Illustrated Notes

Lake County Press, Issue 2349, 3 November 1910, Page 7

Illustrated Notes

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"MOSQUITO OR MAN." If man is to live in safety in the warm regions of the earth, he must be freed from the risk of infection by disease which science has proved to be carried by insect aid. It is thus a struggle betwixt man and the mosquito. The question is whether man or the insect is, to possess the earth, and Sir Rupert W. Boyce, M.8., F.R.S.. in his book called "Mosquito or Man," shows us that, having regard to what research has already done, we may safely take very long odds against the mosquito. Of course the mosquito is not the only insect that has been shown to carry disease. The common flies are carriers of typhoid and other pathogenic mi-

crobcs, and ticks and lice also bear disease germs from animal to man. The plague is spread by the flea and the rat, and lice can convey typhus germs. The grave disease of yellow fever, known to the sailors, as “Yellow Jack,” is known to be carried by ’a mosquito (the Stcgomyia.calopus) ; this knowledge enables preventive measures to be applied. Oixr sketch shows how they shut' out the deadly yellow-fever mosquito: a temporary screened ward in St Lucy's Almshouse, Barbadocs, with double doors. There is an immense field for successful ahli-mosquitq work in drainage: the guiding principle being to prevent storm water or water from any source remaining stagnant in pools or in any receptacles.

A LAST AND EVENTFUL VOYAGE. A familiar figure has been lost to Chatham dockyards, London, by the removal of the old hulk Tenedos to Plymouth. The quaint vessel, shown in the accompanying illustration, not unlike the popular conception of Noah’s Ark, made an impressive spcc-

tnclc as she was towed down the Medway by three Government tugs. During heavy weather off the South Foreland the tow-ropes snapped, and but for the timely assistance of H.M.S. Formidable, H.M.S. Venus, Snd some tugs sent from Dover, the Tcncdos might have been dnven ashore. ■

SUPER-HEATED STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. We represent in our sketches two of the most recent German superheated steam locomotives of motor coaches for standard gauge track. The locomotive and coach as shown in our No. 1 sketch is now quite ex-

tensively used on the Wurtcmburg Royal State Railways, where it is giving every satisfaction. The heated steam which is used for driving the engine is generated in a “ re-tube boiler, with a heating surface of obsquarc feet, placed in the driver s cabin at the front of the coach. The

type of small stiper-heatcu locomotive shown in No. 2 sketch is used on the lines of the West German Railroad Company, upon standard gautfo tracks, and the maximum speed is <JU miles per hour. The present locomotive is able to draw a 60-ton train up a gradient of 2 in 100.

A TURTLE FARM. The snapping-turtle farm outside Tokio is said to be the largest enterprise of its kind m the warld. Snap-ping-turtles fso called from the habit of snapping at everything "ithm reach) are bred there, and Mr. Hal lori supplies annuaUv to the hotels and restaurants of Japan over 16.0(H) of the turtles, and ships another o.UUU

to €hi§a. The breeding-pond is visited twice a day by an attendant, who looks for fresh deposits of eggs. Over each of these he places a wire basket marked with a date. The hatching of the eggs takes on an average 16 nays. A turtle lays some .60 eggs at two sittings. The young turtles live on finely-chopped fish; the bigger ones chiefly on live eels. The Jasan-

ese epicure likes his turtle to be not more than five years of age, when the creature weighs from 60 to 80 lbs., and when its flesh is soft it is in excellent condition for the making of soups and stews. Our sketch shows the attendant feeding the eels, which in turn will provide food for the turtles.

A GRANARY AFLOAT. The remarkable structure shown in our illustration holds the larcst cargo of wheat ever carried on board a steamer. Like all big things, it, of course, emanates from Americi. It

suggests the idea that there may come a time when, tired of paying rent and income tax, people may taka i.o living in a kind of ocean-going house-boat.