The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-12
GOODS CHEERFULLY EXCHANGED OR MONEY REFUNDED

salt Of iron not named. Electrolysis re-
suits and the iron taken off the picked
rods in deposited on the cathode.
\ railroad on a wire ia the scheme, says
the New York Herald, which -. X. L.
Thomas, a San Francisco capitalist now
has on foot. He proposes to build what
he calls an ariel road from San Francisco
10 Los Angeles up the celebrated san
joaquin valley. The cars will be suS-
pended on cables and operated by cleo
tricity. They VIII run at the rate of 100
miles an hour. No grading will be neces-
sary for the construction Of this road, no
ties and no rails, no bridges and no fen
cling IN Of track; no section gang will he
required In its maintenance. X Will, so
its protector thinks, he the first road in
America to be absolutely free from smash
ups. The cars cant collide head-on, be-
cause the road is a double track, and they
can't be telescOped, because, by simple
little mechanism, If one train comes too
close to another the electricity Is shut
off. No distractions or blockades can
interfere with its running This new
railroad IS not the invention OF the cap
italist, blgt of his blind brother. "He
planned it all out In his darkness, says
Mr.. Thomas. land you will see one of these
days that Il Is such q perfectly feasible
and admirable plan that Il will one day
supersede the surface roads, both in the
city and in the country.
If the report made to the Pittsburg Dis
patch by "A staff correspondent Is not pre-
mature or exaggerated, electricians in
New York are about TO make an aggres-
sive movement In the distribution of the
magic energy. 1t is proposed to furnish
storage batteries of all sizes for distribu-
ton among consumers. Storage cells,
SAYS the informant, ARE made in all sizes,
the smallest weighing four ounces and
holding a current sufficient TO keep one
lamp burning for a stated time. Current
may be bought in quantities TO suit the
consumer. We first supply the cells, that
can be put aside when exhausted ana the
messenger on our electrical routes viii
collect the same when he makes MS
morning rounds, and leave freshly charg-
A. -
a novel method Of electric lighting the
cars travcrsing the Brooklyn brlgde has
been devised. In the main, says the New
York Tribune. the plan adopted resembles
the familiar trolley system. There Is
bare copper wire suspended above each
track and elabortely insulated from the
supports. From the dynamoS in the DOW
er house over the Brooklyn bridge the
current is led to the center OF the bridge
through a feeding cable, which there III
vides into two branches, one leading 70
each Of the towers, and there connecting
with the overhead wire. The two over
head wires are interconnected, moreover,
atinterVals of about 800 feet Then, af-
ter the current has gone into the cars
and done its work. it is led down through
wires and trucks to the rails, which lat
ter have been carefully "blonded' 70 Ia
cilitate its return to the power house
a manufacturers in Europe, says Har1-
ware, did not find satisfaction in any OF
the usual methods for the lighting of his
cloth mills. He tried gas jets. arc lights
and incandesCent lamps, all of which
failed to satisfy MIN, because they either
did not give light enough or too much
light, or cast shadows. He finally painted
the walls Of his room white and beneath
a certain number of arc lights Suspended
re1ectors This threw the light up 10 thu.
white ceiling, from which is was reflected
TO the room below, and this method OF
lighting is reported to have been a sue
cess.
Capt. Eder OF the Austrian army. has
found than a sixteen candle power mean
descent lamp gives off a maximum tenn
perature of - degrees c., and lamp OF
twenty-five candle power l0l degrees c.
Welded a temperature Of 2i5 degrees G
decompOsing explosives such as gunpow-
der, ecrasite, pyroxyl!ne, etc, but without
exploding them. The receptacle having