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Marvels of Everyday Science
Competent Scientists Apply Their Skill to Problems of Agriculture' Housekeeping, Schools, Business and Governmental Activities.
Why la This Thus?
Lave been made beforo this in
G UNS
which the projecting force was Here is a paradox to fool your smart
friends with. Take an ordinary folding
centrifugal motion instead of the
explosion of powder. One great trouble
in such guns has been that the missiles
eould not be readily fed to tfie barrel,
which was revolving at such high velo­
city. An invention recently patented in
England assumes to overcome this dif­
ficulty, according to the Pathfinder.
In this machine there is a hopper for
bolding the bullets. This hopper has a
channel or pipo connecting through the
jdiirnal or central pivot, as shown in
the sectional sketch herewith, so that
rule (a two-foot rule is best), and ask
your friend what will happen if you tie
a hammer on the end of the rule, with
the hinge on the rule underneath. Of
course he will say that the rule will at
once fold up, for it will do th at even
without the hammer being hung on it.
However, i t ’s easy enough to do im
possibilities provided you know how,
and that is the case in this instance.
You tie the hammer in the rule exactly
as shown in the picture. You may have
to try several times before you will get
Health and Sanitation
delivered in dirty bread boxes on the
A WORD ABOUT RABIES.
ROM time immemorial the people of street.
all nations, from the barbarians to To demand general cleanliness of gro­
tho most highly eivilized, have cery and meat shops.
feared what is commonly known as the To inquire whether poultry is cold
mad dog. Tho terrible results that storage or not.
follow bites from dogs in this condi­ To personally investigate the dairy
her with milk.
tion have justified the fear, for it which be supplies
certain to receive full weights
meant death until the memorable work and To measures.
of Pasteur who gave to the world a
treatm ent which has proven to be a god-
HEALTH POINTERS.
sent in arresting the progress of the dis­ The SOME
ideal health officer devotes much
ease. Men who prepare the auti rabic time
to food regulation.
virus take tho same treatm ent as those Good
who have been bitten to immunize health. food is the basis of life and
themselves against accidental infection. Well nourished people are better able
The dissection of a dead dog’s head is to resist communicable disease infec­
as dangerous to the operator as the tion.
handling of a live rattlesnake, with only
rubber gloves for protection.
Tho disease is not. infectious in the
it just right. Then when you hold up same sense as some other diseases, but
the rule it will remain stiff and straight is transm itted only by bites or abra­
and will not fold lip, in spite of the sions of the skin. The specific cause is
OF THIS ?
weight of the hammer. In fact, it is not known to exist in any place in the
a constant supply of bullets may be the hammer which keeps it from folding economy of nature, and as it is trans­
kept up, even while the disk is in rapid up, for the weight of it is so placed mitted almost exclusively by carnivor­
motion. A cam arrangement operates so that it produces a leverage upward on ous animals, any measure that will pre
FIN E FREE HOMESTEADS
as to feed the bullets at regular inter­ the end of the rule, as you can readily vent them from biting one another will
M ontana Deeded Lands
see
when
you
try
it.
stamp it out. The recent action taken
vals, as desired, and thus the shots may
• $8 to $40 an Acre
by the authorities of Portland and Se­
bo controlled while the apparatus is
Ready for tho plow.
Novel Movable W ater Tower.
Yields 30 to 60 bu. wheat.
attle in passing a muzzling ordinance
running.
Oats,
barley, flax, hay, etc., in
Differing
from
the
usual
form
of
W ith the disk revolving at a stated water tower, which throws only one is to be highly commended, for despite
proportion.
Bpeod the direction taken by the bullets stream of w ater upon the roof or in­ the attitude taken by some who are not
Finest Inland Climate.
will be constant. Provision is made of terior of a burrring building, a new type u a position to know there is, and has
Land Sold on Crop Payment
course for shifting and sighting the ap­ has been invented designed to throw a been, rabies in Portland and Oregon
Plan.
paratus so th at any target may be number of streams of w ater in various for some time. It is the duty of every­
Low faro Homeseekers’ Ex­
one to help enforce *he ordinance to
cursions on first and third
brought into range. A number of in­
Tuesdays of each month.
protect the public. lie who loves his
ventors have been injured by experi­
child should protect it, and he who
Immigration Bureau,
menting with centrifugal guns, for the
C. M. & ST. P. BY.
loves his dog should protect it also.
bullets are very apt to go wild, seeing
2nd
and
Cherry, Seattle, Wash.
th at their destination depends very
r a c t io u s n e s s and restlessness
much on the speed of the revolving
on the baby’s part are frequent
disk.
results of cutting back teeth, and often
screaming during the night. Try the ELITE PR IV A T E
How to Make a Glass.
