Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-04-17

Preserver. Lightning and Trees. -
A Worm With Ruby Headlight. 49,
Keen Eyed Somnambulism. Com.
bination Light. Roundabout Poi
soning.
One of the most novel and really
useful of the automatic delivery ma
chimes is that which is rapidly be-
coming popular in poorer districts in
England as a source of milk supply.
Each reservoir holds twenty quarts,
and it is provided with spout.
under which the customer places his
pitcher, lever handle by which a
measure of the fluid is drawn through
the discharge oriflce, and a slot con-
trolling simple mechanism by which
the coin releases the fluid measured
out. One penny 1.-TWO cents) delivers
half a pint of milk. An automatic
stirrer distI ibutes the cream uniform
ly, the machine is cooled by ice in
summer, and pure milk is insured at
the price of that bought over the
counter-there being no chance for
contamination from air or other
cause. The machines, which are
strong and simple in construction,
can be quickly taken apart for tho
rough cleaning and sterilization.
A new race peril is brought to
notice by Prof. Karl Pearson from
his Investigations in England on the
Inheritance of tuberculosis. He finds
that the first one or two children
born are more likely than others to
be tuberculous and to inherit defects
of the parents, and the modern
tendency to limit families to one or
two childen therefore not only makes
no allowance for the inevitable waste
of child life, but also must increase
the proportion of weak and diseased
individuals in the community.
Changes on the moons surface,
especially near the crater Linnaeus,
are now recognized by Pickering,
Barnard, and others. 1t is conclud-
ed that the diminution of white
patch must be a melting of boar frost
at sunrise and that the deposition
and melting of frost must be taking
place in other parts of the moon.
The improved lifebelt of Jack
Focketyn, of Antwerp, which has
been satisfactorily tested in Belgium
and France, comprises two buoyant
cushions, one of which rests on the
chest and the other on the upper part
of the back, the ty9 being connected
by straps across tbs shoulders and
held in place by waist-strap. The
belt, weighing ca to pounds, can
be applied in three seconds. The
weaIer's mouth and nose must be
kept always above water, even if he
should become exhausted and lose
consciousness, and his arms and legs
are left absolutely tree for swimming
or otherwise aiding himself A
cap is designed to accompany the
belt. 1t protects. the head and neck,
aud carries small electric lamp
that gives light easily seen 400 or
500 yards, and is of great service in
night rescue. A small battery feeds
the lamp for four or five hours.
widespread belief is that during
thunderstorm safety may be found
under a beech tree, and that the dan
ger from lightning is fifteen times as
great under a resinous tree and fifty
times as great under an oak. DR.. A.
W. Berth wick, the British naturalist,
finds this view to be entirely without
foundation. The beech is not avoid
ed by lightning, which selects one
species as readily as another, but the
taller trees in neighborhood appear
to be tho ones liable to be struck.
The effects of lightning also are COM
monty misunderstood. The cells of n
tree are not ruptured or torn by the
formation of steam, as so often stated,
but they collapse or shrink up, with
out tearing. The roots seem to escape
damage.
A remarkable phosphorescent larva +,
seemingly that OF some beetle, exists
in British Guiana, where it is known
as the "macadoub. " Exhibiting a
dead specimen at recent meeting of
the Linnean Society of London, q.
W. Anderson stated that the live
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