Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1887, Page 14

| NATURE'S MAJESTIC WONDER The Progress of Electricity A Large Bolt. SOME RECENT DEVICES OF MAN. A Novel Lock - An Invention to Protect Mes— A Monster Magnet—Elecs tric Welding -A Novel Gong = Electric Brevities, Progress of Electricity. rical Review: Fleetrical pro- gress has been almost in keeping with the inconceivable speed of electricity. But a few yenrs back, within the mem- ory of all our readers, what a paltry cor- ner of uscfulness was oceupied by trical invention. A few improvements in batteries and the then wonderful de- velopment of the electric telegraph in its various modifications comprised about the whole pvisible in the field. At the centennial in 1876, only eleven years ago, som: feeble attempt was made to show that ¢lectrie light could be pro- Auced from o dynamo. which was spoken of as a *“very interesting exhibit;™ Prof. Bell's first or telephone attracted thousands of curiosity seekers, and the verdict was ' beautiful conception, but a mere scientific toy,™ Prof. Gr x- hibited various forms of what has since become one of the mighty arms of multi- aphy. hut most people looked at the models as the “inwards of & church orgun,” and passed them with indifference. To-day, only eleven later, the are lights of the United s are fast appronching 200,00, while the inc; descents have Jong since passed million mark., 1t would be butaone- horse telegraph comp: that didn’t use the duplex and qua almost ex ively: the harmonic’s dainty song is heard everywhere, elec tro-plating has got to be an_ indisper ble adjunct to a great vody of indus- tries; the telephone has bhecome the business man’s fidus achates: a solid !»hu]m of ecleetric motors arve slowly but. surely pushing -the small steam plants into the scrap pile, with th moral support of thousands of domestic motors. sons of the sume sire: and the F knell of the poor street ear horse has been tolled. Wi surrounded with a myrind of such as alarms, lighte to o vl very wing. Alveady clec- en astroag position vie welding cetro-smithing Usoon take i nd file of labor e batte mine-exploders, impossible logue heis. sturdy infant commer more ger come to sta, in the ranlk vendions: st giving up 1h nd becoming amenable to scientific law have a vast field of usefulne: them. The review hecol ing and the mazes of pos 3 exhaustible. Where will it end where, in our lives. As the years swell le.cand the decs round into it will be found that the tru Nood-gates of improvements w by the discoveries and practic cations of elect in the decade now completed, and the onward and ever widening torrent will end only at the erack of doom., ng in- gradually d i of Blectricity. 1+ Nothing in the ntion ex- The Uses o Baltimore Ami history of enterprise and in cels the prog of electrici dustrial agent. Its development has been simply marvelous, It was as far back as 1727 that F n flew his kite and drew a scientific seeret from the elouds, but for over one hundred years plans for telegraphie communication were attempted without flattering re- sults, until Morse solved the problem and built the first line between Balti- more and Washington. Since that time, t o half century ago, the lines multiplied until now they aggre- gFate the enormous leugth “of over 300,000 miles, or more than enough to good old earth twenty-four s around, and the miesof wires ch a total of over 0.000, or snough for five distinet wires to and from the earth and to the moon. In this country alone nearly messages are sent and vear. And, as for cables, thousands and thousands of miles of miles of them, and their eapital stock amounts to over 105,000,000, As for telephones, we all know how they have multiplicd. In about five yenrs they have e until they now represent a capital his countr of nearly 860,000,000, and this year there wili be nearly 400,000,000 hellos over the wires in the United States, Think of it. Four hundred million tintinnabulations of the bell, followed ench time by a sweet and mellow voice asking, *What number, please?” In electric lighting there has been similae Govelopment. One hundred and twenty-five million dollars are in- vested in ity and about seven huudred loeal companies are engaged in sup ing Electric railways are growing rapidly into favor, and already they carry 1,000,000 passenge conr in this country, and their cost cost of the horse ca We write by clectricity, we hear hy y ty, we travel by electrici ention goes mu furthe get us to thinking of e Boit, + accompanied id lightning, visited Woestmins- Md., on Novembher 15 fell, and the unusy b ¢ ofan electrie bolt, in