Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1887, Page 12

1 D) - THE ELECTRICAL WORLD. Practical Tests and Inventions to Guide the COurrent of the World, PERFECTING ELECTRIC MOTORS' Light on the Battlefield—Telegraph Cables, Cable Rates and Elece tric Lights—Electric speed. asylum, L Melodious sounding electric whistles are a novelty, and are said to be taking ells in France. The whistle is made by fiting a small brass tube with suitable apertures so that it opens against the spring of a suitably formed communbicator. the place of clectric Buffalo News: guess at man. wire, Tl shares. for power. of its value. 80 at present. The Electrical Railway. An clectrie railway, the first to start in New York state, was formally ops Binghampton to-day, May 22, run without nose at the rate of from five to eighteen miles an hour, tons seems to make \ eveniug, It was, he said, one of considerable interest and importance as illustrating a convenient application of the electric current to methods of ig- niting and extinguishing The princip! most useful an distanc electric gasli making and ecither mechanicall, contact. breaki; n;i' included open circuit cells, be wrapped. streat and o'clock, but runnin, boxes another trip. weru taken from Fourth last trip and the service was as perfect for the accommodation of passengers as any motive gower could furnish. The dynamo in the company’s barn 18 e the storage batteries esired, and to remove too small to char, na rapidly as is that inconvenience a wir tended from the Brush vlant on the corner of Seventh and nut strects to the car-barn, i completed to-morrow, and the storage batteries on the ear will be charged from The clectric ear will then be used rogularly, it it continues to ive as good sorvice as it did yesterday. he company does not believe, however, that they will adopt the Julien motor as the motive power of their line. have ordered for trial a Sprague motor, which, it iz believed, is more perfect than are now trying. 0 Swung between the axle and a thwart-pioce, and the interposition of asingle pinion, working in a gear, will give revolution to the car whecl, Then there will be one gear engaged at each end of the armature shaft, which d the other ad- the Brush plant, the one the, motor will allows one Justable, each cleaned b, uxle, furnishea, 1t Aload of five | no difference in The road is nearly four miles loug, from Boss park to the state ins cost ot the change was somcthing over $20,000. “Here's something to exclaimed a lineman, indicat- ing the wire bound telegra Seneca and Pearl streets. of wire do you suppose is about that pole?” he asked. The pole is girted with a conting of wire about six feet up. made n guess of a few hundred yards. “‘Within a foot of a mile,” said the line- Just about two length of No. 9 coils come in half mile lengths. The Baltimore & Ohio pole at Washing- ton and Seneca streets, the bi in the city, has wire wrapped about A New Electrical Invention. Buffulo (N. Y.) Express, May 20: The certificate of incorporation of the Battery Light and Power company was filad with the county clerk yesterday. The object of the company. as stated in the docu- ment, 15 to *‘manufacture and sell in New York state electric and other appliances, and also carbonic electric batteries em- bodiing the mvention of Charles H. ‘Wilder, and also to sell to others within the state the right to make, use, aud sell said carbon electric batteries and such electric and other appliances.” :n pital stock is $1,000, What length eand a half of divided into The term of existence is to be fifty years. The operations are to be carried on in Buffalo. Mr. Hefford seaid ’uwrdny that the invention was intended for use in families, offices, etc., where light machinery, such a8 sewing ma- ehines, was to be used, where it could also be employed for lighting as well as Most of those intercsted had not scen the invention, but one or two had becn to Boston, where it is insuccess- ful operation, and had become convinced So far no move has been made towards manufacturing the ma- chines here, and there is no need of doing With battery and motor in the house, both power and illumina- tion could be produced ve: ‘The election of officers woul occur in a day or two. Electric Matches. Bufialo Express: The subject of gas- lighting by electricity was well handl {r’yMr Frank Kitton, of the Wester nion, before the Electrical society last as jets from a involved in hting consists simply in reaking an electric circuit, © lly or electrically, in the immediate neighborhood of the es- caping gas, which was ignited by the spark which followad the breakin, The spark was the result extra current set up at the moment of the circuit, the latter of which the burner with its two elec- s, o spark coil, ane two or three The spark coil was best constructed of a bundle of iron wires to serve as a core, around which a few layers of thick insulated wires should Mr. Kitton described and fully illustrated by experiments the sev- eral systems in ordinary use for domestic purposes, including the pendent, ratchet automatic burners, as also the sys- tems employed for lighting theatres, large halis, etc., which were usually fur- with the necessary means of the induction coil or “frictional machine. Electric Motors, 8t. Louis Republican: morning the Lindell car, to” which a n motor was attached some time ago, was run out on the Washington avenuo line and made a round trip with- ont giving the driver the slightesttrouble in making stops, starting or regulating the speed. few hours the n storoge battery Farly yesterday ht before charging the the small dynamo in the company’s barn at Twenty-second ashington avenue, to have shut down the engine at 11 that tho cells were not filled, he kept the machinery until 12 o'clock, when one of the egan to boil up. He then at- tempted to cut the circuit, and in doing 80 melted the wire and_burned out part of one of the cells. trip over the road was completed that cell had been exhausted and it was about 8 o'clock in the afternoon when the el trician had the cirewmit conuplete to make Twenty-five passengers When the sccond elivers seven and one-half-horse-power on its armature shaft, and there being one of these on fifteen-horse-power It is also claimed for this motor that it removes the difficulty of lack of sufticient adhe: ditions by having independently-driven uxles. In an experiment made in delphia on this point a snow-covered, very slippery track on under all con- was completely the rotation of the forward wheels, while the rear wheels took hold f the track and propelled the car, gpn‘nc company has just closed a short THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JUNKE 1Y 1887.