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Show i 1 THE INGAS Works of Qold Thrown Into a Sacred Lake and Lately Recovered T" London, Dec. 3ol The gold relics recovorpd from Lake Guatavlta, one of the flvo sacred lakes of the ancient Inca kingdom of Chlbcha In tho Colombian Co-lombian Andes, hare been sold hero at an antiquarian auction. Tho arna-ments, arna-ments, which were, thrown Into tho lake as offerings to tho divinities sup. posed to Inhabit Its waters, aro splendid splen-did speclmons of the craftsmanship of the ancient Peruvians. The most valuable piece wad a breastplate of Pliro beaten gold shaped as a dried hide and embossed with a warrior's head. Ono of the most beautiful pieces was a colled snake of gold with the head wolfled on. Tho collection col-lection also contained a statue of tho goddess Chibchli In flno gold and two gold drinking bowls. Michael Hymans, an American citizen, citi-zen, has voted for1 twelve years In England and It was not until he was elected a member of tho Edmonton Board of Guardian that It was discovered dis-covered that ho owned proporty In America and was a naturalized citizen citi-zen of tho United States, Hymans was born In London but he spent ten years In America. On his return tq England twelve years ago ho became a householder and as such was voted continuously since. When he learned learn-ed that in the eve of the law he was still an American citizen ho resigned from the Board and applied for read-mission read-mission papers to this country. Theso have just been granted by the Home Office and Hymans will contest for tho vacancy which' his resignation made on tho Board! Dr. Leonard Hill, who lias just completed com-pleted a scries of remarkable experiments experi-ments at the Loudon Hospital, contends con-tends that still air in hot rooms cannot can-not be kept pure no mattor what the system ot ventilation is. Dr. Hill is a lecturer on physiology at tho London "hospital and for some time ho has devoted himself to tho study of tho effect of subterranean work on human beings. His work emphasized tho danger of bringing divers out of the water too quickly and his suggestions havo done much to make their calling less hazardous, As the result of his most recent experiments ex-periments Dr. Hill contends that ventilation ven-tilation Is not a question of the chemical chem-ical purity of tho air, but that the evils of llly-ventllatcd rooms arise almost entirely from their excessive heat and humidity or their excessive dryness and to a certain extent from tho offensive smell The Ideal temperature for a room In which a number of people are gathered gather-ed Is from 57 to CO degrees, he says. According to the rules of the Homo office only 1 to 2 per thousand of carbonic add should bo allowed In a room, hut Dr. Hill states that 20 to 30 parts por thousand will do no harm if tho air is kept cool. The experiments took place In a chamber eight feet high and four and one-half feet square1. In this small space Dr. Hill crammed eight healthy medical students nnd scaled thorn In. They remained there half an hour until tho chamber contained 4 to 5 per cent of carbonic acid and 1G per cent of oxygon The temperaturo rose to S5 degrees and as tho air became saturated with ruoisturo the students bocamo Intensely hot and uncomfortable uncomfort-able When they woro examined tholr pulso showed an acceleration beyond what would bo normally experienced ex-perienced In a cool place. The doctor then set a number of electric fans In tho top of the chambor In motion The studonts In a short tlmo woro ablo to enduro tho heat and even to work In comparative comfort In splto of the close confinement and the high porcentnge of carbonic acid In tho aid. This was because tho air at 80 degrees was cooler than the bodies of the subjects and while in brisk motion It was sufficient to make them quite comfortable. Dr. Hill In his lecture on the result of the experiments declared that the age of heating houses and trains in winter was coddling tho race and tending to break down tho natural dofenslvo mechanism of the body, rendering It thoroby more liable to Illness. He said: "Cold aid makes us more active to warm ourselves, makes us do more breathing and gives us a better appetite ap-petite Tho system Is toned up and wc takojn more food and oxygen. Hot dry air dries up the throat, and makes people prone to infective disease. In America, where they pump dry air into their schools there is a very high rate of diphtheria. Instead of having artificial methods for keeping our rooms hot we ought to have means for keeping them cool." |