The sun., 1890-06-10
EIRCTRICLL

Electric burglar catching has received ~ 'mpo,
o., In p.,I. Al the hands Of an sntsrprisine Wlne
merchant 10 tho Rue secrstan, who has Just iAnuu w
NTH man in the following way; There nho UD ..,sS
for his premises and he has had MS s'o~ro ~ Wv" % ~
with tho room occupied by his walters oy meI n A., 49,.
electric wire When the burglar enters tue ~" -. ~
walters room rings and the ntruder Is quieHy
The wine merchants experiment has been so ,,
that several other traders in the vicinity have suop
his modus operandi and are now yearhinA 'o
live "midnight marauder =" to come the' "H'
That electricity lends itself kindly IN the co,Ieo
uon Of vice several instances are on record ~, ~ w.,
ago the owners OF house in the suburbs OIL 'u'' 80
left for n few days visit In the country ou'ka.
seeing the house untenRnted Rotin throusn 'ne ny,
and "prospoct cd" the premises TO his saustAcuoh "
comfort OF mind, however. was presently mA'e''A"y
impaired by the appearance on the scene OF ooup
policemen. who promptly handcunsd MIN anu Ioui ~ -
him TO the station He was In biss;u ignorance OF 'ne
fact that tho window by which he entered tho houso
was electrically connected with an alarm In the near
est precinct
rb. ,.s,, mad. nv tho German Government on the
ironclad Eong wilhelm for the purpose OF dotermhnA
the practical value of the new electrical steering Apps
ratus are reported az having been most suocebsiuL
The claim Of tho inventor that by this apparatus tho
Captain can control the rudder from the oridso OF
from any point on deck said have been thoroughly
established.
singular ana mysterlous plOt Juhh ooulO ~ hs"N
In PARIS having for its object the AssAsSinahoa OF the
known electrician Dr. Cornelius Herr In lbdS an
advertisement the Figaro set forth that an agent was
wanted to carry out difficult ana DANGEROUS uhuer-
taking The advertisement waS answered oy torHeI
police commissary named AmioL Having discovered
that the to compass the murder OF NJ
Herr he determined to do profitable little business on
his account Hiring room near the proposeu eeene
of action pretended to mature his plans ana oia not
fail TO draw pretty freely on the means "hieh "eis
placed at his disposal for their contamination having
obtained $3.50 francs, he thought term OF toreEn
travel would not be OF order and leaving Dr. HerA
and his woud.bo murderors behind no eaiioo toF
Buenos AyreG Here attempts were made on his own
life instiRAted he was convinced by the dsapponteo
pottor; So returning Paris on March last he SUB
mitted tho matter with documentary evidence 10 DR..
Herr who has published the afiair. II 10 not known
who the deinquents are, but DR.. HerI 10 one OF the
wealthieSt men In PariA aud has enemies as well a.
numerous friendA
Tho methods usually adopted for indicating the exact
spot struck by the bullet In target shooting are crudo
ano often dangerous With Wow to overcome this
danger and to enable firing parties TO ascertain FOR
themselves the actual spot hit by their bullets,
an ingenious system Of electric and ssfIndicatns
targets has been devised The system 10 divided into
tho electric target and the indicating apparaua Tho
target which represents the bull inner maybe and
outer formed OF concenrc iron rings with the OK.
cep,on of tho outor which Ia square At the back OF
each ring square 10 strong horizontal spring which
is almost In with vertical lever On bullet
striking any of tho four SectonA that particular
section and Its corresponding spring are forced oAck
until the sprins hits is respective lover, causing the
latter to fall into horizontal position Az tho lover
falls It established by means of contact and battery
electrical oonmuncA with the indicating apparatus
erected the firing end Of tho range, thus showing
which section Of the target has been struck.
Mr.. F. W Jones' who associated recently with
tho investigating which sought formulate
law regulate the or high tension and other oec
ric currents has Just given in his report to tho Chair
man OF tho Senate Committee on General Laws ono
passage this report suggests, somewhat graphically,
the dilhcuti occasionally with in maintaining the
connection telegraph lines. The lines on turnpike
and wagon roads" says Mr.. Jones' must be pAtrolled
by horseback or on wagons, and In spring ia.
and such roads frequently nearly or quite
impassAble from mud water. or snow. In many cases
of my own knowledge farmers keep shotguns with
which they warn OF all linomen from trimming orna
mental trees place the wires IN working order lho
OF this euch that rainy days the teegrams OF
the public stop such uires on account Of the
leakage of curet to the Garth through the ee eaNes
or limbs In contact with tho wires"
Prof Elihu Thomson. who Is OF the fret electrt
clans In country. beng questioned regarding the
feasibility Of substituting electric power for caole
power for tho propulsion Of cars on the Brooklyn
Bridge, stated his opinion that there would De no
particular difficulty In superposing on the bridge an
electric system desired or replacing the cable system
by an electric system. Prof Thomson, however adds
that he has always been OF opinion that the Brooklyn
Bridge presents conditions specially favorable for tho
working OF the cable system
A very significant meeting has Just heen held in Chi
cago tho organization Of an association or phono
graph companies. Tho most striking feature OF the
meeting was exhibition and comparison Of the re
spectivo the phonoRaph and the graphophone
which were used on different days As the sentences
wero uttered by each speaker they were repeated into
the instruments The phonoRraph showed superior
qualities of recording and reproducing and indicated
far greater sensitveness to sound than the grApha
phone results most remarkable. and seem TO
point to q in verbatim reporting