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“Bellefonte, Pa., February 15, 1924.
AUTOMATIC STORM SIGNALS
Mechanical Device Gives Warning te
Electric Light Stations by Ring-
ing a Bell.
The passage of a summer storm |
cloud over a great city means that
there will be a very large demand |
made upon the electric light stations
for increased current, says the Provi-
dence Journal. If the power and light
generating station was not prepared
for this call the industries of the lo- |
cality would be greatly hampered and
the complaints would be overwhelm-
ing, so that these situations must br |
anticipated.
Until recently it has been the cus-
tom to keep on the lookout for storms
by posting an observer on the top of
of the building and upon the approach
of a threatening cloud the alarm
would be given and the fires under the
boilers would be forced, additional
generators thrown into service and |
other preparations made to meet the !
emergency, and under the old system
these preparations entailed consider-
able work in the way of notifying dif-
ferent departments, some located at
some distance, by a rather elaborate
system of calling or signaling.
Recently a mechanical means of ac-
complishing this has been arrived at.
A little device near the desk of the
puperintendent detects the approach of
a storm and gives the alarm by ringing
a bell, intermittently at first and later |
more insistently, whereupon the su-:
perintendent gets up and going to the
other end of the room moves a lever '
or two and touches a few electric but-
tons and the whole system has beer !
votified to get ready for a storm.
PLAN TO BLOW OUT DISEASE |
British Doctors Will Use Trade Winds
Ayainst the Mosquitoes of
Samoa.
Pacific trade winds will be used In
an attempt literally to blow disease
out of the Samoa islands; according
to plans of Dr. Patrick A. Buxton,
leader of the expedition of the Lon-
don School of Tropical Medicine,
which recently set sail for the South
seas. Tuberculosis and other diseases
threaten the extinction of the natives
of the Samoa group of islands and it
is thought their susceptibility: may be
due to a condition caused by a tiny
parasite carried by the Stegomyia
mosquito. This mosquito does not
seem to he able to exist where the
dense undergrowth is cut down, By
eutting airways through the dense
jungle so that the Pacific trade winds
can blow through it, it is hoped that
the insects will be blown away. An
intensive attack, which will also in-
clude substituting modern cisterns for
the hollowed coconut storage tanks
which furnish breeding places for the
mosquitoes, will be made first in one of
the small islands of the group. The
expedition is expected to be in the
tropics for two years.
Modern Quarrying.
+ The quarries of a Vermont company
produce every year more than 1,000,
000 cubic feet of stone.
days the quarrying proper was done
largely by manual and animal labor.
At present, four hydro-electric power
stations, supplemented by two steam-
driven generating stations, when nec-
essary, supply the power to run all the
machinery in the quarries. One espe-
cially interesting application of eiec-
tric power is seen in the “gang saws,”
that saw the gian: blocks of marble
into slabs of varying thickness. 'The
saws are made of soft iron one-eighth
of an inch thick and four inches wide
and are toothless. Small pumps de-
liver a mixture of sand and water to
the saw and the sand does the cut-
ting. There are at the quarries more
than 300 of these electrically-run
gangs which work in groups of from
twelve to forty-three.
Ancient Egypt's Tools.
Stone adzes used by Egyptians near
ly 5,000 years ago to hew out tombs
in soft limestone are almost identical
in form with the stone adzes used by
Hawaiians to within recent years to
cut wood. Dr. Henry S. Washington
of the Carnegie institute, who points
out this similarity, says that it may
support the theory that the culture
which existed on the Pacific islands
and in America before the time of
Columbus originated in ancient Egypt
about 800 B. C., and was spread west-
ward by sailors. However, he thinks
it more probable that the Hawaiians
and Egyptians worked out the prob-
lem of rough cutting with hard stone
in much the same way, but independ-
ently.—Sclence Service,
Wood From Insect-Killed Trees.
- Recent investigations made by the
United States forest product labora-
tory indicate that timber cut from in-
sect or fire-killed trees Is just as good
for any structural purpose as that cut
from live trees of similar quality, pro-
viding the wood has not been subse-
guently injured by decay or further
insect attack.
Intelligent.
* Hubby (reading)—Three thousand
six hundred and tw enty-five elephants
were needed to make billiard balls.
" Wifey—Isn't it interesting to think
that those big ugly beasts can be made
to make those small billiard halls,
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In the early
,muliuiv NU LAMB AS FOLD
Among the Most Healthful, Nutritious
and Palatable of Meats, Say
| Experts.
