The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-07

alarms, besides q singular carriage, al
ready seen at work on the Eastern line
and invented by Messrs. Deprez & Ma
poll, for observing the running of trains
and registeri velocity traction, force
of wind, consumption of steam &C..
The basement region will offer also
the surprising and novel results obtained
by the recent labors of n essrs. Cabanel
las, Hospitalier, and Deprez, in the mat
ter Of electric division, transportation
and distribution, department in which
the French school has been successful
So much for the basement, the region
of science and practical utility. The up
per story has been devoted by the chiei
Commission to scientific CuriositieE
and fanciful inventions, for the delects'
tion of the curious but unlechnical OBJ
server. Two telephone auditoriums
will be arranged to connect, one with
the opera ana the other with the Thea
ter FIanCais, richly furnished, and sup
piled with some fifty telephones each,
where the auditor calmly seated in bis
armchair, NAV listen to the sonorous rec
itative OF NJ. Villaret, or the bright dia-
logue of Croizette and Coquelin. In ad
joining rooms the visi or may talk
through the Herr telephone with distant
cities like Lyons, Orleans, Dion, or a
dozen others.
Next will come series of eight rooms,
literal copies of Parisian apartment of
the present day, where everything will
be, so to speak, run by electricity. The
kitchen will be lighted by electric
lamps the range heated by electric cur.
rents passing through water; a half
dozen electric cooks, by means of incan-
descent platinum wiles, will turn out
"eleCtric waffles," and electrically heat
ed metallic plates will serve for brazlers
and Chafng dishes. The dining room
will be fitted out with all the wondrous
new apparatus which already threatens
our peaceful fresides with its novel
blending of science and comfort. The
central sunlight, in place Of chandelier,
can be lighted by the pressure but.
ton or the opening OF dor, The dishes
will be brought upon an an electric
dumb waiter; doCt RS, errand Toys, fire.
men, and servants can be su unmOned by
the familiar New York system of dials
and cale. The only thing left to do
would seem to be to eat by electricity,
and, in view of the wonders accomplish
ed, even that seems not 80 very improb'
able.
The third room-the parlor-will be
furnished with electric chandeliers, man
tel clocks going by electricity and adorn'
ed with electrical groups and figures, tel
ephonic spe 4king tubes, and electric fire.
places. In the billiard room adjoining
an electrical billiard table will enable the
player. if not to make his carroms, at
least to mark them by an electrical indi.
Gator. 1t would be pleasant fancy to
add to these rooms an electric chair for
the extinction of the persistent bore.
You take the idea? Your bore is COM
fortably seated, smoking and talking you
to death. A light touch On knob'CraCk (!
your bore is wrung with internal Convul.
sions and set upright on his legs. Exit
eU neCe8sitate. Seriously, however, the
parlor will have an electric piano to be
played by "some other fellow" at die
tauCe, and havin Carpenter meLOgraphe
to make electric record of improvisa-
t ons.
The bedroom, besides all sorts of eleC.
trio calls will have on the toilet table a
set of electric brushes. You turn a COM
mutator, offer your head to the gentle
caresses of the brushes, and your hair is
brushed-if you have any. The series
of rooms closes with a family theater;
stage, auditorium, fats and all, lighted
by the Werdermann electric lamp
which allows the footlights to be instan.
taneously raised or lowered, filling the
room with a blaze of illumination or
leaving it in total darkness at will. In
this pleasant room noted Parisian mu-
siCal artists will be invited to give con-
certs, to more completely eleCtrify the
Finally room will be devoted to elec.
trio views, projections, and toys; minia-
ture telegraphic apparatus, trick boxes,
magic lanterns, railways, telephones,
dolls, and automata, for the amusement |
IF Partisan youth and their elders as
we'll.
All this, strange as it may seem, is
actual fact, or will be by tn etirst of Aug
lst. under the wonder. working activity
If Messrs, Berger the head Commission
,r, and his colleagues. Cochery, Varroy,
3adi- -Carnot, Hebrard, Herr, Bapst, and
De- ReinaCh. Applications for space still
,our in, though the lists are on the point
If closing; and one of the funniest items
8 the petition of an ingenious optician
or the exclusive right to sell smoked
lasses at the door, in view of the inevi.
able glare and bedazzlement inside.