--TWELVE PAGES time contract for completely vqulppln" tic between Europe and North Ameries, | yearly since then. The dynamo makes FOR SWEET CH‘\R“‘Y'S SAKE little worse than your own. No woman 0 a forty-car thirteen-mile system for the | and two betwoen Lisbon, Portugal and {msuiblu the transmission of power in il city of Richmond, Va. Pernambuco, Brazil. There are cables | limitable quantities from any place where down the Atlantic to the Mediteranean, | natural power, such asthat of a waterfall, can be happy in this society, and that is the sort of thing Mrs. Cleveland had for the days she stayed in the wilderness and Opposition to Telegraph In Yunnan. | through that sea to the Red Sea, throngh | may be had for nothing, to distant cities | The New and Novol Method of New York | baited hooks for Grover. The Chinese Times s: that to the Indian Ocean to Bombay, | and shops. It transforms mere power received from Yunnn:lysfl?:!‘"lll:::nb?fn: thence across India and around the | into lLight, heat, or electricity, and it been much popular opposition to the | ¢oust to Madras, on the east coast of | transmutes electricity again back into crection of the telegraph wire at Ta- India, thence through the Indian ocean | power when so desired, 3 ting-fu, 1n the south of that province, | 0 and through the Straits of Malacea This extraordinary invention, which The workmen have been attacked and | thence through the Yellow, Chinese and | en already so much into the indus- Bociety to Aid a Worthy Cause. MRS. CLEVELAND'S SACRIFICE | much rain that the trout won't ris No matter what time you reach the Adriondacks, there is always the one story told to you. There b €0 | or there has been so mucth something clse that the deer are shy, and 8o you eat salt wounded, and the foreigner in charge | JAPan seas up the coust of Asia to | trial life oi the country, and is destined | The Wiles of the District Messenger | pork and anative slap-jack called “choke has also becn threatened, Work has been | Nicolalewsx, on the east coust of Siberia, | to I"“f’ a more and more important role, | poe_ An Astonished Woman—Tap- | dogs,” and think with ‘grief of your far suspended, and the magistrates are oc- | About 55 deg. north latitude. = There is | already lights our strects and houses, el r . . | also an overland line across Russia_and | sends our despatches, and, according to fl:}: ;.’,nl":h,:'fl',"i .El'fiull‘sc(i’llx’lg;lc‘:ehdowalln Siberia from St. Petersburg to Nico- [ experts, will very soon run our surface by the telegraph poles laiewsk. < 3 and elevated raiiway cars. Originally it Alate report says: ‘Lhe disturbances | , Every seaport in Asia between the | required a great deal of steam power, in” Yunnan' and " Ruci Chou, on wecount | [mits inentioncd and inany places fn tho | used in revolving rapidiy of the tclegraph continue. For many | interior, have télegraphic communication | urmature; to obtuin very httle electricity; diys N0 messages came from Pi Chich (a | With Europe and America. Europe, like | gradually this d district in the province of Kuei Chou), | the United States, is covered with a net- | value of whe and an oflicial who was sent to discover | WOrk of wires, and the coust line of No and what w the cause found the natives in an excited | Way clear to the Arctic ocean is covered | and to-day stat L was put into the dynamo, got out of it, grew les thousand inventors ai down the poles and wires. The ofticers | lin and New Zealand, As for Africa, 1t | tained, which, introduced into another escaped to the) Taotai's yamen. Ihe | 18 provided with cables and Jand lines | dynamo, causes the armature of that aiso Taotai of the Kuei Hsi circuit, whose | Which communicate with every point of | to revol ‘ rough statement of . I'nis yamen is at Pi Chieh, has been ordered | importarce around the coast, but they | the practice of tl to arrange the matter. penetrate but a small way into the in- | by means of electricity. The Newchang correspondent of the b North China Daily Nows, writing on ] by means of coast | car rail. April 20, says: We heard of Monseigneur | ¢ables and land lines, can be communi- | street railw Boyer’s' death, in the extreme north, cated with at every Hy}ace of consequence | erating dy where he had gone during the winter, | On 1ts entire coast line north, east and | somewhe; Since he became bishop Monseigeur | W tagonia alone being left out. | steam or w Boyer had not spared himself, and being There is alsoa transcontinental line from | produced is sent along th over sixty, the traveling and discomforts | Montevideo on the east coast to Valpa- [ a wire ended ten or twelve feet on the road, which are quite enough to | Faiso on the west i above the tracks. ch car is provided upset young people, were too much for Thus it will een that in every part | with a small dynamo, which, upon re- him, "He had been some thicty-five years | of the world where civilized socicty ex- in China, coming out with Monseigneur | ists to any extent the electric telegray Taglinbue of Peking, and was a great | 18 in use for the transm linguist, very energetic and zealous. The gence, and while all parts of Asia and of | i Missions Etrangeres must miss him | the const of Africa can now be reached greatly, for Monseigneur Boyer was a | by Way Europe, it cannot be many y: thoroughly good man. before a direct line will be laid from 1 | as old ! ‘The committee of the chamber of com. | Francisco to the Sandwich Islands and | tion in practice is a matter of every-da merce had very satisfactory interview thence to Japan, when the girdle around | improvement. For e with Colonel Dénby, United States min. | the earth will be complete ister to China, April 21, at the United | , ILis nolonger a wonder how the press States Consulate-General, Shanghai. The | I8 able to print the daily transactions in old questions of the Woosung bar, duty | 8] parts of the world. current may be sent along a wir th the majority of ¥s now in operation,the gen- mo is placed in n station coming ~along the tra connceted by a sliding device, axles of the car, to move Uhe ecar along r$ | the track. The principles involved are current from the