The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-20 00:00:00

THE TERROR IN RUSSIA.

Irbit, the 'anions market town in the province of Perm,
einit of the Ural, the destruction of which by tire has
been announced, Ls the centre of West Siberian commerce.
The goods Isrught and sold at its great annual fair in March
are estimated at about 50,1'10,1k/ roubles. Like iirenburg,
the other Ural town recently burned down. Irlrit was one
of the places to which political offenders were relegated.
The damage done by these unfortunate incidents is
inimenae. " All the vast provinces situated east of
Orenburg." mays the St. Petersburg Garr.. " looked to
rimnburg for light, civilisation, and culture. All
Wedern Siberia, it may be added, looked to Irbil for
money anal sustenance.

THE ELECTRIC LICHT.
The American pipers received by the lad mail slate
that Mr. Edison is dill engaged in his experiments with
reference to the electric light, and hopes yet to overcome all
difficultim and to make the light mutable for general uve.
In a recent interview with an AmerLun reporter. Mr.
Edison, pointing to a number of carbon or voltaic arc
lamps of Wallace's pattern, which hung near the ceiling
said.-- Ins short time I am going to light them lamps,
by the Wallace machine, Ly the Gramme machine. and
by my machine. and an, body can 041100 here, watch the
- and draw concluvious al to the relative econow

of each generator. " Why do yoo intend empiloy the
carbon lamps for purpose of illumination instead of your
incandescent lamps, naked the reporter. " Because
everybody knows what the carbon Innip is, and, besides,
because it. not toy lamp. " How many carbon lamps
can you light with one machine r "I do not know. That
is to be one of the tests lain going to pet a. many
lights in • circuit aa each machine will stand, and then
we will see how my machine will come out." Being
questioned as to the subdivision of the electric light, the
inventor said, "The question is very simple. If you take
a lamp in which the voltaic arc is produced from two
carbon pencils, the MOM current you put on the faster
the pencils are C 00.0110.1. awl the resistance offered is
lessened. There necessarily results • great waste of power.
If thelasup is limited to ri-candle light, it costa too istuch.
Ily my plan the resistance is alinost entirely at the lamp.
The madam's of the conductor is tsi the resistance of the
lamp as Ito lOU. The resistance of my lamp is as 192
against Ito the resistantro of the oirlion lamp. You may
consider the question ino.t intelligently by taking • gas
burner. as an example. If you haves half-inch easi-pipe,
and light the escaping gas without putting on • burner,
how much gas-light ran you get (roman adjoining burner I
Very little. Rut if you put in the half-inch pipe a burner,
with a pin hole in it. riu get • light without interfering
with other burners. The .une indition obtains in electric
lighting. The carbon lamp represents the half-inch gas
piles: the pm-bole burner represents my letup." "blot is
not the electric current exhausted, not with regard to the
rsietintt agcnt, but is-wording to the square of the distance
travelled r "s.'. If you are supplying a mile of wire
and then add another mile, the current will be weakened
equally throughout the whole line, but not to that extent.
If you keep on extending your line you wiU have to
make your conductor thick awl add more power."
" How In you props.; to carry this theory into effect r
"I shall have, proceeding from the central station, where
& dMIOII engine and a series of dynamo-machines are placed,
• cable, say alsiut 30 inch in diameter, compoeal of copper
wires, each shout one sixteenth of an inch in diameter.
The cable will he laid in • trench i 1111 l teliately under the
flagging of the side walk, and near the curb; every rift.
• wire w 11 be dropped to carry the current into a house,
and when the terminus of the ride is reached there will
be one wire left. Of course it will be neceisary to con-
stroct the cable Reveling to the mantra: of houses in
sach district. As • district increaws in population, the
flira,,:elig can he taken up, and a section of cable can be
pi
als,crside the original cable, and joined to It at
each end. Thns the new houses ran he supplied." "Will
there not be • lose of electricity by induction or the
influence of the wilt:" " one whatever. And now I
will tell you another thing. It is pi rfectly cane for me to
get a light equal to Oncandlea
.from each of my lamp.'
Init I limit them to nx." Will not the construction of
our station and your eibles lie very costly r No • and
If it- "s would warrant the. outlay."

