River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-11-05
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

"A french electrician has gotten up
. device by which he can send $50
typswritten words per minute over a
single wire.
The city of Bremen IL probably the
1rst German city In which horses will
have been wholly supplanted by cleo
trio power for street car service.
"A most serious obstacle to the pro-
posed American-Asiatic cables by the
Aleutian Islands and Alaska route has
arisen in the discovery of such an ex-
tent of extreme depth of water north
east of Japan as TO preclude the sink
ing of the cable.
Franklin is credited with the state
ment that the flesh of goose killed by
an electric current is particularly fine
eating. This brings up interesting pos
sibilities in the culinary art, and shows
the far-reaching nature of the cleo
trician's science. An electric current
will replace the clearinghouse AK and
tough steaks will become a thing of the
past.
An elevated railroad that has been
under consideration for forty years, and
is now being built along the water
front Of Liverpool, Eng, presents some
features of interest 1T is claimed, to
American engineers The line is about
six and half miles in length, with two
tracks of standard gauge, and it is pro-
posed to use electricity for motive pow
err. The road skirts the principal docks,
and is intended TO provide for the
enormous passenger traffic along that
route.
"A wicked Connecticut thunderbolt
got hold of Tartar at the Cheney farm
at North Haven. few days ago, when
it tackled barbed wire fence that en-
circles big lot belonging to Mr.. Che.
ney. The bolt hit the fence near the
house, split it, elf a. two, and the divid.
en- bolt went entirely around the field
in opposite directions at the same time.
The wires jingled like a cotton spindle,
but held their own pretty well, though
the bolt yanked out of the ground
eleven posts that carried the wires
When the teacher in the Hollowa,
country district, CT, opened the school
house there the other day he discovered
that caller was ahead of him. A,
some time in the summer vacation
thunderbolt went into the house, tore
up the floors, knocked the desks into
kindling wood. went through the whole
curriculum of studies in geography,
second-class reader. Daboll's arithmetic,
grammar and spelling, and graduated
through one of the windows, taking
part of the sash along.
"A correspondent of the Electrical
Review, writing from Paris under re-
cent date, says: II want to tell you
about a machine they use here very
much, but that / have not seen any
thing of in our country They call it
the theatrophone. 1t is virtually a
photograph that is placed in any hotel
and connected with all the theaters.
By dropping the familiar coin into the
equally familiar slot, the thing is set
in working order and the conversation,
music, etc, of whatever theater il hap
pens to be connected with at the time is
plainly heard by placing two receivers
to the ears.
M Scherer, a Frenchman, has in
vented clever. but simple method of
electrically doing to death gnats, flies
and similar pests. The only drawback
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giving a constant current But as many
hotels, public buildings and private
buildings in warm climates are now
lighted by electricity, there can be lit
tie difficulty in setting up economical,
effective and perfectly safe death traps
for srial pests. His device is very sim
pie. He takes a candle, lamp or torch
and places it within cage of metallic
wire gauze. This metallic gauZe is con-
nected with the poles of an electr c ma
chine, and duly charged with TIE electric
current. The gnats, mosquitoes, fieas
and wasps fly to the light, touch the
electrified metal, and are instantly kill
ed. There is no possibility of their
flying about half dead, and, as in the
case with certain traps, conveying
poison about the place.