dynamo is used to heat ndescence a bit of earbon: for the pet-car, to revolve the armature of a us also the certification of invoices for [ May wish to know the ¢ the United States, the irregularity of the | mossages, a few figu mails via SanFrancisco, and the lately [ the voluminous taril 4 k levied additional tax on kerosene oil. Washington to points in Great Britain, | to other use A medical missionary nassociation has | Ireland, France and Germany the cable [ inventos been formed in China. There are now | charge is 12¢ a word. ‘T'o extreme paimts | upon the seventy-nine medical missionaries (Prot. | of Africa it is $3.43 a word. 1 NS estant) in China, Coren and Siam, of | Placesin South America, according to | the electricity must travel between the whom fifteen are ladies. remoteness and roundabout lines of com- | generating station and the motor. The new military college at Tientsin | munication, s from §1.04 to $6.94 per | " Five years there was not an _elee- has been reorganized. word. In Asia rates go up as high as | tric re given from | mission of power from the steam engin e of rates. Krom | or water-wheel to the axle of the car, or N he results depend lar form of the dynamo, the me! instituting a They had nssemblod n. grea | 0Y 1and lines with cables across the bays | seeking to increase still further this_efi. | a1 event and a suce numbers on the night or April 23d, and | 8nd guifs. cieney. By revolving the armature of | both fin royed the telegraph office, pulling From India there are cables to Austra- | the dynamo, an electric cucrent is ob- | this weck at one of the the ansmission of power | houses, The _electric | booths cctric | o loug the line, and worked by | attractive features of the event wa: er power; the curreut so | of veiled statuary. ric light the | at about sundown. ping a Wicked Broker-~Clara Belle's Letter. the dynamo NEW Youg, June 16.---[Correspondence t of the Brg.]—When high life wishes to erence in the working | disport itself at home and all ordinary | ing to the A nicans are exhausted, it finds a way by | Cleveland de: uch | for her r air in aid of o charity, vein figur ceiving & portion of the' current, [ completely masked were cxposed. k or the | gentleman who played the auctioneer | (o on of intolli- | overhead — wire with which it | was clad in his dress suit, .and it was a i as old as the dynamo itself; their applica- | in spite of the fact that the entertain- w ment was exvected to come to an end | yer The auctioneer with g more or iess successful attempts ) ve br humor described the statues as a repre- That don't spile the sparkle; 1 guess s the constant study of | then by half-dollur bids to 811, at which price it was knocked down. tleman makin, In tho course of an article on George | $2:14. To Australian points the extreme | country, while to.day there are more | for less thaw $10. T. Bromley the Chinese Times says: *‘An | Price $3.04 per word. These rates are for | than a dozen, anecdote may be mentioned to_illustrate cable service. The charges over land | there will be a hundred within the next the exquisite tact which made Mr. Brom- | lines are added. two rmrs. Experts do not hesitate to ley's intercoursa with the Chinese of- predu , with every prospect that Rich Banker Se verandah steps watc| ct the speedy displacement of the [ With an amused smile. sful oneof its kind, neially and socially, occurred | more untrastworthy. y uptown man- sions, where the city has not eaten up S d wns with hotels and apartment | them as their peculiar prey. A lady had Fancy articles were sold under the trees, refreshment | for o messengoer b or a | tables were seattered invitingly about on | write a note that the boy could grass, and cateh penny games | his way to the jeweler. As she abounded everywhere, One of the most | recting the envelope the boy entered. & : Dark eambric cur- | jshed the superseription, g ails or along | tains shut off a portion of the long ver- | add “to the jeweler's at the corner and and when they were drawn | wait forit.” 3 W ol vhite But the small tough. nof MU Ly ’l“,‘.‘é than the table, broke i The next statue After that none sold | was made to understand the brooch was y comfortable home, and with tre- pidation of the suffering that must be en- dured in retracing your steps. How hard we work to enjoy ourselves. Everyone knows who tries the so-called pursuits of pleasure. But the most melancholy lu‘nrt-rvn-liv:{z form of enjoyment is go iondacks, and Mrs. Frances rves a great deal of credit tyrdom. The district messenger boys of New York ave daily becoming sharper and Every preeaution en an dealing with them. ler the persons who employ 1 the bad luck to step on her dinmond bar pin and break the fas She rang do “Take that” she said, extending the pin, and never loo fin- to le much higher ore she could finish her sentence w! “How much ou want to get on i The astonished lady looked at surprising fact that several other gentle- i THE LITTLE RUFFIAN men present were in full evening dress | in amazement. *‘How wuch do I want to get on it?"’ she repeated. Yes; you wants me to pound it, don't Pib) Pound it? Merey no. I just stepped at | on it and have broken the pin."” yer kin git twenty cases on it.’" 0 T second and smaller dynamo carried upon | sentation of the classic goddesses and | ° SWhy™ “hoy, what are you talking drawbacks, lekin, etc., were referred to, To gratify the curiosity of those who | a car and geared to itsaxles. To reduce | offered them for ale one after another. [ abouts™ st of cabling | the loss in the transformation and trans- | Bidding on the fi t began at $1 and “‘Oh, come off'! ‘l)er yer want me to mounted rapidly by doliar jumps to %9, | hock it or don't yer? What's yer racket?’ The Iady called for help. She had heard ‘The gen- | that the~ insane posscssed unnatural 9 t © : the purchase paid his | strength and though this young cub he tari %o | ods of transmission, the distance which | money and feiélved a ticket with a num- | didn'v weigh ninety she couldn’t tell ber correspondeing to the card held in | What he might do if he was as crazy as the kand of {he statue. railway in practical operation in the | brought only §6. he talked. "It was not until the servant acted as interpreter that the hoodlum to go to a jeweler to be repaired, instead mann stood on the | of a pawnbroker's shn“; but the boy ex- i plamned that most al "Ku‘v':z:u;a‘?:“:‘:: sent such things by him ‘“‘was sponters the ladies who and was raisin’ the wind on their supers ficials so smooth. Li Hung Chang on How Switchboard Fires Start. orsc as a motor for cars in cities, and | five was put up he started the bidding | an’ sparkles.” 