Scientific Notes.

Lake County Press, Issue 2392, 7 September 1911, Page 7

Scientific Notes.

WORLD'S LARGEST BAKERY. 1 he largest bakery in the world is located in Lssen. Prussia, the home of the great Xrupp gun factory. It is a vast building in which seventy

workmen, divided into two shifts, work night and day. Everything is done by machinery, says the London “Post.” A screw turns unceasingly a kneading trough, into which arc poured some water and ten sacks of flour of 200 pounds each. This machine makes about 40,000 pounds of bread each day in the shape of 25,000 small loaves and 25,000 large

loaves, produced hv 250 sacks of flour f 200 pounds each. All the operations of hreadmaking arc performed m this colossal bakerv. The wheat lives there, is cleaned, ground, and 'nought automatically to the kneading trough hv a series of rising and descending pipes. There are 56 double ovens and the workmen who watch over the baking of the bread

earn from 8 to to cents an hour, making an average of 00 cents a day for eleven hours on duty. They have collcc and broad free, also the use ol a bathroom, for they are required to keep themselves spotlessly cjran, and must wash their hands eight times a day.

MYSTERIOUS EARTH NOISES. I he mysterious underground noises of many parts of the world —variously known a.> barisal guns, mist-poeu-lleurs. marinas, etc.- have attracted the notice of the Filipinos. The Rev. M ■ Saderra Maso finds that in the Philippines the sounds .are heard on enclosed bays or inter-island setts, ami rarely on the open coast, and occur most otten between twilight and dawn, especially during the hot periods ot March, April and May, though m the I’angatsian province they tire chiefly confined to the rainy season. I hey almost always seem to come from the mountains inland. They are usually low rumblings not unlike 'bunder, and the natives commonly believe that they are due to waves breaking on beaches or in caverns and are connected with approaching typhoons or other weather changes.

This explanation is thought to be reasonable. Ihe typhoons are often heralded days in advance by very W su’eils, and special atmospheric conditions may carry the sounds far, iheir apparent inland origin being duo to reflection.

EUROPE IN THE ICE ACE. lu Kutope, said Professor Daw kins in London, recently, there is am pie evidence of the existence of tin

river-drift man and the cave-dweller in the caverns and in tlie river valleys ot the Clacial Ann over the whole region between the Mediterranean and the Ifaltie. Kuropc in the Ice Age was invaded dryshod by the earliest men trom the south bv wav of Gibraltar and Sicily. The climate then

was continental in character, with cool winters and hot summers. The river-drift man’s implements mark his existence in North Africa, Palestine, Arabia, and India, and over the south and midle zones of Europe, as lar north as Yorkshire, crossing on cave-man, marking an advance in culfoot from tiermanv and France. The ture, lived almost wholly in the re-

gions north of the Alps and Pyrenees. and his weapons arc found north nf Yorkshire. The. caveman. probably came into Europe from and retreated into Northern Asia it the close of the Ice Age. 'The

Ice Aye was undoubtedly of vast duration. and the antiquity of man is correspondingly great, but, concluded the professor, “the more minutely 1 examine (ho events that have taken place since man appeared in Europe the more profoundly am I impressed with the vastness of his antiquity and with the futility of any attempt to compute it in terms of years.”