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...incurable ailment, explained that she had given her mother poison in the guise of medicine to put her out of her misery. The trial of Mrs. Bang ended month and a half ago. She was sentenced to only three months in jail. Last week long, lean King Christian X sympathetically reviewed the case of his subject Mrs. Bang, pardoned...
Tender-hearted Christian X is the eldest son of Denmark's late King Frederick VIII, whose second son was elected King of Norway in 1905. Also tender-hearted though of stern appearance, Norway's King Haakon was much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started...
...X-Ray Farm? Plaything of the General Electric staff is their monstrous x-ray farm on the laboratory roof. C. P. Haskins exposed grapefruit, orange, aster and cotton seeds to x-rays from two to 16 minutes. The grapefruit blossomed five weeks after planting. In nature first blossoming re quires five years' growth. On the contrary, sweet orange seed grew into a twisted, two-leaf plant. As grotesque was a sour orange plant with no green chlorophyll in its stem or leaves. The aster and cotton plants were gnarled dwarfs...
Cathode Ray Tube Analyzer. To understand the manufacturing possibilities of some materials, x-ray spectra are useful. Analysts get the spectra by striking the material with cathode rays until x-rays flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything...
...tremendous. Morris L. Strauss, assistant corporation counsel in charge of the City Workmen's Compensation Bureau, who designated the four, generally accepted their bills without question. The doctors themselves remarkably often did not know for what they were charging. Dr. Feinberg, for example, charged $47 for four x-rays of a workman's hand, and nine office calls "for repair of wounds." The man had an injured right toe. Dr. Cassasa once charged for "strapping a foot" of an employe who had hurt his left thumb. Another employe cut a finger of his right hand. The bill...