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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1889)
SIMPSON'S DISCOVERY. Haw tha Aimvtthmlo PropertlM of Ch.. wrorn Wei Wrought to I.lht. The name of Doctor (afterwards Sir) James Youus? Simpson .became closely identified with Urn study of Rtiwsthe. tics, lie approached the subject with n due seuse of its importance! and ap plied to it a scientific .skill of the first Order. Several deaths occurred througa the careless aud indiscriminate use of ether, causing that agent to be re garded with diminished favor. A less dancrerous but equally effective sub stance was called for. and to the dis covery of this Dr. Simpson devoted his boat energies. In his researches he was assisted by several able professors, and fnr timn thnv irnve a larre share of their attention to the matter. Any volatile substauce in which amesthetio nroDerties were suspected was care fully examined, and' It was not lonjf before the experiments brought forth the coveted reward. One nipht Dr, Simpson and his assistants were sitting nn late, bunt on their self-imposea tasK A number ot chemical fluids had been elected for experiment, each man pro viding himself with a gatm, into which & small auantitv of the particular suh- Btance engaging attention was poured, the glass being placed over warm water to help the evolution or vapor, xa this wav. with their mouths and nos trils held over the vessels they tested one vapor after another, but It seemed as if the spirit of uncotisciouness was not to be evoked. They tried many gases and liquids which no one had ever thoughtof testfng in this con nection before, and at Inst a small bot tle of dark liquid which provoked no great expectations, and was only known as a chemical curiositylji the labora tory, was raked up out of some ob Hcure corner and put to take Its turn . with the rest. This was a little bottle of chloroform. . Presently, after more promising substances had failed them, it was resolved to submit It to the test. A amfill nortion of the liciuid was rod into each class and- the ex- nerimenters be?an their inhalations. Prof. Miller, one of the assistants, has described what took place. An un wonted hilarity seized the party; they became bright-eyed and very happy, and conversed with, such intelligence as more than usually charmed other listeners who were not taking part Id the proceedings, But suddenly there ' was a talk of sounds being heard like those of a cotton mill, louder and louder; a moment more, then all wa quiet, and then a crash! On awaking, Dr. Simpson's first perception was mnt..li This is far stronger and better than ether," he said to himself. He next observed that he was pros trate on the floor, and that his friends were confused and alarmed. Ilearing a noise, be turned . round ana saw his assistant, Dr. Duncan beneath a chair; his jaw dropped, his eyes staring, and his liead half bent under him; quite unnnnscious. and snoring in a deter minpd and alarmlne manner. More noise followed and much commotion. and then his eves overtook Dr. Keith's ft and leers making- various efforts to overturn the table, or more proba bly to annihilate every thing that was it.- All soeedilv rearined their senses, and from the middle of that night dates the discovery of the ansea . thetic uses, of chloroform. London Tablet. : .. , . HUMOROUS GEESE. Bow Tby Had Good leal of Fan With N amber of Young; fig. . A goose has perhaps the keenest ap preciation of humor of any animal, u less it be her own arch enemy, the fox. The writer once saw in a little grassy TtaAAnok somo eiffht or ten fat and healthv pie's and half a score of geese From the paddock a narrow open gate cave entrance into the farm-yard, ana. as evening drew on, the geese ranged themselves in a row near this Ther moDvlae. Obviously supper-time was approaching, and the pigs wished to return home to their trouens. equally clearly the geese had given each other the word not to let them pass through ' the gate which they guarded.'wlthout paving toll. First there came up a jolly, good humored little pig, wio trotted cheer fully along with a confidence which outrht to have (Unarmed criticism, till he came amoiur the ceese. Then, with a cackle aud a scream, every neck was stretched to got a bite at him, ana. ouallinir and yelling the -poor little " j w -- porke' ran the gauntlet. The same fate befell' six or seven more of his brethrenlu'succession, each bfttmvins- increasimr trepidation as he approached tho fatal pass, and made a bolt through the corps ae gurue or geese whose chattering and screeches of de light were almost undistinguishable from human laughter. . At last the biggest pig of the party brought up the 'rear.. He was a pink- fleshed, clean young fellow,-with fat limVw and sides, and his ears were cocked, and his tail sharply twisted in the intelligent, wide-awake manner which so completely distinguishes the Wjilwt.iiii.l mtr from the more swine nance, mis Drave oeastcnargui