Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-12-15
in THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

cOhceued 10 french company bne i
right to build telephone lines and cs'
tablish telephone communication be
tween all the large towns of the Rus.
sian empire.
1T appears that San Francisco is
ahead of St Louis in the matter of
having an electric street railway hearse
on the line to Cypress Hill cemetery.
Like st. Louis, however, it will no
doubt also have ambulances to run on
the electric roads of the city.
An electric oven, just invented,
roasts beef and other joints, and bakes
pies and puddings while the outside of
the oven heats the contents of pans,
kettles, etc. There are no ashes, no
smoke, no fuel, and in an instant the
.ilsuaT may be turned on or eXtinguished.
The ramifcations of the long dis
lance telephone are becoming more
numerous every day. The latest addi-
ton to the network is the new line be-
tween Spokane, Wash, and Everett, by
way of Portland Ore, some 800 miles
in length, the second longest line on
this continent Electrical Review.
New England electric lighting
plants operated by water POWER have
been having hard time of it during
the recent dry spell. Rivers have fallen
so low that in some cases there hasn't
been water enough to run the plant,
and mills and shops have been COM
PEELED to use gas and kerosene in place
of electricity for lighting purposes.
An electric cooking apparatus is
| reported to have been invented, which
can be sold for reasonable sum and
he economically operated. 1t is con-
trolled by company which already
makes electrical cooking apparatus,
aud the new invention will not be put
on sale until all the expensive appa-
ratus now made up is worked off on the
unsuspecting public.
"A mineral spring in Switzerland
was brought to light in queer way.
Lightning struck heap of old wood
piled on rock, and so blasted the
rock that a stream of water began
trickling forth, which was found to be
impregnated with sulphates of iron
and magnesium. With this incident as
a hint, electrical inventors will proba-
bly, soon be putting on the market cleo
trio mineral spring finders.
The light house board has been in
formed that lighthouse is to be erect
ed on Penmarch Point, Brittany. 1t
will contain a lightning flash" light
| Of Ia n
beam which can be seen in clear wealth
er sixty-three miles away and in foggy
weather twenty-one miles. This is by
far the most powerful, searching and
penetrating light known to science. 1t
will cost about 100000, and be known
as the Eckmuhl lighthouse,
-Paddington, London district
which contains 100000 inhabitants,
burns 10000 tons of garbage year in
furnaces which furnish sufficient power
to light all the streets of Paddington
and reduce the cost of electric lights to
all the householders in the district. On
experiment it was found that three
tons of garbage were equal to abou
one ton of coal in making steam, SO
that the garbage of the district is
equivalent to 10000 tons of coal annu-
ally for electric light service. -Phila-
delphia Press.
Prof. Calico Ferraris, the genial
Italian scientist whose name is well
known to all electricians, was recently
asked by a young lady what electricity
was, but, unlike most others when
asked that question, he ventured to an
swer it, and, according to Cosmos, "
wrote in French in her autograph book
the following, of which the Electrical
World ventures to give a translation,
even though the English language
hardly does justice to the original in
French; Maxwell has demonstrated
that luminous vibrations can be moth
ing else than periodic vibrations of
electromagnetic forces Hertz, in
proving by experiments that electro
: magnetic oscillations are propagated
like light, has given an experimental
basis to the theory of Maxwell. This
erous ether and the seat of electric and
magnetic forces are one and the same
thing. This being established, can
, now, my dear young lady, reply to the
question that you put to me: What is
electricity? 1t is not Only the formida-
bic agent which now and then skaters
: and tears the atmosphere, terrifying
you with the crash of its thunder, but
it is also the life-giving agent which
sends from heaven to earth, with the
light and the heat, the magic of colors
and the breath of life. 1t is that which
makes your heart beat to the palpita.
tions of the outside world, it is that
} which has the power to transmit to
J your soul the enchantment of "a look
and the grace of a smile
Ono Kind nf Ecouomy.