The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-02

inserted his hand, and the electricity gave him such a twinge that he yelled vigorously and was caught literally redhanded.
 The professors little dodge resulted in an effective system of protection be- ing applied successfully to several museums in America and England. Wires conveying an electric current were run underneath the lid of each case containing valuable articles.
 If the cover was lifted or disturbed in any way an alarm was instantly transmitted to the office of an attendant or night watchman, and several cleo tries were sounded simultaneously.
 Four museum pilferers were captured in one month in America in this way.
 Electric burglar alarms are very common nowadays, and there is hardly public institution or palatial resi- dence in the kingdom that is not fit- ted out with one or two of them. Several of our best orchards are sur- rounded by net of fine wire mesh six or eight feet high, with a couple of cop per wires some distance apart, stretch ed along the top of it.
 Every night a strong current is switched into these, carrying electricity right through the wire mesh, making it perfect terror to theives and others of that ilk.
 The popularity of the electrical call culating machine Is daily increasing in America, where it was invented. Those who are using it declare that it is three times as simple as the calculating machine which works by hand.
 The latter machine, by the way, be- came an essential in the world of science long since, and almost every life insurance and government office in Great Britain has one in use. l Eight of the machines were placed in the accountants department of the Bank of England some years ago, and proved an immediate success, MT, Joseph Chamberlain introduced the in- vention into the House of Commons where it has been found an invaluable assistant in drawing up statistics. 1 Whether the electrical calculator will oust the mechanical one remains to be seen. Dr. Hammond. a Washington physician, has found that sleep can be induced by sending 6 mild electric cur. rent through the sympathetic nerves of the spinal column to the brain, and he has placed on the market a small bat. tery, of his own design, for the benefit of those whose over-wrought nerves force them to discover some reliable method of producing sleep artificially By means of an electric battery and c keyboard, similar to that of a piano, the rector of Rundall rings his church bells before every service, and also al both weddings and funerals. This is quite new idea and if 1t ever becomes fashionable the majority of the bel ringers in this country will starve. Metal can now be welded by elce. tricity and no eye could tell where the functions are made. Railway metals are welded into continuous lines of a mile or SD long by this method, and many of the rims of wheels for motol cars and similar vehicles are being electrically welded.
 George Maxwell, one of the most sue,
 
 1 Trade at Chicago, was robbed literal by electricity, One, evening while in nis office the telephone bell rang, and in re- | ply to his "Huller' a masculine voice rough, and raspifrgt said: ... .. 'IT'm Thomas Jefferson Odell, tho famous burglar T and two of my friends have gained to your house, The cook, the chambeFmaid and your wife are lying here in the drawing room gagged and bound. We have disposed of the black coachman. and some bundles of rag and straw, soaked 1T petroleum, have been judiciously dis. tributed about the house ready to bt ignited" !.
 You scoundrell' shouter the agonized Maxwell.
 Don't speak so loud" was the cain retort: you'll smother the instrument Now listen to me. need little loar of $2,000 cash. It is now 5:30. o'clock At this very moment my confederate has entered your office to receive the money. Refuse to pay it to him and your house will be burned to the ground with your wife and servants ir it."
 Mir, Maxwell. turning around, saw 6 stranger dressed in the height of fash. ion, before him.
 T have called to collect little mat. ter of S2,0OO for MT Odell," said the visitor.
 Mir Maxwell. without a word, went tt his safe and handed the stranger two packages containing $2,OOO in notes Then Odell's confederate stepped to tn, telephone and said: .,.
 T have the money. Free Mrs. Max we'll and the servants, and leave the house as you found It."
 Then he strode out of the office witt the grandeur of a Spanish hidalgo. When Mr Maxwell arrived home h