Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-28
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

"A telephone line about five miles
long has been established in Iceland,
and is regarded as great curiosity. be-
ing the first ever established on the
Island.
"A constable in Western city re-
Gently chained the arnature of dyna-
mo so that it could not be operated be-
cause the company had not paid up all
its taxes to the city.
Much as has been accomplished iE
the way of electrical inventions, the
chances are that only the outer edge of
the measureless field has as yet been
touched.-Inventive Age.
Italy is experimenting with pens
electrically controlled for the determin-
alton of the speed attained by vessel
between floating objects thrown from
the deck of a vessel herself.
"A third line of telegraph betv cen
Berlin and Rome, 1910 miles long, is to
be constructed through Bavaria and the
Tyrol, instead of Switzerland, like the
present lines. The wire will be of
bronze, and three millimetres in diane
ter.
Port Arthur proposes to raise S75,-
900 to build and operate an electric
street railway to Fort William. The
assessed value of Port Arthur is 81, 745,
7SS, and the present debenture debt
is S15S, S55.-The Commercial, Winni-
peg.
From experiments made in Rich
mond, Va, with electric heaters, it
hot oh,
can be kept warm at an expense of two
cents an hour, the current being sup
piled by dynamo ON the locomotive or
tender.
New York City has 1857 electric
lights at an annual cost of 800 each;
New Orleans has 1,O1O, at $50 each;
Philadelphia has 500, at S177 each; To-
ledo, O., has 400, at 500 each; Scranton,
Pa, has 332, at 500 each, and Spring
field, Mass, has 800, at SS3 80 each.
Domestic electric lighting is being
extensively introduced in Philadelphia.
One Of the many private plants success
fully runs shop and a laundry, as well
as a sewing machine, ventilating fans,
a simplex arc light, which is hung over
the lawn during the summer to attract
the bugs.
THE genius of street railroading,"
said Mr.. John Stevenson, the Oldest
street car builder in the United States,
''is in disintegrating the masses. Rap
id transit can be best accomplished by
using small carrying units and enough
of them. And that is why | think the
electric car of the future will be light,
strong, not large, and run on a four
wheel truck with good running-gear
and fixed wheels. 1t is a mistake to
build electric cars large, and put them
on six or eight-wheel trucks. AS long
ago as 1876 it was proved by me, here
in New York, that the eight-wheel car
was unsatisfactory. Running electric
cars in trains is also a mistake, to my
mind, for the reason first mentioned"
1t has recently been noticed that
a large number of light gold coins are
in circulation, and the discovery has
been made that the sweating" is ac-
complished by electrolysis. The scien-
tific swindler constructs an electro
deposition plant, using ten-dollar gold
piece as an anode and a small metal
plate as cathode. The battery is ''set
in motion" and, presto! in few min
| utes fifty cents worth of gold is depos-
tied on the metal plate, and the gold
coin is worth SO much less than before.
AS the gold is removed equally from
all parts of the surface of the coin, its
| appearance is scarcely altered by the
process. only an expert being able to
detect the slight blurring of the design
| and Observation-Disclosures Review.