5 one occasion rather abruptly nsked him | Chicago Tribune: **How do fires start | one authority believes that the change | with a loud five dollars. was he republican or democrat. With his | behind “switchboards in telegraph and | from horses to electricity will soon go on | mediately bid ‘six, and Mr. Seligmann | wholesome fear o Somebody im- A double lifed %omlomnn who has a his spouse, but a love usunl self-possessed smile, which was | telephone ollices originater” City Elec - | a8 fast as the clectric plants cen be man- | g,115\wed with & determined ten, asif by | 0f other pretty women used a messenger never cynical and always pleasant, Mr, 1an Barrett was asked yesterday. ufactured. Step by step the dynamo has Bromley replied: ‘Why, I am the United | “Bylthe clectric spark passing from one [ been o improved that the work which it States consul,’ and the viceroy laughed | wire to another and 1gniting the cotton | costs $10 | loud at the answer. Perhaps no greater | coyering, which has become frayed by [ by electri compliment was ever paid to the repre- | use,” he replied, ) were no ch sentative of a foreign country than when *Is it possible to prevent these fires?” | would be for the better. e streets will the viceroy, on hearing of his probable “Yes. A lead-covered wire can be [ be cleaner; there will be fewer grea per than horsi from his surprise 1t was knocked t City | The result was that when number six that means to shut off further bidding, | P0Y 28 the Mercury to fly between him and his Venus, For several months! the do with horses can be done | but two others without any pause what- | Ja( carried notes and presents to the lady for #6. Even it electricity | ever carried the figure up to thirteen, | love. In his leisure moments he looked , the change | and before the banker could recover | up his client's record, and put himself in down. | possession of much useful knowledge. he other day he presented himself at supersession, telegraphed to the Chinese | used, and all danger of fire avoided.” stables to pollute the air and expose the | wis put up Mr. Seligmann bid ten, and | the gentleman's oflice and asked that as- minister at Washington to use his influ- [ *“Then why don't the tolograph compa- | city to destruction b when atter a moment someboay ventured | tounded individual what he thought it ence there to obtain’ Mr. Bromley's reap- | nies use that kind of wire?’ e a bid of eleven, he exclaimed fifteen. No | Was worth to, know as much as he did of pointment. The minister, however, re- ‘‘Because 1t costs about four times as ATRRT G TraG onc competed with him at_that figure | & broker’s private Jife? A mad hornet is plied that it was impossible, as certain | much as the other.” + Ob, de she bars come w'en old 'Ligy blow'd | and he sccured the ticket. When it was | # mild creature compared to that man, personal influences were too strong.” . “What e the "r:‘l‘r]fll’vlg-“r'”k to pass * “his ho'n, all over the purchasers were ruqlmilm} to hl“ltll‘:%nlgn‘g' hw“‘t!o‘n‘z;n'it'n S s CONHOULINITOILOIANIONIA LS (Doan yer laugn at de sarvent o_de Lawd.) | come up and remove their property. The | 1 K d Light for the Battle Field. “T'he spark or current always seeks the Anrfllg),;{,ll,a‘w,‘;&(}cc|T"‘1.L‘fil“k‘z er haug | man wllm had been so n:lxiéus r(, get | price,” smd he impudently, _Electrical Review: Just at the present | shortest route to the ground, as wires eafin’ co'n, time, when war clouds are hanging thick | always are in large switchboards, the (Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd.) and heavy over Europe, and more or less | current will leave the one which is the | Goup, old baldy, ’lowed the freckle face exaggerated rumors of war are filling the | farthest from the ground for the other.” the columns of the daily press, it is not “‘How does shis cause a fire?” surprising to read of new inventions “The cotton covers of the wires are made in the interest of army soldiers. | generally soaked in parafline, but as this An’ den er b'ar_grabbed him wid er mighty | he department announced a competition for | dry and inflammable. Constant usc (Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o de Law e was broad smile, find number five found that it was NOTHING BUT A BROOM DRESSED UP il itk (Doan yer langh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd. | . sheet and a mask, Seligmann turned e. of the day, and the qus correspondingly rejoiced RS e t that o beeaping the dummy | but how long will it last? The lad will ) L (Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o' de Lawd.) | he had secured one of the handsomest | break outon himagain to a certainty--any Only a short while ago the Prussian war | cvaporates it leaves the cotton perfectly | De po’ chiile hollered and tried to get loose, " | young ladi awber s and cream, and the knick- | 88 that one is ‘I shall expose you to the company, and prosecute you for blackmail’ tremu- and | lously retorted the old man. But “Oh, no, I guess not."” to | Theold broker effected a_sottlement, tity [ oy who will start into business as early going to live and keep at a portable military barrack, oven only to | wears the cotton and leaves tne wire ex- | Butde b'ar drug him off like er varmint wid that he bought for her out of his | it CrLArA BELLE, German architects and civil engineers. | posed, and as the electric_spark jumps [ £O0Se, 4 oy would not bear mentioning, T And now a novel application of the | from one wire to the other it ignites the | (Doan yerlaugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd.) ¢ five was the only dummy, and A STORY OF A PASS 'lilectllrl?'h hzwm-}g‘x:y hygiene Urf( ";0 cotton. As zher‘e :;ru'gcne'rnlly a lzru\t Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o' de Lawd, poured freely into the t ury ekl % attle field 18 sal ave been made in v e frays te - young man, o acke! - | ¢ o ” X WS ar G EAB SO e Gy D PN sl ’x:nn ra“ll;rf:l);:l;:)(‘l;ho;lige:\ :;:)zl‘:tl.‘ sl?-"xl-;k Doan yer langh at do prophet in the lane, ‘:i’""mq f;“’"‘,‘ lwb:a D-nrctmfwth‘gmn:”f n{“l‘l‘lo (The Sotlow “/W Ir‘mnulmu contribution s from tigal, & Gernian army surgeon, a light | will ignate them all, and n_a moment | Fur de bars imout cum™from de woods, | Suters, OF & WOR REEEOH S LY G Ut v Cinteit waaia i"’%fifé‘k“'?"