Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-15
IN THE ELECTRICAL FIELD.
Lighting Cars by Electricity-AnE Ex-
pensive Joke.
NEW AND NOVEL INVENTIONS.
Electrical Expressagc-Piano Playing
by Means of the FIuid-Lights for
Firemcn-F'irst Telegraph to
the Wcst-Brcvities
Lighting Cars by Electricity.

Lighting Cars by Electricity.
What may be called the burning
question Of how to light railway cars
lends interest to the following from the
Chronique Industrie,le. The passen-
ger trains on the Stuttgart-Halle line
are lighted by the Bernstein system Of
1ncandescent lights and Khotinsky ac-
cumulators. The accumulators are not
connected by any electric source. al
though n dynamo is carried in the bag
gage car. On account of this non-con-
ncction the lights are not subject to
pulsations. The dynamo during the
run charges battery Of accunulators
which can be used in case any of the
batteries supplying the light in any car
should lose its force or efficiency, in
which case this extra battery could be
Immediately attached to it. Each car
has two batteries of eight accumulators
each, and each battery weighs $50 tio-
grams. The accumulators of each car
are separate and entirely Independent
OF the batteries in other cars. The
lamps are fixed to the car ceilings.
A''''" N'boo Ndi nave JnTte cunulc
power lamps. First and second class
cars have from five to sixteen candle
power lamps.
Electric Car-I.ighting In Wurtcmberu.
Enquirer: The Wurtemberg govern
meat has in practical use on some of its
railroads the following system of cleo
trio car-lighting.
The lights in each car are supplied
from separate accumulators which are
charged by a dynamo driven from the
car-axel. Each car is thus entirely it,
dependent. and is the train is stopped
or the cars uncoupled the lights are not
interfered with. The management of
the apparatus is said to be very simple.
Removing Excrcsccncesb by Electricity.
Nashville American: A friend was
telling me OF his own and his wfes eX-
perlence in having moles and wens re-
moved by electricity. His wife had on
her right shoulder blemish in the form
OF large mole, quite half an inch in
diameter, which practically made it i'm
possible for her to wear ball or evening
dresses. which would reveal her other
wise shapely shoulders. She accident
ally heard of the electric operations,
and. obtaining the address of the sur
geon who performs them she went with
out her husbands knowledge to
his office, and submitted to the
operation. 1t required about
week to heal the wound made
by the needles with which the mole was
perforated in every direction; then the
mole. which had been burned to a dry.
black crisp, fell Off, leaving the shoul-
der perfectly white, and with only the
slightest indication to show where the
hnI Ii.
formed over 1T, and there is hardly IA
noticeable blemish there now. Success
inspired her to insist on her husbands
undergoing the same operation on Il
more delicate part of his person
namely, his nose. He thus tells his
story:
II had on my nose at birth, so [ was
told. wen, which grew with my years
until l became man, and for many
years it greatly dishgured my counte-
nance. 1t was about the size of il pea.
and was on my left nostril. 1t changed
color from time to time and would grow
to be Il frightful sanguinary red when
ever indulged myself with wines and
liquors OF any sort. | came to regard it
ut times as II gin blossom and an irrey-
erent reporter in describing me once
suggested that this object had evidently
been one of long and patient and
costly culture. | went on my wifes ur-
gent entreaty to her surgeon and asked
him if it could be removed. He looked
at 1t and suggested that it might be if
would not look upon the wine when it
was red; but | told him was born so.
He examined further, and at once pro-
ceeded to operate upon it.
He bathed my nose, first Of all, in CO.
caine. 1t grew cold at first, then be-
came perfectly numb, as though asleep
from lack of circulation of the blood 1t
felt as il paralyzed. He then applied an
electric needle to the Wen, sticking it
through and through, as near the root
as possible. There was no pain, though
half an hour was consumed in the oper-
alton. Whenever he increased the cur
rent OF electricity ] saw billions of stars.
and sparks seemed to flash from my
eyes, and the eyeballs seemed to crack
with each spark that apparently flew
from them. When the operation was
completed the wen was black, no longer
red, and more unsightly than ever. He
put flesh colored court plaster over it
and kept it there for about week.
Then in washing it off the mass of black
ened flesh fell away. A new skin formed
and you can barely see II small scar
where the unsightly object once was"
Expensive Electrical Joke.
Chicago Herald: A young man went
to a Brooklyn theater, purchased IA seat
in the row next but one from the or
chestra, and was soon absorbed in the
performance, which included the ex-
hibition of II contrivance called the
electric organ. Suddenly he felt II
strange thrill pass through his body.
He struggled violently to raise himself
from his seat, but found that he could
not move from the chair, and was en-
tirely unable to successfully exert any
muscular force whatever. He was ter
ror stricken, and for a moment thought
he had been seized with stroke of
paralysis. The spasm lasted for few
moments, and then, rs it passed Off. the
man sprang from the chair, rushed up
the aisle and out of the auditorium,
pursued by the laughter of the audi
ence which had witnessed his contor-
tions. He soon discovered that he had
been made the victim of practical
joke, and that the chair in which ho