Bellefonte, Pa., April 2, 1926.
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Anaesthetic Twice as Strong as Any
Other Discoverd.
A new anaesthetic, twice as power-
ful as ethylene, sure in its action and
swift in permitting recovery, since
full consciousness returns within a
minute after the flow of gas is stop-
, is science’s latest discovery in
the fight to banish pain, says “Pop-
ular Mechanics.”
The new anaesthetic, called pro-
pylene, is produced from _ordinary
artificial gas, and besides its other
feature rarely produces any after
sickness or nausea. In fifteen major
operations only one patient was ren-
dered sick by the gas.
With the normal span of life stead-
ily growing longer as one after an-
other of the mass diseases have been
conquered, scientists are confident
that in the next half century they will
add another twenty years to the aver-
age life, bringing it well up to four
score years. What this means may
be realized "vhen statistics of the past
are studied. In the sixteenth century
the average life span was but twenty
years—the ripe old age of those who
grew up being more than offset by
the appalling infant mortality due to
lack of knowledge of children’s dis-
eases. At the close of the eighteenth
century the average was less than
twenty-five years. A hundred years
ago in America it had reached thirty-
five years; by 1870 it was forty-one
years and in the fifty-six years since
it has almost reached sixty years.
With the exception of occasional
sporadic pests, such as the influenza
epidemic which swept away 22,000,000
lives during the war, man has virtual-
ly ceased to die from mass com-
plaints, and now dies an individual
death, due to breakdown of his own
machinery. Vaccines, toxin and anti-
toxins, as well as better medical train-
ing, have conquered smallpox, dip-
theria, measles and the myraid dis-
eases that in the Middle Ages claim-
ed a vast proportion of population in
the years of infancy and childhood.
With the individual death from per-
sonal troubles replacing the mass dis-
eases, the perfection of medicines
and anaesthetics—the latter less than
100 years old—takes on renewed
importance, since they deal with the
treatment of the individual. The an-
cients knew how to use drugs made
from the poppy, belladonna, man-
drake, solanum, mandragora and
nepenthe to produce unconsciousness,
and back as early as the third cen-
tury Chinese record the use of hemp
by physicians for this purpose, but
they never became general, and ma-
jor operations continued to be per-
formed more often than not without
anything to relieve the pain.
Motor Racing Rules Revised.
Motordom is shortly due for a gen-
eral revolution. Radical alterations
in construction, extensive tests with
added appliances and detailed plans
executed all for a thoroughly modern-
ized racing motor production, is the
present outlook for the midsummer,
when the A. A. A., officials announce
the advent of the 91% cubic inch
speedway motors.
A new page will be written in the
history of professional racing. The
present type 122 cubic inch, now des-
perately battling the gruelling miles
of the American speedway, will be re-
tired in May. Their faithful perform-
ance will doubtless linger in the minds
of pilot and fan alike, while worlds
records in series, set a high mark for
the newer design replacing them.
Their great speed producing qual-
ities brought a championship crown
to Pete DePalolo an array of worlds
records. More recent achievements
on the west coast cause dispatches of
astounding speed records to be flash-
ed through the press, following mad
dashes of “Bob” McDonogh, Earl De-
Vore and Benny Hill with a half-doz-
en foremost contenders.
Coincident with these last hour an-
nouncements, comes fresh advice from
the racing motor factory of the vet-
eran Harry Miller, ir Hollywood, Cal.,
telling ,f amazing development in
the work of the new motors, first to
be shown on the pine board in Al-
toona, Saturday June 12th. Block
tests by the scores to determine the
superiority of the late design, are be-
ing conducted. The paramount
thought is speed, and with upwards
to fifteen under construction, an un-
usually fast fleet is certain. Duesen-
berg brothers of Indianapolis are
meanwhile laboring tediously in a
spirit of eagerness to excell Miller's
product, while handling orders for ten.
The renowned Altoona Speedway,
the greatest sporting center in East-
ern U. S., will present the coming
speed duel as their sixth national
championship 250-mile event.
Penn State Girl Holds World’s Rifle
Record.
In eight consecutive intercollegiate
rifle marksmanship contests Miss El-
len A. Bullock, of Gladwyne, Pa., a
junior co-ed at The Pennsylvania
State College, has made eight perfect
scores and has established a new
world’s record for college girl rifle
shooting. A Kansas girl held the pre-
vious record with five consegutive per-
fect scores, and so far as is now
known, the achievement of Miss Bul-
lock in hitting the “Bull's eye” with
every shot has not been equalled by
any other college girl in the world.
Potatoes Once Cheap.
In comparing potato prices, Rich-
ard Carr, of Livonia, N. Y., says he
remembers carting potatoes when
they were sold for eleven cents a
bushel. And in the Fall of 1895 a
man took a 1000 bushels of potatoes
to Piffard to sell the lot for $560—or
a nickel a bushel. But the deal did
not go through and rather than take
the tubers back home and store them
the grower sold the entire lot for $10
~—one cent a bushel.—Exchange.
