The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-24

applications Of E2cctricity.-Th
electric railroad which DR.. Slemens las
in Berlin between the suburb
OF Llchtcnfeld and the Cadcttcnhaus is
now regularly opeued for passengers, and
is giving great satisfaction. The rails are
Of the ordinary railway pattern, but the
gauge Is Only three feet three inches. A
single car is propelled bv the current ut an
average speed Of nine miles an hour, though
this rate can be doubled If necessary. a
similar line has been erected at the CRYSTAL
Palace, Sydcnham, England, as an altrac.
ton for visitors, but it Is probable that
electric railroads will be practically intro.
duccd into that country before many wears
are past Vclocipedcs are now 50 common
that il is not surprising 10 find that cleo
trjcity has been applied to their propulsion.
nj. Trouve, the wcll-known French clcc.
triclan, recently drove All English tricycle.
through the streets of Paris by means of
electricity sto:ed in q Plantc secondary
battery and pair of Dcprcz electric mo-
tors. Tho tricycle. with it's occupant and
apparatus weighed four hundred weight,
and went at the speed Of an ordinary cab
but with some modification of the appa
ratus NJ. Trouvc hopes to attain rate of
twelve or fifteen miles an hour. The new
secondary battery Of NJ. Faurc will also
help his purpose, and vclocipedes driven
by electric power will probably by and by
prove useful to the invalidcd or the weak
ly. In Paris, too, electricity has been ap~
Piled to work an air compressor at the toy
balloon factory of NM. Chauchard ct Gle.
behind the Hotel du Louvre. The spare
steam power of the engines has been u,il-
iZcd by two Grammc machines, one of
which generates the current and the other
transforms it into mcchanlcai work. The
energy thus transmitted is about a horse
power per minute.
TO determine the facial angle, new
and simple instrument has been made by
MIR. u. NJ. Atkinson. A needle is inserted
and fixed in the centre of zach optic OPEN
ing, and both needles arc connected bI an
axle with flat ends which slide upon ,he
needles. An index pointer in the Visual
horizontal plane is attached to the middle
Of the axle. a bar carrying a semi. cir
cular prOtraCter IS constructed to be nftiycd
at the centre point OF the protractor so as
to move freely in a vertical plane along
slde the index-pointcr. If this bar pro
tractor be placed in q position on the skull
30 as to touch the orphryon and alvcolar
points tho number of degrees in the facial
angle will DO indicated on the protractor
by the pointer.
In Carlylc's "Itemnisccnces" he tells
us of his dyspepsia, and how he once rode
sixty miles to Edinburg, "to consult q doc.
tor, having at last reduced my complexities
to the single question: Is this disease
curable by medicine; or Is it chronic, m.
durable except by regimen, If even 80 2
This question earnestly put got the re-.
sponse; "lt is all tobacco. sir; give up
tobacco Gave it instantly and strictly
up. Found, after long months, that +
might as well have ridden sixty miles IN
the opposite direction, and poured my sor-
rows into the long, hairy car of the first
jackass l came upon, as into this select
medical mans, whose name will not
mention.