Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — A Valuable Medical Treatise. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Medical Treatise.

The edition for 1886 of the sterling Medical Annual, known as Hostetter’s Almanac, Is now ready, and may be obtained, free of cost, of druggists and general country dealers in all parts of the United States, Mexico, and Indeed in every civilized portion of the Western Hemisphere. This Almanac has been issued regularly at the commencement of every year for over one-fiftli of a century. It combines, with the soundest practical advice for the preservation and restoration of he ilth, a large amount of interesting and amusing light reading, and the calendar, astronomical calculations, chronological items, Ac., are prepared with great care, and will be found entirely accurate. The issue of Hcstetter’s Almanac for 1886 will probably be the largest edition of a medical work ever published in any country. The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter & Co., 1 ittsburgh, l a , on receipt of a two-cent stamp, will forward a copy by mail to any person who cannot procure one in his neighborhood.

Experiments with the Phelps method of telegraphing to and from trains in motion continue to be made with satisfactory success; but Mr. Edison has a method which dispenses with the insulated line between the rails. According to the report, Mr. Edison says: “By putting up this tinfoil-covered board lengthwise on the top of each car I can catch a message from the wire strung on poles thirty-five feet off, and can fling an answer back to the wires of any sort. The secret of it is in the machine for transmitting. "When I was investigating what I called the ‘etheric force’ a few years ago, I accidentally discovered certain curious properties of static electricity. These I have now applied. The process is very inexpensive, as three men could e }uip a road 300 miles long for SI,OOO in three or four days. It sterns certain that its adoption will be general, so that every train will be run from headquarters, and every passenger will be accessible to his friends. ”

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