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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1914)
3 Inventions and Appliances Health and Sanitation ROME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION FARMING FOB PEARLS 18 PHOF IT ABLE. A RECENT decision of the TJ. & Bureau of Fisheries to start breed ing pearl mussels by artificial means in the valley of the Cumberland Biver, opens up to the public a new and very profitable industry. Investigations conducted over a long period by the cicntific staff of the bureau has demon strated that fresh-water pearls aro pro duced by many varieties of mussels through the action of certain small para sitic worms, which bore through the shell and set up an irritation on the flesh of tho mussel. In self-defense the mus sel stcretes an excels of pearl-forming material and encysts the parasite,- a pearl resulting. Thousands of these fresh water pearls havo been carefully cut open by government investigators and within each one was found, when examined under a powerful microscope, tho nucleus containing one of these little worms. Mussels breed rapidly, the eggs being cast in small packets, which after a few days break, and thousands of tiny larvae swim about, attaching themselves to tho gills of fish, from which after 70 days they cast loose and sink to the bottom of the river, beginning there their life as shellfish. It sary to obtain from the government a t.uiiignnicni oi mussel eggs, distribute them in a stream well stocked with fish, and a natural mussel farm results. Then a number of mussels infWtn,! i, pearl forming parasito must be obtained. lnieo. in tne bed of the stream, and tho farm begins to be productive. HEW FLY SWATTER. IT HAS been said there is no swatter that a clever fly cannot escape, but the one shown here, the invontinn of a Kansas man, is a new kind. It works so fast that the fly, with all its eyes, cannot Bee the finish coming in time to dodge. All that is necessary is to wait until the fly comes along then slap and he is a dead one. FOE BUTTERING CORN. r MAKE easier the pleasure of eat ing "roasting ears," the great American summer delicacy, a New York man has invented a buttering spoon. It consists of a bowl with a long handle, the bowl shaped to fit the curves of the average cob of corn and having a perforated lid. The butter la placed in the bowl, which is inn slowly along the surface of the hot corn and the but ter meltirfg, oozes through the perfora tions and is spread evenly over the corn PATER SHADES FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT GLOBES. nynHE appearance of an electric-light globe ean be very prettily improved by making a shade of erepe paper of any desired eolor for each one. Canary-colored erepo produces a toft, mel low effect, rale blue, yellow, rod aad, in fact, all the colors ean be used, mak ing a very pleasing variety. The body of the shade is made of a piece of paper about 5) inches wide and 31 feet long. The width will vary with the length of the globe to be covered, and it is best to have it full, as the edge can be trimmed even with the lower end of the globe afterward. Another piece of the same color is cut 2 inches wide and of the same length. This piece makes the ruffle. The smaller piece is placed on the larger centrally, and both are stitched together with n running stitch, using a needle and cotton thread. A plain run ning stitch is also made of an inch from one edge of the larger strip. The material is gathered along both threads. This operation makes the material shrink in length. Wrap it around the globe, pulling the threads taut so that the ends of the paper will just meet. Tie the threads and clip off the extending ends. If the paper extends beyond the end of the globe, tri mit off with the shears. Ruffle the two edges of the narrow strip and the lower edge of the larger one. This operation is simply stretching the edge of the crepe to causo it to stand out. A NEW EIFLE GRENADE. "pIIE rifle grenade has been adopted in some countries as an integral part of the soldier's equipment, and is likely to come into general use among the armies of the world. It is' expected that it will to a great extent supplant the use of the bayonet and do away with tho rlccessity for close-quarter fighting, as it will provide a means for attacking trenches and covered positions and rendering them untenable without recourse to hand-to-hand combat. The grenades can bo fired singly or in vol leys and the effect of volley firing with such weapons would probably be as tounding. In hilly country especially, where the bringing into action of field pieces is extremely difficult, the use of the grenade will provo of incalculable benefit to the troops equipped with it. DEMONSTRATE VACUUM CLEAN ER ON MULE'S HIDE. HE electric service company at Scranton, Pa., recently attracted and held a largo crowd of people in front of its offices by demonstrat- ng the effectiveness of a vacuum cleaner on the coal-begrimed hide of a mine mule. The animal, having prob ably never experienced a similar sen sation before, expressed its surprise when tho vacuum cleaner was . put in operation by delivering a far-sounding 'hee-haw." The noise soon attracted a crowd, which watched the demon stration and probably carried the news to moro quarters than any other form of advertising might have done. STREET CAR USED TO STRETCH WIBE FENCE. LAND adjacent to a suburban ear line, near Reno, iN'ev., was fonccd quickly by utilizing one of tho electric cars to stretch tho wires, recently. The poles were placed in position, and the fencing, in sections, was then fastened to the posts, the car stretching it as needed, and the fence was completed as fast as tho staples eould be driven into the posts. The job was done in record