Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-11-20

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Science in an Old Notion The Gas
Mantle Problem Anti Cancer In
oculation-S Skin Disease from Work
Iron without Blast.
The warm bath is new forcing
process by which German florists and
horticulturists are seeking flowers
and fruits at unnatural seasons. As
described by Hans Molisch, it con-
sists IN soaking cut branches or root
ed plants in water at 60 degrees to
more than 100 degrees Fahr. for nine
to twelve hours, and then cultivating
in the usual way. The method seems
to be especially suitable to the hazel,
lilac, dogwood, gooseberry, black
alder, larch, horse chestnut, willow,
and other trees and shrubs. The top
of rooted lilac was immersed twelve
hours at ~ to SO degrees, then placed
in moderately warm forcing house,
and in forty days was in full leaf and
| flower, while IN the same house the
buds of lilac that had not had the
warm bath we're just beginning to
open. Other results have been even
more striking. The applications vary
in temperature for different plants,
while some plants are best treated
just after the leaves fall in autumn
and Others little later, but the
warm bath near the eud of the winter
rest may even retard growth.
An automatic gate is being tested
on Swiss electric road. AS car
approaches the grade crossing, the
trolley bow makes contact with
wire running parallel to the main
trolley line, and thus energies a
motor that in twenty seconds, lowers
gate across the highway on each
side of the railroad, and at the same
time an electric bell is rung and two
lamps are lighted. counterweight
raises the gates after the Car has
passed.
A German portable telephone is
mounted in a rain-proof case, pro-
vided with folding tripod of light
steel tubes, which make ground con-
nectiou, while conductor in long
ash pole in six sections is used to
make connection with the overhead
wire. Safety is ensured, even when
the line poles carry 10,0OO-volt wires
The popular idea that the burning
of sugar has an important effect in
shown by Prof. Trilbert of the Pasteur
Institute at Paris, to have a scientific
basis, although physicians have
hitherto regarded the practice as a
erfectly useless but harmless super
stition. lie has demonstrated that
product of the combustion is formic
acetylene- hydrogen, one of the most
powerful of gaseous antiseptics. lie
burned about 80 grains of sugar in
bell-glass holding ten quarts, and
bacilII of typhus, tuberculosis,
cholera, smallpox, ETC., exposed in
open tubes in the vapor prouuced
we're all dead within half an hour
In closed vessel the offensive odor
of rotten eggs or putrid meat was
Immediately destroyed by burning a
little sugar.
The incandescent gas mantle has
al 70 nh iaic In,
the experiments of fifteen or twenty
years ago, it appeared that pure
thoria would give only one candle
power of light per cubic foot of gas,
but that the presence of one per cent
of ceria increased this TO 20 or %
candle power while with ten per cent
of ceria in the mantle only three
candle power would be realized.
Numerous theories have been suggest
ed to account for these strange facts.
The truth has become known at last,
s.uies Prof. Vivian B. Lewes, aud tho
explanation is that ceria has an
enormous power of heat radiation anc
thoria very little, and If ceria is
raised to the proper temperature of
1900 degrees or 1900 degrees q. the
maximum lighting effect is obtained.
This temperature cannot be reached
il the ceria Is much over one per
cent.
Vaccination with serum is pro-
nounced by DR.. Doyen, a French eX-
perimenter. to be the only means yet
available for preSenting cancer An
anti-infectious condition is establish
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