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Dunstan Times, Issue 3148, 18 December 1922, Page 2

When broadcasting is general in this country wireless enthusiasts may get their radio revelry by means of a slot machine. Already a. 25 cents slot machine has been invented in America, and the svstem officially tested by the Bureau of Standards. This invention consists of an automatic apparatus with an exterior not unlike a post-office stamp slot machine. It is surmounted l)V a revolvable loop aerial and takes its power from a 110-volts lighting circuit supply. It is claimed that the machine is "fool proof." When the coin is inserted in the slot at the top (at a time when the broadcasting news intimates a programme is being sent out) two lights are automatically switched on ,and the music is heard through a large horn at the bottom of the instrument. Tt is already put. forward as a suitable addition to a hotel suite, so that for a. slight extra- charge on the price of a room the client, could enjoy a radio concetrt whilst he is having a bath! Abbe Mcrniet. a. famous water diviner and explorer, has discovered in the Mont Blanc region a great subterranean river, with a volume of about 50,000 gallons per minute. It runs' from the base of the mountains under the Salevc and Jura Alpes. This river, which has been named "Eaux-Belles," sends out manv branches, which have formed ht-J tie lakes and wells of pure and extreme-i Iv cold water in the north-east depart-! liieuts of Fiance and in, some southern 1 Swiss Cantons. 1 Among the famous names in the New York Telephone Directory are:— i Dante. Bvron, Maeaulay, Swift. Dic-rf l<ens. Walter Scott, Aramis, OtheJlo,J and Pickwick.