?‘r‘m ’ ) B f 4 young man’ f SERNCELIE = & e al o bei pa 3 ll:?}?:sh"l‘::s Mol 1?;&{:35&3“ lghtl‘:g thereis ' bf% blaze behind, which, uniess [ 5, 3195 up ’gardless o' de pain, pain, | ing amusement was conducted by hand: | 110 11 ore 2 enid a o'assical member from y , extinguished at once, communicates to pain, some girl. It was called"* Aunt Sally.”and is ef‘\llpnud with an electric light of 2,000 | the board itself, which is generally of An’ eat cans dozen galvanic batteries, which last for | start, and after that you know as much | An’ we'll dance wid David ‘round de ark in continuous illumination during a whoie | about what happens as any one else.” de hall, night. The arc lamp is suspended from Oh, yer better be keerful w'em yer titters at an -djn::ablntruck,:lotl_nnhka some of The Electrical Artillery. AN ol de T our patented portable fire escape appa- Baltimore News: A fow day: the | ., (Doan ver laugh at de servent o) de Lawd. ratus, and the light hangs 0 that it may | Nows discussed the elfoct of the use of | FUF YUF Mmout strike tho prephet o' de Jorden be turned free 1n all dircctions, which is | 5o much electricity in cities upon the of avout fiftecn fect. ents, and the person breaking the great- b ;:u';,‘.’;"“\{fszof(atffiz"":fi: "T"(‘:I'_ngé‘:‘\;':; last mecting of the state alliance execu- river ban’, entitled to a big box of candy. Every | tive committee. (Doan yer lauzh at de sesvent o' de Lawd.) | young and every gallant old man wasled “‘What's that?” asked E. H. Atwood, : I yer up ‘gardless o' de pain. the fun and money lay in throwing clubs | the Upper Minnesota, as he wiped the dle-power, genorated by means of a | wood. This, of course, gives the fire a | Den praisc old Ligy and prarse Mars Saul, | at the wooden f;’w., yof an old ,l‘;mm,m hard-earned reputation for sweating stuck on the end of a stick at a_distance | labor off his intellectual expanse at the ‘Ten clubs for ten | Merchants hotel dining room, addressing some granger compatriots. just after the necessary, inasmuch as & Kfi:fi‘fi‘é"nl;fi; electric fluid of the average storm at- | An’ it mout be de case das: er pusson widout | up to the sacrificc and made to expend | member of the aforesaid executive com- flecting mirror is placed be mosphere. We threw out the suggestion War the prize box. his money in the vain attempt to secure itte Y f Rvalont in orderto increase its power of illumi- | that the collection of so much of the sub- | (Doan yer laugh at de seevent o’ de Lawd.) | for his favorite lad: mittee, and who is rapidly developing It nation. Experiments made during the | the fluid from the atmosphere by electric | Hab got er awful 'fluenceiwid de hallelujab | proved no easy task to break appe. Men into a dignified, Father-of-his-country late manceuvers with such an ambulance hinery, and the consumption of wagon demonstrated the rouihllity of Lightmacy 8 0, 90n) P succassmlli lighting & battle distance of ambulance to such an extent as to enable | also occurred to us that the many tele- the search for and discovery of the bodies | graph and tolephone wires, as well as sorter pate, 1{ dc;nd or you%dedhmlgézn. ml?xl’ hki’qi den from view by shrubbery. Itis said | off the mysterious currents to such an g . i that the ambulance wagon {s so strongly | extent as to largely mitigate the severity Doan yer laugh at do sarvent o' de Lawd, field 10 & | diminish the quantity that otherwise [ AW den yer eyes is open w'en lts dun too ATy 5 and women both tried it. 'The club | style of statesman. it in lights, had pernaps a tendency to | , (Poan ver laugh at de sarvent 'de Lawd.) | 114 o swung with the utmost appear- | ““Up in my section,” said the classical ¢ ate ance of accuracy, and thrown with great nearly half a mile from the | would be burned in electric storms. It (Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de Lawd.) d‘etnrm}nutiou al:fly to {;\11 several bg:et Dat yer hab crooked yer finger at de wrong | short of its mark or go flying away above G Y it. The young man who ot the prize did | 82 so—not yet. But 1 say, there an't no the electric light channels, would carry (Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o' de Lawd.) | o on n record of nine pipes broken, and | use in being a patriot no more. It's an to do 8o he had to spend nearly five dol- | awful depressin’ line of business, just member, continuing his serious tone, “I haint never had my call to repeat my young man, lars in clubs, more than twice as much | now." the ownership of plant, candle power, contain less ammunition or electrical dpgn oto., must be taken into’ consideration in | Charges than would otherwise be tha, Ehoiblaokpirdiingih 0 cu;dl«[al povkvlur in nl;‘ ch.i-_s: is ?.gm. except in Brooklyn, where it 18 1,200. | gonted severity in various New Xork has a contract 0X qne JCar | country and the list of fatalities is start | boy's faco and panies, and has in use 711 _lamps at 70 cents each per night, Philadelphia has 526 lamps, for which an average of b4 cents per night 1s paid under a one-year contract, and the Brush, United States and Houston systems are used. Brooklyn has 995 lamp at a cost of 50 cents each (1,200 candle power). contract 1s for one year, and the Thom- son-Houston system is used, Boston has 504 lamps at a cost of 63 have been electrical storms of unprece- | TOW there are no wires to catch the bolt and | pies a cage asa pet. While the the r: larly ualties in the country from | inches from the light. atal and startling this spring, the | very intelligent crow. Wheney ; L i 51 cities have entirely escaped. If lightning | the dog dining he sneaks up b the average complement of telegraph, | When the telephone, and elecitic hight wires, it has | food and i only been’ 1n the outskirts, where such | rhe eatbird taps are inconsiderable, while the cen- your nice, Tip ter of the cities have eseaped. ‘There | {,0n an eminence in the n may be something in tae theory, and, if ar there is, the questions are suggested whether overhead wires are not a protec- ol ;g Providence, R. I, has 175 lamps at a | tion to cities during clectrical storms, melody ¢ nies under a three-year contract, and the city owns the posts, extensions and hoods. Newark, N. J., has 150 lamps at _a cost of 50 cents, furnished by the United States and Western companies under a three-year contract. just before dining upon cherries, perches himself & opera of over a half hour's length. such times is very pl under a one year contract. safer to live in the busy cily than on the [ Americus, _(n,a.