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Show TIPS TO THE RADIOIST The danger of stringing radio wires over light or power wires was demonstrated in New Jersey Jer-sey recently when a well-known citizen was shocked to death. Radio distance lends enchantment. enchant-ment. A writer says, "A great many amateurs prefer to hear a few discordant notes from 1,000 miles away than a wonderfully executed program from their own town." Radio accomplishes some great and new thing every day. Now It has been found that old razor blades can be used In making condensers and another way to get rid of old blades Is given to a grateful public. Radio has gone to the dogs. A Hood River, Ore,, paper describes de-scribes a toy dog with his tall caught In a trap. Upon calling, "Here, Tige," the voice vibrations vibra-tions release the trap and the pup springs at you. One of the latest Inventions In the radio field Is a filter that separates the telephone and telegraph tel-egraph waves. We shall hmk forward to the day when a filter will separate the good music from the bad and automatically send the latter to Uranus. In boring or sawing wood, fiber, etc., 'soap is far better than oil. Also If screws are soaped with ordinary kitchen soap they will enter the wood enslly without danger of ruining ruin-ing the head slots, and, moreover, more-over, they may be readily removed re-moved at any time. Dr. Marconi lives a life of clock-work regularity upon his yacht. He breakfasts at 8 and tolerates no tardiness on the part of those dining with him. He ls an Indefatigable worker and holds himself In readiness to give personal attention to any radio matters that may come up, night or dsy. Dean Dexter S. Klmbal of Cornell Cor-nell university In a recent radio talk to engineers, msde two Important Im-portant points: One, that a man can now say "I'll tell the world'' without using slang; and the o:her, that the study of ether vl- 1 bratlons, upon which radio Is based, is In its infancy, and th ; future promises even more than the development from manual signs to radio. |