The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-09-13

spring No. 1, which is by far the larg-
est spring in the west A six-inch pipe
lined with maltha has since that time
been pouring fourth some half mill
ion gallons into the big city, though aft
er the demand is satisfied most of the
stream goes into the river. The idea
is now to make the water into ice at
Chicago. 1t will not be distilled, for
it is said the process is hurtful (un-
less water is filthy, depriying it of
health giving properties The plant
stands on the bank Of the north branch
of the Chicago river. Here the ice
will be manufactured and will be put
Immediately into barges for delivery
at any point on the shore, and be dis
tributed by wagons. incidentally the
scheme will avert the 10 cents ton
tax recently imposed.
Matching Babies by Heat.
Those who return from the Buffalo
exposition say that if comparisons are
not made with Chicago, the fair is
great treat. The Midway is a mile
long. The women are as much inter-
eSted in the baby incubator as any
thing, where one person saw twelve
babies, all from the city of Buffalo,
all being what might be called from
five to seven months children. In Eu-
fol
and the record is that 80 per cent. of
the children entered live to be re-
turned, good healthy children to their
parents.
Each child is stretched out on
dolls cot in a glass case. Girls are
labeled with white ribbon and boys
with red. Pure air is fed in through
the bottom, heated by a lamp and
Sterilized. a certain temperature is
sustained with critical care, for drop
of few degrees would kill the child.
If it becomes too warm the heat opens
valve and allows more air to enter
and closes if too cold. The child is
weighed every morning. The room
where the children are given their
daily bath and where fed and taken
care of when they cry is partitioned
off with glass partitions. The air is
maintained at the same temperature
and purity as in the cots. Partitions
being of glass, visitors are enabled at
all times to see.
The world is indebted to the French
for this baby-saving idea. Prema-
ture births usually mean death, es-
pecially in smaller communities,
where skill and the facilities are
lacking. The French, with all their
faults, are born scientists. / Cnce
visited such an incubator in New York
city. Both physicians and nurses
were French. Especially the former
viewed their work as a cold scientific
problem. They would have had the
same enthusiasm over bugs or rocks.
Perhaps it is as we'll and we should
be equally grateful for they get the
results.
AS for the white-garbed French
nurses, they cooed and sputtered over
the babies much like an American
mother. A woman is a woman, what
ever the nationality.
Don't BE Afraid of Spiders.
Madison is rife in spiders and there
are many varieties. Our local author
ity on insects is Dean B1rge of the I'M
iversity, and when one finds a rarity,
the thing is shut UP in a bottle and
taken to this wise man, who knows
much about many things. If the pro-
fessor needs further light, the insect
is dispatched to Milwaukee or Chica-
so.
Public Librarian Peckham of Mil
Waukee has a large collection of spi--
Gers having made an especial study
of them, and in speaking Of the death
of a little girl at Neenah, he makes
the statement that there are no spi-
ders in Wisconsin whose bite can pro-
duce death. In tropical countries
there are some, such as the tarantula,
that inject a poison with their bite,
but it is by no means fatal, although
causing the bitten part to swell and be
very painful.
Generally" he says, these cases
Of children dying from spider bites
are announced simply to supply some
cause Of death. The child is perhaps
overheated and he gets hives and is
sick. The doctor comes and the moth
er says: ooh, doctor, the baby has
been bitten by a spider The skin
is infiammed, and the doctor being cas-
lily satisfied, the case is regarded as q
sure result Of spiders bite
1t is a strange fact that children,
as a rule, certainly have no natural
| repugnance to insects and the like.
They will play with angleWorms,