‘_ had upon his hook while Albany has 481 lamps at 50 cents each, | moro exposed suburbs or in the open [ fishing Ko ;‘l{t,bg}\:jr":"l‘{'u "v’i\:gl “z':'.‘@ furnisked by the Brush company under | country? M Ll lllllii.sl‘(lxlll;lillll‘k“:i;! n“ ;‘hml " a five year contract, and owns the lamps, | .qwe The Day of the Dynamo. Iph S 8 Gy an brok pos’ s, poles and lanterns. New York Post: Until very recently Tnree times a Sumter (Ga.) man broke Rochester, N. Y., has 336 lamps---809 at | the use of electricity for propelling sur- 45 cents and 77 at'30 cents each, furn- | face cars has been looked upon, even by ished by the Brush compuny under & | most electricians, as something for the coutract for five years. distunt future. The experiments made Albany, Boston and Philadelphia,which | by a number of inventors, Edison among determined to set. The last time she de- liberately walked to o well np to the curbing, and plunged head first into the deep waters below., When got out she spectively, own more or less of the plant. | of running cars by electricity, but the New York recently rejected a bid of 65 | cost was apparently higher than for cents, but the city is about to have an | Steam or horses, and many problems of electric light war, and, 1t is stated, offers | detail seemed to require years for their e o i P solution. So long ago as in the forties, 5 B ::gflf“du to furnish the lights st 28 cents Professor Henry of Washington suc- black streak over ench oye. and & | no The rest of head inclined to gray, with black dots )% and Oable Rates. | means of an electric current derived from Telegraph Ca was covered with a beautiful plumage. drographic office in this city a map of | but the cost of obtaining power from zine i ippe v dog on the the world on Mercator's projection, | was enormous, and nothing was done to It whipped every dog o nminutes cannot be reulized for the lack | inven anda land line througn Alaska. But | the beginuing there was no doubt what- | years he was engaged in trying elsewhere communication is fully estab- | ever in the minds of all scientitic men flies, his skill in the art being regar There are ten cables across the Atlan- | tion, This comviction has deepened | country. carry it off or to silently and impercepti- A pair of swallows have built a nest in | vain world, when you leave bly conduct the surplus electricity from | one of the electric lights in Oshkosh, | troubles, like & young be: the clouds and thus diminish in extent | Wis., and have hatehed six young ones. | fore you. and intensity the bombardment of which | The nest is directly under the bowl which | whether Paul The the clouds ‘would have been capable. | is placed over the light, and but a few | nae, Knob L only wonder that Eve didn her petti X was dead. i pay 50 cents, 65 cents and 54 cents, re- | them, had shown the perfect feasibility | 7'G0 b v naw in the bird line wus the black fly, L Vus | mouth, He tak tured by ¥ .‘ls. Phelps Mulberrs, 8 C. | sits head of the owl, with tre- | yucklcherry ~ bush, eats his lack eyes. _Its face looked like | and nockively while you howl, m & n ceeded in running a minature train by o o (o Then comes /i near the end of each feather. The body niidge. Almost i New Orleans Pienyune: The Picayune | primary batteries of zine and carbon. | wionovor e went nearit it would give instrument of tortur has received from the United States hy- he toy interested n great many persons, | T oo unearthly yell that frightened the ::::‘Mmm i R Iron Mask under u cage of bars, over | voi iy 'pastehoard. extra size, warranted to and carcfully | kil the bird that flies the highest. (iood on The | all lines, Come in and se and oil, t jon irdle ort, chemical battery to be discovered. The | was found dead in bed last week of heart | a compound which ereeps and slips upon C . y fo RREAMIADS ATound o aATEh D s fa on of l!mydvnnmo solved the prob- | discase. Mr. Morrison was nearly | your cuticle, provoking an unbearably | ¢ “You see it was made up awful purty. 3 1on. The only known cure | It was a jewsharp with three prongs, to 15 found in smoke and lots | Smith; and when he opened that letter build | and saw that pass he AV which netting is spread an known to | tied down upon your shoulders, howing the lines of submarine telegraph | make practical use of Professor Henry's . et :n‘:a‘:rx:? pu;t of the globe. ¥ work.p'l‘hu world waited for a more Michael Morrison, a k 5 ) sho Puck’s celebrated boast of being able | economical source of electricity than the | hundreds of anglers in New York city, | refuge from the black fly is in of a short cable across Behring's Straits | lem; it offered cheup clectricity,and from | seventy years old,and for the last twenty tickling sc lmon | for the midg g rol ed as § of it ] & Y 8 i B 1o the supreme importance of this inven- | greater than that of anybody cise in the | twosmudges severul feet apart and sit be- [ dow e H . tween them till the condition of a ham is | inteliect and viewed the ozureair at built that it may readily be driven across | of the summer storms, which are usually | Doan yer laugh atde pronhetin de lane, | as the candy would have cost him at a meadows without ““‘““"“g with the | g0 heavily charged. ~‘This theory seems | Fur de b'ars mout cum from da woods, young | store. But'he had his fun and the spec- | from' Maine Prair erstand what the bes al forest must have b t of block tin ins! zen nall and cager, with :s chunks out of y ively smiles. There pos known “beast so distract- ingly unbearable as the awful bl that infinitesimal ter To eseape the midges you The miles of rail- | ember continued d steamboat travel that land you “Don’t you s oats, loaded u with your expen are to sneeze for Then | qoes nothing, piece, | story, but actually happened once « ble is this pigmy but dreadtu es. The only remedy for the the Man in the “Idon’'tsee why,"” said the member , who has a_solemn vroper working of the electric arc light. | plausible. Electricity 8o readily seeks man, tators had more of it. i ibili 5 Cost of Biectric Lighta. every conductor that will convey 1t.totho { . AN’ ¢at Ser up ‘gardiess o' de pain, pain, | “Tho snorifices women make for their R E T R T L L TS Baltimore American: Mr. F. W, King, enrth.;nd‘ 