WATER REVIVED HIS WRIST.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 422, 19 May 1904, Page 8

WATER REVIVED HIS WRIST.

few Idee, eff a Tel«ar«*>b Operates JKfm9 Had Worked H«*6 •Hit liOBK. '*

Altera, the telegraph expert, pat Mb brawny irm orer the launch's tide and let It drag through the salt y water. He had half a dozen report* era in the launch, all armed with special* to file at the Highlands of Navesink, and after the launch had ■lipped through four mile* of the Shrewsbury the operator withdrew his arm and looked at his wrist, says the New York Mail and Express. "There," said he, "I am good for 10,000 extra words," and he rubbed the wrist in a patronizing way. ' Somebody asked him for an exnianai tion, and he said:

"I have found that by placing the wrlet in eool water for half au hoar any operator is able to double his energy and endurance for the following IS hours. The wrist is the main machinery of the telegraph operator. Its muscles and nerres are dependent upon perfect action. This immersion in the sea is worth considerable money to the company. Not only can I ■end quicker, but I can send better and with great endurance."

Gaaapaianias lm Sanar. With ths exception of a small part of the islsnd of Samar the ground is entirely covered with a dense jungle, which it is next to impossible to penetrate, says a Manila newspaper. The trails lead off fairly and after a few miles end in a blank wall of jungle, which is so matted that it takes hours for the soldiers to cut a trail wide enough for the passage of a single man at a time. What the natives cal 4 trails in the mountains are siuipj.),. paths almost entirely covered with juagle grass, rattan and bamboo,, through which the hardy mountains eers force their way with ease, while the more encumbered and less accus* tomed white soldier cannot get through at all.

Bird-Hantin*; ou Hurntbaeh. Kentuekians of ihc blue <rrassre«-i/ hunt birds ou Loiseback. A K tuckian's hunter must not only be.'.filling to stand while the owner and goes to look after a birds but must also allow the ov/n«r to fire' a shotgun from its baek.