The literary digest . s are ])ut in every fivehundred feet on tangents, and on all curves which do not admitof a clear view to the next turn. Motor-trucks have been used both in the eonstnietion workand in the actual delivery of spruce logs from regions where thespruce stand is light, and arc reported to hav(> proved veryeffective. THE POWER OF WORDS THE ABILITY OF BIG WORDS to inspire respect,when the same idea exprest in ordinary terms wouldfail to impress the hearer, has often been noted. Awriter in The Journal of the American Medical Association(Chicago, December 28) notes that this see
The literary digest . s are ])ut in every fivehundred feet on tangents, and on all curves which do not admitof a clear view to the next turn. Motor-trucks have been used both in the eonstnietion workand in the actual delivery of spruce logs from regions where thespruce stand is light, and arc reported to hav(> proved veryeffective. THE POWER OF WORDS THE ABILITY OF BIG WORDS to inspire respect,when the same idea exprest in ordinary terms wouldfail to impress the hearer, has often been noted. Awriter in The Journal of the American Medical Association(Chicago, December 28) notes that this seems to be well under-stood by the exploiters of nostrums—whether for physiciansprescription or for direct consumption by the public. Thisthought is inspired, he says, by reading the label of a proprietarybrand of clay poultice which informs the world that the base ofthis marvel is composed of the finest anhydrous and levigatedargillaceous mineral. He goes on: It would be fatal, commercially speaking of comse, to tell. Courtesy of *The Engineering News-Record, New Yorit. ALMOST A RAILROAD FOR LUMBER TRUCKS. The fore-and-aft plank road, witli well-bracecl guard-rails in the center. the public what it could, but jnobably will not, easily find outby looking in the dictionary, that this specimen of exuberantverbosity simply means that the base of the product is nothingmore miraculous than dried and finely powdered clay. Buthow much more sonorous, how much more awe-inspiring, howmuch more suggestive of incantations and the witch-caldron:anhydrous and levigated argillaceous mineral. One can nothelp feeling that ProfessQr Samuels, the shrewd and genialquack who disi)ensed a pinch each of salt and sugar in hydrantwater {$3 for 2 ounces), made a mistake in not taking the publicinto his confidence (patent-medicinally speaking) by tellingthem the composition of his panacea. With i)erfect truth homight have said, for instance: My prei)aration is composed of minimal quantities of amember of
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