size and ap- pearance like a bull of fire as large as ehild’s head was witnessed by a pumber sible serious to a number of persons. ro was reported. tele- phones were b t and a nenr town was st storm - was of short duration, but viclent, and ex- tended over only o portion of Currvoll county, d: A ve erecied rd more s for thi sessary to provide me: exclusion of objectionable their hallways. i order o ¢ this, provisions must be the oceupants of cuch trol of the door. An ¢ al lock is most convegient attachment to the dog for this purpose, and with a push-hotton in every compirtment each ¢ can control the entrance of any New Device For New York S protecting the e has been by Gene Averel and will be « on Spring and Green streets, Spring street has alvoady been opened dway to G for the pur- A hoxing of hardened wood has aid in the trench, und eighteen Qi-inch iron tubes will be conveyed through it to curry the cubles, ecting Cables, A new device for of the in ‘box will then be tilled in with Trintdad [ last, and the erest and monogram ave only alittle, Welding by eleetr at no distant dy all the different metals may be welded composed of copper, silve operation is like taking two pic sealing wax, softening the end of to the fact that th takes the path whi ance 1o its pussage. out into a series, cums tions, ata d asphalt melted up with The mixture will be poueed in hot and cen the pipes, entirely separating them and makinfl a solid stone-like mass, General Averell thinks it will withstand age. moisture and cor- rosion better than any of the prepara- tions tried in different parts of the city. Most of the work throughout the city «imilar in method to this new device, but substitutes cement for asphaltic con- crete, A Monster Magnet. A epecial dispatch from Bridgeport, Conn., reads: One of our leading army engineers, Major King, at Willetts Point.has brought before the engineers’ clusses of late an experiment of a start- ling ' nature. Wonderful results are promised. Tt is n monster magnet made of two Rodman guns, which are connected at the breech, Around them wound about twenty miles of subma- rine cable. The cable is some that has been used in the torpedo service, It is wound and fastened in a substantial manner, making a powerful electro- magnet when electricity is applied,that shows strange rvesults. For instan a bar of railroad iron thirty feet long, if placed in the open cannon's mouth, eannot be drawn out by all the many men that can grasp it. Another instance of the strength of this big magnet was illustrated Satarday with a 850-pound cunnon bull, The shot was ! 1l in the mouth of one of the can- nous the negative side of the magnot, On reversing the electric current it fell from its position, but was attracted to the opposite cannon and clung to its . The positive current was then d alternately with the negativ and the heavy cannon ball played be- twe the two cannons like a tack be- tween the poles of a toy magnet, Be- fore many days there will be a publ exhibition of this remarkably attract- ive magnet. led by Electricity. New York Commercial Advertiser: Mr. John J. Moore, well known through his connection with electrie lighting in this city, displuyed at the St. Jumes hotel hdsome m and of Napoleon on the de. Theknife belonged toan Eng- lish naval officer whose father had re- ceived it from Napoleon during his > at St. Helena, and as a souvenir od very highly in the offi- nily. By some aceident one of es was broken, and it could not led together in the ordinary hout destroying the monogram i sent to the elect Mass.. 10 be wicld ¢, if possible. The weld- accomplished, and so perfeetly that only the faintest scar across the face of the blade is now discernable, wred ¥ ly to be of great practical benefit [t is claimed that is lik by this process, and that half-inch bars ction steel, tin, cast iron, id - other metal hav y welded. Th have been perf and sticking them together. Lightning Flashes. Svery one is familiar with the fact that lghtning does not spring direct from cloud to loud or to the earth, but pursues a zigzag cour: This is due ir is not equally Electricity always hooffers least resist- humid throughout, Damp air is & mueh better conducting medium than dry air; consequently the lightning seclects the damp air route, avoiding the drier strata and zones it encounters, and advanc now directly, now obliquely—until it reaches the op- posite cloud, wheve it'subdivides into a number of forks. Owing to the resistence which it en- s in its path, intense heat is gen- ted, which causes the air to expand. Immediately after the flash the air again contracts with