St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-09-10

~ THE ELECTRICAL WoRLn.

The Vatican is to be illuminated BY
cleo sricity.
Mine steam railroads in tie wesa
are using electric headlights.
Crude stealite (soapstone, is en-
ployed in Europe for the mapuiacture
of electric insulatorS
The first electric car in South
America. appeared on the strycts Of
Panama on the eth of last April.
I'm the northern English coal field
electric cOal-cutting machinery is about
to be introduced on large scale.
"A company has been granted per.
mission to experiment with electric om-
nibuses in London the coming Summer.
There is reported to be a nso~cment
on foot to organize an opposition com-
psny TO the Bell telephone in Montreal
The Faurc patent ON storage bat
teries has been upheld in i;crmany,
where It has been in the courts far some
time.
Owing to . dispute in reletion to
back taxes. the city of Philadelphia has
stopped payment for its te~phons
service.
The only trolley system in England
IL at Leeds, where it has proved very
popular, and is 50 profitable tlat an exc
tension of the line to the heart Of the
city is to be made.
General Manager AiEslc1 Of the
Wisconsin Central railroad is reported
to have said recently: II think we shall
run trains ON the Wisconsin Central by
electric power before the Columbian ex-
position is over"
"A submarine cable between Senc-
gal, ON the west coast of Africa, and
Pernambuco, Brazil, is about TO be laid,
and it is expected that the work, will be
completed by the middle Of JaE. Tho
cable is 9. 16S miles long.
The municipal council of ST. ktienne.
France, has decided upon an interesting
experiment, which is to distribute elec.
trical power to $1,000 looms, scattered
sbOut in the homes Of the inhabitants.
10000 of whom are engaged N the rib
bon industry. The power 10 be sup.
piled from the city reservoir
Some interesting and rather sur.
prising statistics are published on the
use Of the telephone. In Germany,
Switzerland, Norway and Sweden, from
100 to 400 persons in every 100. 900 Of the
population are subscribers. In Great
Britain only So persons in 100, 100 use the
telephone. In Berlin II, ard in Paris
~ out Of every 100000 Inhabitants
use it.
The English board Of trace has just
decided that the commercial unit of
electricity, formerly known rs tho
''board of trade unit, !" is hereafter tn be
called . ''kclvin." The unit itself is
one kilOwatt hour, that Is, 1000 watt
hours, and its new name Is the. present
title Of the wcllknown Sir William
Thomson, now Lord Kelvin.-Electrical
World
M. Plante's new process OF engra-
ing on glass and crystal bv electricity
is found capable of producing. results
of marvellous delicacy. Tho plate to be
engraved is covered with q concentrated
solution of nitrate of potasi, and put
in connection with one of the poles Of
the battery, the design being sraced out
with a fine platinum point connected to
the other pole.
Prom the last annual report Of the
He'll Telephone Co. it appear that the
number of instruments in uscs at tho
close of the year 1891 was 6la. .io7-a
large increase over the pre,ious year.
The total earnings for the Gear were
$4,:75, 900. The expenses were 81, ,5oa.-
S72, leaving the net earnings a. =. s69.-
41S The extension of the, long-dis-
tancc telephone system is raDisly pro-
crossing.