The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-04-03
The total number Of occupations adopt

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sixty 1.-TWO, but many Of these are very
nearly filed. There are 1853 teachers,
the largest number in any single en-
ployment; a librarians and women en-
gagged in library work; % stcnogra~
pliers; % nurses and superintendent
Of nursing; 10 Journalists, including edi-
tors and reporters, and 10 clerks with
out specification as to the kind of SER
vice. When the list Of occupations
represented is scanned it would seem
that no woman should ever despair of
finding field in which she can be
specially useful. There is an actress,
advertising agent, assistant in the Ma
tional Herbarium, assistant on diction-
airy, assistant in observatory ,astrono-
mer, car recorder, draughtsWoman, in
surance broker, insurance solicitor,
writer of advertisement, reviser Of
patents, water analyst, besides several
proof -readers, telegraph operators,
bookkeepers and artists. It is some
what remarkable that so few Amer-
can women tave taken to the profess
sion of medicine. Out Of nearly 1900
members of the American College As
ISOLATION less than 2 per cent write
M. D. after their names. This lis the
more surprising in that medicine is
one OF the few callings where pay.
ment is the same regardless Of sex. On
this subject of the relative pay Of
women and men,, Miss Abbott's paper
contains a good ideal of information.
Of 25O women who made reply, $50
got less pay than men for the same
work, 90 received the same pay and 5.
women actually received more pay.
To the question of the relative value
of the services Of men and women
there were also many contributions
OF 80 employers who replied to this
question, 46 said that the work Of men
and women was equally valuable; 80
said the services of women were of
less value; made indefinite replies,
while 8 answered, ''On some work,
yes; on other work, no." When asked
for the reason why women in general
receive less pay than men for. the
same work, 81 replied as follows
Twenty-Five attributed it to the effect
of supply and demand; twenty lone to
physical and mental differences, Or
differences in general ability while II
allege custom as an explanation. The
general showing of woman's work,
however, is far beyond what it was 10
years ago.
Making Gunnery More Deadly.
Capt. Thouvenin's clever invention,
the phonotelmeter watch, has been so
much improved and modified that it is
proposed to use it on warships as we'll
as for it's original purpose Of increas--
ing the efficiency of land artillery.
This watch measures distance by the
a. - Sc ,,,@
to Judge of distances on land, at sea
only very experienced mariners can
estimate with anything approaching
accuracy, if it be in any way consider
able, the distance separating a vessel
from a passing ship or from a given
point of land, and the chances are that
in niE-a cases out Of ten he will be
wrong in his calculations. All this ele-
ment of uncertainty is done away with
by Capt. Thouvenin's watch. Holding
the instrument in his left hand, the
officer watches for the flash Of the
enemy's rifle or cannon. Immediately
he perceives the light he presses Al
screw, which resembles that of key
less watch. When he hears the report
he presses the screw a second time. In
the interval between the two pressures:
a needle OF hand has moved over the
arc on the face of the instrument. This
face registers fifteen seconds, each Sec:
ond being divided into ten parts. There
is, moreover, small dial on the back
which registers the number of times.
that the needle has gone round, and
marks instantaneously the minutes
and quarter minutes. Within the cir
Gle of seconds is a smaller one, which
indicates the distance covered by the
sound through the air. The approx
mate distance at which the weapon
was fired is thus seen at a glance. The
same test can be applied to flash Of
lightning which precedes clap. OF
thunder The phonotelemeter watch
will enable commanders of batteries !
to promptly concentrate their fire with
out having to experiment to find a.
range, as in times past. 1t will also -
be of the utmost value at the coast
guard and lifeboat stations in case of 4
vessels in distress firing signal guns
for help, and may be the means Of
saving innumerable lives.
New Version of tho Indian Mango
i Trick.
A new version Of theIndian mango"
trick, in which plant is seen to grow
up from the seed in a few minutes has
been devised by M. Michael Corday, Of
the Ecole polytechnique, in France.
M. Corday employs the well-knoWn
cinematograph, or apparatus for pro-
ducing Giving photographs that is
to say, Photographic images endowed E.
with movement and apparently with :
life,. A rose plant is photographed at
intervals during its growth until the
flower buds and blooms. The photo