Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-23
MEDICINE LODGE. KANsAs WEDNESDAY JAN. g. 1889

There are thousands working q. these
things, and from all the dikssrent data that
IS collected on the subject of electricity
somebody viii Strike great law that will
De a revelation. A great many of the great
est Things are discovered, they are not ia-
vented. Bell discovered the telephone, he
did not invent it. He was making expert
ments on telegraphy by SOUND snd found
out ABOUT the transmission of the voice By q
wireo
What do you think of the Keely n,ctori',
u don't think much Of It The biggest
work It has done so far has been TO enable
Keeiy to wear diamond studs and drive
good horses. Men that invent Q thing or
discover a thing don't act about h "a he
does about this motor. I don't put anv
faith IN 1t, and doubt If any thing evcr comes
out of it"
Has any thing been done in this matter
OF telegraphing from moving trasnP'
Yes. That is perfected now The Le-
nigh Valley road has twelve trains equipped
for transmitting messages in this way The
sound-waves strike the telegraph wires by
the side of the track and through induction
current is produced and the message gath
cred oy an instrument from the several
wires and read. 1t doesn't make any differ
ence whether the wires are up or down.
The sound-waves hit them in either case.
during the blizzard, when the Morse
system was of no use, the Lehigh Valley
road ran it's trains and regulated things
along the line entirely by this system. All
the wrecklng trains are equipped with tho
means TO transmit messages by TINS sys-
tenn
"What do you think Of the application Of
electrisity for the purpose of executing
Criminals who have to suffer the dea tn
penalty?"
THAT is good idea The man win be
killed with current Of tho proper number
OF volts in the tenth of a second There
won't be time for the sense-bearing ner ves
TO telegraph the news that he is hart to his
brain before he will be dead from the
shock. And it will be so lightning-like
quick that the criminal can't suffer much.
did quite lot of experimenting with our
rents on dogs. 1t was funny. At first, we
used continuous currents. After the cleo
trlcity charged the dog be stood still with
out the slightest change in his appearance.
He did not move, and his eyes retained the
same expression they usually wore. Then
after minSte, or minute and half, he
would collapse and tumble over, dead.
Finally, we tried alternate currents. These
are shot out in one direction and then In the
n.
Then it was found that this shock of ono
tenth of second killed the dog.
"After that the men who were handling
the wires were uncommonly CAREFUL sa$d
Mr.. Edison, with grin ''They wear rub
Der gloves, and somebody told me that he
saw the foreman put them on 10 mako o
note in his memorandum book
We had one dog that received cW1xont
OF 14Oo volts, and the old fellow sarvlved it.
We concluded to let him live after that, a0d
he IS walking round to-dey as good - svee
after his shock. We call him Ajax, beunnso
he played with the thunder bolts"
"What else have you been doing of lster'
"Too many things to tell you rve eeea
experimenting a good deaf with microbes,
trying TO understand the beasts and zoe be,z
they work. Whist l wanted was 70 Ret on
idea of the germs Of the yellow fever.
Something of the mcrobe order b prvNahIy
at the bottom Of that, and IL vve could know
how to catch them and take thotr fsaes out
they would be less harmful But You'll
have 10 excuse me now, ss my caRriaee has
been waiting half an hour."@otn J.
A'Bechet, IN Philadelphia Hvss