The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-28

I1dsuiB COLDS ana DandaSed throatS.
Soon we'll hear the ice man say.
How much ice you want today?'
Soon Wen trip upon the green,
Where the chiggers bite, I ween.
Soon well hurry to the shore,
Where the waves leap Ger and Ger
Each one with q bathing suit
Some rotund and others cute"
Soon we'll join the picnic crowd,
Setting forth without cloud.
But when we come back again
Twill be in pelting rain.
Soon we'll watch the freckles race
Right across Clarinda's face,
Soon the bore will ask anew.
rs it hot enough for your"
Birmingham Age-Herald-
Danger of Electric Shocks.
Thomas A. Edison. when asked re-
Gently If, in his opinion, we had reach
ed the limit of electrical development,
answered: why, we do not even
know what electricity Is yet; how can
we say we have reached the limit of a
force whose very nature we are ignor-
ant of ?''
This statement by such an eminent
authority should make people who
are puzzled by the workings of cleo
tricity feel there Is just cause for it's
bewildertng the human mind.
The marvellous results obtained from
the employment of electrical force are
obvious to the public. even If the
actual causes therefor are not so thor
oughly understood These results are
very important to human progress and
to the growth of commercial enter
priSes.
Since the utilization of electrical
power for Industrial purposes there
has been a wonderful transformation
In manufacturing methods and mill
lions of capital invested in undertake
ings which employ hundreds of thous-
ands of workmen.
Viewed from the standpoint of indus
trial advancement. therefore, electrici-
ty must be credited with creating more
wealth for the country than perhaps
any other agency. excepting agricul-
ture.
The advantages derived from the
use Of electricity are constantly In
creasing. But while these are grow
ing 1t is Incumbent on the public to
realize that there are many dangers
electricity which should be borne in
mind, especially now. when electric
wires are to be found overhead and
underground as well as in business
houses and residences.
Above all else. there should not be
any tampering with electrical appar-
atus or carelessness in the handling of
It in any way by novices in electrical
matters.
The difference between voltage and
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purposes OF Information. Voltage, in
brief is electromotive force reckoned
in volts
Ampere. designation adopted by
the electrical congress in Paris in 1881,
is the unit employed in measuring the
strength Of an electrical current
When a current of electricity Is
actually flowing the amperes measure
the amount of flow.
Electric shocks are not harmful
>, 80 AZ
are put into buildings everywhere. but
proper precautions are taken to have
them safe.
Better systems prevail now than for
n ary fS5 rs sar RI for wse wo IN Large
carried along the streets. but fatalities
are few compared with those in for
mer years.
People are sometimes knocked down
by currents and escape serious injury,
horse.
It is very unwise for spectators at
fires to be near falling wires. and in
deed 1t Is hazardous for any one from
door wire, however harmless 1t may
appear.
Wires used for street lighting re-
quire much attention, for they are
likely to carry a current OF 1000 volts
or more. # such wires come In con-
Gus current Is received.
The trolley current Is said to be
500 volt circuit, with the exception of
perhaps half a dozen lines recently
over. AS the return circuit is through
the rails the circuit Is always ground
ed" and safe.-Boston Globe.
How e Lizard Was Drowned.
"a great many ai1s of the prisoners
t. 49, fv,,o cr{v, an1 ~o6 1v-
M. Thomas, chief physician, as he dis
posed Of a prisoner who believes that he
was full of EVIL spirits" by giving
him a sugar pill. mot long ago was
troubled with a prisoner who came to
me every morning with the complaint
that there was lizard in his stomach,
and that 1t kept climbing up on his in
sides and then falling back again.
''well, that fellow troubled me so
much that decided to satisfy him one
day I had him taken back to the OPP
Grating room, and there I secured my
instruments and listened for a time at
the place where the lizard was sup
posed to be acting. I could hear moth
Ing, but told the prisoner that he was
surely there. Then I adjusted the
stomach pump and injected three
quarts of water into that fellows in
sides for the purpose. as told him, of
drowning the lizard.
'sHe has never bothered me to this
day. and he often tells the story to his
fellow prisoners of how the lizard was
drowned. "-Columbu Dispatch.
Bibles Bound in Tin.
The Bibles all had tin bindings The
questioner said in Amusement:
but what is the sense Of binding
Bibles in TIM"
"These volumes, young man" the
colporteur answered, "are for ex-
port to Uganda. Uganda is overrun
with enormous rats, and the rats
have a nredilectfon for books as re-
markable as the Frenchman's pre-
objection for snai1s and ROSTERS
combs. The Bibles that we sent TO
Uganda in the past were devoured by
the rats before the natives could get
o1,opca ar them