inrougn the flock of geese, and bad actually al most gained tho gato, when a large gray goose mnde one grab at his rat ham, caught up tho skin in a bunch, and gave it a tremendous pinch with her red beak. Needless to say, the hit was rent with the squeals of agony of the injured pig. and the ecsUitio pmans of the flock of geese in chorus. From tho order in which this trans action took place, I derived tho ira presslon that a similar game of prison- 3r s base probably formed ttio enter tainment of the geese every evening. francos Power Cobb- NAPP BURRELL & COMPANY ALBANY, OREGON. Wholesale and Retail Dealers In ORIGIN OF ELEPHANTS. A Race of MummaU That Hint Appaarad In tiia Mloeeua renew. The origin of the great proboscidian race in ceneral. and of tho mammoth and elephant group in particular, like tho early history of Joamos de la Pluche. is "wroo in obscurity. " All we ean say about thorn with any confl donee is that thoy form a comparative lv late order of mammals, wnoso earliest recognizable representative in geological time Is the monstrous aino therlum, nn aquatic animal with a long trunk, and with two immense curved tusks, proioctinir downward paradox lcallv from his lower instead of his up per jaw. The dinothorlum makes his first apiearance upon this or any other stage in the Miocene pe riod; but as ho couldn't. of course, have appeared mere (like Aphrodite and Topsy) without any parents, and as ho was then al ready a fairly specialized and highly- developed animal, we must take It lor granted that his earlier ancestry. thoufrh ancient and respectable in Its own time, had long passed away, leav ing not a wreck behind, so lar as ye known, in the matter of tangible geo logical vouchers. These unknown an cestors, in all probability, gave birth during their earlier 'and more plastic stage for suedes, like individuals, are most readily molded in their green youth to three main family branches. The senior branch produced tho di nothorlum. a vast brute, who, finding the world too full to hold him about tho close of tho tertiary period, de mised suddenly without issue, leav ing the honors of the family in sub sequent ages to tho junior mom- beis. The second branch pro duced the mastodons, huge creat ures of elephantine outline and ma- iestio tread, most of them with tus ks in the upper and lower Jaws, though the under pair were always the small est The third branch produced the true elephants, including both our modern Indian and African species, as well as the mammoth himself, and many other extinct congonors. All the elenhants proper have but one solitary pair of tusks, and that pair is quite correctly located in the upper law inst-ad of the under one. ihus Is Evolution iustified of all hor children The true elephants made their first ap pearance, as far as known, In the Pllocone period that Is, tho epoch preceding the Great Ice Ago. Thoy blossomed out at once into an alarming number of species. Cornblll Alaga sine THE AGE OF SPECIALISE Tendency Which la Becoming Hor Pronounced fcverr Day. Here is an old story in point, illus trating conditions: A certain man, a sort of scientist after his fashion, found an insect which in bis crude way he could at once determine to boa beetle. But be wished to know just what kind of a beetle that particular one happened to be, or, in other words. to find out its name. So, like a good and patriotic citizen, ho reforrod it to a specialist just as a sensible minor with a broken leg would call In the service of a sunreon. He went to a friend and said: "Here is a beetle. Now, you are an entomologist; please tell mo what that is. "Oh. no." said the referee "I am not an entomologist." 'Not an entomologist? Why, I thought that was your lino." 'No; I only wish I were," he sata, sadlv Well, what are you? What do you call a beetle sharp a coleoptorlst?" No," said he, modestly, and with a donrecatory air, "no, I m not coleonterlsL If you insist upon Know incr. I mitrht claim (now brurutoning up) to bo a scarabaeiat; that is, you know, altogether u liferent from being a regular coleopterist." It is not so long ago that a single creat mind, like that of Humboldt, could take in at aslngle comprehensive glance almost the sum of human knowl edge. There can be no Humboldt now. Engineering ad Mining Journal. w Hip. Sau iis. Stiinoie Us. Pitts' Engines and Threshers, Bain Wagons, Hacks and Buggies, and All Kinds of Two and Four Wheeled Vehicles. McCormack and Deering Binders and Mowers, Oliver Chilled Plows, Carden Cltv and Mollne Plows, Disc Harrows. Wood and Iron Floating Harrows, BARBED WIRE. MONITOR 8ESHERS AND DRILLS. SINGLE AND DOUBLE HARNESS. SOLE ACENT FOR THE LIGHTNING HAY PRESS, THE BEST IN THE WORLD. F. EL ROSCOE, 0F" When you Merchant Tailoring a Bpscialty. Mk. E. A.Schkkfi.er is an expert, and has charge of this department.- Wc guarantee satisfaction. Mr. Herbert rspenoer woro wireo Honrs ilnv. dlctatlnsr all bin writings. 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