RADIO, NOTES AND NEWS.
HONGKONG TELEDRAPH. – SATURDAY, SEPTERMER 6,
Use of Batteries Being Eliminated.
Batteries, including the AB and O typos, are nearing the ond of their usefulness, says & New York message."
Lastand, invoutions are popping up to replace thoro local power sources with coils or other instru-
ments for attachmont to the electrio wiring in the home.
Ever since radia become po-
"The sentence' ending munt nover be ragged. Words are clearest and most easily prounced that end in sharp consonante."
NMW "RECORD."
from
in
their headquarters. London a regular fortnightly bullotin containing information
OBJECTION TO "COLOUR" Because there was a coloured designed mainly to assist and seaman on-board, James Holly interest agriculturists and others trawlor cook, refused to sal!' concerned in the land and its Charged at Hall, he said ho would sooner ga to gaol than sail cultivation...
About fifteen minutes will be with a coloured seaman. He had taken up by each fortnightly lived in British Columbia, where message, which will deal briefly opiourod men woo kopt in their with the main tondencias of the place. Kelly was fined £3, tho chlof markete, will offor observa- magistrate stating that this wak tions on such matters as the docent British subject. mothede employed in currant
DOCTORS' FEES AT INQUESTS. agricultural practice, and will
The Publio Control Committee include a short talk on some special seasonal topic. This talk of the London County Council pular, inventors have been busy
will be propared with a view to recommend, as from September 1, en some method for transforming
its being of intorest not only to the discontinuance of payment the 110-voltago alternating cur.
the agriculturist but to others of-to-medical officers of hospitals rent supplied for home use into
the larger public who live in the controlled by the Metropoliton Asylums Board, workhouses. towns. the direct ourrent of variable volt-f
poor law infirmarios, general ago needed for reoolving sets. A
infirmarios, prisons, and other British invention clažins to have accomplished this, in part, with
Eton College when it broke up, medical institutions of a public the design of a now type of Tips for Farmers by Wireless, for the summer holidays had, at charactor for making post- the request of the King, an extra morton oxaminations and giving receiving circuit,
From the beginning of October week's holiday in honour of the evidence at inquests hold in the In this country, two roceat in- ventions point to the death of the British Ministry of Agricul- recent Royal visit to the College County of London. It is estimated batteries in the near future. One ture has arranged with the British Chapel. The boys return to Eton that there will be a saving of is a small device which permits Broadcasting Company to lasue towards the end of September. the use of alternating current to light the Blinouts of radio and andio frequency amplifying tubos.
It cannot yet be applied to det:ctor tubes, although offoria! are being made in this direction. The hum and distortion ordinari- ly accompanying A. G. current is said to bo eliminated by the une of this device,
Another invention is designed to take the place of all battorios by plugging in on the house electric line. It le called n thermo-former, since it operates on the thermo-electric principle, and is to be produced by a well- known Now York manufacturer. It can operate filaments or platos or both, on any number of vacuum tubes. No hum or buzz in noticeable.
WORTH LEARNING.
How To Speak By Radio. Speaking to a microphone is an art distinct from all otlar.forms of public speaking, avere Mr. Wheeler McMillen. associate editor of Farm and Fireside who's tried it.
"The resonant quality of voice playe big part through the microphonu," says Mr. MoMillen. "but resonance is only half the socrot of effective broadcasting. Some volcos, gifted with a cloar, sharp, vibrating quality, aro changed Ky the microphone to a sorios of incoherent blurs."
For affective broadcasting, ho adde, use short sentences made of simple words, "If long sont- ences are used, make then com- pound. The beginning and onding of a paragraph should be made of short, pithy sentences packed with thought.
A monosyllable with a long) Towel is harder to pronounce sharply than a syllable with a short vowel. Listenore in cannot seo the periods by radio: the epoaker must make them evident.
Listening-in
with Crystal Set. London, Aug. 12.-A llatenor-in at Algiers hoard the B. B. C. at: Chelmsford on a crystal cot.
This is stated to be the world's record on a crystal not.
MODERN AGRICULTURE.
ETON BOYS HOLIDAY.
IT'S THE STATIC.
about £1,500 a year.
MY PERMANENT
TWINS
IT'S THE STATIC!
WAVE DIDN'T STAY!
IT'S THE
STATIC!!
IT'S THE STATIC
INSPECTOR
GS
IT'S THE STATIC
IT'S THE STATIC
IT'S THE STATIC
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Radio fans, not only in Hongkong, are blaming everything on the static. It's in a fair way to become the national alibi.
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A foreign lady of about forty, attired in black, was ordered by the Fukushima police to loave the prefcatura recently because of hor curious bohaviour. Simultaneonely with the arrival of the Crown Prica and Princess at Okinashima week ago, saya the Yamato, a foreign lady mady her appearance thoro and made it a practico by day and by night to take walks! near Princo Takamatsu's villa, where their Imperial HighnessER ara staying. She is apparently a missionary, but she refused to disclose her name or the object visit to Okin- of her ashima. The, only Information the local police succeeded in gat- ting 'from her was that she is a Gorman. Thinking it undesir able to have her loiter. about the place,the local authorities ordorėd her to leave, but on the afternoon of the 10th instant sho appeared. She got a peop Into the inner grounds of the Imporial villa, and then went away. Soon afterwards stio again appeared. While she was hang-
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