The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-21

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At Cleveland there is motor driven
show window. 1t is built on the principle
of moving platform. and the display ca
pacIty of the window is quadrupled.
Wholesalers of New York are just be-
ginning to give attention to the matter of
decorating their windows. They have
been woefully negligent in this particular
heretofore.
A company engaged in the manufacture
of concrete machinery at South Bend,
Ind, recently received single order
amounting TO $25O0OO. The machinery was
for export,
Brooklyn is to have an imported pave
ment. The steamer Monadnock recently
brought over from England 210O tons of
large Stag bricks which are said to be
particularly durable, and they are to be
tried as an experiment on some of the
streets where the traffic is heaviest.
Electrical supply companies now have
a very considerable source of income in
the rental of electrical signs and similar
advertising devices. These companies find
it profitable to do this, in view of the
fact that they also reap a profit in the
matter of supplying the current to oper-
ate the same.
The electrical doorbelI has been improv-
ed recently by dispensing with the bat
teres usually resorted to for this pur-
pose. These batteries are source of con-
slant annoyance and expense and their
elimination will be a great convenience.
The new system is made use of where
there is a regular supply of electricity
for illumination, but the amount consum-
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slight.
The earliest incandescent electric light
lamps contained 70 cents Worth of plati-
num- and were blown by hand. At the
present time, the amount of this precious
metal is reduced to few cents worth,
and the bulbs are blown in large quanti-
ties of machinery at cost of cents
each. The average cost of these lamps Is
now Is cents despite the fact that there
are so different processes involved in their
manufacture.
In the construction of milking machines
heretofore devised, the lacteal stream has
been drawn from the COW by means OF a
vacuum maintained in the receiving re-
ceptacle. The animals generally objected
to the insertion of the tubes. The latest
improvement presses the teat between two
rollers and forces the milk out in the
same manner as when the milking opera
tion is done by hand.
The latest idea in skates has the quality
of folding into compact shape. so that it
is possible to put them in a wallet, and
thus a pair of them may be carried in
the pocket of a coat or tucked away in
the interior of lady's muff. The appear
ance of the folding skate on the foot Is
not materially different from the nom
folding type so familiar to all. But when
the implement is removed from the shoe,
the locking mechanism is hinged in such
a manner that the projecting parts repose
in a position parallel to the blade Thus
the awkward bulk of the skate is trans
formed into fiat shape half-inch. in
thickness, and In this position it slips into
the pocket or a wallet. The other skate
slips into a corresponding pocket, and
the wallet being closed, makes package
a trife more than a half-inch in thick
ness. and Of a length slightly greater than
that of the skate
: II the electro-plating process. as in gen.
eral use at the present time. it Is neces-
sary to give the article to be plated a
very thorough cleaning. In fact, 1t is
necessary that the surface should be
absolutely free from soil of any kind. The
mere contact with the finger will leave