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Learned Astronomy by
Making Own Telescopes
How a group of mechanics, living
in Springfield, Vt., learned the science
08 astronomy by making their own
telescopes at home, is related in Popu
{ar Astronomy by Russell W, Porter,
Several of these machinists had their
own small workshops, located usually
in the cellars of their homes,
“Interest did not stop with the com
pletion of the- telescopes,” says Mr.
Porter. “The telescope makers found
an old station on Hawks mountain,
just outside of the township, occupied
years ago in the government triangu
‘ation of New England. They camped
on the mountain, built a substantial
tower and signal over the station,
“On another occasion they spent the
night on the summit of Mount
Ephraim, the highest point In the
township. This gathering, I believe,
Is unique in the annals of astronomy.
“Throughout that night, from the
appearance of the first star until
dawn, these men were exploring the
heavens. [t proved to be good see-
Ing notwithstanding a stiff wind. The
light from a roaring camptire re
vealed a circle of animated faces
Hstening intently to some celestial fact
Just brought out at the eye-piece of
one of the instruments.”
How Natives of Papua
Prepare Heads of Foes
In a recent issue of Man, Mr. K.
B. Riley gives an account of the
method of preparing the heads of ene
mies practiced at the village of Dorro
in Papua. After the flesh and bralns
are removed a piece of rattan cane is
fixed to the bottom of the mummified
skull to take the place of the lower
Jaw and to act as a support for the
packing of the neck. It was difficult
to ascertain why the lower jaw is not
replaced. The explanation seems to
be that they prefer to hang this up
in the house, and keep it a 8 a mark or
token of the owner's prowess in war,
after the mummified head has de
cayed; but the lower Jaw is some
times replaced, being tied to the 7._\';;%-
mas, as with the rattan cane. Final
ly, the head is dried, being fixed on
& wooden framework over a fire light
ed for that purpose, and the hair is
puiled out as decomposition of the
skin advances.
Red Light Traps Insects
A means for combating the winged
Insect pests of tropical regiens has
been evolved, by means of which the
fying bugs are. lured into a deadly
bath of acid and either drowned or
asphyxiated by the fumes,
It was found that red light served
#s an almost irresistible lure for the
night-fiyers.
A red electric bulb, or a laatern
with a red globe, is placed near the
vessel containing the acld solution,
As the pests fly to the light the fumes
destroy them even though they may
not actually fall into the bath.
To protect human beings from pos
gible accidental contact with the acld
bath, the liquid is placed in a wide
mouthed bottle, to which is attached
e funnel with a very broad flaring
cone. The light is suspended directly
over this funnel, and the insects,
ftupefied hy the acid fumes. fall into
It and so Into the acld bath.—New
York World.
Huge Crane Scale
Practically every day industrial
progress develops a new use for a
welghing device or scale particularly
adapted to meet specific requirements.
A new scale was developed for the
United States government for the pur
pose of measuring the pull on cables
used to hold an airship at its moor-
Ings and this scale was immediately
adapted for the measuring of unusual,
heavy loads on cranes or booms where
weights or leads up to 10,000 pounds
are handled, assuring that the safe
working load is not exceeded, and
thus eliminating dangerous overload-
Ing and disastrous accidents. The
pcale is of steel construction. Its ac
curate action depends upon four ex
tremely heavy springs. ‘T'he dial Is
15 Inches iln diameter.—Scientific
American.
For Squeaks
“I would lewere a birdl” wailed the
fair girl at the piano.
“I would you were a box of axle
grease,” hissed the dark man under
the palm.
“I wonder what he means by that?"
asked the lemon-hulred maiden.
“He means that axle grease stops
screeching,” whispered the man In ‘he
black suspenders,
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chase of new Ford cars we will allow credit for exchange of
wheels, rims, tires and tubes in order that the Balloon tires may
be used
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MONTICELLO GEORGIA
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Metals Are Transparent
When Subjected to Heat
Very thin fllms of certain metals
become transparent at heats not nearly
sufficient to melt them. For instance,
It we take a sheet of gold leaf some
what thinner than the paper on which
‘this is printed and heat it by an elec
trical current to temperature of about
2,400 degrees Fahrenhelt, it will be
come as transparent as a pane of
green-colored glass. If carefully kept
from drafts very much finer sheets of
gold leaf can thus be heated by clamp-
Ing them on frames of marble or slate
and applying the current through the
metal strips which clamp each end of
the sheet,
When this is done with gold leaf of
about one-hundredth the thickness of
ordinary paper and the current s grad
ually increased until the temperature
reaches 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the
leaf becomes not only translucent, but
transparent, so that it is actually pos
sible to see through it, For appar
ently the same reason silver foil,
which requires only 2,250 degrees to
make It clearly transparent, shows a
bluish-violet tint. Copper foil has also
been made transparent In this way,
but remains so only for a short time,
as It combines with the oxygen of air
when thus heated, and the resulting
compound is not transparent.
