The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-05
IN THE ELECTRICAL WoRLO.


The state subway commission has
ordered the telegraph and telephone
wires underground in Jersey City and
Newark
1t is suggested that II the electric
lamps used as footlights are too brilliant
for actors eyes, the trouble might be
remcdied by using ground glass bulbs
1T is said that the Palace hotel OF
San Francisco, CAL, has the largest iso-
lated lighting plant in the United
States, there being 5000 incandescent
lamps
The courts of Georgia have recently
given out some interesting telegraph
law. One decision exempts telegraph
companies from penalties for failure to
deliver messages on Sunday, and am
other decides that telegraph company
is not excused from using care because
message is ungrammutical.
The longest single span Of wire in
the world Is used for IL telegraph in
India. 1t is stretched over the river
Kistuah, between Bezorah and Sectaua-
grum. 1t is over 5000 feet long, and
Is stretched from the top of one moun-
tain to the top of another, each noun.
tain being nearly 900 feet high.
The Vienna Budapest fast line OF
electric railway enterprise, about which
so much has been written, is said to
have been abandoned, not because such
n railway rs that proposed was not
practical, but for the reason that the
passenger traffic it would enjoy would
not pay interest on cost and running
expenses.
The telephone has been put to u
new use in San Leandro, Cal A man OF
intelligence, who is afflicted with lcp.
rosy, was isolated in cabin away from
the hospital. A kind-heartcd gentle-
man of the town had telephone put
into the cabin and connected with tho
reading room of the hospital, thus en-
abling the leper to talk with, if he
might not visit or be visited by, people
Of the outside world.
The Swiss telephone system, which
is now under government control, is
said to be the best and cheapest in Eu.
rope. The government allows 500 calls
a year to each subscriber, without cx-
ira charge, and all calls beyond that
number are charged for at cent each.
The usual charge to subscribers is S24
for the first year, $40 for the second
year, and less than sl6 per year from
then on Telegrams are received ut the
telephone Office and delivered to the
telegraph department at cents each.
Some interesting points on trolley
roads were brought out of discussion
recently carried on before the the Amer
lean Street Railroad association meet
ing. Among the electricians present,
representing various roads 1throughout
the country, it seems to be the universal
opinion that the current of their roads
was decidedly detrimental to the gas
and water pipes as well us to grounded
circuits within the districts in which
their roads operated. Various sugges-
tons us to how electrolytic action on
lead pipes might be stopped were made.
but the only way out of the difficulty
seemed to be to stop running the road
or give up the use of the earth for re.
turn currents by running an overhead
return wire.
An electrically controlled machine
which will effectively stamp $4,000 let
ters in an hour. is one of the interesting
inventions which has been adopted in
the post Office department. The letters
are placed on their edges in horizon.
tai hopper, al ingenious device carries
one at time between two feed rolls.