Amador ledger., 1908-05-22

For score of wears Prof. j. f..
Nowaek, the Austrian baron, has been
studying the connection between sun.
spots and atmospheric and earthquake
phenomena and the constant varia.
tions in color and position of the
leaves of Abrus precatorins nobilis,
the weather plant of Cuba and India.
Collections of these plants now being
made in London and New York are to
begin system of weather obser-
vatories. The system is to be soon
extended to San Francisco, Bombay
and Toxic, and from the five stations
it is expected that the northern
hemisphere will be efficiently served
with the following weather plant fore
casts: l. Special charts, "a to % days
in advance, showing the Critical"
barometric eenters, with atmospheric
and earthquake distur Dances and risks
of hredamp explosion. 2. A daily
general chart showing the movements
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% days ahead. 3. A. daily chart
showing lines of equal barometrlc
pressure to 7 days in advance. 4.
A daily chart showing areas of rainy,
fine and foggy weather 2 to 7 days in
advance. 5. Daily local details of
weather within 60 miles 49 to 70 hours
in advance.
The greatest known daily range of
temperature is found in Arizona,
where a change of 80 degrees in II
hours frequently occurs, and wheIe
The mean annual temperature is 45
degrees in the north and 80 degrees in
the south with 100 degrees as a fire.
quent summer maximum. The most
equable climate, on the other hand,
is claimed by Honolulu. The maxi
mum temperature in 1907 was SO de-
grees on September 3, the minimum
was 80 degrees on March II, and the
yearly average was 70. 80 degrees. The
yearly rainfall, 284 inches at Yuma
and "a. Is inches at Flagstaff in Ari-
iona, has averaged 80. % inches for 16
years in Honolulu, with a minimum
of 1904 and a maximum of 80. 30
| lnches.
An Italian proposes a tunnel to tap
Vesuvius, to avoid possible explosion
from an INSTRUCTED vent and to sup
ply molten lava for moIding into
building blocks.
Precautionary, or mental healing,
is not new. But mind treatment may
be of scientific and we'll ordered kind,
applied with some understanding of
lis physiological effects and Iimita-
lions, or it may be the mystic
medicine of the savages, the oracles
aud the religious zealots. In a recent
discussion among Pennsylvania medi-
cal men. DR.. Chas. X. Mills, pointing
out that faith is often essential in
medicine as in religion, gave these as
the psychotherapeutic methods accept
ed by the scientific physician: ID
The use of hypnotic procedures; ~
suggestion in the waking state; and
(3) education or appeal to reason.
Mind stimulation, even in blind and
haphazard way, may do much to cure
disordered nerves. Mind treatment
by clergymen and other nonmedical
persons is always to be condemned,
because indiscriminate reliance upon
this leads to false security, and brings
neglect when prompt physical treat
Inent by the trained physician is
necessary to save life. DR.. Chas. W.
Barr finds that there is rapidly grow
ing up in America an unacoountable
superstition, comparable with witch
craft and other decisions of the past.
Self-styled healers claim to control
some occult force outside of them
sevles, aud from the physician q
limited power known as suggestion
they make an exaggerated and con-
torted showing of mysterious results.
The chief evil, as in a unlntelligent
mind treatment, is that medical aid
will be too long withheld in critical
stuges of disease.
Rabies is far more common dis
ease than is generally admitted, so
that DR.. u. G. Shredder, of the
bureau of animal industry, urges con-
slant observation of dogs and their
muzzling in public places. Recent
progress has greatly Iessened its
effects, for, since Negri's discovery in
1903 OF the distinguishing micro
organisms IN the nerve cells, the dis
ease is early recognizable, and the