great violence and h aleud report, which is echoed and e-cchod among the clouds. The report reaches the ear of the lis- tener from varying distances is drawn nd, being still further prolonged by the echoes, the roll of thunder is produced. Is is o curious fact that. althoueh the sound of thundér is exceedingly loud when heard near at hand, the are which it is audibie is comparatively ¢ ribed. ‘Ihe noise of a cannonade will be heard under favorable condi- tance of nearly one hun- dred miles, while the sound of thunder does not travel over fifteen miles. The occurrence of the thunder and of the lightning is, of course, simultanc- ous; but us light travels faster than sound the flash may be several sec- onds before the thunder is heard. The distance of thunder may thus bo approx- imately estimated, and'interval of five seconds between the flash and the thun- derclap being allowed for each mile. Sheet lightning has the appearanc of a sheet of flame momentar:ly illumi- nating part of the sky ov cloud” surface. Ttis, in reality, but” the reflection of lightuing Nashing beyond the horizon or hehind the clovds, and at too great a distance for the thunder to be audible. But the most remarkable of all the manifestations of electr is globular lightning. in appearance like a ball of fire moving leisurely along and remain- ing ble, it mauy be, several minutes. Three Divisions of Electricity. 3 years ago the telegraph held in its employes a mo- nopoly of the prac 1 electrieal work Ail of the wires and belonged to the telegraph, nd there a small amount of appuaratus which formed ignificant partof the whole. The telephone mude its appearance for commereial purposes about that e Ao athisminTaal beginning, no: als, if it does not ¢ d the simount pital invested, mileage i and importance to the commu telephione service was organi fow graph men greater number of from the outside. Following the telephone came the electrie light, and in the short space of four or five yenrs it can boust of a sue- cess that is simply astounding, vory city, town and village of any impor- >, und miiny of mighty littie impor- have found its bhenefits, and that sservies isa fix mmer- 1 world iz beyor ques- over with a s ranks, but the s employes came raph and the telephone each its quotaof men to form the us to what is now such v vast ser- in the ease of the telephone najority of the men who allied themselves o the new industry, member dynumo room. 1 that at the end of ten y uctical application of electricity 1s splitinto three great divisions, each entively independent of the other: thus i alient points of which ped in its entivety by the 1, has broadened out and about it so many new and features, that o’ man must id himself out pretty thin indeed, o coverthe whole field. . The result is that the eloct cobbler sticks to the and the mewbers of the three wonderful great branches of the work—each ab. sorbed in its own alloted part—know only id a casual way whatthe others are doing or what they are doing it with, A New Electric Gong. Boston Transeriy The Star electro- mechanienl gong recently offered to the public by & Boston company is so sue- cessful un attempt to simplify the com- plicated apparatus hitherto used, that no futher improvements are expected. The release is operated as in other gongs by an electro-magnet., The ham- mer falls by gravity into position for blow. An attachment on the release holds the hammer up in place if the re- lease is still attracted by the electro- magnet. 1t is theretore impossible to give more than one stroke by pressing the key once, as a blow is struck as the current ceases, and the armature of the release falls away from the electro-mag- net. The hammer in falling into posi- tion for the blow releases a stop-lever and sets in motion the operating me- chanism, consisting of a spring geared to a five-pointed star. One point of the star forces the hammer to strike a blow. As the hammer rises it forces the stop- v back into position to prevent fur- ther motion of the star: 250 blows may be struck with one winding of the spring. The goug is of extreme sim- plicity, and containg no sp of the working mechanisms, nets may be wound to any de ance for any cireuit in combination other apparatus, and require very little battery power. ‘The construction is strong and substantial, 8, 10 and 12 sizes of gong are made at present. Larger sizes will by supplied as demanded. This is the only gong that can be used on locomotives without false alarms from jarring. Electric Brevities. Some of the great cities are placing their telegraph and elec wires un- der ground, but that method. has