Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
HAIR ON FAIR FACES.
The Approved Method Of Removing
It by Means of Electricity.
KILLING GEESE WITH LAMPS.
Edison's Plan for Doing Away With the
Trolley on Street Carr
ILLUMINATION AND FIRE INSURANCE
WRITTEN FOR THE prspArcH.1

WRITTEN FOE THE DIsPArcH.I
DR.. Leviseur, who has made . special
study of the removal of superhuous hairs
suits are obtained by allowing the patient
herself to close and interrupt the current by
pressure on the electrode attached to the
positive pole. If the needle be introduced
into the hair follicle and the current closed,
20 seconds will suffice to destroy the hair,
which will be found to be perfectly loose,
and which should be removed at once by
forceps.
The operation is not by any means q COM
Portable one, but there are few patients who
object to a second treatment when it Is nec-
essary. A 20 per cent salve of cocaine in
lanolin, thoroughly rubbed into the skin,
enables even very sensitive patients to un-
dergo the operation with comparatively lit
tie pain. As rule, so to 100 hairs are rs-
moved at one sitting, and the sittings are
renewed at intervals of week or ten days
The proportion of hairs that start q new
growth is greatly dependent on the skill Of
the operator, but they should not be more
than or 10 per cent.
Immediately after the operation the pa
TENTS face is washed with hot water and
alcohol, and an antiseptic ointment is ap-
piled. 1t is found advisable to extract only
the coarser and more deeply seated hairs
and to leave the lanugo hairs alone. Dr.
Leviseur strongly indorses this system and
says that not only will it prove an absolute
remedy but that no perceptible scar will be
left after the healing process ID completed.
The Electric Light on Forage Duty.
The public is familiar with descriptions
of the destruction of birds of passage from
flying at the lamp chambers of lighthouses,
dazzled by the light, and of the immense
number of insects that tall victims to the
glare of the street arc lamps in the summer
months, but an entirely new phase of this
relation of the electric light to natural his
tory is reported from Kansas. 1t appears
that the salt marshes, which extend for sew
eral miles in each direction north of Hutch
inson, are a favorite resort every season for
wild geese The birds flock to the marshes
in such numbers that they are pursued bya
whole army of hunters in the spring and
fall, and the district is beseiged by men
who make business of supplying the mar
ket with wild fowl Some time ago the city
concluded to use the electric light for the
streets, and some of the lamps were placed
high above the buildings. so chat they cast
their light great distance. Large numbers
of geese have been picked up that have
been dashed to death against the poles and
rods around the lamps, so that diligent
patrol of the streets after dark proves profit
able to the man who is in search of a dinner
either for himself or someone else A
policeman on his beat is said to have been
recently hit in the back with such force as
to be knocked fiat on the ground. Pick
ing himself up hastily, and drawing his
club to reDel the unexpected invasion, he
looked around for his antagonist but there
was none to be seen. On the ground, how
ever, was q fine gander with broken neck.
An Adaptable Trolley Connection.
A good deal of curiosity was excited BY
Mr.. Edison's statement some time ago that
he was about to bring out an electric rail-
way trolley through which it was possible
to "pick up" the current from q conductor
on the ground through mud and dirt. A
patent has been granted for this device,
which consists of a wheel from whose rim
steel spikes project outward. As Che car
moves along and the wheel turns the lower.
most spikes are in contact with the rail, and
ire pushed in through the wheel t1anges.
They are restored to their normal position
by the pressure of springs which proiecs
them against the conductor The spikes
are placed so close together that there is
always sufficient number in contact With
the conductor to make a connection Of the
necessary conductiyity. 1t will readily be
seen that wheel OF this description can
stalk along and with its pointed steel spikes
pierce its way to q connection, or rather to
rim with but one fat point of contact would
be useless.
Fire and Artificial Illumination.