New York on business, and while there received a telegram from the
family doctor, which ran: "Your wife has had a child, if we can keep
her from having another to-night, all will be well." As the little
stranger had not been expected, further inquiry was made and elicited
the fact that his wife had simply had a "chill"! This important
difference having been caused simply by the omission of a single dot.

-.-. .... .. .-.. .-..
c h i l l = chill
-.-. .... .. .-.. -..
c h i l d = child

--_Hardwicke's Science-Gossip_.

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ELECTRICITY IN TRANSITU--FROM PLENUM TO VACUUM.[1]

[Footnote 1: Presidential address before the Institute of Electrical
Engineers, London; continued from SUPPLEMENT, No. 792, page 12656.]

By Prof. WILLIAM CROOKES, F.R.S.


If an idle pole, C, C, Fig. 12 (P=0.0001 millimeter or 0.13 M),
protected all but the point by a thick coating of glass, is brought
into the center of the molecular stream in front of the negative pole,