The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-16
IN TIE ELECTRICAL WORLD.


1t is reported that the largest cleo
trio search light ever made will be erect
ed on Mt Washington the coming sea-
son.
1t is estimated that 10000 electric
lamps, aggregating 1O,0C0,0O0 candle
power, will be required for the Chicago
Worlds fair.
An electric swing suggested for the
Worlds fair will carry twentyfour
people and swing a distance of nine
hundred feet.
Within year, it is promised, the
first long-distance telephone line from
New York to Chicago will be com
pleted. The line has already reached
Cleveland.
The receiver of the Coast Line rail-
road, of Georgia, it is said, will substi-
tute electricity for the present motive
power, provided the necessary funds
can be secured.
An electric stove has been invented
by q machinist in Rouen, France. 1t
will cook first-class dinner for ten per-
sons in four-fifths of the time required
by wood or coal fire, and the cost is
only five sous five cents for the mate
rials which generate the heat The
stove can be sold for twenty-five francs,
or five dollars.
The drift of the tide in railway mo-
tive power says Practical Electricity, is
clearly shown by the fact that members
of the engineering corps of the North
ern Pacific and Wisconsin Central
railroads are studying electrical
science in the Massachusetts, institute of
technology, by direction of the manage
ments of these roads.
Plans have been drawn for the cree
ton of 10 dams in the st. Louis river,
near Fon du Lac, Mimi, which will give
about 100000 horse power. 1t is pro-
posed TO furnish, by means of electric
currents generated at this point, power
to operate all kinds of manufacturing
establishments, street cars, and light
ing, cooking and heating in Duluth.
1t is perhaps safe to predict that at
no very distant date the use of oil lamps
will have ceased on all large and i'm
portant systems of railway, to be sue
ceeded by electric illumination. The
Chesapeake & Ohio road has already
contracted to have its trains equipped
with electric lights, and the Pennsyl'
vania and the Louisville & Nashville
companies are negotiating for electric
lighting, and it is probable that both
roads will be equipped by the opening
of the Worlds fair.
"A remarkable recovery of speech is
yano,-5a1 II, tho 60 of Mrc Mar.y Hon.
kins, of Rose Valley, N. Y. Six years
ago she became an inmate of the Wayne
county almshouse, and two years later
lost the power of speech from paralysis
of the vocal chords, at the age of forty
five. Until about six-weeks ago no con
tinuous effort was nadeto restore her
voice; then, on the advice of DR.. Andrew
f. Sheldon, an electric battery was ap
piled to her neck and mouth every day
for month. This treatment gave nc
promise of success until fortnight ago
when the matron entered Mrs. Hopkins
presence, and was gladly greeted with
a loud "Hello!' from the hitherto
| speechless woman. She now speaks as
| well as ever.
in an article on "Storage Batteries
the Electrical Review says that the i'm
provement of the storage battery has
been very much hampered in this coun
try by the uncertainty which has existed
regarding the ownership of storage bat
terry patents. The prolonged litigation
in the courts and the natural distrust o:
investors has prevented its introduction
on large scale, and, consequently, ha'
deprived the manufacturer of the bene
fit of use of the cells in every day
work, and to show the defects and indi
cate remedy. The present outlook il
that peace will soon prevail in this field
and business become the chief aim ant
end. An extensive use of the storage
battery in special lines is then to be ex
pected and general marked improve
ment in the general efficiency of the eel
itself. Accumulators have found mucl
larger employnentin Europe than here
owing mainly to the facts above stated
and the field for their use is widening
very maJcrIau,.