not bheen thoroughly tested. is very expen- and has other objections, The collector of customs at stport, ently submitted an unusual tion to the treasury department. He wanted to_know whethor dut, to be assessed upon electricity w the wires from Canada to Fairchild has replied that is an invisible, subtle agent without any substance as a merchantile commodity. and is not pre- pured for in the tariff liable to duty. An_international exhibition will be in the Champ-E s, Paris, from November to the 81st December, proximo, in which all systems and in- ventions relating to giving the alarm and warning of fire. methods of arrest- ing its spread, and of overcoming its dangers, will be exhibited. The first electric railrond in this country dates back only to 1885 . One built at Montgomery. Ala., in that year has cleven miles of track and about twenty cars. It isoperated by the ov head System, and is doing @ good bus ness. The twenty-first annual meeti the T Mutual Benetit / ciation will be held on Novembe 4 p. m., at the Western Union building. Broad . New York. The street lights used by the city ston save the taxpayers at e £300,000 in divect out and are the hest thing that the police can have in the prevention of robbery and violence. The Russian minister of ways of com- munication has appointed a special commission to select the best system of electric lighting for railway carringes. The Western Union Telegraph com- pany has filed a certificate in the county gt s office, Albany, N. Y., of the in- crease in its capital stock by 5,000,000, making the total capital” stock $86,- 200,000, The topic of government control of the telegraphs continues a leading one with the newspaper press, with o gen- eral demand for the change. Among the novelties exhibited at the American institute electrical exhibition in New York, is the electro medical ap- paratus of the Stanley Faradic Battery compuny. Among the apparatus we find a very compact arrangement for applying electricity to the body for med- ical purposes. It combines baitery, coil and electrode. t electric light recently placed SWUR e Riracted & vast pectators, the majority of before suw an electrie throng of whom neve light burning. A special telephone investigating committee has reported to the board of trade of St. Paul that, while telephone 'ates ought to be reduced, the telephone company would not reduce them volun- tarily, It recommended, therefore,that means be employed to have the next legislature pass~ a bill establishing equitable telophone rates. The grand jury at Rochester, N. Y., has indicted the Bell Telephone com- f Buffalo for maintaining a pub- nuisance on the streets in the shape of its poles and wires. The inhabitants of Rochester have now submitted to the company & new tariff, which the consider just, and under which the will be ready to use the telephone ser- vice ugain, A furmer near Albany, whose vine- yard had suffered at ‘the hands of thieves, arvanged a system of wires among the vines, connected the wires with o powerful battery, and gave the grape stenlers shocks that proved en- tively satisfactory to himself and salu- v to the thieves., The Edison Phonograph Toy Man- facturing company, of Portland, Me., has been incorporated with a capital stock of #600,000, to make toys, such as dolls, with phonographic attachments, The government of New South Wales has for some time past utilized the tele- phone as & means of communication be- tween the out-lying distriets. The effects of the recent Baltimore & Ohio telegraph deal ave beginning to be felt by the e mployes, and it is said that all but about a dozen of the main office operators have received notice that theiv services will not be required after Docember 1st, The Woods Electrie company, 6f Cin- i claims to have received a favor- ion from the ent ofice on able dec train telegraph devices invented by My, Granville T, Woods. “Franklin,” said the professor, who was about to introduce Professor Morse to the alumni of a western college, v drew the lightning from the ontrolled its power to eftto Professor Mo emen, to puzzled to know actly what he should SIt was left to Professor Morse duce it to u horizonta trie jotives are at- tracting great atieution in England, Six of them have been running on a short line 1d fuvorable comments are being m Seventecu milcs per hour is the spe that is being reached on elec ronds in Brussels by the Julien syst That system is also used on the Pull- man in Canada, Electrical machinery is being in- creased in capaeity. 