The production of sheep for wool
alone is rapidly on the wane in the
' United States. More and more empha-
sis Is being placed on the production
, of lamb and mutton for the table, al-
| though only 3.7 per cent of the meat
consumed by the average American for
{ the last five years was lamb or mut-
ton. This proportion should be much
larger, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture, as mutton
‘and lamb are among the most health-
ful, nutritious and palatable of meats.
The reason for the limited use of
lamb and mutton throughout the cen-
tral section of the United States prob-
ably had its origin in the. days of the
development of the great corn-belt re-
| gion west of the Appalachian moun-
| tains, department workers say, accord-
Ing to the New York Times. At that
time sheep owned by the settlers of
that region came largely from the
North Atlantic states and had been de-
veloped almost without exception for
‘wool production, regardless of the in-
herent flavor of the meat.
! The flesh of these animals was no
doubt tough, not so palatable as other
‘meats and, possibly owing to the crude
methods of caring for it, much of it
was unfit for use. As this sectipn of
the country has been somewhat slower
In the development of mutton breeds
of sheep and as much prejudice against
the meat has been handed down from
generation to generation there has de-
veloped the idea that the flesh of all
sheep is not appetizing and carries pe
culiar flavors.
SNCWSHEDS WILL BE RAZED
Picturesque but Monotonous Features
of Mountain Travel Are to
Disappear.
The snowsheds along some of the
| railroads through the Sierras are being
| taken down, one stretch measuring 14
miles in length. Some sort of snow-
fighting equipment will be used in-
stead. These enormous structures were
novel at first, but when it came to rid-
ing through them, mile after mile,
passengers grew tired of them and, be-
sides, they wanted to see the scenery,
remarks the Providence Journal.
Some of these sheds were built in
iocalities where the country was
somewhat lacking in picturesque fea-
tures, but at the same time passengers
were always trying to get a glimpse
through the window-like openings
which occurred at regular intervals.
but this was impossible as the move-
ment of the train precluded anything
like a glimpse of the country—notb-
Ing but a flash of light.
Consideration of the wishes of pas-
sengers, coupled with the fact that the
maintenance of the sheds has been a
serious item of expense, prompted the
railroad people to dispense with the
long snowsheds.
School for Smokers, ;
A smoking master has just cpened
a school in London. He teaches the
art of smoking cigarettes and cigars.
It appears it is not so simple as is
| generally supposed. For instance,
{ really to enjoy a cigarette, he says,
| you must not pull at it like a school
hoy, nor yield to the vulgar taste of
| swallowing the smoke. Once the cig-
arette is in your mouth it must not
move again, you - must only slowly
draw in your breath. The best time
‘In his opinion to smoke a cigarette is
before breakfast and you must make
it last like a dream. The London
master makes his last from fwenty=-
five to thirty minutes. To smoke and
also drink alcohol is a heresy. Alco-
hol spoils the taste of tobacco, but
coffee taken with the cigarette is per-
fection. People ~ who smoke one
cigarette after another without stop-
ping are nothing but savages. Sc
says the London professor.
Meisen, a City of Porcelain.
Jf all the quantity beautiful cities
of Germany, Meisen on the Elbe, pride
of Saxony, occupies a unique place of
Its own, being built almost entirely
of porcelain, In 1740 the first royal
porcelain factory was established on
the hilltops overlooking the Elbe. In
the fifty years that immediately pre-
ceded the World war the municipality
and individual wealthy citizens were
able out of their accumulated wealth
to substitute porcelain for brick and
stone in the construction of buildings,
30 that now one-half of the homes, to-
gether with several factories and pub-
lic edifices, are constructed almost en-
tirely of this translucent and very
expensive material.
High Cost of Lightning.
ihe annual destruction due to light
aing fives in the United States is esti-
mated to be as much as $20,000,000.
in one state alone, Iowa, during the
four years ending with 1922, the loss
as given by the state fire inarshal
was $1,363,704, of which 81 per cent
was due to fires in farm barns. Very
nearly all of such loss is preventable
hy. proper rodding, says the weather
sureau of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
Force of Habit.
Pibbs—That barber is a rare bird.
Jetts—Why throw the spot light
on him?
Tibbs—Whenever ne shaves him-
self, he can’t stop until he talks him-
self into a haircut and a shampoo.
Nothing Deep About It,
“\Vonder why so many men sing
“while taking a bath?”
iookaow why 1 do-—ilie bathroom
Joc went loek., —Bosten ‘M'ranscript.
FRANCE HAS HUGUE EMPIRE
Colonial Holdings in Africa Exceed
Those of Britain by About
One-Fifth.
