"BACTERIUM" ETHERGRAMS.
West Coast Times , Issue 13383, 2 December 1904, Page 4
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"BACTERIUM" ETHERGRAMS.
(By "I4umbo Bagns.")
The following messages, which were transmitted by the ethergram pyst^m last ' evening between a swamp in Sewell Street and an open drain in Stafford. Street, were intercepted by the junior member of our staff, who,' by the ray, is an ardent student of Marconism. : The first signalling chat was at all intelligible was siened "M.M." (Microbus Measle), and was as follows : — ''Have been signalling for Borne time. How feres your micrococcvs virus T* ! r Pr&lehtly another message, seemingly an answer to the above, was interpreted as follows:— "Am making for big harvest. My protoplasms aro rapidly generating into fructuous potentialities. Expect about . 10,000,000 pathogenic germs."- 1/(Sighed) J (Pustulus Pimple). 7 Some very dwoo'nneoted passa'geij were here perceptible on our operator's apparatus. For instance, Scarlatina Bacillus { w'ds corif eVrjin^ wjith] a climatarchio prog'nosticator in tbeigerm world ; while the Mump Muin'pus microbe was signalling having "captured Long Jaw territory]" &c, &c. j The signalling between Microbus Measle and Pußtulaa Pimple was, however, again picked jnpfabout an hour later,: whan ih,e latter -was quite prepared' for a summer anything up to3OC deg. f.b., and did not have the least fear of the "civic fiend!" This latter phrase was interpreted to ( mean the City Fathers' in the common parlance of the germic world. A considerable atmospheric disturbance here quelled all hopes for the night of < again picking up air-waves communically charged, -
