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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1905)
D epends. -c r m a t t a r T h « “ flicker” sometimes noticed In I lightning proves to be due to the fact V that several flashes—sometimes five or six— follow one path too rapidly to be separated by the eye. The trails shown in photographs of very bright flashes are caused by incandescence produced In the air for a very brief period. Recent reports on the mineral re sources o f County Leitrim and adja cent parts of Ireland indicate the pos sibility of developing a great mining The beginner who would wish his prints In the tints of Nature and who Industry In that country. Experts say that the Connaught coal fields are cap proposes to Impart these to them with his own hand, had better start with able o f yielding from 20,000,000 to 30,- aniline dyes. Oil and water colors, effective In the hands of the practiced 000,000 tons, and of supporting thou artist, are less suited for one’s first attempt. The dyes may be purchased sands of laborers, although at present In bulk, but It Is more convenient to buy them In packets, In which form they they do not maintain 100. So the Iron- may be had at any drug store. One package Is dissolved In two ounces of seamed district between Dromahalr water, to which are added two drachms of glacial acetic add. The dye solu and Arigna, which might be expected tion Is applied with a soft camel-hair brush. Matt P. O. P. and bromide to give employment to tens of thou prints will be found the easiest to start with. There Is some little difficulty sands, and to develop “ a miniature In getting the colors “ to take" to a glossy print! lh fact, It Is necessary to Pittsburg,” at present does not support apply a medium to the print before starting to use colors. For this purpose, the following mixture Is the best thing: a solitary individual. Purified oxgal paste, 60 grains. The Navy Department has estab Distilled water, 16 ounces. lished In the Brooklyn navy yard a Rectified spirit, 4 ounces. school for the Instruction of young This Is applied with a camel-hair brush, and the prints are ready for seamen In wireless telegraphy. They further treatment as soon as dry. Some of the best effects In print coloring are taught how to send and receive the are obtained on albumen paper. messages and how to manipulate the Another method is to first apply a size made by dissolving gelatine In apparatus. Messages are received acetic acid until It forms a pasty mass. This Is thinned with water In the both by automatic record on a tap e! proportion of about one part of acetic gelatine to six parts o f water. A fter and by the ear, a system of dots and | this, the prints are colored with the aniline solutions. dashes being employed, as In ordinary j For those who wish to practice the coloring of prints In oils, we give the telegraphy. From twelve to fifteen following medium with which the oil celors should be treated beforehand. words per minute Is about the aver- j Gum mastic, 1 ounce. age transmitting speed of experienced Turpentine, 10 ounces. operators. The naval wireless system The rapidity o f drying may be Increased If, In place of turpentine, the lH now highly developed, both for tieet mastic be dissolved In four ounces of chloroform. and coast station use. The operators receive two or thee times the pay of ordinary seamen. S C E N E O F A T T E M P T O N S U L T A N ’ S L IF E . A t the last session of the Paris Acad emy of Medicine a treatise by Dr. Fournol, recommending hypodermic in jections of sea water against tubercu losis, attracted much attention. Dr. Fournol has prepared a sea water se rum which possesses the property of increasing the blood pressure. He treated twenty-four patients at a Paris hospital with it. Some of these suf fered from recent tuberculosis of the lungs, other for old tuberculosis of the bones. In all cases a distinct improve ment was noticeable. Consul General Guenther, writing from Frankfort, Germany, says that the results ap peared so Important to members o f the ucademy that It was resolved to notify the tul>erculosls commission with the Intention of continuing a series of ex periments throughout Europe. The curious dread o f cats that has been studied for three years by Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia, may open up a wide field for Investigation. An advertisement brought 159 replies T H E S U LTA N L E A V IN G T H E M USQUE W H IC H W’ AS W R E C KE D . from different countries— Including Germany, Egypt and India—and about The recent attempt on the life o f the more or less seriously injured. The two-thirds of them mentioned cases Sultan o f Turkey seems to have been windows o f the mosque were shattered. of fear o f cats, the others referring to of a very determined character. His Fifteen carriages were blown to pieces asthma from cats. This asthma, due majesty was descending the steps of and over fifty horses were killed. The to odors, may be excited by the pres the mosque when an explosion took windows o f the mosque, of the ambas ence of horses, dogs, cats or sheep, or place among the crowd which was sador's kiosk, and o f the palace were even o f roses, apples, oranges or ban gathered behind the railings, and was shattered, while fragments o f the bomb, anas. The catpbobla comes Instanta | heard all over Constantinople. O f the pieces o f horses' and human bodies and neously, and may be very severe, cata spectators from twenty to thirty were debris o f the carriages were hurled lepsy having developed In one case, I killed, while nearly one hundred were great distances. and temporary blindness In another. It passes with the going of the cat, T h lr t e e n s on a S i l v e r Q n a r t e r . teen stripes on the shield, and on the leaving a sense of fatigue and depres Superstition seems to be a part of front of the silver piece thirteen stars sion. It Is not confined to women, the mental composition o f everyone, surrounding the liberty head and thir nor are the men always timorous, and and It commonly centers to a rooted teen leaves In liberty's crown. This one army officer who had fearlessly antipathy to the number thirteen. array of thirteen Is In commemora hunted dangerous cats— the lion and This first of the teens has had to stand tion of the original thirteen States the tiger— would go far out o f his way for many an action that was ridicu which comprised the Union— New to avoid the domestic cat. Families lous, and yet there Is hardly any per York Press. are sometimes affected. Some emana sons who would sidestep an inch or The P r o o f at H and. tion seems to be the active agent, the mournfully rail at fate should be spy “ Yes, I did pay some attentions to cat In many cases being unseen, and a silver quarter on the sidewalk. Have It la suggested that supersensitive you ever taken the trouble to scan Miss Filbert, but I finally began to nerves may be affected by waves of closely this small piece of silver? I f think that she was a person o f very the ether that do not yield light, heat I you have not, you may be surprised to poor taste and— ” “ Sir, she Is to be my w ife?” or odor. | find on the eagle side that there are “ And now I know I t " — Cleveland I thirteen arrows In the bundle, which Yes, the world may owe you a liv Plain Dealer. ing, but you will starve to death If you Is clutched In the left claw, thirteen A ny Nam e W o n ld Do. sit down and wait for It to come laurel leaves on the branch in the The Landlady— Will you hare cof other claw, thirteen stars at his bead, around and settle. thirteen letters In the Latin lnacrtp- fee, tea or cocoa, Mr. Slopay? Mr. Slopay— Anything you wish to The man who loves everybody lores tion, “ ■ plurlbus Unum," thirteen let- nobody. ' tars In the word "quarter dollar," thir call tt, ma'am.— Puck. ffihofpqrapht) The man behind the white apron In dignantly asserted him sen. “ I won’ t be ordered around as if I was a slave,” he exclaimed. “ I'm as good ns you. I t ’s no disgrace to be a waiter!” “ Maybe not,” said the dyspeptic guest, “ but it’s a disgrace to be auch a waiter as you are.” How’a Thia? W e o ffer One H undred Dollars R ew ard f o t any case o f C atarrh that can not be cu red by H a il’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. C H E N E Y A CO., Props., Toledo, O. W e, the u nd ersigned, have k n ow n F. J. Cheney fo r th e last 15 years, and b elieve him p erfectly h on ora ble in a ll business transac tions and fin a n c ia lly able to carry o u t any ob ligations m ade by their firm. W est A T k u a x , W holesale Druggists, Toledo, O. \V a l d in o , K i n n a n ¿ i M a b v in , \V holeaale Drug gists, Toled o , O. 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