Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-06-03
Gram Trade and Crop.

The Cincinnati Price Cala rent of last
Thursday says
There has been very wide Gistribu-
ton of moisture the past week, and i'm
portant relief has been had in some
sections. while in others the excess has
been SO severe as to occasion serious
drawbacks, SO that it appears likely
that in the general survey there has
been no important betterment of the
crop outlook, it being reasonable to as
sumo that the benefits from needful'
rains in some districts have been fully
balanced by the setbacks in others.
So far as the winter wheat crop IS
concerned the situation is not essential
ly changed. The later advices, even
from sections where rains have Afforded
relief to crop conditions. do not justify
the fullness of expectations whlcn nave
generally prevailed.
In the spring wheat regions of the
Northwest there has been some better
ment of the situation, but not to an
extent implying radio al turn OF af-
fairs.
The recent rains have been favorable
to grass lands, and there is an jmprOv-
ed outlook for the hay crop, which now
promises to be more abundant than
last year.
The oats and corn crops are for the
most part doing well. In some of the
western districts there is too much
moisture for corn, and there = is some
complaint of rank growth of oats, and
apprehension of rust
The changes in the wheat markets
have for the most part been downward
during the week. and this shaping was
quite pronounced on yesterday, when
July delivery at Chicago touched $50,
and September 594. The trade informa-
ton affords little explanation for such
conditions other than speculative
raiding Of the markets. Courage of
such operators is promoted by the as
surance of an early harvesting OF the
winter grain.
| The statement is made by a New
| York paper that both Tesla and Edison
are about to astonish the world with
new wonders in electricity. The for
mer, it is said, has perfected his vacu-
um-tube system Of electric lighting
without wires, the possibilities of which
he first brought to public notice about
five years ago in lecture before the
American Institute of Electrical Engi-
neers. This light is whittier. more bril-
liant, and more intense than the arc
light, and is produced with much
smaller amount of electrical emery.
Edison's latest advance, attained by
working along lines different from
those of Tesla, is the development of a
new kind of electric lamp or vacuum
tube, by means of which the Roentgen
X-rays are turned into pure, white
light. Edison's new lamp is an ordin
airy Crookes tube, coated on the interi-
or surface with crystals of a new fiuo
rescing substance, which he has discov-
cred, similar to tungstate of calcium.
The X rays, in passing through this
coating of crystals, are changed to
light. Very little heat is generated.
and nearly the whole of the electrical
energy expended is transformed into
light. From both of these discoveries
is expected more perfect and more
economical illuminant than any we now
have.
However, it is hardly possible that
| either discovery will astonish the
world. The fact is, progress in the
| field of electrical science has been SO
rapid recently that the world is pretty
we'll prepared not to be astonished at
any new discovery such men as Tesla
and Edison may announee.-Richnao1ad
Dispatch.