Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — Going Back. [ARTICLE]

Going Back.

Assistant—Don't you think work is deteriorating? Editor (putting a bundle in an envelope)—lt is certainly going back.—[Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The attentions of electricians is drawn, to a singular incident which occurred in. Berlin. An electrical workman in testing his cells to ses if the current wasflowing was in the habit of putting the two ends of the wires in his mouth. He gradually absorbed so muoh of the soluble salts of copper from the wires as tocause his death. The galvanometer is now substituted in the Berlin workshop for the rough and ready test formerly employed, the danger of which was not* before realized. A small tuft of white roses are frequently used in plaoe of the regulation' orange blossoms.