Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-06-08

In a few minutes the current 10 turned
on aeco. ding to promise. For second ol
two our lovers forget themselves and sach
other. Neither they nor any one else eveI
SAW such dazzling. overwhelming scenl
Of radiance and brilliancy as this. The
great crystal rivals the sun himself In its
viyidness, aud with much more than the
suns beauty. 1t is as il sun were sud
denly turned into = diamond Of tho firsl
water.
While our lovers go back to their nook
and sit and watch this apothcosis Of Ei1t-
son. let US take . short walk about the
Electrical building and go what NO shall
see. 1t Is too late In the evening and the
;rowtls are too thick to attempt anything
IKE careful study Of the show. But our
hasty run along shows US that this Il In.
deed the electrical age, and that electricity
Is the present industrial sensation. We
had heard SO before. or had read il In the
papers, but here we have the proof Of Il.
Herr are the machines and devices and
applications to speak FOR themselves. Here
Is the evidence Of the amazing manner In
which electricity has pervaded all the in
dustrics and nearly all the arts. There
would he difficulty in selecting q field Of
human effort in which il has not already
made its appearance in one form or an-
other. And as yet it is but an infant. II
1t can do all this Ms mere child during
the first ten or fifteen years Of its exist
ence, what will it do and what part will Il
bear in the economies Of the race when IL
shall have reached manhood's estater
II is almost incredible that eight or more
acres Of fioor space could be filled with the
products Of electrical industries, and yet
that is Just what one behoids in this build
ing, Over in Machinery hall are several
more acres, for it is there all the original
dynamos or sources Of power aro located.
In this great Electrical building - this
palace Of the marvellous one may seq all
forms Of electrical lighting and the most
astounding decorative effects, and also
wonderful variety Of the industrial uses Of
the magic current. Here is the telephone,
the telegraph, the ocean cable. with opera.
tors 10 show you Just how the work is
done, and to give You cable messages to
take home ~ souvenirs, Here is the tel
autograph or "far-writing in facsimile"
machine. Professor Grays latest wonder,
now for the first time to be made familiar
to the popular eye. Here is plating Of
metals, melting. furnishing. fusing, weld
Here are machines wi hich 90 down under
the ground or far into long tunnels and
bore holes and draw cars loaded with min.
eral or hoist weights to the surface, deriv-
ing their power by means of little wire
which may be run anywhere and to any
distance, and which gives of neither
steam, gas nor smoke. Here are acres and
acres of electrical devices which You will
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understand their purpose and use OF
such are the meteorological, surgical and
optical instruments OF the French and
Germans, the latter people excelling In
these scientific applications Of electricity.
They show thermometers which one may
put in his green house or in his mine or
granary and have its temperature regis
tered constantly in his parlor or Office
They have compasses whose polarity has
been strengthened by storage batteries, no
that mariners who sail in high latitudes,
or near the poles, may not DO troubled by
wobbly needles, They have surgical in
siruments which enable operators TO look
NIL through mans body, up his nose,
down his throat, into his eyeballs.
II our lovers go to the plaisance on .
bright, warm day and want to have q
with two or three Egyptians to carry IL,
and they arc sure Of n lively time. These
are becoming quite popular
They are especially good for lovers, for two
persons may ride in one chair II trouble bc
taken to find one Of the larger sort manned
by three and sometimes by four sons Of
Cairo. The chairs are not as comfortable
as the wheel-chairs, and cost more, but
they are such novelty, and some people
are so fond OF doing those things which at
tract the attention OF the multitude, that
the brown and perspring foreigners are
kept constantly on the move They have
a very awkward, shufiiing gait, and they
are all stoop ehouldcred, But they are
making more money than they ever made
before in all their lives, and American
lovers are not the only people who are
willing 10 give them good coin, either.
ROBERT GRAVES.