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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1916)
a ELECTRIC LAWe A Budapest engineer, Mr. Karl von Dreger, after three years of experi ment, has perfected an electric lamp which operates without a battery, the power being obtained by the trans formation of muscular action into electric energy. The pocket lamp, which corresponds in size and light ing power to the ordinary battery lamps, obtains its power from the thumb of the hand which carries it. The thumb moves a small projecting lever along the sector of a circle with a moderate expenditure of strength. A spring draws the lever swiftly baca to the original position. By corre sponding rapid pressure on uie lever, and utilizing a rachet, a spring is stretched or “wound up” and this, by the interpolation of a few cog wheels, drives with an approximately regular number of revolutions, a small magnet with a permanent magnet as a neiu, Uusually the lever is worked contin uously, as long as it is desired to have the light burn, but Mr. vo' Dreger has succeeded in storing up so much en ergy in the spring that the lamp will continue to burn for several minutes after the lever motion has ceased. The lamp is manufactured in an other form intended to be carried (Traglampe). Here the power is ob tained by pressing together two han dles attached to the casing of the lamp. One of these is fixed and the other is movable and is operated by the whole hand instead of by the thumb alone. It gives a corresponding, larger amount of light. The same principle can be employed for other uses, i. e. to operate ignition dynamos for blasting.—Elek. Ztg.—Scientific American Supplement. DERAILMENT BY WIND The derailment of railway trains by wind is not an uncommon occur ence in case of light, narrow-gauge railways. Mr. R. H. Curtis, writing in Symon’s Metrological Magazine, tells how this danger has been virtu ally eliminated on one such line; viz.., a stretch of 36 miles along the Atlan tic coast of Ireland, forming part ol the West Clare Railway. Probably there is no other line in British Isles exposed to such violent gales, and dur ing a few years prior to 1909 as many as five “blow-offs” occurred, in which the carriages were completely smash ed though there was fortunately no loss of life. In that year Mr. Curtis devised for the railway a pressure tube anemometer with electrical appa ratus for giving warnings by ringing a bell in the station-master’s house at Quilty; the first when the velocity of wind reached 65 miles an hour, the second when it reached 85 miles an hour. When the first warning is given, 2,400 pounds of movable ballast, kept for the purpose at every station, is placed on each vehicle of any train on the line at the first station it reaches. When the second signal is given, trains are stopped until the storm abates. Since the apparatus was installed, in December, 1909, there has been only one storm-derailment, and this was due to deliberate disre gard of the signals.—Scientific Amer ican. The Fontenelle Investment Com pany buys, sells and exchanges any thing. Phone Douglas 7150.—Adv. BINGA DLSMOND EQUALS WORLD’S RECORD WITH EASE Chicago, 111., June 8.—Binga Dis mond’s quarter mile in 47 2-6 seconds at Evanston Saturday is still the talk of the athletic world, and has given impetus to the plans of having the great Maroon runner meet T< d Mere dith, the national champion in aj match race. Dismond’s performance Saturday was truly a brilliant one. The great flier got away to a good start and jumped the field on the first turn, increasing his lead on the back stretch and breasted the tape an easy winner. Had he been j pushed to the limit, a world’s record would have been in the making. Commenting in the Pittsburgh Ga zette Times anent the great Dis mond, Leslie W. Rowland, offers the following: “The University of Chicago has a Negro runner of whom the staid old school is mighty proud. Binga Dis mond, a good student, a gentleman, an athlete of extraordinary ability, has been carrying the Maroons to victory all season. And the students who frequent Marshall Field and the Midway forget Dismond’s color and[ sing praises to his name, which is as it should be. The lad broke thej conference quarter-mile record in the annual meet at Evanston Saturday and equaled Ted Meredith’s world’s record of 47 2-5 seconds in that event. Such men are more than a credit to their race; they are a credit to the white race. They are white in side.” COLORED YOUTH WINS ORATORICAL PRIZE New York, June 17.—A young Col ored student’s oration on Brooker T. : Washington the late educator, dead locked the judges on the second prize, in the George Augustus Sanclham on* i torical contest of New York Univer sity’s commencement exercises. As a result two second prizes were award ed, one to Lewis Davidson, ’17, the colored contestant, and the other to William H. Draper, ’16, the white contestant, who spoke tor prepared ness in his address, “A Plea for a Virile National Policy.” IOWA FEDERATION OF WOMAN’S CLUBS Buxton, Iowa, June 17.—The Iowa Federation of Colored Woman’s Clubs convened at Buxton, May 23 and 24. Monday evening the reception for visitors was held at the Colored Y. M. C. A. Tuesday morning the Federation entered into the business ot tne reu eration for the fifteenth annual ses sion at St. John’s A. M. E. Church, Mrs. Sue M. Brown, president, presid ing. The reports of the clubs showed an increase during the year. Six new clubs were organized and were admit ted to membership. AID GIVEN COLORED SCHOOLS IN KENTUCKY Frankfort, Ky., June 17.—V. O. Gilbert, superintendent of public in struction, has received $2,000 from the general board of education of New York with which to employ Colored rural school supervisors. The board also furnished $950 for county train ing schools for teachers. Such a school has been organized in Bour bon county and $360 will be donated to that school. About three hundred dollars will go toward tthe establish ment of a training school in Nicholas county. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES—1% cents a word for single insertions, 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement for les3 than 15c. Cash should ac company advertisement. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Nicely furnished front room. Mod ern except heat. 1630 North Twenty second street. Webster 1171. Modern furnished rooms for rent, $1.50 and up. Miss Hayes, 1826 No. 23rd St. Webster 5639. Nice furnished rooms. 2715 Doug las street. Hamey 2155. Clean, modem furnished rooms on Dodge and Twenty-fourth street car lines. Mrs. Annie Banks,, Douglas 4379. Mrs. L. M. Bentley-Webster, first class modern furnished rooms, 1702 N. 26th St. Phone Webster 4769. HOUSES—FOR RENT Nine room modem house, with or without garage. Walking distance. Reasonable rent to right party. Call Hamey 6808. P’or Rent—7 room house and bath room. 3510 N. 33rd St., phone Hamey 4002. Rent $12.00. For Rent—Two five room houses, 920 and 934 North Twenty-seventh street. $12.00 month. Call Webster 1555. OPPORTUNITY TO RENTPAYERS. Such opportunities as are now of fered the wage-earners of Omaha to own their homes will positively never be offered again. The time to stop renting is now while the prices are low and terms are easy; look this list over; every one a snap: 7-r 2124 N. 27th St., partly mod. $2200 5-r 2010 N. 26th St., strictly mod 2600 5-r 2309 N. 27th St., partly mod. 1600 7- r 3401 Decatur, partly modem 2750 8- r 1923 S. 19th St. 1750 5-r 3016 Burdette . 1250 7-r 2631 Lake; strictly modem. 3750 G-r 3310 Ave. B, C. B., Ia. mod. 3000 5- r 2724 Burdette, partly modem 1450 6- r 110 S. 28th Ave., modem.... 2750 Rental List. 2417 Burdette, 4 rooms.$12.50 1817 Douglas, 6 rooms and bath $20.00 Call or see W. G. MORGAN, Douglas 2466 1916 Cuming St. WANTED. WANTED—Girls or women for sorting paper. Call at Omaha Paper Stock company, Eighteenth and Marcy streets. WANTED—Position by first class practical nurse. Good in all confine ment cases. Call Harney 4682. Mrs. Mamie Jasper, 2813 Cuming street. FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS. Watch this space for Real Estate Bargains, Houses, Acreage and Farm Land, for sale. W. G. 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