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ONE WHO KNEW HUMAN NATURE For the Superstitious—Willing to Ob- lige—Laura Yawned Too—The Family Man's Woe—It His Dream. i dreamed I sat in my chamber And watehed the dancing light Of theblaze of my hearthstone And the red brands growing bright. 1 listened to the rustle Of the flames that rose and fell* And I dreamed I heard a whisper, A voice I knew full well The room no more was lonely, A presence stern was there; AndI knew my wife had heard me As 1 sncaked up the stair. Her angry voice she lifted, Her hard hand smote me sore, Alas! how my poor head does ache; I'll go to the lodge no more. He Knew Human Nature. He had called at a house on ('ass ave- nue on business, says the De Free Press, und as he rose to go he said: “1 believe you were up the luke this fall?” “Yes. “Go fishing any?” 3 “Cateh anything? “One littlé perch.” “Ha! ha! hal That's about as I ex- pected. Well, good night.” ‘When the caller had gone the wife indignantly said: “Richard,how could you sit there and in that bold way!" You know we caught over twenty fish weighing five pounds apice, and that big pickerel weighed eleven pounds.” My dear wife,” he soothingly re- ,)liml. fyou don’t kmow human nature. That man is now" willing to take my word for $1,000. If Thad told him of those fish he would have gone away he- 1 ng me to be th@ biggest linr in De- troit.” [ | —4— Not the artest Folks. You may notch it on de pailin’s You may mark it on de wall, Dat de higher ugr® toad frog jumps De harder he will fall. Aund de crow dat flies the swiftes' Am de soones’ in de corn, And the fly dat de meanes’ Gets up earlie l?n de morn, De brook dat am de shallo’es’ Chatters most upon de way, And de folks dat am de sillies’ Ar de ones hab mos’ ter say. And d ter dat am younges' Am de one dat crows de mos’ And an who am de coward Always makes de bigges' be Aud he am not the greates' w Who totes de bigies' muscle; Nor am she de fines' gal Who war de bigges bustle, You kin jedge 3y de And dey a Who do de loudes’ talkin’, For the Superstitious Only. is unlucky to leave a house on 1y without paying the rent—for landlord. er begin work on a Friday, es- ally if your father provides you a sufficient income. It is uniucky to be discharged from a good situation on Friday. "Fo pass & churn and not give o help- ing nervously about him, to be sure he on, cautiously cout a lump of coul ing hand is unlucky—to the person who is churning. Never pay bil is on the first Monday o the year,or at any other i drew from under h the size of a ciga *What will you advance on that?” he It is lucky to breakfast by candle light on Christmas morning, provided there is plenty to eat. f the palm of the hand itchesitisa sign of cutaneous irritation. It is bad luck to call a man a liar on Wednesday, especially if the callee be bigger than the caller. To knock over the salt-celler at the dinner table 18 a sign_of awkwardness. 1f a man with gray hair falls in iove with a young girl he will dye. name on an holanaatn him (1h nastoihsmiley xclaimed Mike, “‘ain’t Want to sell it? **No, no! I dare not sell it. want to pawn it. vance on it?"” 11, say $10." What will you ad- the best T can do: the risk on its being stolen “Give me the money, man departed. und the poor ear Her Allthe Time. 5 They were sitiing hy mily Man's Woe. You ask me why I am so sad, 1 who was once so gay, And why T look as if I had Unnumbered debts to pay. all. ‘Th 3 tendent. ‘But what are they doing?’ said 1, thinking there must be some mistak w blind b hardly belie might he allowed {0 sce them play. He “Have you e into the philosophy of the Easl? “And do you believe in the transmi- gration of souls?” “1 think I do.” ‘Why I wear such a gloomy face, o ¥ it would you like tobo in such frequent sighs, Asif I felt some decp disgrace, And yearned for some disguise. £3 And heave the next life 4 The flames cast their bright light beautiful red tresses as he re- ‘Why Iso seldom laugh or smile My darling, I should like white horse. Long time she sat and wondered why he made so strange a choice. Until my friends, less volatile, Plead plaintively for rest. Would'st know, then, what the sorrow is That's eating out my soul ! Alus! again the price has riz, And we are out of coal. Inclaents of Life C Shamrock Hill. Divil tack the law. witness in the police koort get the headache in the Ye're n Jucky It's mesilf that always Willing to Oblige. Elderly Member of could only see large obje Lozas Sifnge: trunk of a tree, aman or a gravel walk, Murs. MeGuire. 