The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-10-16
The ELECTRICAL WORLD.

lN.THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.
"A new telephone line has been
rrc ted between London and Paris.
Tie charge Tor Iso is Is. q minute.
IL Partisan electrician his succeeded
IN forcing violets by the aid OF his bat
terry ard recently sent buac:, CT these
.iss!t>l:n;;s cnly four hours old 10 the
En- .r..ss E,,Ees.ie.
--an agreement is.said to have been
recorded whereby the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Co. agrees to sell all its
telegraph lines TO the Western Union
TELEGRAPH, Co Tor s., coo, 000.
1t is announced on what is claimed
to be good authority thai Mr.. Alder, the
inventor Of the '.4iAer telephone, has
now c Instructed a flying machine. and,
what is vastly more. has made fight of
three hundred or fcrr hundred yards at
a height CT si::istt.r-s!x Get. The machine
is operated Is electricity.
Lightning played q serious trick
upon Geo. Eoed. a resident CT Jewett,
Ct. A thrnder|oit sitruc'l hilc, caus-
ing severe Int 70. d:.-gcrcus burns.
Since the accident ks ody seems full
Of electricity. WIN be places his
hands together tie? adhere, and when
his feet touch it is difficult to separate
them.
"A Frenchman is said to have in
vented thermal battery consisting Of
stove of cylindrical form, around the
central Auc of which are GROUPED sew
eral hundred ti,ermc-electric clements
A small stove thus equipped is said to
be able to produce, with tne usual con-
sumption OF fuel, enough electricity, if
stored, to run twenty-five one hundred
candle-power lamps.
The canal On the LETT bar'l of the
Rhone at Geneva, ST. eri:,nd, is pro-
v;Ged with &C turbines. vcsNiHg up to
400 horse power. Errns the past
year ZIG motors tot;lin% LOS horse
power, have been driven I'm the
works. The smallcst-of one-ttiird
horse power-have been used to run
sewing machines while the largest
G25 horse power-has driven the electric
light Installation for ne town.
"A singular complaint cones from
tie fire insurance companies 1t re-
lates TO large losses III the farming dis
tricts on live stock. tu. Is reported by
The farmers, to irhtaing in connection
with the Larhed wire fences. Most Of
the animals killed =, this way were
near the wire fa;.l, !. ct t!io time, and
it is supposed tic rnelal strands actas
conductor OF electricity IN a degree snf-
tcicnt to largely increase the risks Of
such insurance. Insurance men be-
heve, ho1~eycr. that in.ny cattle report
cd as killed by lightning were in reality
killed by injuries received in coming
into violent contact with the larbed
wire.
The character Of the decision Of
Judge Wallace III lie incandcacent
lamp suit says the IL ctrici.l World is
such as to cause surprise even to the
always confident friends Ct t:le great
Edison inter SITS III general, it is d.
strong affirmation Of Mr. Edison 5
eiaims TO III invention Of the pructcal
ncunaescsnt lamp o. today. The tech
meal weakness siicg e.! gainst the pat
ent-tbe anticire.;i,si. Of J, ,l-resisteEc ;;
lamps by Laue Eoz and Edison himseii.
the frequent Use OF carbon il iucan.!as-
cent lamps, the veil known availability
OF platinum leading wires, the rejec-
ton of claims Identical with those OF
Edison for lack OF novelty and -!:ven-
tion-all these are passed over almost
II, silence and the decision rests really
upon the patent influence of Edisons
work on the ant Of incaudescent light
ing.
For come time past, says the Wor-
cester Spy, there has ccan considerable
talk among lhc stockholders of the
U.;br;dge and Northbr dye Electric Co.
regarding tie adv.sa jlity OF On elcc-
trio raillr:;.,l between j l-,;r Us T. 4.;il-
Dorias toras. The inter has i'san
.,iven tie rot ;.!lpf@.l q attention ~
some OF the more through e54t-rp-is-
ing stockholders. wita the res,;it lhat
an electric road !Ic;n cen Gia"c:laag
village ard East DGngias is practically
assured. Already aeout G;5o.co0 iias
been subscribed; The plant Tor this
route to lie situated at The villag> Of
"Gilboa, III the town OF Douglas. \
project which seems to the stockhold-
RS as thoroughly practical is line
from East douglas TO Whitinsville,
there to connect uissl the system al
ready built for Linwood; thence
through uxbril.y-e TO the village Of
Hecla
NEXT TO a BABy.
He Eventually Decides 20 Gacr Els Seat
To "A 1S-O.Ne.l.