The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-08-12

in sight. When the proposeu
Pacific cable is laid, it will be
practicable to send a message
around the world in three
seconds, and it is promised that
a method will be found for
telegraphing between ships
u.any miles apart at sea. Even
now it no longer seems to be
very wonderful that by the
touch of a button at the Naval
observatory in Washington
each day at noon 100000 clocks
all over the United States
should be set to the true time,
while time balls are dropped at
the Atlantic and Pacific coast
for the benefit of mariners.
Heat into ELECTRICITY.
The great problem likely to
be solved in the twentieth
century is transformation of
heat into electricity direct.
When this is accomplished, the
servant, in the morning, will
start a fire, the heat of which
will fill a series of storage
batteries that will do most of
the work of the household
during the day, Illuminating
the dwelling, propelling the
machine fans, running the sew
inp machine. Operatinx the
dumb waiter, and so forth. This.
however, is onlya faint sugges-
ton of the advantages to be
gained by the discovery speak
of. Electricity will then be-
come an exceedingly cheap
scource of energy, and the SUMS
rays may even be employed to
manufacture the fluid. If, as
does not seem unlikely, a
twentieth century inventor
finds a practical wayof harness
sing the tides, the latter will
produce at very slight expense
all the electricity required to
run all the machinery and to
heat and illuminate all the
houses in the United State.
10th ..IEht and Heat.
"Street cars Ire not only run
by electricity, but are illumin-
ated and heated by the same
agency. The heaters used for
this purpose required no atten-
ton. regulate the temperature
exactly as it may be wanted,
and, when used on railway
trains do not endanger the
safety of passengers. One Of the.
latest improvements is to pro.
vide each berth i'll a sleeping
car with an incanelescent light,
so that one may read if slutnber
comes not. Similarly incandes-
cent lights are now provided
for carriages, and they are even
coming into ure for cabs. The
Emperor of Germany has his
closed carriages lighted it, this
way, and liz addition, the har-
nesses Of his horses are cover
ed with small glow-lights of
different 'colors, SO as to pro-
duce q very beautiful effect.
"The twentieth century will
see electricity introduced i'll the
kitchen III place of coal and
wood. In order that this may
be accomplished it il only
necessary that the fluid should
he made IL little cheaper, mas
much as it serves much better
for all culinary purposes. The
electric oven bakes bread ideal
ly, and meats prepared in it do
not require basting Oh watching,
while boiling OF frying may be
done in superior style on the
electric range. The electric
chatting dish is attachable at a
moments notice to ON ordinary
light-wire, the current is turned
on, and Immediately the oysters
begin to stew or the eggs to
trizzle. In the electric kitchen
of the near future there will be
no coal no ashes, and no smoke,
there will lie no fuel. aud not
even a battery. inasMuch as the
requisite current will be
furnished from outside as gas.
is now, The sadirons used on
Tuesdays for the family linen
will be heated by electricity,
and will be kept thus at a
constant temperature, SO that
they will never scorch things
and will not require hanging
or relocating. Already we have
electric curling tongs, which,
being hitched to a light-wire,
are warranted not to SINCE the
hair.
chenistry and Medicine.
"An extreme valuable pro-
| duct of the electric furnace, by
the way, is carbonrundum-
uow beiug made in a large way
at Niagara-which is the hard.
est of all substances save the
diamond, and therefore serves
extremely we'll as an abrasive.
BY electrolysis aluminium is