Instead of North America and India,
Africa is now the most important field
of French colonial development, writes
Henri M. Barzun in Current History
Magazine.
miles; that is 17 times the size of
France itself, and a colored population
equal to the number of France's
white inhabitants, The French colonies
in Africa, which exceed those of Great
Britrin by about one-fifth, suggest a
kind of confederation, slowly built up
by the gradual acquisition of 20 prov-
inces from 1830 up to the Versailles
treaty. A beginning was made with
the annexation in 1830 of northern Al-
geria, to which were added the colonies
of Gabon, Congo, Ubangi, and Chad in
1841; Guinea and Ivory Coast in 1843;
Somaliland in 1864; Tunis in 1881; Sen-
egal in 1889; Sudan, Volta, Dahomey,
and Mauritania in 1893; Madagascar
and Reunion in 1896; southern Algeria
in 1902; Niger and Morocco in 1912;
and the German Cameroons in 1919.
The value of the African empire is
seen in its trade both witly France and
with the world at large. Production is
already nearing 3,000,000 tons yearly
for the whole dominion, mostly raw
materials for manufacturers and food-
stuffs for export. As for the commer-
cial balance, the day is expected when
the 700,000,000 francs of prewar trade
will reach 5,000,000,000. There could
be no better prospect for French pros-
perity at home and for French ex-
change in foreign countries. Especial-
ly in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, ag-
riculture is being developed on a large
scale. The farms and cultivated fields
cover immense areas, comparable only
to the American Middle West. This
necessitates the use of modern agricul-
tural implements sucn as harvesters,
reapers, binders, threshers and trac-
tors, creating a market for American
manufacturers of these machines.
TO DECIPHER MANUSCRIPTS
Photographers Find Ink Which Has
: Faded: Into Illegibility May Still Be
Opaque to Uitra-Violet Rays.
Photographers have found that they
can obtain very different effects when
quartz lamps are used in place of the
more common sources of light. The
reason is simple enough. The quartz
allows the ready passing of the so-
called ultra-violet rays of light, which
will not penetrate glass, and these in
turn produce a different effect from the
rest of the rays.
With colored vases, flowers or dress
goods the effects are equally surpris:
ing and sometimes may lead to impor-
tant applications. For instance, a
French photographer has found that
ink which has faded into illegibility
may still be opaque to the ultra-violet
rays. By photographing documents on
which the ink had been faded he has
been able to restore the legibility
Moreover, the investigator has found
that in some old documents, dating
back to the Twelfth century, his quartz
light photographs showed the original
wording, which had later been changed
in a still legible ink. Such a decipher-
ing of old manuscripts which hereto-
fore have not been readable ought to
add greatly to our knowledge of other
days.
In the present, when many old manu:
scripts are being discovered, this proc-
ess is invaluable, -
Duo-Negatives.
in photographing subjects with in
¢cense contrasts the difficulty of secur-
ing the required amount of detail in
the shadow without getting overdensity
in the high lights is a common experi-
ence. The use of films makes it pos-
sible to overcome this difficulty by a
simple expedient. Two negatives are
made—one for high lights with a short-
exposure and the other fully timed for
the shadows. The parts desired in
each negative are then coated ‘with
celluloid varnish and the remainder re-
moved with the well known red prus-
siate and hypo reducer. When these
two negatives are superposed in reg-
ister their combined effect is that of a
properly timed negative. The method
is, of course, one requiring some dex-
terity in the blocking-out process and
is restricted to films of negligible
thickness.
He Should Worry.
A Jew who had borrowed money
rom a friend used to walk up and
down his bedroom night after night till
he neatly drove his wife crazy.
After he had been at it about a week
she said to him: “Moses, vy do you
valk up and down de room all de
night?”
He said: “lI valk up and down de
room, Rebecca, because I am so vor-
ried. I owe Isaacs $10 and I cannot
pay him.”
“Vell,” said his wife, “if 1 vos you
1 should go back to bed and let Isaacs
valk up and down his room. It's his
vorry, ain't it?”