Where Name Gamaliel
Occurs in the Bible
Two men by the name of Gamaliel
are spoken of in the Bible. The pe
riods in which they lived were widely
separated. The name of the first is
found in Numbers 1:10. He was the
son of Pedahazur, a prince or cap-
tain of the Tribe of Manasseh, and he
is here mentioned in connection with
the census of Sinai. He again men-
tioned in chapters 2:20; 7:54 and 10:
28, the latter reference being to
Gamaliel as captain of the Tribe of
Manasseh at the starting of the Is-
raelities on their march through the
wilderness. The second Gamaliel was
a Pharisee and celebrated doctor of
the law, who gave sound worldly ad-
vice to the Sanhedrin respecting the
treatment of the followers of our
Lord. This will be found in Acts 5:34,
It is also learned from 22:3 that he
was the teacher of St. Paul when the
latter was a young man zealously de-
voted to Judaism. He is generally
identified with the very celebrated
Jewish doctor, Gamaliel, who was the
son of Rabbi Simeon, and grandson
of the celebrated Hillel. He was pres-
ident of the Sanhedrin, the great
council of the Jews, during the reigns
of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Cs-
ligula and Claudius.
Science Vainly Seeks
New Sources of Silk
In spite of the enormous increase
in the production of artificial silk, real
silkworm silk is just as much sought
after as ever, and is even more ex-
pensive than formerly. So much so
that attempts have been made to find
other insects to produce it.
Spiders have been tried, and other
caterpillars besides that of the silk-
worm moth, but without much success.
The oddest source from which silk has
been obtained is a shellfish, a sort of
mussel, called the “pinna” and found
in the Mediterranean.
This creature fastens itself to the
rocks with fine and very strong
threads, which can be spun into love
ly golden yellow silk.
But it is not likely that sea silk
will ever be a commercial proposition.
The thread is very short, the filaments
being not more than three inches long.
Also, it takes more than three thou-
sand of the fish to produce one pound
of silk. Yet a little is produced and
worked in Sicilian coast villages.
The Judge’s Retinue
Mr. Justice Sankey, in the course ot
a lecture in London on old-time judi-
cial customs, spoke of the days when
a judge had to be accompanied by the
sheriff with a retinue of 200 men when
traveling from Newcastle to Carlisle to
protect him from the raids of Scots-
men who sometimes came over the
border to take off the judge for ran-
som.
fn the passing of time, the sheriffs
sot “fed up” with this expense, and
asked the judges to accept dagger
money in order to provide their own
escorts. To this day the custom pre-
vails in Newcastle of presenting the
judge on circuit with dagger money,
the sum being one golden guinea.
Study of Revelations
The book of Enoch is an apocryphal
oook, first mentioned in the Epistle of
Jude 14-15 and quoted by Clement of
Alexandria, Origen and Tertullian. It
purports to be a series of revelations
of God made to Enoch and gives a his-
tory of the kingdom of God and the
secret origin of laws of nature. It was
much quoted in Jewish and Christian
writings during the first five centuries
after Christ; but disappeared with the
exception of a few fragments about
800 A. D. The book furnishes infor-
mation concerning Jewish theology
and speculation during the centuries
immediately preceding the Christian
era.—Kansas City Star.
Thought in Lower Animals
Just as the monkey or orang-utan be-
have and think precisely as men do, so
we find many animals, birds and in-
sects thinking, and it is this capacity
to benefit by the teachings of experi-
ence, the cultivation of memories and
the power to reason clearly, quickly
and logically that enables them to find
ways and means for securing them-
selves in comfort during the coldest
days of winter.
They do this in innumerable ways,
4nd many species appear to exhibit
greater intelligence and foresight than
man in preparing for the winter sea-
son.
Finest of All Oils
Watchmakers’ oil, the finest of its
«ind in the world, is obtained from the
jaws of the porpoise by the Passama-
quoddy Indians, who live on the coast
of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and
Maine. The jaws are hung up in the
sun, and the oil as it drips from them
is caught in cans, placed below. Only
about half a pint comes from each jaw.
The oil commands high prices, and in
late years it has become so expensive
that its use in the delicate machinery
of lighthouses has been abandoned.
To Test Pearls
In Paris not long ago a group ot
the world’s greatest pearl merchants
watched a French sclentist pour gent-
ly a handful of pearls into a tube con-
taining what appeared to be water.
Some sank to the bottom, but others
floated.
“Gentlemen,” the scientist sald,
“you will find that the pearls light
enough to float in this fluid are nat-
ural pearls. Those that sank are cul-
tivated Japanese pearls,” says Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle wil}
spell words both vertically and horizontally,
The first letter in each word is
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fll
the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number undes
“vertical” defines a word which wiil fll the white squares to the next black one
below. No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words,
except proper mames. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obse«
lete forms are indicated im the definitions,
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 2.
