Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-07-23
THE FELINE MOTOR.
Electricity Extracted From Cats Without
Impairing Their Usefulness.

Professor Richard de Long, the in
ventor of the new feline motor, is a
tall, pale-faced man, with a three
story, bay-window forehead over
hanging pair of deep-set sky blue
eyes set on each side of a thin hooked
nose. He is not a beauty, but he is a
genius.
His feline motor, which is at present
creating such a sensation in scientific
circles in Stoughton, is a marvellous
machine, unique in appearance and
wonderful in operation. 1t may be
described as a curious combination of
large and small fly wheels, great bal
ance wheels, bright steel rods, and an
almost innumerable number OF coils
OF copper wire, all Joined to a brightly
polished brass cylinder. one end of
which projects into wire cage filed
with ordinary cats. Its operation is
very simple, but surprising in its re-
suits. A slight pull on nickel-plated
lever starts the machine. Then like
lightning from out the end OF the cyl
inder projecting into the cage shoots
long steel arm and hand, grabbing
one of the cats by the back of the neck
and yanking it into the cylinder,
where it disappears with a yawl OF
more than feline terror. In a moment
the fly wheels and all of the compli-
Gated machinery begins to move, at
first slowly, but soon with startling
rapidity. At the proper moment,
which is indicated by a small clock
like attachment, the operator pulls
another lever, when out of the other
end of the cylinder, with hair and tail
erect, scintillating eyes, and a cater
waul dislocating to ones spinal col
umn, the cat Is projected into tub OF
cold water prepared for its reception.
This operation, surprising as 1T may
seem, extracts from the cat electricity
equivalent to the power represented
by ten horses working for one hour,
and this power can be stored in the
cylinder until needed. AS a cat can
be run through the motor every three
minutes, and all the accumulated cleo
tricity can be stored. the power OF the
machine is practically limitless. The
same cat can be used every ten hours
without i'm the least impairing its
health and general usefulness.
The professor is jubilant over the
success of his inventions. He is salts
fed that he has overcome every diff
Guilty, and intends soon soon to put
the machines upon the market. In
speaking of the origin OF the invention
and the results of its use, he says:
81 have long believed that the cat
is natures Leyden jar, charged with
an enormous amount of electricity,
but in such a manner as to require
peculiar process to extract it. This
process it has been my good fortune
to discover. The discovery will be of
incalculable benefit to mankind. 1t
will revolutionize the mechanical
world, and be felt in every department
OF life. BY it's means every family; no
matter how poor, can have its home
brilliantly lighted with electricity at a
less cost than to have it poorly light
ed with kerosene. By simply running
the now practically useless house cat
through the machine twice each day a
sufficient amount of electricity can be
engendered to illuminate brilliantly
any medium sized house. The feline
motor will do away with steam. Ten
years from now, / venture to say,
there will not he a steam engine IN
active operation i'm the United States.
New York Sun.