Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-10
the point of Efficiency and low cost of in
stal2ation and operation"

the point of Efficiency and low cost of in
stalaation and operation" .-..
One of the new ideas in London IL Q
long tandem tricycle., capable of seating
eight or more passengers. The owner of
the vehicle occupies the front seat, collects
the fares and steers, but the passengers
have to provide the motive power, and If
they don't move their feet freely very poor
time is made on the journey. Such q
means of locomotion would not prove q
success here, but 1t is said that in London
the seats are booked and paid for q week
in advance.
Galena, Illinois, feels very proud Of the
fact that Miss Julia Bracken, Galena girl,
has been commissioned by the proper au-
thorities to execute figure representing
Illinois welcoming the nations, to be placed
over the entrance to the Illinois building
at the worlds fair. Miss Bracken is the
daughter of q railroad emp,oye. Her
natural talent for sculpture was diecov-
cred by phylanthropio lady of Galena,
who accompanied her to Chicago and Be-
cured her admittanos to q studio. This
was Ave years ago. For the work just
awarded to her there were many oompet-
itors. The figure il to De executed in mar
BILE, and Miss Bracksn will receive $2,50Q
for II.
The Boston Transcript publishes the
complaint of plain typewriter girl who
was dismissed In favor of pretty girl.
This girl, she says, twas not taken on be.
cause she could write faster than I could.
No, the whole truth of it was, the Office is
an outer Office, with peopls coming in
often, and she made pleasanter piece of
furniture to have in the room. She could
look up and smile sweetly when anybody
asked her to turn off a couple of dozen
lines for them. Now. was just as will
ing to turn off an extra letter, butI could
notlook up and smile. People with straight,
sandy hair and spectaoles, and broad
mouth and crooked teeth, are not thankful
for too much smiling in this
world. Then there was another woman-a
friend of mine. She weighed very nearly
100, and when the weather was warm she
used to look pretty red. She kept ac-
counts, and her mind just few over the
figures, and her column always balanced.
But that didn't make any difference. Along
in July, when the weather was the hottest,
my mind that the only reason was because
she didn't look cool. The girl they got
was just out of Latin school, and the other
clerks had to help her add two and two,
but she could wear sprigged linen frocks
and was slender" There is probably more
truth than poetry in this complaint.
These are very scientific times. It now
appears that even worms for bait" are
dangerous. Recent experiments by Messrs.
Lortet and Despeignes, two eminent French
bacteriologists, have demonstrated the
capacity of earthworms to convey the
bacilli of tuberculosis from various depths
in the soil to the surface, without
diminishing their power of infection.
EARLY in their researches they were con-
fronted with the difficulty that in garden
soils, in which worms abound, the bacilli
of septie@mis, great in number and in
activity, are also encountered-bacilli
which are capable of developing fatal dis
ease, prior to the tuberoulous process.
This objection, however, they were able to
dispose of by using dry, silicious earth,
in which bacili are not to be found; while
their next step was toplace the tuberculous
substance at the bottom of vases filed with
this earth, on the surface of which they
sprinkled layer of white and very pure
sand, finally covering everything with a
sheet of paper. After a few days the
worms which were concealed in the earth
at the bottom of the vases came up and
deposited their intestinal excavations on
| the sand-evacuations which NM. Lortet
and Despeignes succeeded in collecting
without risk of contamination. With
them they inoculated a number of guinea
pigs, which soon revealed strongly marked
symptoms of tuberculosis. This result is
held to prove that the bacilli of tubercu-
losis buried without any process of disin-
lection may find their way to the surface
| and become the source of new infection.