Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-18
Ehfntng Ghat

That zero talk of the weatherman
didn't scare two men YESTERDAY.
ABOUT noon they had climbed to the
top of the Capitol dome to get n close
view or Miss Penn. And the cold
weather and wntry breezes didn't
make any difference. They stood
aIons the rail for some time looking
over the city and the SURROUNDING
country, apparently enjoying the view
more than they dreaded the cold.
druggists in this city, although NOT
worrying about increases in the cost
OF some drugs, are watching closely
the changes in the price LIST i'm tha
New York drug market. A number oF
pharmacists are receiving copies Of
daily market reports of the latest ono
tatlons on practically every drug
known and used in medicinal work
Lists of percentage increases in the
cost OF drugs according to local drug
g1sts. are usually about right. but i'm
some instances the price varies more
than zoo per cent in week Much
or this is due to the changing con-
ditions in this country. Some drugs
ana compounds which were not to
be had except from foreign countries
are now made by firms in the United
states. The drugs hardest hit at
present, it is said, are the headache
cures which in many cases contain
substances not only scarce but very
expensive. In this list is phenacetin
and acetanilid
A movie fan was talking the other
day about directors who let certain
slips get by" on the films This
particular fan said that he was not
crank, but pointed out a few
puzzling situations caused by little
Slips on the part of some of the
big men in the motion picture world
said:
Recently, in a picture with the
scenes laid back in the early fifties
every character wore the latest 1915
clothes. In another picture with the
plot of the story laid in 1880 several
scenes slipped through with tele-
graph and telephone poles in the
background. Where the director was
is the puzzle. How the poles and the
modern costumes were included is
another problem. These two slip
ups were not in films produced by
small companies, but in four and five
reel features produced with star casts
and directed by well-known men. In
railroad scene, supposed to have
occurred in the nineties, a late type
locomotive was used, and one of the
newest set of signals in service help
| ed along the action in the story. The
| plot was good, the acting and climax
| excellent but the whole story was
made laughable to any person who
knew anything about railroading."
Colonel Henry w. Shoemaker, pro-
prietor of the Altoona Tribune, and
other newspapers in this State. and
a member of the Governors staff, has
presented a prize sword to the Penn
sylvania State College. The sword will
be. awarded annually to the best
drilled military company of the fresh
man class. The winner will be an
nounced each year on Pennsylvania
day. Colonel Shoemaker's gift will
doubtless stimulate interest in mill
| tary drill among the freshmen at
Penn State. Another sword has been
in competition for the last three years.
and that one will be contested for by
the sophomores only.
| Have you ever played billiards? If
you have, then you know of that feel
| ing which makes your body twist
over, far over, during that tense mo-
ment that the ball rolls towards the
mouth of pocket, slows up and then
poises on the very edge of the hole
before dropping. Your body Eng
lish," as this peculiar motion is
| known doesn't make the ball fall into
the pocket-but it relieves your mind.
1t was this same feeling, perhaps,
that recently caused a Steelton Ser
bian, after reading a dispatch telling
of an Austrian sweep through the
land of his fathers, to spend SIS in
one long, despairing cable call upon
the President of France to send hur-
ried aid to the despairing Serbs.
| This is the cablegram: president
Poincare-The war will be finished in
the Balkans. Send aid as quickly as
you can or you will lose what you
have there"