The National tribune., 1906-02-15

and laid away for number of years
and then tested again for silver to see
if any of it has undergone the change
In spite of all that enthusiastic adj
less telegraphy may say, no one really
anticipates that it will come into COM
petition with the wire telegraphy for
communication across the country. The
ordinary systems of telegraphy and
telephony now i'm use are so much
cheaper and more convenient that 1t is
entirely unlikely that the wireless sys-
them. 1t will be exceedingly useful in
communications between ship and
shore and between ship and ship. and
possibly it will to some extent super
scde submarine biography for COM
munication between coasts. The system
is yet very far from being perfect and
even far from being developed to what
seems reasonable efficiency. At pres
ent it Is costly and difficult to work.
The cost will be reduced and the diff
culties greatly lessened. but still they
will always exceed those of the present
systems of the telegraph and telephone.
The French Academy of Medicine
and the Paris Board of Health have
been doing some very valuable practi-
cal work in determining the routes by
which cholera reached France through
Germany last Autumn. It has been
found that the plague originated in In
dia in 1900. went from there to Mecca,
killing off immense numbers of pill
grims in 1902. went northward into
Russia. following the Volga, and June
3. 1906, struck the German frontier at
Wilma. From there the epidemic fol-
lowed the rivers, being carried by RATS
,, men. and in September was brought to
Berlin by boatman. An emigrant
carried the disease to Hamburg and
| soldier took ii to Strasburg. from which
point it entered France.
The Department Of Agriculture has
received notice that a zebra, bought i'm
| Abyssinia. has been shipped to this
| country from Marseilles. Upon it's ar
| rival 1t will be sent to one of the ex-
| pertinent stations and used to test
whether it's hybrid offspring is more
valuable than the mule. The expert
ment had already been tried in Scot
| land. where the "Zebrules," offspring Of
| the zebra and horse, are comparatively
small animals but have been giving
great satisfaction as pack and mountain
artillery animals. being immune To dis
1
Champe S. Andrews, counsel for the
Medical Society of the County of New
| York, publishes the statements that
there are 1000 nostrums on the
market. and widely advertised. which
contain alcohol. opium, morphine or
! cocaine. OF these 500 contain alcohol
| In quantities ranging from Is to so
per cent; 500 contain opium: 400 NOR
! phine and 300 cocaine. The headache
powders usually contain acetanilid, a
coal-tar compound. the frequent use of
which has terrible results
| Prof. III. III. Turner, of Oxford says
That although he does not know, he
feels sure that there is life on the other
are men and women there like on this
earth. because we are carefully
specialized to the conditions of life upon
this globe, while the condition on other
planets are necessarily very different
!. Prof. 0. Korner, an eminent German
scientist, has come to the conclusion
that fish are absolutely deaf, though
they have keen senses Of sight smell
and touch. The fact that carp have
been brought to be fed by the sound
OF a bell he explains by their being
sensitive to the vibrations In the water
which accompanied the sound of the
, bell.
Owing to the developments In re.
gard to the inferior quality Of drugs
due to adulteration and to lack OF care
! I'm their preparation, many physicians
! are going back to the old-fashioned
method of carrying their medicines
with them In prescription case. They
. get these drugs from dealers in whom
they can have condolences