Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — Telephonic Danger. [ARTICLE]

Telephonic Danger.

Tne American Architect draws at-, tention to the serious danger which] may bo run by the introduction of the) electric light with aerial wires in cities already spread with telephonic circuits. All those who have employed the telephone wires running parallel to or crossed by telegraph wires are aware of the ease and frequency, with which the currents of the latter are transferred to the former. The currents employed on the electric light are much more powerful than those used in sending telegraphic messages, and if passed in the neighborhood of telephone wires would be likely to confuse messages, while if there happened by accident to be contact between a telephone wire and an electric light wire, the unfortunate user of the former would receive a shock certain to stun, and likely to do worse. The morabof all this is that wires for the electric light should be passed underground, and more than usual care taken in arrangements which promise to distribute and use the energy of a dozen thunder storms in lighung the streets. A suggestive color : A gentleman who had been given a description of a friend’s wife, but omitted all mention of her hair, was asked the color of it. His delicacy of feeling overcame him to such an extent that it was several moments before he ventured to give answer and then said, in a very reluctant way: ‘‘lt was that —that indescribable shade which suggests the thought that it would explode powder.”—Brooklyn Eagle.