Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-22
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

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In Belgium the telephone system is
| operated by the government
1t is announced that the United
States lighthouse board will introduce
electric lighting in the lighthouses
along the great lakes.
The commissioners of the District
of Columbia have ordered that all the
theaters in Washington must be equip
ped throughout with electric lights
The proposed underground electric
railways for London, if sanctioned, will
be 16 feet under the Thames, 6S feet be-
meath Regents park, and IS below Ok
ford street.
"A steam dynamo is the latest COM
bination noted In this the steam en-
gine-an upright one-is attached to
the dynamo, instead of, as at first, the
dynamo being attached to the engine.
The floor space required is no larger
than if the dynamo had a pulley for
belt drilling.
One of the latest applications of
| electricity to mining operations is seen
in the Metternich lead mine in Belgium.
Each bucket arriving at the top of the
shaft makes an electric contact, and a
needle in the Office indicates by a red
line upon revolving drum the number
OF buckets brought up.-Manchester
Union.
The question of an antidote for an
electric show is now being agitated. An
amateur investigator is reported to
have found that the insertion of aro-
matte spirits of ammonia into the body
of a bird which has received a shock
from an electric wire brought the ami
NAL back to life after all signs of ami
nation had disappeared
The largest electric generator ever
installed in Canada is going into the
power station of the Ottawa street rail-
way. 1t weighs $4,000 pounds, and will
furnish current for the road and for use
in heating appliances with which the
power house is to be equipped. This
will probably be the first building in
America heated throughout by cleo
tricity.
An ingenius lock has been invented
by which doors, etc, may be locked
and unlocked from distance electric
trically. 1t is specially applicable for
doors in private and business houses,
uhN OLAASSo NACIC dOoOluCC privacy Is
needed or desired. The lock is operated
by simply turning switch. Thus the
occupant of a room may instantaneous
ly admit person, and as instantaneous
ly lock the door on his egress, without
leaving his chair, as the switch can be
placed close at hand.
The village of Edison, n. j., which
was formerly known as Odgen, is the
site lof the works of the New Jersey s.
Pennsylvania Ore Concentration Co.,
and here Mr.. Edison has established
his magnetic ore-separating apparatus.
The ore as taken from the mine is run
through enormous crushing machines
and then passed through the Edison
separator, where powerful magnets
attract all the iron and allow other SUBJ
stances to be carried away The ex-
tracted iron is then subjected to heat in
blast furnace and converted into pig
iron.
According to electrical industries,
the total number of electric roads in the
United States September Is, 1892, was
469, with capital stock of s2O5, $40, 900.
The number of miles was 5446, on which
there were operated 7769 motor cars and
3700 trail cars Taking the census of
1890, it is found that Massachusetts
I has 544S inhabitants to mile of electric
| railway. This state leads the country
in this respect Minnesota is close to
Massachusetts, having $500 people to
the mile of electric railway. California
has 1871; Ohio, 1874; Texas, 1878; New
York, IL, 46S and Illinois, 14,6O4.
-Armor & Co. have adopted novel
idea of connecting the different houses
and departments of their establishment
at the Chicago stock yards by an cleo
trio railroad. Heretofore pork and 9TH
er products of the packing houses have
been moved from place to place by men
with wheelbarrows, or in barrels The
electric line does away with the
vast amount of work required by the
old method, and greatly adds to the
working facilities of the Armor plant.
Every product or other thing to be
moved about the yards is put on board
the little cars and shipped to any de-
partment of the packing houses. The
system is simple. 1t does not interfere
with the workmen, and has proved to
be one of the most valuable of the mod
| ern Improvements introduced in the
packing business IN recent years.