The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-06-23
By l.. L. STEVENSON

nCtC1dIIOu. nt q 1OllCllCOIl at Tic
Engineers club, witnessed a pre-
view of DR.. Georg Roemmert's
microvivarium, which is a major
exhibit of the Westinghouse COM
pany at the Worlds fair. The micro
vivarium magnifies drop Of water
1000 times on a fve-foot screen.
Thus learned that a water drop is
really a miniature world inhabited
by curious creatures with their
loves, hates and battles unto death,
engaged in a never-ending dance,
all seemingly senseless yet possibly
fully as sensible as so-called civil
cation. And to end the show, a
death ray was introduced and the
residents of that strange universe
swelled until they actually burst.
Doctor Roemmert raises his actors
by means of bits of hay and vege-
table mould in distilled water and
makes up his transparent perform
ers by feeding them minute portions
of harmless coloring matter. And
the microvivarium makes drop of
vinegar look like lot of jitterbugs
under full head of steam.
Relics: Workmen engaged in tear,
ing down the Sixth avenue elevated
railroad structure find their job
more interesting than the ordinary
run of such work. For instance,
station platforms. There cracks be-
tween boards have been collecting
mementoes through the years. One
worker picked up half dime mint
ed in 1851 and another a time sheet
which showed that in the seventies
an elevated employee earned $120
In IL hours. There are go Indians
in the crews, which is not at all
uncommon, was informed, because
Indians like to tear down steel struc-
lures. Why native Americans should
favor such an occupation is still a
matter of doubt despite inquiries.
The most logical explanation seems
to be that razing is open-air work.
Commercialized It was my be-
lief that hat snatching was a prank
of those who like to annoy subway
riders. The hat snatcher turks on
a platform and, when the train
starts, reaches in through an open
window and grabs hat. The owner
can do nothing about it since he is
locked in the car and stays that
way until the next station is
reached. Well, the police recently
caught two hat snatchers and put
them in the hoosegow. After awhile,
detectives went out and brought in
a hat renovator and charged him
with receiving stolen property. Ac-
cording to the police, the lads who
lifted the lids sold them to the reno
vator. After refurbishing them, he
sold them at a profit. Thus, pro-
fessionalism instead of sport.
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Loss: Getting back to the Sixth
avenue elevated for one more para
graph: Thomas Harris, head of the
contracting firm doing the razing,
holds that the job will cost his COM
pany 100000. Red-ink items in
clude removing $4,000 ties apparent
ly laid to stay; taking nuts off
$4,000 bolts on string piece lat 900
feet long and the fact that the iron
bases of the pillars, instead of being
solid, are filled with bricks and con-
crete, making them worthless as
salvage. The company sells the
scrap steel to domestic firms rather
than to foreign nations which would
use it for munitions of war. And
such patriotism costs 81 a ton.
Irony Note: Quick Wit" that
new quiz game which is a hit with
the intelligentsia, was invented by
Roy Weller, Long Island real es-
tate dealer, who never finished high
school. His is the third amateur
invented game to score a smash hit
in the last two years. David White
law, an English magazine editor.
made a fortune out of his Gross
word Lexicon" and Charles OAR
row, an unemployed engineer, who
used idle time to work out a game
called Monopoly" has retired in
luxury through his royalties.
End Piece: According to Bea
Vain, who is very particular about
good diction, your speech is normal
If you can recite the following with
out stumbling:
Are our oars here?
Many a wit is not a whit wittier
than Whittier.
The menu is not less important
than the men you viii meet.
His suit showed spots of suet and
SCOT.
And to that ! might add the late
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