Here and There.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 6, 1 April 1909, Page 213

Here and There.

To get the most out of the headlights — now a most expensive item, see that the forks of the lamp brackets are absolutely perpendicular to the horizontal plane of the car. In Switzerland they are making clocks which do not need hands and faces. The clock merely stands in the hall, and you press a button in its stomach, when, by means of the phonographic internal arrangements, it calls out "Half -past six " or " Twenty-three minutes to eleven, ' ' as the case may be. The man to whom the Panama Canal owes the most is William Nelson Cromwell, who was the life and soul of the agitation for the undertaking of the work by the United States, and has worked for it unceasingly ever since. His motto is. "Look upon your work as your first duty, and attend to it unflinchingly."

Vaccination is becoming the recognised treatment for typhoid, anthrax, labies, cholera and bubonic plague. Tuberculosis, however, still defies it. Here the dead bacillus is an aggravation. In the others it is protection.