Show Recorder Jelfs Pleasantry Sir Arthur Jelf was a formidable opponent op-ponent at the bar and on the bench has proved no less a success He has a pretty wit too Once at quarter session ses-sion as recorder of Shrew bury he was sentencing a h hypocritical prisoner who hopeful 01 softening the Judges heart shed copious tears and in reply to his Lordships Inquiry Have you ever been in prison before sobbed tearfully tearful-ly I Never my lord never1 Well dont cry was the recorders reply Im going to send you there nowXew York Commercial DeadHy Effect of ftad ui1g i Radium has formidable powers of destruction and can by its mere preii nCI annihilate animal life or plant life Here is one Instance among many On il a 13 1003 a little chloride of radium five centigrammes was suspended over the cage of eight white mice two parent mice and six little ones and was left theN for three and then removed about ns < days an lemoed The mice continued to eat and run a usual until May loth when the little ones began to lose the fur on their backs On tho 13th their backs were quite bare of fur although their heads remained covered which gave them the appearance of little white lions On the ht Ih little ones became blind although they continued to eat well On the 23rd ona or the little ones died On the IMlh three died On the 2uth the remaining lvvo died On the Cth of June both the parent mice became blind On the 23th both the parent mice died This was the work of a few grains of radium in a tiny 1 i glass tube j I In another case two fullgrown mice were exposed continuously l to the same quantity five centigrammes of radium for ten days For nine days they re malned perfectly well although they showed fear but on the tenth lay thef died without losing their fur This experiment was repeated with another pair I I of mice under the route conditions except that the radium used was only half t as intense and in this case the mice died In twentytwo days and twenty six J f days respectively and on the twentieth day they began to lose their fur Clove land Moffot In McClures I I |