Amador ledger., 1908-03-27

gas enBlues, inc MAXIMUM possible
power with the minimum weight is
needed for the best results, and for
this Prof. Carl Barus, of Brown Uni
versity, has suggested some form of
modern explosive, especially one of
those that can be made into wicks or
ribbons. A serious difficulty is to
control the great power thus avail
able. Some plan of cold storage is
suggested as an aid in achieving this
end, as explosives generally tone
down with lowering of temperatures,
and the cold of the upper atm osphere
may contribute toward maintaining
the proper cooling. The solution of
the problem of flight may possibly
depend upon the grading of the power
by means of cold. The motor would
yield all power needed under any
emergency, and would make it
practicable to carry stored energy for
long trips.
Ihe carrler-kite for messages that
has proven successful in the trials of
s. II. K. Salmon at Brighton, Eng,
is of the rhomboidbox type, and has
a rope 200 feet long, with drag 66
feet long and weighing pounds.
Two tests with the wind blowing
toward France were very satisfactory,
the kite having been picked upon the
first occasion within twelve hours,
after having reached ViervilIe, in
France at distance of lob miles.
An earlier kite was diamond box,
with a longer rope and heavier but
shorter drag, but its finding was
never reported.
In number OF English schools,
STAN mering in children is now being
treated systematically, with breathing
exercises, followed by vocal gym
nastics, and then by com blnation of
vocal breathing and physical exer-
clses, together with dumb bell prac-
tice. This is continued daily for six
weeks, excellent results having been
reported.
By his experiments and actual
photographs OF the invisible, Frede-
rick Hovenden, vice-president of the
London Institution, claims to prove
That electricity, heat and ether are a
single fluid that can be made visible
by proper illumination, that electric
ity or ether is given off through the
pores OF the human skin, and that the
specially illuminated electrical
emanation can be photographed and
reproduced by the cinematograph.
His apparatus for. giving visibility
seems to be square glass box filled
with a mixture of cigarette smoke
and air. When the tip of the finger
is put through a hole in the bottom
of the box or "analyzer," under the
light of a powerful arc lamp, the
eXhalation from the skin is seen to
rise, even through tight
rubber cap and may be photographed.
The Notwithstanding the pre-
sence of electriclty-is affected by
the emanation penetrating the rub
Der.
In the remarkable German case
lately reported by Prof. Sultan,
man of thirty was completely restored
to health after he had shot himself
through the heart with a small
caliber revolver. Thirty hours after
the shooting an incision was made in
the breast. AS the cardial sac was
opened a great quantity of blood
oozed ont, but the front side of the
heart showed only a small spot of
blood -ooze, though small ragged
wound-a fifth of an inch across-ap-
peared on carefully turning the organ
toward the right. The ragged edges
were Joined with three stitches of fine
silk thread, while the slit in front
was also stitched for safety. The
strongly beating heart was not easily
handled, but every time it was turned
to the right for stitch the pulse
almost ceased. Recovery was com
plete in six weeks.
The Luminous owls" that lately
startled certain good Britons almost
certainly owe their light, it is now
agreed, to foreign matter on the
feathers. This is probably phosphore-
scent bacteria from decaying wood,
but it might be a phosphor escent
feather-fungus such as is known in
geese, or an excessive secretion of
oXidizing oil from a diseased condi-
tion of the oil gland.
The granules which cover the sur