1t 48 not “"m“'-m‘""';»e to supl An ent yer up "gardloss o do pain. husbands are "‘““‘50“- but it is doubtful | hud becn anxiously scanning recent rail- superintendent of lamps, has collected | POs¢ that immense quantities find path-:} 1yen yraise old Ligy and praise Mars Saul, | if any wife endured a more unpleasant | roud rate tables with an_eye to gettin waysto the ground over the elevated not-;, Y e " de ark in | ordeal than Mrs. Grover Clevdland dur- :’;‘!fi:?o‘;%‘:‘:l‘:&!t:‘i’:‘flmin: m"":fi";fifi in which clt?cs are enmeshed. Thus de- au v:;:lxluflf,nm YA Pavid troung do g her Adriondack trip. ontolihieiraticuadioom migh anipriCilbot i | 1f the region | foet—he and Eric Olson. He had also mattors, such s the number of lamps, | Ruded or drainca the atmosphere must A could be rid of biting things, and 1f de- witnessed with unadulterated alarm the cent roads coalld be made, it would be a | iti riotic business i ! found_equally | Plikful johewy to o to them and abide | hareeron OF theypatriotic business i B m e the cost I the. various cities. | case. And this suggestion seems vorne | destructive of the eggs of birds of other | g while; but the awful, springless carts, e, e candlo - | out by the. recent experience. There | species with that of the crow and spar- | tho boulders sunk in mud they " cull and retains a glimmering ray of hope that there may be compensation still left . . 7 *“‘carrys,” which haye to be tramped, and 5 ; Bimantaaces parts of the | A swallow flew “F“'"“ a Philadelphin | ¢i\6 jnnumerable insects, make life for a for honest servitors of tho h fofs ¢ rove his bill clean | woman a nightmare. ingly long this year. But these casual- [ through his check, The boy held the | yuy 'y ties have been “in the country, where | bird fast by his teeth, and it now oceu- | gt the spot where you go into the wilder- Hence the incredulity. The classical this has been an era of big crops of ofiices, New normal school, ness are pleasant enough, but farewell, | new insane asylum, new prison, new re- them. Your | form school, new' commissioners, new are all be- | Warde A day perhaps (it depends on | ¢, th's, the Upper Sara- | or still remoter points | ani form your destination) must be spent in | § avages of lightning have been sigu- John Elhs, of Williamsport, Pa,, has a | springless wagons on corduroy rog ‘Then you tuke little boats, ally to the gunwale: . | outlit. You hardly d. srow snatches up the coveted | of upsetting the ulting, wat instantly out of reach. craft. , uew every darned thing under . Big oy for big men, But big found. Railroad rates was high, now they're a going down. Lumber pap, ‘duds’ is cheap, talk sheap. thing 18 going to the demnition yows. There is more patriots than there 1s wheat, and they got some more of 'em to be put in the big beens—there's ¢ lozwred | too cussed much smartness-—-over-produc- You sit up in the sun without wWw to case your back, n hurts you and your spinal column hhorhiood, | & vertabril chronicle ?f misery. T - L .omie | you steer your bark into a creck ending | . . 2 e i and then you are treated to a “‘l“l[i; ;\" T R R AR T would soon water all the etock in and an ox take up your boat, and you ; follow meekly behind. cost of 50 cents, furnished by the West- [ whether underground wires ~would | An owl swooped down froma tall tree | g yng ern and Thomson-Houston ~ companies | furnish the same protection, and is it not | Upon & catfish which James Wilkins, of prim A | tion of lingo.” till your liver | But some one must speak for the peo- 5 | ple. If everybody stays at home and vy Gould and Jim Hill Minnesotu, and run the wind-mill_com- panies out of business,” said the Maine Here you begin | prairie statesman, who is not averse to wuty of the | having his httle joke. iand-you | “yes but Iean give you a straight onstruct | furrow on a case where patriotism wasn't 4 of fig | no good. This here furrow was cut with There 1s a steady, unsatistied, | 4 double gang plow,and is straight goods, alistic appetite connected with THE ADRIONDACK MOSQUITO, up the nest of a guinea hen that seemed | ynknown to the Jersey kind, or the every and never went out on a strike. Buck- man gave it to him, he got 1t from Flyun, Postlethwaite gave it to him, Buckman He can eat earlier, | gave it to Postlethwaite, and Jim Hill so I got it straight, and it Jut don’t you gi it away to Myers, 'canse he don’t want to know “anything from Jim Hill unless Mike Doran spits on it. “Once on a time(this is no darned fairy in the fall of Anna Damminme the Hon. James J. Hill wrote ionate epistl ng, says he: 2 15456, enator I[nde- aphville, Minn: My nator—Noticing as Low you have de- feated that son-of-a-gun what tried to beat you for ofieo in whieh you are goin to be o big gun, I tuke great pleasure in handing 18 | time,) in Your obedi- i, ass Agent, @ 1 van 15t jumped up and iis fourteen-story and got up connection, Then he come down onte the ground floor again and sets dowd and writes, Says he: SSERAPHYILLE, Nov, 81, 186,—James J; Hill, Esq: Dear Sir—Your letter and beex check are to hand. 1 snall refer the mattes to my constituents, Respectfully, SENATOR L M. Syirr? “Then he went out into his store roonty where ho runs a farmers' alliance with the grangers and their wives in the da; time,and a theological seminary with the viilage kids at night. And he showed everybody in the aliianee (which was in session at that time of day) Hill's love letter and his reply, and said he won« dered if Hill thonght he could buy himy And then he went out and hitched up his danged old buckboard, and drove out'to Danctown to see his constituents. And, he got alot of ‘em out to the school house and got 'em to eleet a president and sceretary, and then he procecded to spond, Says he: fies and Gentlemen: This {s the most 1t was sai of George Washington that corruption fle at his approach. But what's a man going to do when the durned thing does all the ap= proachin-? 