Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
in T.4E ELECTRICAL WORLD.

"A new telephone line has been
erected between London and Paris
The charge for use is As. minute.
A Partisan electrician has succeeded
in forcing violets by the aid of his bat
terry. and recently sent bunch of these
1iedglings only four hours old to the
Impress Eugenie.
An agreement is said to have been
recorded whereby the Baltimore 81
Ohio Railroad Co. agrees to sell all it's
telegraph lines to the Western Union
Telegraph Co. for IS, 000, 900.
1t is announced on what is claimed
to be good authority that Mr. Alder, the
inventor of the Alder telephone, has
now constructed flying machine, and,
what is vastly more, has made flight of
three hundred or four hundred yards at
{; height of sixty-six feet The machine
is operated by electricity.
lightning played a serious trick
upon Geo. Rood, resident of Jewett,
Ct a thunderbolt struck him, caus-
ing severe Tut not dangerous burns
Since the accident his body seems full
of electricity When he places his
hands together they adhere, and when
his feet touch it is difficult to separate
them.
"A Frenchman is said to have in
vented a thermal battery consisting of
a stove of cylindrical form, around the
central fiue of which are grouped sew
eral hundred thermo-electrie elements.
A small stove thus equipped is said to
be able to produce, with the usual con-
sumption of fuel, enough electricity, if
stored, to run twenty-five one hundred
candle-power lamps
The canal on the left bank of the
Rhone at Geneva, Switzerland, is pro-
vided with 20 turbines, working up to
4,400 horse power. During the past
year 216 motors, totaling 1865 horse
power, have been driven from the
works. The smallest-of one-third
horse power-have been used to run
sewing machines. while the largest
625 horse power-has driven the electric
light installation for the town.
"A singular complaint comes from
the fire insurance companies. 1t re-
lates to large losses in the farming dis
tricts on live stock. due, as reported by
the farmers. to lightning in connection
with the barbed-wire fences. Most of
the animals killed il this way were
near the wire fences at the time, and
it is supposed the metal strands act as a
conductor of electricity in a degree suf-
fcient to largely increase the risks of
such insurance. Insurance men be-
Eeve, however, that many cattle report
ed as killed by lightning were in reality
killed by injuries received in coming
into violent contact with the barbed
wire
The character of the decision of
Judge Wallace in the incandescent
lamp suit, says the Electrical World, is
such as to cause surprise even to the
always confident friends of the great
Edison interests. In general, it is
strong affirmation of Mr.. Edison's
claims to the invention of the practical
incandescent lamp of to-day. The tech
nical weakness alleged against the pat
ent-the anticipation of high-resistence
lamps by Lane Fox and Edison himself,
the frequent use of carbon in incandes-
cent lamps. the well known availability
of platinum leading wires, the rejec-
ton of claims identical with those of
Edison for lack of novelty and inven-
tion-all these are passed over almost
in silence, and the decision rests really
upon the patent influence of Edison's
work on the art of incandescent light
ing
For some time past, says the Wor-
cester Spy, there has been considerable
talk among the stockholders of the
Uxbridge and North bridge Electric Co.
regarding the advisability of an cleo
trio railroad between the various neigh
boring towns. The matter has been
given the most thorough attention by
some of the more thorough enterpris-
ing stockholders, with the result that
an electric road between Manchaug
village and East Douglas is practically
assured. Already about $50, 900 has
been subscribed; the plant for this
route to be situated at the village of
"Gilboa,' in the town of Douglas A
project which seems to the stockhold-
ers as thoroughly practical is a line
from East Douglas to Whitinsville,
there to connect with the system al
ready built for Linwood; thence
through Uxbridge to the village of
Hecla-