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Horizontal.
1—Rude house
4—Log house
8—Venomous snake
11—Metal
13—Fabled bird
14—Small island
16—An aigrette
17—Atmospheric conditions
18—Arabian chieftain
21—Bamboolike grass
23—@irl's name
24—Printing measures
26—Shallow dish
28— Ruling S. Amer. tribe at time of
Spanish invasion
81—To proceed
32—Insect
83—Man’s polite title
34—Equal
86—That thing
86—Island off Greece
88—To request
89—Brother of a religious order
40—To vend
43—To smack
44—To walk on
46—To make flat
49—S. Amer. mountains
b1—Scarce
52—To stitch
p4—Gambling cubes
55—Consumed
56—To guide
§7—Boy’'s name
Vertical,
1—To hasten
2—To encourage
3—To taunt
5—Land measure
6—To bend the body
7—Frozen water
8—Embers
9—Snow vehicle
10—Prefilx meaning through
12—To want
14—Notations
16—Number under eleven
18—Extent
20--To elevate
22—European country
25—Stoppers
27—Insect
29—Egg of a louse
30—Top of a wave
81—Aeriform fluid
84—A knight-errant
36—To box for shipping
37—Preoccupied
39—A torch
41—Period of time
42—To give the use of temporarily
43—Strip of board
45—Prefix meaning 10
46—Brother of a religious order
47—Xstablished (abbr.)
48—Born
50—To place
53—You and me
Solution will appear in mext issue.
Union Sunday Schools a Great Work
in Pennsylvania.
In connection “with Sunday School
work, general secretary Walter KE.
Myers of the Pennsylvania State Sab-
bath School Association, gives some
interesting figures.
It was during a conference of coun-
ty presidents and secretaries just
closed at Williamsport, that Mr.
Myres was making his report to the
members of the educational commit-
tee, which is composed of state staff
members and denominational leaders
who form the educational plans and
policies of the State Association.
Mr. Myers said “I have a number
of times been asked: “What is an In-
terdenominational association like the
Penn’a. State Association for?” And
I wonder how many people in the
State know that we have fifty six
varieties of religious denominations
all trying to do Sunday School work?
They vary in size from the Metho-
dist Episcopal, with it’s 429,800, down
to the Swedish Free with 100, but
the significant fact is that only 16
have more than 20,000 enrolled in
their religious educational work and
only 3 have professional field work-
ers who are giving full time to help
their Pennsylvania constituency.
Another significant thing is that
only 10 of these 56 denominations
were even helping their schools by oc-
casional visits or advice and the other
46 are entirely dependent on the
crumbs that fall from others tables or
the State Association service, which
reaches every county several times
each year.
In Pennsylvania only Methodist,
Presbyterian, Lutheran, Reformed
and Baptist in order named, exceed
the Union schools in number of
schools, the total of Union schools
showing here the great need of our
State service in this connection.
Mr. Myers further emphasizes the
fact that the right and responsibility
of the denomination to enunciate it's
own training violated, and that the
State Association and must not be
violated, and that the necessary place
of the inter-denominational agency to
promote work in many community ef-
forts is still obvious in our State even
though Pennsylvania is the greatest
Sunday School State in this country.
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Not Responsible for Any
Blunder.
Wildcats
A stranger, driving down a lonely
road, saw a big wildcat dash across
the highway in front of him and leap
through the open window of a farm-
house. At the same moment he saw
the farmer working in a field a short
distance away. Whipping up his
horse, he excitedly accosted the far-
mer.
“Is that your house?” he breath-
lessly inquired.
“Guess it is,” drawled the man of
the soil.
“Is your wife in the kitchen?”
“Ought to be,” said the farmer.
“Then hurry home, man, and see
what you can do, I just saw a wild-
1 leap through the kitchen window.
“That so?” asked the farmer.
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) “Yes, man; hurry, hurry.”
“Yes me, stranger,” insisted the
the farmer, “was anybody chasing
that wildcat?”
“No.”
“He went through that window of
his own free will and accord ?”
“Yes,” replied the now thoroughly
puzzled stranger.
“Then let him defend himself,” con-
cluded the farmer, as he returned
Sontentedy to his task.—Washington
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The Largest Industry.
The motors industry is now the
largest industry in the country (with
steel second, and meat packing third).
An average of 14,400 cars and trucks
were built every business day dur-
ing 1925, making a total of 4,325,000.
These machines were sold at an aver-
age of $866 for cars and $1,350 for
trucks, making the total average out-
put about $13,000,000 a day. There
are now 20,000,000 motor vehicles in
the United States. These vehicles,
says Good Hardware, can haul the en-
tire population of the United States
in one load.
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—The “Watchman” gives all the
news when it is news. Read it.
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