1 come before you to-night, I thank God, asenator in the lu;f!slnlun- of the great state of Minneso-tah ! came bes fore you [pause] conscious_of the rectitudd ur good intentions. When you elected E or for tlie great state of Minnesotal you elected me because you thought you ought to: because you thought, w thought of t' e vine-clad hills of WAy, that this great state needed a David to save t from this big DPhilistine of monopoly. [Applause| ~ Becauso you thought, when you thought of the boundless horizon of the west, that perhaps Smith could do the busi« hess for you. | (lmmense “applause] Te- cause you thought when you thought of the —when you thought of the thoucht you thought—ahem—when you thought, you' know, 1t you ever thouzht ofbut away | with the thought—you knew that Smith was the man to buck the tiger [lmmense excites ment]—to—ah [—to beard the lion, as it were, in bis den. kney that you had & Danieb come to judge you, You kuew that whether the jug or not crushed you under the bloody iron wheels — of “destiny, that would flee from the wrath to come and spread oil across the waters, I hold iands an epistle from the vope of St. ense agitation,) He ofters to y ME! Yoursenator in the great state of Minnesota! Shall 1 accept a bribe? |Cries ot “No! No!!”| Then IsayNo!a thousaud times, Nol!! Iisscorpion breatht utilizes your wheat fields, harvestates your f""" and cereals, and demonstrate: horses and cattle. |Shuddering groan figures up_your bank account [wild excites ment], and takes off and puts on what kind of figures he wants. Is It wrong to take out of him all we can get? Aln't it ours? Ain’t we just Kellln%blck our own? 1 leave it to your voice. Shall 1keep the pass or not? Mingled cries of "Kcer it” and No.” Now, gentlemen, I leave [t all to you. If yor say keep it, keep it she is. 1f you say return it,” back she goes. But 1pay 8800 a year lrelxm on groceries and dry goods over ‘this road. This will make my expenses light. Light expenses make cheap goods. Cheap goods, rich farmers, big houses, big barns, big herds. It ia all in your hands, gentlemen, Snall I keep the pass? that 18 the question. Those in favor of the pass rise and be counted, Seventeen. I belleve every one ot ou gentlemen supported Swith for senators hose opposed, same sign. Gentlemen, the motion is carried. This convinces me how soon the Scandivavian becomes a ginooin fi::“;rlllc;n' ‘The convention is nuljouruua dle. ‘‘And 1 the mnrfil'inr hours of the night he mounted his Pagassus, and blessed his starry top-lights for being senator for so intellectual a constituency. And he swept the hemisphere with the hyenas of monopoly. And he went out and made some soundings, and heaved ur Atlantis, and in due time towed the old wreck into St. Paul, as an evidence of what too much waterin’ will do. _“And then there was a long distance of silence batween himself and the hyenas, and the hyenas sort o’ cleaned him outat it. But the senator bucked them, or, rather, bearded the lion in his den. And he went home from the halls of legisla- tion with his officious trust executed, with a bustin’ breast, and a climbin sior” round his hat, and got fi brass band to toot him into the bosom of a proud and neglected, but happy family, the big gun of Seraphville, ull some other fi"" goes off, 'cause its the powder what oes the work. And after he had been ta aomu awhile, he gets this kind of a epis- e 1 momentous moment of my life PAur, March 14, 1887.—Dy Dear Sen= ator: My heart is broke. Slmfla misfortunes nevercome alone. Lust November 1 sent youa piece of our best four-ply pasteboard. It was or & Christmas gift. But the halls of legis- Iatlon fs against us. I guess mebby you had better send back the pass. I understand the masses is opposed®to your keeping it. Your grief stricken servant, JAMES J. H1LL, ‘P. 8. Rates Isriz lutely on short hauls, Olson is onto the commission, and the com- nussioners are onto me, Got no specials, but havo filed your letter. JoJ L ‘| Dictated. J’ *‘For two days Smith was wild with suppressed patriotism. Then he had his bran new female type-writer to write this here thing: “SERAPHVILLE, March 15, 1887—James J, Hill, Esq.—Sir: Your letter Is_to hand, Things is come to & rreuv pass. If I were to pass this thing by in silence my posterit; would rise In their graves and shake thelr bony fingers at me. Sir, I consider your at- tempt to throw the odor of this conliscation onto other pecple as a public outraze. Them asses at Danetown and Seraphville long ago ratified my conduct in accepting this pass, and 1 owe nothing to any one else, {"onr ronduct, sir, Is apprehensible. But 1 shall leave you to the torturing of your own con- science, and to be judeed in the great here- after by perhaps a greater judge than me. Respectfully, ‘SENATOR INDEPENDENT M. SaiTi.’ “And some way or other the masses at Danetown and Seraphville heard that he had called them a lot of asses, and they burnt him in eftigy, and accused him of iofina over to the monster monopoly. nd he's all gone to_pieces because hig neighbors call him Deacon Perhaps, and because that type-writer spaced his words wrong. No, sir, patriotism isno good; at any rate notsince the inter-state com- merce law come in." nd Atwood chews his cud seriously, to think how slender a thread fate works with, and how foolish men are to cut oft their own occupation —_—— ‘Where the Dead are Baried. The Japenese deck with flowers their “eternal mansion;’’ and the Turks per- forate the monumental slabs spread on those who shall see no more, in order that a uatural bloom shall spring up through the aperture buds 80 nourished by th the winds of h fragrance and st w their pe around the Moslem’s ty of silence,”” The western traveler gazes with deep sympa- thy upon the graves of the Chinese; it is a simple, conical mound of carth, but over it spread and twine wild and (-;,rer it with a mass of 3 b : jesty with a tall plant of It is pleasing to note, aking of this subject by contrast, that in our Anierican cl where formal cemeteries with unneces: § y large and meaning! monuments were the rule, there is devcloping a strong desire to bury their dead where woods unfold their ive foliage and breathe un air of heaven, and that theie better taste has made the green grove and velvet lawn, with 1 flow- LIS, SWor s heavenly censers breathing, more 1 to the meory of those who are gone to the reslms of peace,t any devices of human hands.—West Cheste (Pa,) Republican. —-— uossin, of Chicago, hus written the Lord’s prayer within a round space no longer thun the end of o common lead penecil. When it s con- Professor Y. sidered that the prayer consists of 256 letters, ten of which are capita and fif- teen marks of puntuation, the act of the Viennese professor in writing forty-two French words (of un-named lengt's upon agrain of wheat is somewhat thrown into the shade, The writing was done nt the aid of o glass, and casily ol with the naked eye,