The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-06-22
IN THE ELecTR,cAL WORLD.

IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.
| Overland telegraphic communities
ton between India and China has at
| last been established by the junction
of the Burmese and Chinese lines on
the 10th of March.
| Thomas A. Edison is very fond Of
children. He delights to show them
through his workshops and to mystify
| them with his magic. To them he is
the real wizard he is often called.
DR.. Siemens. the Berlin electrician,
| dwells in a house which is known
! throughout Germany as 1.-The wonder
of Wansee." 1t is fitted from roof to
cellar w-sh electricity. The din
| ing-room, kitchen and wine cellar are
| all connected by means of miniature
railway.
"A lawyer in New Jersey, wishing
to attend a sale of real estate went to
Bridgeton, only to find that the sale
i was just beginning at Vineland, twelve
miles away. Nothing daunted, he
went to the telephone, put in his bid
| by its means, and captured the prop
| erty. Then he took the next train and
signed the necessary papers.
The electric launch on the Waikiki
| river. at Midway park, Middletown. N.
Y, is to obtain its power this year
| from a trolley circuit A wire will be
strung over the river and will be at
l
son. says the electrical engineer, why
this simple method should not be very
| successful, and lead to the introduction
| of other trolley boats on narrow
streams.
The Brooklyn bridge trustees, it
| appears, have at last introduced the
electric light on the bridge cars; and
| now that the cars are so lighted the
| electrical engineer thinks it would
seem to be but a short and easy step
| toward operating them by electric mo-
tors. All the conditions. it says, are
favorable for this, and with the over
head work now in position n trial of
| the method could be carried out with
| only slight expense.
| The Philadelphia Traction Co. is
making arrangements with a view to
securing palace cars for trolley par
| ties'' during the coming summer. They
will be leased to parties for the even
ing. Arrangements will be made to
| serve luncheon on board the cars.
| Music will be furnished. 1t is also pro-
posed to have electric launches placed
in the waters of Spring Garden, in the
at Fort McHenry and the mouth of the
Patapsco.
| "A manufacturer in Europe did not
| find satisfaction in any of the usual
methods for the lighting of his cloth
mills He triedgas jets, arc-lights
|
which failed tosatisfy him, 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 be-
meath 4 certain number of arc-lights
suspended reflectors. This threw the
| light up to the white ceiling, from
which it was reflected to the room be-
low, and this method of lighting is re-
ported to have been a success.-Har d-
| ware.
| An enormous business is said to
have been done recently at French
| fairs by a man who professed to sell a
| rat powder that was perfectly harm
less, and that struck rats dead on the
spot. In order to convince the sSep-
tical, the man first of all powdered a
slice of bread with the stuff, and ate a
piece of it himself. Then he put the
remainder under a glass case in which
a rat was kept in captivity. The rat
| went to eat the bread and instantly
| fell dead. At ten cents box the pow
| der went off like hot cakes, and tho
| lucky proprietor of the specific was in
a fair way to make fortune. But the
police, who in France are very active
in protecting the people from fraud,
| looked into the matter and found that
| the powder was nothing but ordinary
| sugar. They also discovered that the
| case was connected with powerful
| electric battery, and that the moment
! was turned on, and it was thus that
his death was brought about. The
| man was arrested at the fair of Abb.
| Overnight.
! Col. Gimpson-Wall, I've brought 'er