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sight before t—Witars sald tres,-bet when she got emu , . were, the Profit, ----- ---•--.
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she found a pane broken sod use of the windows partly According_to the American Pilfer. received at Cori'
ellsesi Tumidity, Hr. Edison has perfecto I his dynamo electric
Jane His:lock, 13 years old, said 'ha ws4 awoke by the machine, and wilt that, be says, he has solved the
smashing of glass, sad then heard the door Imgween the problem of the economical yr ncration of electricity
kitchen and the pwatry crack, she nest hoard &mamas atrl the sub-division of the liglat. The machine was
lighting a match aerials her bedroom door, which rai Mired on the evening of May 23. L Wires were
war. It was pushed open sea prisoner came into the •Ounevied With aye "f wailze*, voluae latelm.
room. She est spin bed and ecroemed, and he oat down aim tko moment steam power WU applied the lamp. were
Is the chair beside her. She screamed again. and he said lit. no machine did not become hot, but it gave off a
"Dent be frightened : it's only your brother just come i few Muhl., Ths lamps eve a steady light, although
from Me, sod if you don't make a noise ru stay with you , cerrenta Mew were Pot eicluded, and the five lamps were
and not hurt you." She knew whim:ter, an d said "No ' lit with one machine wilt, one-half of one•horse power
you wou't. Tom Martin." He tried to pull We bedclothes for each lamp. Too el perherm, olthotath imperfectly
off bar, but could not succeed. sad Miss Bartlett thep , mote, was entirely ir tisfactory, and thou that &m.0..s
came in. She ocreamed and prisoner throatbened to shoot Ifssisratax "mild allow of nal° Lama. in • mat. or '"add
her, and seized her by We thrust. Witness ran ,ii we and aleteltii spore ilrealm'ele'etrl.c power per h"sse Power Wage
went into William Brown's Were just as she ww, £slher anY Inealme)lit fvetsTri", taft .11° a:is...salsas" of Ifkliiion't
night‘uWn. machine. so rar ail they 1.• ye DMA oesaion.tratoil. consist
watt. Brown. who it,. four or floe dour, from mi. 1 ju 0kU.5i1214,4 a great ariount i 4 eh:CtriCity with the deVelop-
Bartlett, said he knew the prisoner well. He was aroused Moot 91 little ii.t. The transmitter yower Pi, therefore,
ion the night in question by Hiscoek. and went out at almost orelY converted futo electricity. llogoe reeUlta
once. He saw prisons:outside, ant said be beard he had are obtained by getting a larger magnetic field a. 4
L„,,,,, to mita ttunteto, hosts., but he mude uu reply. Wit. employmg a cope to IDLOr.hoa of winding the bobbin with
teem went to Niro Bartlett's, and, having ascertained the the Insfi filed win. Bit loin will now have 30 of these
loli t:v. went after prisoner and charged Min, and he said machinessfvularaded for tim formation of his model
i ' What tip. -- is it to you ha if I ver station which will prolahly le at Buum perk. It is
I By Kr. Clerk' Had huoum miaow, from boyhood but estimaiod Her be can get at least 100 lights by means of as
i had not noticed anything strange abut him. He did not eishtflona Pawas steam engine and 30 of his dynamo-
s king eketric machines. He will now devote his time to produc,
1 lioemeistable Richard Pointer. stationed at Fontmell 114 • tamp which will be without flaw.
Magna, said that about midnight on the 2nd of March he
was aent for, and found Mos fitertlctt in the front kitchen
. very mach excited. There were 'Wlo of violence on her Tag Nte.lical Profession are now orderinz Cadbury's
bead
brok.a.ad throat The front kitchea eilgilow had been f7ocos irsence in thousands of cam., bccause it
con-
knocked a sge le.be
wtbe outride, and the fforll jrito were !gins more nutritious and tleab.forming elements than
dawn. noses found a pocket =ire ogi, the ,ue
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i Lordship'biatittrod
What's the me al the mildews about the extra Mat to the Qom. Pads Depot;
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