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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1929.

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS,

Some Interesting Items.

The following notes are contri-Isaures of income to me as a bowl- where most of the buted to Popular Wireless Weeklying club, hai a special writer;"

casalties go to the tailor and not

An Anierican expert, who is to the doctor, Still, I may express usually described on the radio the hope that there will be a charge sheet as 9 2 T. has recently foerasional case of chronic switch- propounded the theory that wire-itis, or perhaps an outbreak of the less waves of short wave-length epidemie known in the United distance-itch. You tend to follow what the weather States as forecasting officials call isobars, will find me as ready to prescribe Very curiously, I was only the for a radio complaint. gentle

to operate for the other day looking up in a diction-men, as lary the meaning of the word recovery of a contact-stud. Within isobar. I had seen a house so the last few months I have had named, and the word conjured up several patients whose lives had some kind of fleeting recollection become a misery because of the in my mind. The dictionary told effect on them of so many wire me that an isobar was a line less waves. How do you think drawn through all these places I have cured them? By making having the same barometer read- each one of them buy a receiving

I wish the new club every | lings when reduced to mean sea- set

level. Isn't that just typical of success, and I shall be ready to the way dictionary definitions stand by in case of accidents on have a snag in them somewhere the occasion of the erection of I can quite understand the draw- anybody's aerial."

TILITY SETS FOR FARMERS. ing of a squiggly line starting at 2 10 and wending its tortuous A considerable amount of atten- path through all the cities, towns, tion is being paid, and rightly so, villages, and hamlets where the by the broad-rasting authorities barometer stands at rain, curse to the wireless needs of the farm- fit! If you have ever bathed iner. The Manchester and Glasgow the sea, you now exactly what stations transmit special weather sea-levet is, and how difficult it reports to their farmers, andibe jis to get your head below sea- Newcastle station runs a farmer” level when the water is on the corner. Although much is being cold side. But sea-level, done in this was at The trans- like the sailor, I cannot fathom it.mitting stations, nothing appears

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to have been done in the way of making special receiving sets for farmer

What a tine. jolly old bunch of woals beginning with iso are to be found in the dictionary: There Now, the farmer is an essential- is the wont isoscelas, dear to our practical man, and it should be schoolboy days isos. equal possible far our wireless designers skelms, a fex. I never saw a to design a receiving set which triangle, though, made with legs,would appeal to the farmer on excepting, of course, thuse made general utility grounds. A really with the legs of a pair of com- good farmer's set, would sell like passes, ther fine is words are: hot cakes on the farms of Eng- isochronous, isomorphous, and land, and would go like corned intunic. My dictionary is unheei and rabbage on the farms of coid a ne. I found no wireless North America. The great thing! word beginning with is in it. to do would be to make every I wonder if there are any? If component of the farmer's set there are not, there is a grand serve a double purpose. opportunity fr soFitune 10 In other words, each com-

B good wireless terment part would not do its annes: the iso words. How wireless work, but would do a bit (would ismetering in for an aerial of work on the farm as well made rumber of wires of There are possibilities, for ex- equal lengthy We should have ample, in barhed aerial wire. to be careful in the pronunciation Such wire would be used by the' of the word, though, or it might farmer in rart of his, fencing, so! get perilousis near to describing that the farmer's aerial, while amiber type of serial, the eye-bringing him into truth with the sore derini

muside world, would at the same A TONGUE-TIME TURCIA time keep him out of touch with Quite a number of my dial- his neighbour's sheep and cattle. twisting friends were mystified Interesting problems with such by the title of a recent address an aerial would be the capacity given from 2 L The title in effect of a cow rubbing its neck) question was "The Only Cum on the aerial wire.

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Torque Tied World." The farmer's "earth" might In our own immediate neigh-Jeonsist of a number of small honrhood there is a loquarius metal pails fall of pig-nuts and nikkman, a talkative greengrocer, electrically connected. Such an and & charwoman who carries "earth placed in the farmer's mote news found the place than pig meadow, which is usually kthe Viral newspaper, Hence my conveniently near the house. and dialtwisting neighb were which is usually nice and squishy, harts prepared to admit that the would be a source of amusement world was tongue-tied, and re for the pigs, and would keep them Iquired a cur

in good humour for weeks, AT M old-fashioned legvol Coming now to the receiving motion supper, with beer as the set itself, there appear to be great only lubricant, given the other possibilities in a combination night the Admiralty, in honour wireless set and cream separator. ada new wireless club, pou would not have thought that our ideal It has been suggested winless enthusiasts were at all lecters-hould be a little more wongue-tied. During the all human" when delivering their there was h continued habligh | broadcast speeches.

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suburban wards we listened to a mu of cities

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assert warms our hous and cooks niret emphatically that the our ex Reese. With electrical [hwal wireless and norwireless | power the housemaid sweeps celebrities are neithertongue-tied rooms and the barber shampoos

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ing how to say it when they start stare. I speak into the microp to say it. Of all the speeches webrae and within a fraction of a heard. I think that of the doctor's second the lady with the cat- was the last. The doctor was whiskers five miles away and the really in good kinn, and Ishall gentleman with the creaky lid try to reproduce what he said. fifty miles away hear my words.

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WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID "Gentlemen." said the doctor. "when a new club is formed in the district. I am not only interested in a general way, but I am also interested from a business point of view. A wireless club looks about as promising

master disposed of it through his various shops and stores.

Announcer in ZA agitated whisper): "A little more human, please. Professor."

Professor (continuing): "Elec- tricity-er-stings like the deuce when the bath-room switch is -er

defective."

They did recently, however, and the members of the gang

But unfortunately the gang changed its restaurant every month, and it was a long time The army was run on .. profit-sharing basis. All ranks before the police could get on its received a definite percentage of track. The head of the gang has business in silk, the woman the spoils, and promotion depend. several flourishing businesses in whose browledge of Dresden anded on skill and success. Berlin-concerns which deal in other industrial towns is "ex Once a month the entire song were greatly surprised when just silk, sweets type-writers, cigars, tensive and peculiar," worked would meet in Perlin They as the coffee was being serval burglarious offensive against assembled at some fashionable the waiters slipped handcuffs on Hie gang was organised on some big silk factory or ware-West-end restaurant, and pay each diner's wrists and told them military ires. He Так the house.

was distributed, promotions an-that the carriage waiteda motor *** major." and his "captain" was

This offensive always worked nounced, new plans dicussed, and van from the police presidency. a man in Drerden. Under ber

ECCT according to plan, for the little old ones criticised. were **lieulerante," lieutenants."

army was composed of "the 3.** :* sergeap19," and

cleverest burglars in Germany. privates."

When. for example, captain" beard frem mar that Le could

At one of these Functions,' The waitera-who had been some months ago, a few of the specially engaged for the evening diners talked too much and too from file detective department, at 1be Then when the booty had been loudly, and the waiter com the suggestion of the police the obtained it was sent to Berlin municated his suspicions to the president himself-secompanied

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