The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-10-14
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

per cent by using the electric light to
force lettuce.
The electric light has been intro
duced into a new flour mill near to the
supposed site Of Calvary and close to
the Damascus gate at Jerusalem.
The properties and use of the ma
riner's compass were known to the
Chinese centuries ago. 1t was brought
to Europe in the thirteenth century
and first used on the Mediterranean.
Bangkok has an electric street rail-
way three miles long built and put into
successful operate by American cap
ita1. 1t is the first electric street line in
the extreme Orient, and is already do
ing so we'll that an extension lis con-
templated.
That it pays to advertise judicious-
ly in the electrical business is shown
by the experience Of the manufacture
ers of electrical fans. In spite of the
cool weather this season the demand
for the fans has been very large, and
next year the firms look for tremend-
Gus business.
The only electric launch on the
Pacific coast is the Electra, owned by
the Santa Cruz Electric Navigate CO.,
of San Francisco. 1t is 81 feet long,
and is driven through the water at Il
speed of 10 miles an hour by Il battery
of 46 cells which can run for about 10
hours without being rccharged.
A survey for "a cable from the
shores of California to the Sandwich
islands has resulted in "a route being
chosen from Monterey bay to Honolulu.
The route selected will require the
smallest length Of wire, and it passes
over an even bottom, favora BILE for the
protection and preservation of Il ca bic,
submari mountains being avoided.
When Edison has begun something
new he has no peace until the work is
either completed or abandoned for
good. In case OF success he Immediately
conccives a hatred for the invention.
Recently he said: II haven't used a telc-
phone in ten years, and | would go out
of my way any time to miss an inc.des-
cent lamp
Lieut.. Apostolow, of the Russian
navy. recently exhibited to some naval
officers in Odessa IA new style OF ship,
without screw or paddle, but which
has instead "a kind of running cleo
trical gear around the vessels hull
under the waterline, and a revolving
mechanism, which, he says. will oropel
IA ship from Liverpool to New York in
twenty-cight hours.
In one farming community in Mich
izan telegraph line connecting all
the farms in a large district with a
neigh boring town has been put in. at u
cost of two hundred dollars. The farm
crs themselves, or their children, have
learned how to operate the instruments,
times over by the saving effected on ac-
count of the better means of communi-
cation made possible by the line.
The first experimental telephone
exchange was operated May II. 1877,
and the first commercial telephone cN-
change was opened in February. 1878
Yet at the beginning of the current
year, in the United States alone. half a
million telephone instruments and 49,
900 miles of line wire, 100000 of which
were under ground. We're employed for
the transmission in one year GS32) of
stations, giving a t the same time honest
and congenial employment to 10000
persons. Electrical World.
Experiments have been recently
made in Germany to test the practicH-
bility of lighting mail cars with incan-
descent lights instead of gas lights.
which heat and vitiate the close air of
the cars. The current has been sup
piled by storage batteries. with capa-
city of 100 ampercs an hour, sufficient
to keep eight lamps Of Preamble power
each burning brilliantly and steadily.
at 4 cost of three pfcnnigs light an
honr, against an expense of four pfen-
nigs a light an hour when gas was used.
-Turpin, the inventor of mclinite,
has submitted to the French war office
an electric gun alleged to hc capable
of discharging twenty-five thousand
DrO1cctl1cS nNC minutes anu to nave
a range of several miles The appar-
atus is compare lively light in weight,
SO that it can be drawn by two horses
and worked by four men. The pro-
jectiles are small shells charged with
Il secret chemical prepare ton. spread
ing death for sixty yards around. The
English government is said to be neEo-
tiating for the purchase of the inven-
ton, though skeptical of it's value
Electricity.
PROM Cuba come the details of a
peculiar accident to an overhead cleo
trio light conductor. The bridge cross
ing the San Juan river in MatanzaS was
carried away by a food, xnd long
span had to be made with the wires
crossing the river. One of these wires
broke in two, and both ends fell into
the water. At the station and in the
part of the city lighted by that circuit
no one noticed the accident. as there
was apparently no change in the lights.
In the morning the break was found
and spliced, the current having passed
uninterruptedly through the water all
night.
Entertaining = House Party.
The house itself may be valua BILE
djunct in the entertainment of ones
friends. a kill-joy whose influence it
is hard to overcome. If possible let us
do away with company rooms and
make our friends welcome in those
made hcnlelike by our daily presence
and that of our families. Nothing but
- will tax the stiffness ont Of