following plan before putting the little
W ith a piece of ordinary twine, any
BUSINESS C O LLEG E
one to bed: Get a bath ready with
ono can convert an old bottle into a
404 COMMONWEALTH BLDG.
the w ater deep enough to reach to the
serviceable drinking glass. Loop the
PORTLAND, OB.
child’s waist when sitting down
twine around the bottle at the place de­
Fasten a shawl or small blanket around
sired, as shown in the drawing, and
the neck to keep the top of the body
saw ^or about one minnto Then im-
warm. Neither shawl nor hands
should bo wet. Keep the baby in the
water five minutes. A board may be
fixed across the bath at one end to
hold a few toys to amuse the child. The
temperature of the water should be 104
The lower part of the little
directions against the flames. The dis­ degrees.
body will be quite red when taken out.
charge pipe of the new tower is con­ Give
it a good brisk rubbing and pop
structed so th at it may be projected the child
into a warm bed. It should
into a window or other opening, the end sleep
quietly and soundly till morning.
being equipped with a number of noz­
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zles presented in different directions.
The pipe may be raised or lowered, or F LIES often by alighting on tuber
cular sputum or any other form
tilted at any angle.
of debris and then by depositing their
excreta on food stuff transfer disease
Other Interesting Inventions.
The W hitney brothers of Narka, from one point to another.
Kan., have been granted a patent on F lies' legs are covered with little
MAUDE I. DECKER, A. M.
their road grader, which is operated by hairs and on these hairs the germs
Principal.
a gasoline motor. They had waited two lodge.
Personal Attention, Individual Instruction.
inerse the bottle in cold water and it years for the grant.
_ A _ fly will
___ carry
___^ typhoid bacilli, Satisfaction
Guaranteed. Positions for Grsdo-
will break where the twine sawed. Care A clip to hold a lead pencil upon »'tubercular bacilli, pus germs and var ates. Special Summer Rates.
must be .taken to have the twine move finger so a w riter will not have to lay ious other kinds of bacilli on his feet
along the same line during the opera­ it down when he wishes to use his hand and then plant them on our food.
tion, and for th at reason the bottle for some other purpose, has been in­
should be held in a vise, or a make shift vented by a Missourian.
ON MEASLES.
Hotel
The seats on a recently patented
vise.
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sight-seeing automobile are slowly re­ HE one great obstacle in the way of
the control of measles is that the
volved as the vehicle moves, permitting
How Snakes Swallow Fish.
disease is communicable in the pre­
the
passengers
to
see
both
sides
of
a
A snake, when it attem pts to eat a street without tw isting their necks.
em ptive stage (just before the “ break­
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fish, must swallow the latter head first, For m ilitary purposes there has been ing o u t’’) before a diagnosis can pos
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on account of the fins. If the fish is invented a rifle with a barrel so sibly be made.
caught by the tail or crosswise of the strengthened and provided with a plug It is, therefore, very difficult to
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body it must first be deftly lifted out for the muzzle that it can be used to handle epidemics with any degree of
g EG FE EG I. the re.trrof
of w ater and turned as disclosed by bore a bole through an embankment, its success, because these children attend
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a remarkable film, made by an Eng­ user being out of sight to a foe.
■tnren -o both ode«.
school, motion picture gatherings, and
lish camera man.—Will Day.
DutM
j.nff nf-u lately
A pistol which looks like a watch, the spread the^disease broadcast before
fireproof — rwre tr,
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barrel being in the stem, has been pat­ any one can recognise th at trouble is
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Dust Collectors in Mills.
ented to be used against a highwayman brewing.
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isolate
the
The use of efficient dust collectors when he demands the surrender of valu­
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cases when we can get them, prohibit
has almost eliminated the dangerous ables.
dust explosions and fires formerly so At the bottom of a reeently patented other children in the same house from
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frequent in grain elevators and mills. ladder is an adjustable curved brace, so going to school or other publie places,
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They have also made conditions more made that it stands firmly on an un­ and educate the public th at they sh l
isolate all children who present the first
healthful for workmen. A fan forces even surface.
the dust laden air direetly from the mill­ Two novelties to aid gardeners ar* a symptoms that point in Lny way to an
ing machinery to the collector, which hoc with a seed box near the blade with approaching case • of a measles.
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consists of a central drum and a num­ which planting may be done, and a
THE HOUSEWIFE ’ 8 DUTY
Farm and Dairy Rely Furnish ad Frau
ber of radiating tubes. Each tube con­ shovel with a second grip part way
3 DEMAND cleanliness of all per
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sists of a fram e covered with a filter down the hnndlc.
sons handling foodstuffs.
ing doth which allows air to pass freely An Illinois inventor’s swimming ma
Oregon Employment Agency
To insist upon food being pro
but removes all dust. A device inside chine is driven by propellers operated
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collects the dust and pours it into a by its user’s hands and feet, while his teeted from dirt, flics, dust or dogs.
To purchase no bread which has heea
shin attends to the steering.
conveyor.
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