Litchfield enquirer., 1854-05-18
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 We publish below a standardization ;, from the ". r. Daily T;mes, and belisvs we are rendering our readers . service in recommending it to their attention: :
 The Dumerous calamiiies by liRhin;ng that have already occurred % early ia iie5 Spring. vividly remind us that these ere bot the forerunners Of thousands 0f,essifie g scenes -abOvl tO oyerspTesd ttie eouMifyss during the coming season, .
 ln the summer of 1851, made record of the newspaper repOris of dealhs by thunder storms in our country, and they amounted 10 upwards Of sixty. Probably l saw but half the reel number, and thas every year in the United States hundred lives are lost in this way. This being as- sumed as the annual calamity, ! trust that the scenes recently witnessed and ,he. be- ; ginning of a new season Of electric sierl.s, are sufficient apoiogy for calling aiten- tion tO lightning rods and iheir mast apL proved construction. Afier several yeers of attention to the subject tie best ihat | have seen are made afier q seniIe asecens invention, called 'O,is' pa.eat." They are very decidedly superior 10 all others, and afford the following characserissics | and advaniaQes: .s44 . They envelope the building completes ly and securely running aI0sg ail .thes prominent corners and. angles Of the edi-.
 flee. While their iornats varied l0suss the pecnliarities ef every budding, it may be stated that in general they rise, on ane or more poiais, above the ed,fice, sun along the roof edge, 10 the ends of the guiters, and descend ihe lour carnefs of the house deeply inio the ground. As they are Orni,nentai n iheir lorms, nO OhiectiOn can be urged against them Onihe scDre Or appearance and taste. .
 2. They are armed with handsome 1il- ded points projecting ouiwards two or ,hree inches at intervening daiances of eight or len feet. Al ,he cnrners oI the house sbove. and ai special prominent an. GIes, these thin. ia2erng, gilGeG points are 20 or 25 inches in length. The gil. ding is put OD, not in the common way, bnt in such . thick, sm00ih, and sUbstan> ,iai manner as nut iO iarnish for many years.
 8. The glass isolators, by which they are held nf from the building, are sHperi0r1o my known form Of isolaiOrs. They ara not rD the interiors of iron rinea, in the ore dinary way, but they are s0ild balls nt glass of proper length, fastened io lie, ho,Ise at one end and a0 the rcd al the other, in | very admirable manner. An inspection of the object is necessary to obtain the 1 idea : a verbal descripiiOn cannot give the po,ion clearly. The office performed by these glass isulators, in case 0f . lightning stroke, has been illuetrated by avast num- ber of well known facts, where the light. ming hes descended along iac rods paF, ef the way down, aud then entered the bail. dings along the staples by which they are attached. Lives have been l0st in this manner; an insisnce of ihis happened less Summer near Ph;adelpl,ia. !, may be oh jecied that lf solaiOrs ee used, tue lighis nlng cannst come from the buildings ;O tLe rOds ; but iD answer iO this objection 1t may be observed, that with OTls' pat. cni the lightning canaai get to the build> ing. hence there need De no provision for iis coming off. Upward sirOkes from ihe earth are iO0 unireQuent iO he taken iniO account in such connection. Previsi0a must be msde agsinsi ihesn in way { l suggested last season, when noticing tiJe. upward stroke in Mr. ARMsTRnSa's house near ihis city. fsa @
 4aAhhOugh the edi6ce is enveloped mere completely by OTas' psiea, thsn, in the, ordinary wsy. s:iil the qasatity Of ,ron is n", very greatly increased. Tue condas- tors are square, and therefore sdprd mere surface than II round, with the ssme weight 0f metal; and ghey are more sles- der than ordinary. which they csn well afford to be- en sccoeni of their greater numher. .s.. As architectural sasie is now | prom- inent feature in nearly sll buiJdinss, this new arrangement is specis trecOmmen |. daiion. u adds decidedly t0 the beauty, ot building, aud thus sesses ihS double purpose of protection and decoration. 4 believe the Lyon Company, ihsi ewns the O,is patent. is lucsied somewhere in your Broadway. J. ENNIS. NE~AsK. May 2. fss4. ' eiss..'~ 5i'- e' FJ. w. Cows of Norfolk is agsse for the sale and pusliag upsf these rods in Norfolk and Canaaa. Thsssr are alss. agents in several other towns in ashs Couneys xssf . agk5s