The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-19
IN THE ELlGTllICAL WORLD.


st Louis Is talking Of an under
ground road, to be operated by elcc-
tricity.
An electrical stop watch has been
tested IN II u cvcic rtcr, whcra IL deter
mined the w,nn r, although ha was
llv onr-iunorGdth OF II second ahead.
Electricity has been uscl in Swe-
den as IL Substitute for dynamite in
blasting A strong current is turned
into the rocK and the intense heat
causes it to crael
An electric railroad may be built
to connect St Petersburg and Archan-
gel, over 500 miles away The current
will be supplied Uy generating stations
built Mt intervals along the line.
An Italian electrical journal for the
purpose of encouraging an interest in
| primary batteries, has offered to award
prizes to the inventors submitting the
best batteries for the production of
electricity on small scale.
1t is intended to place the telegraph
and telephone wires in Victoria, New
South Wales, under ground The esti-
mated cost OF the work is about $780,
900, and it is expected that it will be
begun at an early date. Electricity.
--Vinalhaven, Me, has no telegraphic
or telephone connection with the main
land. The cost of laying a cable to
connect with several places along the
coast would be about S23, 600, and it is
probable that company may be formed
to undertake the work.
Within the next few months great
-four mill is to be erected in st, Paul,
Mimi, which, when finished, will be
run by electricity If the experiment
proves successful one, all the great
mills in st. Pau! ard Minneapolis, in
cluding those of Washburn and the
Pills ury English syndicate, will adopt
electricity us II motive power The
power will Lc supplied by the falls of
the Mississippi.
By adopting electricity as a power,
the proprietors of n shoe factory in
Leicester EnglArd, have immensely i'm
creased their resources. The present in
stallation is to be enlarged SO that the
entire plant when completed will in
clude two engines of $50 horse power
FOR the driving of two dynamos for light
and power. IhH factory will be able
to turn out 10000 pairs of shoes each
week, and will give employment to 1,5OO
people.
Capt Wilson of the English war
navy, has just invented rpmarlta BILE
implement OF war. 1t is shaped like Il
large pair of scissors which he places
at the bow, and under the water, of his
tornado hnutC With ti,ic fha 1itt1n
boat steams straight for the enemy's
big ship, which has the bars with the
steel netting down, feeling we'll pro-
tected against the attacks of the wicked
torpedoes. But Capt. Wilson, with his
new invention, applies electricity to
the scissors and in n flash the netting
is cut and the boat does it's deadly
work. American
"A rather peculiar incident recently
happened a short distance outside of
Riverside, Cal A telephone wire broke
between two offices, about Is miles
apart and yet an ordinary converse
tion could be carried on over the wire
after it was broken, though the mag
netic bell would not ring. There be-
ing no other wire on the same poles at
that part of the line where the break
occurred, it is supposed that the cur
rent was carried between the ends of
the broken wire through the wet
ground. A few feet below the surface
there is what is known as hardpan,
which possibly acted to some extent as
an insulator between the upper and
lower strata of earth.