Pine Tree of Great Span,
The spreading pine of Karasakl, ca
he shore of Lake Biwa, Japan, was
one of the best known trees of the
world, and one of the oldest. It was
only 30 feet high, but it had a span of
154 feet. For many years it was visit
ed by pilgrims, and tourists from other
countries made a point fo see it. Re-
cently a solemn ceremony was conduct-
ed by a high priest in the presence o.
wany ‘other priests "to transfer the
spirit of this 1.200-year-old tree to u
svuihful descendant of 350 years,
which sapling will receive the honors
Lome accorded to the sacred pine,
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Here the French posses- |
sions have an area of 4,800,000 square |
| the specifications of the patents ar-
Pueblo Indians Carry
Fetish When Hunting
The favorite hunt-fetish among the
Pueblo Indians was the mountain lion
which they deemed the
king of animals. Every Indian car-
ried a fetish when he hunted, and de-
rived his power from it by putting its
mouth to his own and drawing in his
breath—*“drinking the breath” of the
image—and praying to it, or rather
the an¥nal spirit it represented, to help
him,
The ceremony was indispensable at
the beginning of a hunt. Then before
following the trail the Indian imitated
the roar of his patron beast, to terrify
and bewilder the game. He firmly
believed that without these supersti-
tious ceremonials he would stand no
chance at all in the hunt, but with
them he was sure to succeed. The ani-
mals which were successful hunters
themselves were the objects of rever-
ence, and the Indian was careful to
invoke their aid, that his own pursuit
might be as fortunate as theirs.
The hunter, when he struck a trail,
took a forked twig and placed it in
front of a footprint, with the fork
opening backward. This was to trip
the fleeing game.—Detroit News.
Honduras Turkeys More
Gaudy Than Our Peacock
Brilliant iridescent plumage distin-
Zuishes the Honduras turkey, it being
black tipped with brassy green and
fringed with greenish copper. The
head is bright blue and yellow, and the
rump region is steel-blue, with brilliant
eyes of green-blue margined with cop-
per marking the ends of the grayish
tail feathers. It is said to be much
more gaudy than the peacock, and
though somewhat smaller than our
Eastern wild turkey. its meat is claimed
to be much better,
Experiments at zoological gardens
indicate that this fancy bird will breed
with the less colorful of our domestic
species. It is the only species of tur-
key, however, which is native to tropi-
cal lowlands. The Mexican turkey,
from which our domestic turkey is be-
lieved to have originated, lives on the
high tablelands. It has the character-
istic white-tipped tail feathers of the
domestic bird. Wild turkeys in Ari-
zona and New Mexico show this fea-
ture, while turkeys of the Rio
Grande valley of southern Texas are
partly like the Mexican birds and
partly like the Eastern wild turkey.
Had No Diver's Suit
What is said to be a record claim for
damage to a watch, which had been
sold with a guarantee against mechan-
ical imperfection, was reported by a
New York jewelry retailer. The watch
was of the wrist variety, and had been
a birtkday gift from the mother of the
young woman who made the claim. She |
brought it back to the retailer a couple | =
of months atter the purchase and com-
plained that it would not run. On the
strength of the guarantee she demand-
ed a new watch. The retailer quickly
ascertained that Fer charge was true,
but when he examined the watch more
closely he found the works almost en-
tirely covered with rust. The young
woman was at first unwilling to admit
that the watch had been badly treated
in any way, but finally admitted that
she had worn it wrile taking a bath.
Under the circumstances the jeweler
could not see where the watch was at
fault, but he offered to replace the
works at factory cost. This offer, how-
ever, did not make much of a hit with
the claimant,
Origin of the Collar
In the patent office at Washington
there is a woman's department, with
ranged in chronological order. The
first on the list is a patent taken out
in 1809 by Mrs. Mary Kieser for a
process of weaving straw with silk.
One woman inventor, Hannah Lord
Montague, is honored by a public me-
morial in Troy, N. Y., where she was
born. As Mrs. Montague was doing
the family washing on a hot summer
day in 1825, it occurred to her that a
shirt remained clean for a longer
period than a collar, so when her hus- |
band’s shirts were dry she detached |
the collars from them. . Subsequently
she started to making detachable col-
lars for sale to her neighbors, and the
demand for them reached such a pitch
that before 1840 several factories of
“string collars” as they were called in
their infancy, were established in Troy, |
which still possesses the largest collar |
factory in the world.
An Editor's View
The woman who doesn’t like this pa-
per because it is no good and never .
gets anything right should tuck up her |
underskirt. It hangs down and looks |
sloppy. The editor of the Economy |
may not know how to run a newspa- |
per right, but he knows how to put
his clothes on so his underwear won’t
show.—Solon (Ia,) Economy.
Preparedness
He—My dear, it’s no use for you to
fook at those hats; I haven't more
than a dollar in my pocket.
She—You might have known when
we came out that I'd want to buy a
few things.
He—I did.—Boston Transcript.
Passing the Buck
Mrs. Pester—Why did you tell Mrs.
Newkid her baby looked like its fa-
ther? You've never seen Mr. Newkid.
Her Husband—I know it. But all
mothers of homely: brats like hers
think they look like their fathers.
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prove himself every way he can, never sus- 4
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