Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-19
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


1000 pharmacists.
OF the Philippine islands the one
which probably has the most product
i've soil is Mindanao
Fifteen hundred "six-penny cabs"
hansoms and four-wheelers have just
been placed in the streets of London,
and they are said already to have
scored a great success. Each cab bears
little flag with the announcement:
"Sixpence (12 cents) not exceeding
enc mile
The financial possibilities of cine
matograph theaters have dawned slow
ly on the British mind, long after they
were extensively exploited in the
United States and on the continent,
but provincial theaters are now begin
ming to feel the effects of their compe-
tition seriously. There are one thou
sand OF these shows in the United
Kingdom already, and the number IS
increasing monthly. The price CT adj
mission ranges from a penny to shil-
ling
The electric treatment for skin dis
eases, first introduced by Professor Lee
due of Paris, in 1903, has now emery
ed from the experimental stages and
is extensively used at Bartholomew
hospital, London. The treatment con-
sists of passing an electric current
through the diseased part, one Of the
al III;
with a solution containing drug or
chemical. The electricity breaks up
the solution into ions, which penetrate
the tissue cells with the current.
The cricket's song is an old, sweet
story, which we all have read in Dick
ems, wondering if the cricket really
sang at night in English cottages. The
Japs, in artistic appreciation of small
and beautiful things in life, have, Sc
riously bred and cultivated the cricket
for its songs, even as the Germans
have improved the singing of the ca
nary bird. Japs have hung about their
homes beautiful little split bamboo
cricket cages, about the size of an or
uh5Cy oollCN llCC otuSl pCOpiC nave
birds. These crickets are among the
most usual small gifts to children,
friends and old people.-New York
Press
Up-to-date stenographers use the
typewriter automatically, pretty much
as pianists play in the dark This
not only relieves the eyes, but gives
greater freedom to thought and move
ment of the body, and puts a large
part Of the work upon the centers of
the automatic nervous system in the
tiptop of the spinal cord, which act
more or less Independently and with
out concentration and fatigue of the
higher brain cells. Some can type a
rapid dictation in the dark with only
seeming playful effort, and a few can
use their fingers, chew gum, talk,
laugh and work all at the same time
New York Press.
In microscopic FORM Moissan, the
French chemist, produced absolute
diamonds, which are but crystalized
carbon The largest artificial diamond
yet produced measures less than one
millimeter (.03937 of an inch) in di-
ameter. In Moissan's laboratory they
believe that if they could deal with.
forty or fifty pounds of iron as easily
as with four or five ounces their dia-
monds would be larger. They also
believe that the process of their labor
atory is the process of mother earth,
though down in her secret laboratories
the earth has temperatures and pres
sures they can not command and aeons
of time to perfect her work.
NJ. P. Remlinger, director OF the Pas
teur Institute at Constantinople.
writes to 'The Lancet" to point out
the danger of spreading disease by al
lowing domestic animals to enter the
sickroom. He smeared boullion cul-
lures of various micro-organ1sms on
ular intervals cut off number Of hairs
and took cultures from them. AS a
result he found that the typhoid bacil-
lus was present on the seventeenth
day and the organism of diphtheria on
the twenty-fourth day in undiminished
virulence. Among the diseases men
toned by M. Remlinger as Offering
special danger in this way are scarlet
fever, measles, diphtheria, whooping
cough, typhoid fever and tuberculosis.
Leon Caster recently made some in
teresting comparisons between the
costs of producing various illuminants.
His figures are for England The
cost of obtaining 100 candle-power
hours was taken as a basis, using diff
ferent means of converting the energy
into light and assuming the price OF
gas to be 50 cents thousand cubic
feet, electricity s cents kilowatt hour,
carbide cents a pound, gasoline %
cents a gallon and kerosene IA cents a
gallon. The cheapest light, according
to the Ironmonger, is obtained with
the electric arc e cents), closely fol-
lowed by high pressure gas and incan-
descent high pressure oil leach 25
cents), while the most expensive is
the carbon flament electric iHcandes-
cent lamp GO cents) the batswing gas
burner coming next (22 cents).