The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-30
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

TN TIE EIES TISNG VonIt|s
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
rcmedicd 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 incandcscent
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 an
other decides that n telegraph company
is not excused from using care because
n mcssageis ungrammatical.
The longest single span of wire in
the world is used for 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 noun
tain to the top of another, each noun
tain being nearly 30 o 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
u railway as 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 q
new use in San Leandro Cal. A man OF
intelligence, who is afflicted with lcp.
rosy, was isolated in a cabin away from
the hospital. A kind-hcarted gentle-
man of the town had a telephone put
into the cabin and connected with the
reading room of the hospital, thus en-
abling the lepcr 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 iii Eu-
rope. The government allows 800 calls
year to each subscriber, without eX-
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. kilograms are received at the
telephone Office and delivered to tho
telegraph department at 9 cents each.
Some interesting points on trolley
roads were brought out of a discussion
recently carried on before the the Amer
lean Street Railroad association meet
ing. Among the electricians present,
representing various roads throughout
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 we'll as to grounded
| circuits within the districts in which
| their roads operated. Various sugges-
tions as 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 houi, is oneof the interesting
inventions which has been adopted in
the post office department The letters
are placed on their edges in horizon
tai hopper. an ingenious device carries
one Mt n timo between two feed rolls.
In this way 1ne Hrst separation Is et.
| fected. A So Gcond set of feeding rolls
performs another part of the work. In
a simple way the mixing rollers are
reached, when the envelopes arc
stamped and passed on, one at u time,
to the stacking table. A register shows
che number of envelopes cancelled. The
date and hour in the die must be
changed by hand. The various rollers
are run by belts, passing over different
sized pulleTs. which are in turn con-
nected by gearing to the axle of the
electric motor.