time, as the car carried the ma terial and men employed. CLOTHES CONSIDERED. nODERN clothes are expensive, un hygienic, and Bometimcs suggest ive. A hat an advance it would be if we eould get back to the unchang ing, artistic costume of the Hreefcs, 2000 years ago, or to that of somo of the Oriental races of today, instead of con stantly adopting changing styles, one more inartistic than the other. Men's clothing does sat run to extremes in our age, but men burden themselves with unnecessary clothing no re than MENTAL WORK DURING A FAST. IT is a curious fact that the nervous system is in certain ways independ ent of the rest of the body; and that instead being very fragile, our nerves are really highly resistant. At Wesleyan University the experi ment was made of putting men into cages and measuring the food, air and water that they used, and the waste products that their bodies threw off. It was found that the slightest muscu lar exertion had a decided effect on the relation between what the body took in and what it threw off, but that the addition of mental to muscular work made no difference at all. If a student took a written examination in the cage, he used the same energy that he would have used in going through the move ments of writing and doing no thinking whatever. Recently a similar evidence has been obtained at the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory of Boston. A man of 40 un derwent a fast of thirty-one days, dur ing which he took absolutely nothing but water. At 5 o'clock in the after noon of every day during the fast, as well as on the two days that preceded, it and the day that followed it, the man submitted to certain tests of mus cular strength and of mental power. As might have been expected, he grew physically weaker. Who would not have expected him to show a falling off in mental ability as wellf Yet this man could repeat ten disconnected words, im mediately after they had been pro nounced to him, more correctly at the end of the fasting period than at its beginning, and he could also recall the words after longer intervals as the fast ing went on. His power of attention was tested by requiring him to eross out all the A 's in a printed passage, and his speed increased during the fast, while bis accuracy remained as high as it had been at the beginning. When he was given a word and required to speak the first word it suggested to him, the promptness of his response increased as the fast became more prolonged. In short, he performed all the mental tests either as well or better as the fast pro ceeded. The improvement was probably due to the daily practice he got, but it is wonderful that the mind should work during so long a period, as well without food as with it. IMMUNITY FROM DISEASE. PERFECT HEALTH is tho best pos sible immunity from disease. Mil lions of germs are breathed in with every breath we take, but their injuri ous effect is nullified so long as the health is good. Many of the germs so taken are necessary for health, others would be disease breeders if they fell upon the proper soil. The habit of deep breathing that the blood may be puri fied with the oxygen thus obtained, at the same time keeping the bowels open, with such articles of diet as contribute to the manufacturo of good red blood, will go a long way towards making a person immune from ordinary diseases. When an epidemic is around the persons first affected are those with debili tated blood, otherwise everybody would go down together. So little is necessary for the production of good healthy blood that there is little excuse for any per son having anything else, and with such WeTeach You Any Instrument Easily YOU STUDY AT HOME Mistakes are impossible the young est child ean learn Prices are low. Let us put the joy of musie in your homo. Write today now to American School of Music r Fifth Floor Commonwealth Bldg. Portland, Oregon. A Perfect Time Beater Fanuhed Free 8TAJF Mora ICcOurdy Director fraa Emmerich; Blgnor a healthy condition there is the slight est probability of acquiring any of the diseases that are so frequent in Bome communities. The responsibility is largely an individual one, and if every body exercised an intelligent super vision of his habits and his surround ings there would be practically no rea Bon for the existence of boards of health or any other such restrictive measures. NEW USE FOB POTATO JUICE. POTATO juice as a remedy for sprains, lumbago, gout, rheuma tism and bruises is recommended by Dr. Heaton C. Howard of London. He cites numerous cases in his own practice in which the pain has been re lieved qnickly, sometimes by the first application, and the fluid that has exud ed into the joint or the membranes hag been absorbed within a few days. Potato jnice is used as an ointment, a liniment or a plaster. The raw potatoes are squeezed in a hydraulic press; the starch and nitrogenous matter are re moved and the juice is boiled down un til it is made five times as strong al when fresh; glycerine is added to pro serve it. NATURE'S SIGNALS. NATURE tells when the stomach la ready to digest food. Her signal is hunger real hunger, not mero appetite. Never eat when you are not really hungry. Miss a meal, or several meals. Instead of eating, sip slowly a glass of eool water. In this way you will get real strength and health, whereas, otherwise you will become chronic invalid, or be seized with soma . acute disease that under medical mal practice may readily carry you off. " ' ELITE PRIVATE BUSINESS COLLEGE MAUDE I DEOTEEE, A K. Principal. 404 Commonwealth Building, Portland, Oregon. SPECIAL RATES If Yon Enroll Before September 1st. ill Military Academy A Select Non-Sectarian Boarding and Day School for Boyi. 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