Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-09-10

A successful method of making
bread direct from wheat without the
intermediate grinding into -four is
claimed by Desgoffe and Georges, two
French inventors. Their apparatus is
called panificator, " and consists of a
large screw turning loosely in an upright
or horizontal cylinder, on the interior of
which is screw thread in the reverse
direction. The threads diminish in size
toward the exit. The wheat, cleaned
and swelled to double volume by soak
ing six hours in tepid water, is fed
through funnel, passes in whole
grains into the body of the machine and
is crushed by the finer threads, emerg
ing as a continuous roll of dough. Salt
and yeast can be added before or after
passing through the machine. After be-
ing put into warm place until it rises
the dough is cut into loaves, and these
are baked 40 to As minutes. The bread
has much more agreeable odor than
ordinary bakers bread. There is no
bran by this process, both kernel and
envelope being crushed into homo
geneous mass, and 100 pounds of wheat
yield $50 pounds of bread containing the
entire material of the grain.
The automobile wireless telegraph
station of the French army resembles an
ordinary limousine in appearance,
weighs 1850 pounds with a crew of six
men, can be driven 26 miles an hour on
a level by its p horse power motor and
can be made ready for operation in
six minutes, the normal radius of
action being more than 9 miles. The
rear of the two compartments of the car
contains a 5-horse power dynamo, the
receivers, and the operating key. A
telescope mast, consisting OF number
of Concentric metal tubes ten feet long
is raised to a height of Sc feet in few
seconds, the five antenna wires-eacl
100 feet long-being attached to its top,
the lower end of four being insulated
from the ground, and this fifth passing to
the receiver.
The radiations of the human body that
affect photographs plates have been
found by De Fontenay to be warmth and
moisture.
The time that has elapsed since the
first appearance of life on earth has been
variously estimated at l00 600, 600 to
200, 900, 900 years. To tax our powers
of comprehension as little as possible,
DR.. H. Schmidt of Jena, has taken the
shortest estimate, and has tried to make
understandable the five great evolution
ary periods through which life has pas
sed by comparing them with day of "a
hours. This is the result; The Ar
cheozoc period, 81 million years, is re-
presented by Il hours 30 minutes;
Paleo1oic, "a million years, s hours 7
minutes; Mesozoic II million years,
hours SO minutes Cenozoic, 3 million
years, 43 minutes AnthropozoiC, 100, O0O
years, 2 minutes If the last period,
the age of man, be compared in its Sub
divisions by the samessscale, it is found
that the "historic" portion covers only
5 seconds, and 2 seconds are sufficient
for the ChriStianera. 1t seems incred
ible, but the evidence is convincing
that this does NOT exaggerate the time
relations of our written records with the
records of the rocks.
Perhaps the most novel AMI remark
able entries in any trade catalogue of
the day are radum salts, which are
quoted by Siemens Bros. & Co., Lon
don agents of the Banque du Radium,
of Paris. One gramme OF radiIm
salts containing only 0.002o per cent OF
the pure bromide is listed at about 81,
and from this the prices range accord
ing to the strength of the material up
to $4,000 (el6,0))) foc game OF
pure r2diIm bromide. Phys 'c'ans ami
others may hire radio active salts For
cent? gram ofpure radium bromids-a
pinhead quantity the charges range
f.om 81 cents is Cd per hour fo' tie
first 2i hours to half that rate for
longer period, full time to be roc'.oned
from leaving the Banque dl Radium to
return there. A deposit for the full
value mist be made.
UItramarinc is cited as an exam )le
Of the industrial value of chemical in
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