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Arizona Copper Mine
Has Steepest Incline
The Shannon incline, which is used
to handle ore at copper mines in Ari
zona, is a notable piece of mechanical
construction. It has a length of 1,500
feet and a vertical drop of 800 feet.
It is said to be the steepest incline
anywhere,
One of the difficult problems met
with in mining in many places is the
transportation of ores and supplies up
and down mountain \sidos.‘ Some of
the most valuable mines are not in
frequently situated fur‘ up the side of
a mountain. It may be impracticable
or impossible to bring the ore down
by ordinary methods of transportation,
such as wagons or trucks or upon the
backs of burros. In such event the
only solution of the problem is to
build aerial tramways or inclines.
Now the Shannon incline is built
of 35-pound steel rails. The track
consists of five parallel rails. It has
a 40-inch gauge, upon which the ore
skips operate, and a 20-inch gauge for
the small supply trucks. Special at
tention was given to providing a solid
roadbed and in laying large, sound ties
in the construction of the road. The
ties are six by ten inches in size. The
two ore skips are operated by gravity.
Find Statue 5,000 Y ears Old
A royal statue 5,000 years old is
one of the many rare relics unearthed
by excavations recently made on the
site of Ur in Mesopotamia, the home
town of Abraham’'s ancestors. The
statue was dug up in the ruins of a
temple dedicated to the moon god,
whose worship was observed there for
probably 4,000 years. It is a figure
of Entemena, king of Lagash, who
lived about 2000 B. C. What he
looked llke Is impossible to discover
as the head of the statue is missing.
Records show the temple to have been
rebuilt in 2300 B. C., after many cen
turies of use. It was remodeled by
Nebuchadnezzar and again by Cyrus
the Great in the Fifth century B. C.
This was probably the last alteration
as less than a century later the Per
slan fire-worshipers destroyed all the
temples and images of the ancient idol
atrous religion,
The Best in the World
Maud—What excuse have you for
doing such an unmaldenly thing as pro
posing to Jack? Leap year, I suppose.
Ethel —Not at all—the golden rule.
~—Boston Transcript.
Good-Luck Charm
“Does a rabbit's foot really bring
good luck?”
“I should say so. My wife felt one
in my pocket once and thought it was
a mouse.”
Against the Rules
Stone Age Poet (angrily)—Then
why don't you return my manuscrint?
Ditto Editor (coldly)—You Inclosed
no ox-team.—Cornell Widow,
Heat of the Sun
The heat of the sun is about 46500
times as Intense as the heat of the
earth,
THE MONTICELLO NEWS, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1924,
Carmel Cognoscenti
. Bar Modern Devices
An artistic Elysium where streets
and sewers and other evidences of
modern clvilization do not. exist, the
kindly acres where, according te Cato,
no usury stands to retard creative in
spiration, freedom from soclety's fet
ters, - g
Such s the incentive of the new
artists' retreat that well-known mem
bers of the Carmel Cognoscenti have
established at Notley’s Landing, an
abandoned town 15 miles from the
scene of Carmel itself, 7
For Carmel, declare these anti-con
ventionalists, is fast becoming too
modern to be the ideal playground for
brain children. New sewers, an in
corporated city government, all the
conventionalities of a stylish summer
colony, do not blend harmoniously with
ideal artistic conception, they declare.
The movement for an artistic ex
odus Is well under way, it would
seem, with Evan Royal Mosher, paint
er; John Howard Flanner, composer,
and Herbert Heron, writer-poet, al
ready living at Notley’s Landing, and
with Willlam Overstreet, Carmel edi
tor, announcing his plans of following
suit.
With the advent of numerous sum
mer visitors Carmel, the artists’ state,
has taken on too many aspects of a
real city, whereas it was once replete
with freedom and artistic communism.
—San Franclsco Chronicle.
Roman Generals Liked
Spring Mineral Water
The Romans, who knew much about
external and internal cleanliness that
was forgotten after the downfall of
their pewer, attached the greatest im
portance to the drinking of mineral
water, At Alx-les-Thermes, for lin
stance, in the Pyrenees, the, waters
were used by the Roman conquerors,
and St. Louis had a pond buijlt there
for the use of Crusaders who returned
from the Holy Land stricken with lep
rosy. This pond Is still in existence.
