Amador ledger., 1909-11-19

Appendicitis and Worm Medicine
The leaves of kat plant are a common
stimulant among the natives Of Abys
sinia and Arabia. Consul General r.
P. Skinner reports that they arc chewed
when any Special or long-continued
effort is to be made, and their effect is
to produce an agreeable sleeplessness
and stimulation-a kind of intoXication
of long duration, with none of the dis
agreeable features Of ordinary inebriety.
They enable messengers and soldiers to
go without food for number of days.
They sometimes produce a state of
drunkenness, like the alcohol of Europe
ans, but over-indulgence is rare, the
effects of abuse of the habit being a
tendency of the body to dry and enact
alton of the visage, with a trembling of
the limbs and other nervous troubles. In
some places merchants chew the leaves
two or three times day, the habit be-
ing fairly comparable to the use of tea
in the United States and elsewhere.
The plant is specially cultivated as
dwarf shoots, shrubs and small trees, -
the dwarf plants being not more than l6
inches tall and yielding the most tender,
popular and high-priced leaves.
Increased activity of the sun-as
shown by the spots on the surface-is
found by Sir Oliver Lodge to have
probable limited influence on rainfall.
He points out, however, that the total
rainfall all over the earth during a long
period cannot exceed what the sun can
evaporate in about the same period, and
therefore depends more on the suns
total activity than on any momentary
outburst of energy. Where rain shall
fall depends chiefly on local conditions.
A month of more than usual rain may
result from brief special activity, but
the increase will be in the customary
localities, without change in distri-
button
A il-preventing device of Becken-
steiner, of half q century ago., was an
oiled resinous pole IS feet high, with
fve-pointed top of gilded copper, con-
nected to earth by galvanized iron
wire. A metallic net was buried in the
earth. A similar apparatus has been
lately tried, and is claimed to have
prevented form alton of hail.
Ear-strain, producing greatly impaired
hearing, is found by Dr. Albert Barnes,
of New York, to be very prevalent, and
to be chiefly due to city noise, which
irritates the ear much as dazzling light
affects the eye. The acuteness of hear
ing may be lessened for years without
giving serious trouble Nervous women
and people from the country suffer most
from ar-strain, and shoppers often get
distressing headache and feeling of
and irritability that may last
for days. Even the healthy ear is not
wholly proof against noise, boiler
makers and workers amid rattling
machinery eventually becoming partially
deaf. After time the sufferer from
earstrain notices ringing in the ears,
and this is particularly distressing, es-
pecially at night and when the person is
tired Diseased tonsils or adenoids
neglected in childhood may lead to ear
strain Snuffing salt water medicated
fluid up the nose may have effect, and
weather and mental strain
are contributing causes. Bringing nose
and throat to healthy condition is a
step toward relief, but rest is most
needed and this is best obtained by a
few days of recuperaton in the country.
Music after the days work often sootheS
tired ears.
OF ~ boiler explosions in the Ger
man Empire in 1900 to 1907, not less
than 65 were due to low water and II
resulted from excessive steam pressure.
Various safety devices have been
brought out lately to prevent risk from
these causes. The new warming ap-
of Berlin firm consists of two
tubes, attached to the top OF
the boiler. the outer one being closed at
the top and extending downward in the
boiler to the lowest permissible low
water level. and the inner one-closed
at the bottom-reaching a little lower
than the other and rising with open top
somewhat higher than the outer tube. A
spiral tube joins the two Two wires
from the inner tube connect to an
electric bell circuit, and fusible plug
is placed Just over a cavity containing