The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-11-18
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


| qualified medical practitioners and over
| 1900 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
a little flag with the announcement:
"Sixpence (12 cents) not exceeding
| one 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 fs
! increasing monthly. The price Of ad-
| mission ranges from penny TO a shil-
/ ling.
The electric treatment for skin dis
/ eases, first introduced by Professor Lee
| due of Paris, in 1908, has now emerg-
/ 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
! electrodes being a covered pad soaked
with solution containing a 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 It's 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
ange, somewhat as other people have
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 panists play in the dark This
not only relieves the eyes, but gives
greater freedom to thought and move
ment of the body. and puts large
part Of the work upon the centers OF
the automatic nervous system in tho
tip-top of the spinal cord which act
more or less Independently ana 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 few can
use their fingers, chew gum. talk.
laugh and work all at the same time.
New York Press.
In microscopic sorm Moissan, the
French chemist, produced absolute
diamonds, which are but crystalized
carbon The largest artificial diamond
yet produced measures less than ono
millimeter (03937 OF an inch) in d.
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 he larger They also
believe that the process Of their labor
atory is the process Of mother earth.
though down in her secret laboratories
sures they can not command and aeons
Of time TO perfect her work
NJ. p. Remlnger, director OF the Pas
teur Institute at Constantinople,
the danger of spreading disease by al
lowing domestic. animals to enter the
sickroom. He smeared boullion cul-
lures of various micro-organisms on
the coats of dogs and cats, and at reg
ular intervals cut off a 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 NJ 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 basis, using diff
forent means OF converting the energy
into light and assuming the price OF
gas to be 60 cents a thousand cubic
feet. electricity s cents a kilowatt hour.
carbide cents pound. gasoline %
cents a gallon and kerosene Il cents q
gallon The cheapest light, according
to the lronmonger. IS obtained with
the electric arc e cents). closely fol-
lowed by high pressure gas and mean
descent high pressure oil leach 25
cents). while the most expensive IL
the carbon filament electric incandes-
cent lamp go cents) the batswing gas
burner coming next (22 cents).
Sir David Gill, who, says the West
Minister Gazette. Is to make a report
to the International Geodetlc Confer