It was In the Nineteenth century,
however, that Aix-les-Thermes was
adapted to modern needs and became
a popular resort, Its waters contain
sodium sulphide and are very benefl
cial for rheumatism and gout.
In this country the term “thermal”
is not in wide use, one seldom hearing
the term “thermal resort” applied to
places where persons go to take a
“cure.” In Europe, on the other hand,
the word is in comimon use, and a ther
mal resort Is recognized as a place
whose waters possess certain healing
and health-giving properties, and
which has also been developed to take
proper care of those who repair for a
cure or to enjoy a period of rest and
recreation.—Detrolt News. .
Locate Leaks
An automatic leak indicator for
ships consists of » number of small
cast-iron boxes screwed to the bulk
head of each compartment and set at
predetermined distances, one above an
other. In each box there is an elec
trical contrivance connected with an
Indicator board, either on the bridge
or in some other convenient place.
The board is fitted with a number of
small glow lamps of different colors,
and Is connected with an alarm bell.
When water rises to the level of the
lowest box it makes an electrical con
tact, by which the lamp correspond
ing to the height of the bulkhead that
the box indicates is lighted and so
remains until the next box is reached
by the water, when the sgecond lamp
Is lighted. Meanwhile the bell rings
continuously until shut of?f,
Words Failed Her
The telephone rang and u volce
buzzed: “Say, Blanche, is zat yout”
rEen”
“Say, Blanche, 1 called you up to
tell you samepin imgortant.”
“Just a minute, Mittle. Walt untll
I take the eggs off the fire. Now what
is it, dearie?”
“Hold the wire. My soup's scorch-
There was a long pause, and then:
“Hello, Blanche.”
“Hello, Mittie. ' What was it you
wanted to tell me? Somepin lmpor
tant, you sald.”
“L dunno now, Blanche. My bhiscuits
are burnt to a crisp.”
Couldn’t Answer
The villager sent & note 1o the doce
tor, saying: ‘“Please send me some
tizzic for a headake.”
Next time they wet the doctor said,
“Fel-z-z-i-¢ doesn’t spell physie, you
know."
“Well, what does it spell, then?”
asked the villuger,
The doctor gave it up.
. S fsasscions
Electric Locomotive Speed
A speed of 105 miles an hour has
been attained by an electric locomo
tive In tests before 200 steam and
electrical railrond men from all parts
of the couniry at Erie, Fa. The elec
tric proved superior in pulling after
glving the steam engine a start at
five miles an hour,
Habit Persists
Fellcia==lsn't Mr. Luvvum an ab
surd person? Whenever he talks to
me he always begins with “Falr lady.”
Maud—-Oh, that's only force of habit,
You see, he used to be a bus con
ductor.
We will spprecmie i very much
if you will 'phone us when you have
a visitor,
il
Try a “want” ad—it pays!
PETITION FOR DISCHARGE
United States District Court Western
Division Scuthern District /
of Georgia
In the matter of William Hard
wick, of Gladesville, Jasper County,
Bankrupt, in bankruptey. {
To the Creditors of the above-named
Bankrupt:
You are hereby notified that the
above-named bankrupt hss applied
for a discharge from all debts prov
able against him in bankruptey.
The said application will be heard
by the United States Distriet Judge
of said division and district at the
United States Court room in the city
of Macon, Ga., on the 30th *day of
April, 1924, at 10 o’clock in the
forenoon.
All creditors of sajd bankrupt are
notified to appear at the time and
place stated and show cause, if any
they can, why the prayer of said pe
titioner should not be granted.
Dated at Macon, Ga., this 81st
day of March, A. D. 1924,
L. M. ERWIN, Clerk.
By Meta Erwin, Deputy Clerk.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA, NIGHT
AT WSB BROADCASTING STA.
Monday night, April 7th, will be
Central of Georgia night at WSB
(429), the radio broadcasting sta
tion of the Atlanta Journal, from 8
to 9 p.'m., Central time.
The famous shopman’s band of the
Central of Georgia will give a con
cert. A feature will be a cornet
solo by the leader, W. C. Dean, who
was instructor of the “Old Gray
Bonnet” band of the Dixie Division
during the War,
L. A. Downs, President of the Cen
tral of Georgia, will give a five min
ute talk on the opportunities for de
veloping the natural resources of
Georgia and Alabama.
Radio fans are invited to listen in
and those who receive the program
are requested to write J. D. Me-
Cartney, Assistant to the President,
at Savannah, Ga.
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—The backyard fence may’ need attention—don’t lose interest
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