Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — Ancient Reds. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Reds.

The old Greeks used beds supported on iron frames, while the Egyptians had couches shaped rude like easy chairs, with hollow backs and seats. Bilious Attacks often cause severe Colds Bile Beans Small will give relief In a few boura. The earliest newspaper was published in Venice, and called a Gazetta, from the name of the coin for which it was sold.

How Electricity Make* Light. A great number of people have but a very obscure idea of the principle of the arc and incandescent lamp, respectively. It may be slated that In the arc lamp electric discharge takes place between two pieces of hard conducting carbon, separated from eaoh other by an interval which is kept as nearly aa possible constant by automatic devices. An aic of light of intense brilliancy, called the voltaic arc, is thus obtained, The carbons, being raised to an exceedingly high temperature and exposed to the air, suffers waste by combustion, and hence require renewal. There is also a transference of particles in the direction of the current, the negative carbon increasing at the expense of the positive ono. With the view of obviating inconveniences arising from this cause, arrangements are often made for alternating the direction of the current. It is desirable both for the diffusion of light and for the lessening of its otherwise painful and injurious intensity, that a globe of ground glass should be used. In the alow or incandescent lamp, a filament of carbon Inclosed in a globe exhausted of air by a mercury pump, serves as a path along which the current passes. The resistance the electricity meets with in passing through this filament is sufficient to raise the latter to Incandescence, and a light is thus obtained more suitable for domestic purposes and the illumination of Interiors generally than that afforded by the arc lamp.