Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — Twenty Interesting Facts About Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Twenty Interesting Facts About Electricity.

Thirty cells of battery, or thirty vtflts, are-required to make a current sufficient to carry a message over an Atlantic, cable. The longest. single line on which daily telephone connection is held is 750 miles, from Portland, Me., to Buffalo, N. Y. An experimental, small railway car has been sent a mile-a minute; street cars twenty miles an hour. There is 100,000 miles of submarine cable laid, or enough to go round the earth, four times. The maximum power generated by an electric motor is seventy-five horse power.. One hundred will soon be reached.* A break in a submarine cable is located by measifring tip electricity ; needed to charge either portion of the remaining unbroken part. There are one million miles of telegraph wire in the United States, or enough to go around the earth forty times. Four messages can be transmitted over any wire at one time by the quadruplex system now in daily use. Telegraphing from a moving train is accomplished through a circuit from the car roof inducing a current on the wire along the track.

The longest single telegraphic division is America to Europe via British America and New Zealand. Over one million messages are sent daily on the 170,000 miles of telephone wire in the United States. A two million candle power- arc light is operated in the light house at Housholm, Denmark. Two hundred and fifty thousand people are engaged solely in electrical, work in the United States. It takes about fifteen minutes to transmit a message from San Franciscoto Hong Kong via New York, Canso, Penzanze, Aden, Bombay, Madras, Penang and Singapore. Forty-two words per minute is the best time made in sending a message by the Morse alphabet. There are 300,000 telephones in use hi the United States. The most complete electrical plant on a war vessel is on the United States man-of-war “Chicago.” A transatlantic submarine cable costs about SI,OOO per mile. Four hundred miles of electric street car road is in operation in the United States. ' Five hundred volts in a single current is dangerous to human life. The Dogs were Ahead. Hunter—did you see a wolf and a pack of dogs pass this way? Farmer—That’s what; and gee whiz, wan’t they going though! “That’s good; and how were they making it?”’ “When they passed here the dogs were a little ahead.”—American Field. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts, being free from all drugs and poisonous chemicals, prudent housewives give them the preference.