The Southern herald., 1894-07-27


The Consolidated Railway 60. q
Cincinnati, has Hnced its inten.
ton 70 equip zll its horse lines with
electricity as soou as possible
What viii prove . be 3 u.ost ase.
iul industrial Development IS ths appli-
cation of electricity 70 the cleansing
ard preservatiun cf boilers. The meth.
Cd employed IS the sending oi electrio
currents periodically through the she'll
Of the boiler. By this means the scale
formed On the shell and tubes is disin-
tegrated and easily removed.
The electric railway on tie battle
field Of GettyshHrg, Pa, is about t. 30.
The government commission on April
2s served notice on President Hoffer Of
that road that the United States would
condemn every portion Of the railway
that is On ground which was occupied
BY federal OF confederate troops This
win remove the fine from the valley
Of DEATH the side Of Little Refund
Top, and along ''Hancoel's Front.
-Electrical experiment Of great in
terest was lately conducted by Prof
Julius Freidenwald at the baltimore
College Of Physicians and Surgeons.
By means Of a flexible rubber tube. a
small electric light was introduced in
to the stomach Of a patient, and, the
the lights in the room being lowered,
over two hundred persons viewed the
workings Of the patients internal or
gans through the transparency which
the light created IN the abdominal
wall.
According TO the United States
census the average cost Of steam power
IS $50 per horse power per year, or for
a total Of $3.50 horse power hours.
: Water power costs % cents against Ii;
cents for steam power per horse power
hour. AT Niagara Falls il is said that
power is being contracted for at from
! So 10 $50 per horse power per year nm
der terms that allow the use Of the
power twenty-four hours day for the
s65 days in the year.-Electrical Indus
tries.
Electric currents in plants are due
says Kunclxel, to the movements o.
water in the tissues, and not 10 differ
ences Of potential, existing independ
emily. II was considered probable tina
vegetable electricity was due to bio
logical processes, especially respira
tion, and the constant chemica
changes. In experimenting with leave
and flowers of dlcotyledons and on
large mushroom in an atmosphere o
hydrogen, It was found that the elec
trio current was diminished, but neve
! quite suppressed, owing, probably, 4
intramolecular respiration. The cleo
trio current revives on air being read
mitted.
The Electrical Engineer, in re
cent issue, devoted considerable spac'
to an illustrated description of tn
Johnson-Lundell electric railway sys
tenn. which has been under expert
mental test in New York for som
months past. To all appearances, say
that paper editorially, it is most i'm
portant advance in the art, combining
very ingcniously all the great advani
ages of both the closed conduit metho
and the storage battery car, and abol
ishing at one stroke all the evils of tn
overhead wire. Moreover, several neN
features are introduced in the car
which has but one motor, special
geared in such a way as to obtain th
benefits of series-parallel contro
with ability TO govern the motion q
the car entirely through the swite
and handle. A system SO thorough
and cleverly worked out as this seem
to be, concludes the Electrical Eng
neer, makes strong bid for the publ
favor denied the trolley.