Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-11-27

in Hungary, and Is due to poisoning
by the vapor of carbon bisulphide,
which, being heavier than air, ac-
cumulates In the lower parts of badly
ventilated rooms. The symptoms at
first puzzled the factory surgeons
Severe headache and discomfort are
followed by loss of appetite and
stomach troubles, and later by weak
ness of the limbs and general prostra-
ton. Impaired sight and mental
arrangement are common. Workmen
sometimes collapse and remain in a
comatose condition two or three
weeks. and others become delirious
Permanent dementia has been known
in one case. Treatment is usually
successful IL work is discontinued,
and for prevention 1t is recommended
that rooms be ventilated by large
fans, and that no man work more
than eight days in succession.
A singular discovery of DIR. Martini.
German bacteriologist Investigating
cattle disease in China, is that the
COWS now being rapidly exported
from Shantung to VIadivostok give
much less milk than American COWS,
but that the milk contains seven or
eight per cent of butter fat, while
cows milk in the United States
seldom yields over two or three per
cent. Much of the food of the
Chinese COWS is the refuse of oil
making from beans and peanuts. The
milk is unsatisfactory for drinking,
but produces large quantity of ex-
celIent butter.
The air of large towns is found by
V. Kremser to be drier than country
air, although 1T might be supposed
that the higher temperature of the
towns would increase the vapor. The
chief cause of the lessened humidity
seems to be the more complete drain
ing of the ground In towns.
The leucocytes, or white corpuscles
that move about in the blood, have
been likened to an army of police
men, as they defend the body from
disease by Selling and absorbing
germs. MAX Kollmann, of the Paris
M useum, believes that he has now
shown a further, and hitherto unsus-
pected, usefulness ofSthese tiny blood
cells. He has traced the evolution of
the leucooytes from certain cells
found in the bodies of crustaceans
and worms, and he finds reason for
concluding that these rowing cells act
as feeders of the body as we'll as de-
tenders. That is, one of their tuno-
tions seems to be to provide reserve
of albumen,k the material now thought
to be used by the body in repairing
its own tissues.
The curious fact has been brought
out by French chemists that the pre-
sence of five per cent of sugar does
not change the flavor of bread, as
much as ten or fifteen per cent being
necessary to give any sweet taste.
Expectation from France having been
made Improbable. means are being
considered for increasing the home
consumption of sugar, which in
1901 was 80 pounds per capita. The
use in bread of five per cent would
greatly benefit the farmers of north
ern France. Sugar, has high food
value and is perfectly assimilated,
and the new bread tested in the army
aud elsewhere has proven to be of
excellent quality.
A remarkable phenomenon referred
to as "Storm N ose," q sudden rise of
barometric pressure followed by a
paratively gradual fall, before
storm or severe squall, has been
studied by German meteorologists.
1t explains sudden changes In the
level OF the sea that have been noted.
Observations IN the ocean near Den
mark have shown a rise of as much as
three feet produced by the passage of
this atmosphere wave, aud the effects,
of course, may be quite striking.
A new naval use for man carrying
kites is in locating Eshoals, wrecks.
submarines and mines. The visibility
from a considerable height of objects
under water has been made known by
balloonists, and British naval officers
have been using kites to verify the
observations. The tests we're made
at height of 1900 to 5000 feet.
Kites we're found to be superior to
captive balloons, as they require no