St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-09-17
m THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

Tho COMMISSIONERS O1 the USttlc0
o9 Columbia recently gave notice that
all the theaters of Washington must b
fitted throughout with electric lights.
"A number of lighting plants have
been installed in Lowell, in which Sec
ondary batteries are stored directly
from the trolley wire. An ingenious
regulator automatically controls the
rate of charge and discharge by cutting
resistance in and out 1t is stated that
IS cells are used.
"A German socialist paper. the Vor-
warts, draws attention to one o3 the
latest employments Of electricity. 1t
states that an electrical firm in Berlin
has received orders from St. Petersburg,
Russia, to submit samples of micro
phones, intended to be fixed in the
walls of cells in prisons. in order TO re-
peat every thing spoken by the prisoner
in any part Of the room
The experiment Of usin9 electricity
in place of steam ON "a standard gauge
railway is about to be made ut Ellwooti.
Pa, on the Beaver and Ellwood rail.
road, from, Ellwood 10 Ellwood juno
ton, three miles from Pittsburgh, where
connection Is made with the Pennsyl-
vania lines The electric cars will DO
run over the same road and rails used
by the present steam line.
The statement that the adoption of
electric lighting in the English Savings
Bank department has been followed by
considerable reduction in the amount
of sick leave points to what will prob
ably be one Of the chief advantages Of
this mode Of lighting rooms. An cleo
trio lamp does not draw on the oxygen
of the room. and does not give of ire
spirable gases ~ do gas and oil lights.-
Popular Science Monthly.
Electrical science is evidently max.
ing rapid strides in France. if one is to
judge by the number Of patents for in
ventions in this line which ~ere taken
out in that country. In 1891 the num-
Der of patents taken out in France
amounted to 6.070, Of which 90 related
to telegraphic and tel1phonic apparatus.
100 to the generation Of electricity, and
ITO to the application Of electricity.
"A new employment Of electricity il
found in its use in burying the dead
Death by the electric current by acci-
dent and by statute arc somewhat
familiar to the public, bat its use in the
final disposal of definct humanity 10
new, yet from all accounts il Is likely
70 become more or less general This 10
shown in the employment Of electric
cars for funerals, in cases where the
lines are available. which ID said TO b
on the increase in Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
-Enterprising rroprietors Of large
farms would do well to look into the
subject of electric power TO perform
their farm work. Some interesting exc
periments have been made in this di-
rection by the State Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Alabama, at Au-
burn, Ala, and the electric plant II
now running success, ully. The power
is put to various uses, such rs ginning.
pressing cotton, cutting mp feed stuff,
threshing grain, etc. This plant is the
first of its kind ever cstablished-Elec-
trical Age.
1t is now announced that the entire
line for the electrical railway between
Chicago and St Louis has been survey
ed, the right of way secured for fully
60 per cent. of the property over which
tie line passes, terminal facilities Oh.
tanned in both cities. and sites purchas-
ed for both of the power houses Only
two generating stations will be en-
ploycd, and these will be located at
points midway between the center and
ends of the line, one being 1t the mouth
Of coal pit and the oshfr in close prox-
unity to IN abundant supply Of water
power.
Under the new iaw in New York
state, town boards are authorized to es-
tablish lighting districts outside Of in
villages, and to make con-
tracts for . period of not more than
three years Contracts can be made
upon petition Of not less than y tax.
able inhabitants of the district to be
lighted, or . majority of the taxpayers
thereof, which must bc filed with the
town board 80 days before the contract
Is made, and proper Entice given by
publication or posting. The expense OF
lighting is laid upon thf taxable prop
ertv within the district TO be lighted