Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
Electrical Breyities.

The French cable company has given
notice of an appeal from the decision of
the tribunal OF commerce, which gave a
verdict for the Anglo-American cable
company in its suit against the French
company for failing to carry out its
agreement with the pool.
The use of the telephone as a substi-
tute for speaking tubes is rapidly x
tending in this country.
The West Chicago stree It rail way com
pany has set apart 81, 600 900 of stock for
the purpose of providing the line with
an improved motor, and is bound by On
agreement to select within q year either
the cable or the electric system-4which
ever may be considered the best and
cheapest. A large proportion, OF the
$40, 000, 600 stock of the company is to be
placed outside Of the city, and some
1000 shares have already marketed in
the east.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, has en-
tered upon q crusade against telegraph
schools. He cannot hit upon any means
of reaching them by the law, and there
fore proposes to keepa policeman before
the door to warn off u~psuspecting young
men and women who expect to qualify
in six months for positions paying ST. 800
a year. -.us
IlcTe Is SO InuCH eleCOflClly III IL hlSS
that engaged lovers have been known
to depend upon it altogether to light a
spacious room.
Electricity has done much for civiliza-
ton, but it's possibilities, it seems, have
not been exhausted. An ''electric
birch" has been invented, by which re-
fractory school pupils a be punished
to n picety and no marks be left. 1t is
suggested that Edison or someone else
will soon invent a process of converting
by electricity.
Electricity is now being used in Paris
to enable persons of wealth at select
dinner parties to do without the waiter
or maitre d'hote. A miniature railway
is laid down on the dinner table and
continued on the same level into the
kitchen through an aperture in the
wall and an intermediate pantry. Dishes
come in and after making the round of
the table go out in a sort Of small truck
moved by electricity. The truck al
any moment a be made to stop. II
does its work admirably as a dumb
waiter, and any amount of art may be
lavished on it to give it decorative
beauty.
The German crown PRINCES sad i'll
ness has given the world a new instru-
ment. The Vienna correspondent of a
daily contemporary telegraphs: An
apparatus has been recently invented
for examining the throat and ,larynx,
which was tested with great success in
h last medical congress. 1t enables
the throat and surrounding organs to be
examined by electric light, which is di.
rected through the patients mouth.
The inventor is q well-known Vienna
manufacturer of medical instruments.
Aluminium is n Of the most difficult
and uncertain of metals to deposit cleo
trolytically. The following recipe il
given by M. Hermann Rienbold, who
states that it furnishes excellent results
80 parts by weight of alum are dissolved
in 300 OF water, and to this is added II
parts Of aluminium chloride. This solu'
tion is heated to 200 Q F., and when colo
80 parts Of cyanide OF potassium are
added. A feeble current should be used
The ST, Louis Car company have com
pleted seven street cars for the Wheel
cars being equipped with the Van De-
poole electric motor, the current being
communicated by wires extended above
the tracks. The cars are finely finished
and, instead of being numbered, they
are given fashionable ladies' names
They are about the size of the ordinary
two-horse street car, with an incloseG
cab on the front platform for the driver
on the floor Of which rests the dynamo
and machinery from which the power il
communicated to the axle by means O
an endless chain. The road over which
they are to BIO used is five miles il
length,
A petition from the New York g. Har
len Railroad company has been pre-
sented to the board OF alderman, asking
permission to substitute electric powe.
for horses on the company's line. Thii
is the Fourth avenue line. The com
pany was prohibited by its charter iron
using horse power south of Fourteenth
street. The petition recites that a car
has been in use experimentally for
year, and has been subjected to almos
every test which could be devised To-
the purpose of determining its utility
The company is satisfied that electri