'y ground or in the ai gits thirty d y young friend " Young Man (bashfully ¥ n seeking Miss Polly Jones, but I can wait until meeting lets out.” in—C'ome in the house this Ann, an’ tack that camp- one th y Ann—Go "long wid from the batte Laura Yawned, Too. goin’ down town I am, an’ the” goat it Chicago Tribune: ? young man, despai growing late, but thi ning I shall ever s no hope for me,Laur this night is a final happiness for m W Monahan-—Waus ye ball losht night, Mrs. O Brien the three,”and gently toss the batter wonld just at the prope swing his bat, and the e —if your answer ? Mrs. Ryan—Wi in this world except in nd deep it yawns Shure, Mrs. Ryan, he didn't bring a dhrap home for two weels, and | had him sint up for thirty for abusin’ his family an’ failin’ to fore me.hut 1 fe 'So do I,George, was most surprising in hizarms on the f perfeetly blind! 11 he failed to stop the wall he would pursue it on his hands 50 do 1,” said Laurg, Mrs. Rattighn—Find me the man wid Linguistio Ludicri a bucket of puint an’ Il murther him, n owned a fine yacht, would stay in one spiachit— Mrs. McCrack from the ne known speed of the ball just how it would roil. His hands would sweep the grounn with great rapidy, and when he had the bull he would juimp on his feet he midsummer gets hacht ! painted **Lo: The weather was so cold and rou, A girl thought she'd purch: And thought sable nic Till they told her the price — Y “T'll not buy,"” said she, “‘any such stough!” ¢ Ler home yersilf, ) A gentleman, aged thirty-cight, Went fishing with minnows for beight; Though with all angleworms He was still on good terms, He declured they had gone out of deight! Mrs. Kelley—Chase loike a good il of yer houschka milk, Mis. Mulligan. hin she gits a y rich man had a cough, y told him he'd be better ough 1f he'd take a tour, th was €0 pour, And flannel he never must dough !t made me shudde came to doing so. T suppose they knew a Horse Car. voughly dressed de hushand, her passengers, ey Washington C A smart woman pur ause she knew sh For painting i flo In less than an hower, And making the clerk buy it bague! \ascd a piaque, good hit, then all hands b went in & he had mad ’ | the huat. The know your wife wanted to damn was thie reply. Didn't Want His er a lovely bouquet, : the new pluet; said, though,} Wife to Know. What do you suppose your wife would say i ou firted with the , Tom, old hoy, ie could throw the flowers auct ! It Comes High in Cincinati, at's just it do, you know. The poor thing has so much to talk about now that she doesn’t have any time for anything else. If she had a new subject I'fear it would break her down completely,” How He Got Ther “Aw, go soak your head,” said Jones to a fellow who was-bothering him for a small loan. **Well, show me a pawnbroker that will put up anything on it and I will.” He got the quarter. e Bl Boys Play Ball. pondence of the American “When T was in Louisville, awhile ago, I visited the institu- tion for the bitnd. While waiking across the 1 dr-rlxho tr i I saw some boys un- ng with a bat and ‘What boys are those?’ are blind boys,” said the superin- he told me that the ly played bali T could e him, and'T begged that £ 1id the bhoys would play after inner for iy special = benefit, I spent the morning in the school and work rooms of the blind boy and I saw o great man things. But [ set out to tell base ball, not the kindergarten, sol will skip the dinne under the t and girls, wonderful bout the and take you out ere the game is to ba or six of the best players and I helieve all but twa » stone blind. he twa like the “They took turns at the bat. and each anxious to make his bases, r way of pitching and eatching was ‘The pitcher stood about six paces , while the catel sl y on the ground, immediately bat. Whenall were ready would count ‘one, tw moment her would hands and feet tostop the ned 1o hear the ball as it ter (and it gencrally ¢ the ground, and it o0 see him eateh it st hound, and yet as o dog and almost keep on its wk, Fither he could hear the ball 1l afong the grass or he eould judggo ure of the surface and the d rush for the home buse, With the exception of the home base all the buses were trunks of lurge shade trees, | idly the boys could run, They just f stonished to see how rap- round, 1 eurth, o six feet of en they would feel up to it. 1they run against a tr o sce how ne though it ar they they were near o the echo of jonally the hatter we the runner rch of the ball. As soon ag his run he would join in lways started off in ection, und did not hunt in Onee the superin- h e 3 Lrac Ia e | tendent helped them find o ball that went come fifty they found it then game was played for my benefit, the well-worn turf gave abuadant proof of 1t | the fondness of he boys for the sport during the: rds. but generally Though this bours of plug.