tion Of coal is asserted by a writer in
Cosmos (Paris). In London, especially,
1t has been estimated that no less than
half a million tons of acid are thus
discharged Into the atmosphere yearly.
Scientists in Germany say that sub
stance has been prepared which shows
the same activity as that of
radium bromide. 1t is said that the
substance is uranyl molybdate. The
molybdate is formed by adding am
monia molybdate to uranyl nitrate
when white amorphous powder sep
arates. This Is dried IN the dark and
apparently must be kept there, as 1t Is
unstable. Report says that 1t gives ra-
dio-actlve effects which are practically
as intense as those given by radlum.
Though costly-namely, about S110 an
ounce-the price Is not so enormous as
that Of radium, which has reached
many thousands Of dollars for the same
quantity.
In countries like France, where roads
are good and crossroads numerous,
travellers by automobile have frequent
occasion to consult road maps, because
they 90 30 fast and change direction
so often that typographical information
Is, for them, a continual necessity. To
meet this an automatic chart has been
invented, which unrOlls In step with the
advance Of the carriage, 30 that the
chauffeur has always before him a
map Of the route he Is to pursue. When
the road Is about to turn sharply, an
electric bell gives warning 300 meters
In advance. Another attachment to the
chart registers the distance traversed.
The whole apparatus Is moved by gear
ing connected with the wheels Of the
automobile.
Last winter Prof e. E. Barnard pho
tographed a most singular object in the
constellation Taurus, the appearance of
which suggests the term dead nebu-
Ia" 1t is long, struggling mass,
which seems to shut the stars behind 1t.
All round It the stars are strewn thick
ly, but within Its boundaries very few
appear, and Prof. Barnard suggests
that these may lie on this side Of 1t.
At one point there Is a small, bright
nebula, which gradually fades out. '"The
feebler portions Of the nebula would
almost suggest" says Prof. Barnard,
that large nebula exists here, but
that the major portion of 1t Is dead or
non-luminous." In some places the
dark object Is manifestly darker than
the starless parts Of the sky round 1t.
The green coloring matter contained
in leaves and other parts of plants,
and known as chlorphyl, serves as a
light-screen through which only certain
spectral colors are able to penetrate
and to affect the internal organism of
the plant. A somewhat puzzllng fact
is that some insects, such as the green
grasshopper, possess similar color
Ing matter, and the recent investige-
tioDs Of Podiapolsky have shown that
this is Identical in physical properties
with the chlorophyl Of plants. That
Its chemical construction Is the same
remains to be demonstrated. 1t Is also
yet unsettled question whether "ani-
nal chlorophyl" serves, like that of
plants, as a color-screen to shield the
inner organism Of the insects protect
ing 1t from the influence Of certain
rolcrs.