THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY JUNE lt > . i887. > TWELVE PAGES , ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND 'Tho President's Sister Enlisted in a Crusade Against Man's Horrid Habits. 'CHORUS GIRLS AT EVERGREEN .Dedication of the Actor's Monument JT' Edwin Itootli'rt Dignified Pftll- lll-Hrcd 1'copln nt the Opera Clara Dcllu'rt hotter. Nnv YOHK , Juno 0. [ Corrcspontlonco of the BUB. ] All the week and industri ously , too , I have been studying the pub lic manners of girls. It was not a cheap promiscuous excursion , but on a private yacht , which conveyed n party of se lected swells to a regatta , that I had ono opportunity to study au enamored pair. If their names were here written down , that of the follow would bo recognl/.cd from his fathcr-a wealthy prominence , and the maiden's would bo synonymous with social altitude. They calmly sat for hours in blissful unconsciousness of the fact that the cabin full of passengers wcro laughing at them. She lay back in a sofa chair in a languorous attitude , with her head pillowed on ? omo shawls , while ho leaned worshipfnlly over from another chair , and made a pretense of snapping at her chin. She caught his oar , nt ono of those dives toward hcr.and then ho had to hold his head down close enough so that she could whisper in it Without lifting her head. Then Bho curled his moustache , stroked his chin , patted his check , tapped his teeth and poked her linger into his mouth. Thin last performance gave them another Idea , and she would sco how far into his mouth she could poke her linger and then draw it out again be fore ho could bite it. This amused them for a long time , lint the car business seemed to strike them as the most en joyable way of passing the time , and during the journey up and.back each ouo of those cars was murmured into many times. The dust that gathered In thorn seemed to have much moro attraction for her oycs than the landscapes , nnd as for him , why , he would have lot her pull out a tooth , and sat through it all with the same ecstatic expression that rested on his countenance all that day. Noth ing interrupted their attention from each other. If the steamer had exploded I am Bnro they would have boon seen Hying through the air on the suioko stack un disturbed. MISS KOSK ELIZABETH CLKVELAND is really to become a teacher in ono of the fashionable schools for girls , ami it will become"Iier"duty to take her turn with the restof ? thrt faculty in lecturing on poUteneWfor belles. I don't know but she wilFsay some things about men's behavior , too , judging by what she said to an acquaintance of mine while here. "Tho most 'unpleasant feature of the elevated railroad"sho said , after a ride on it , "is the pronoucss to expectoration that overtakes thd male passengers on the stairways. A journey up or down the covered passages leading to the streets from the stations is fraught with as much danger as going around the Horn. The companies should put a monitor on the landings to muzzle the men who so outrage decency. This is the season of big sashes. Half the ladies' gowns have long ends of broad ribbon depending from their rears. In climbing stairs , a woman catches up her skirts behind , but nine times out 01 ten the sash escapes , and goes sweeping the stops behind ncr. This is an accident to shudder at. Its an indelicate subject to write about , but wo are forced to con sider it every time wo take or leave a train. " Miss Cleveland was asked in a Jocular wuy.how she would cure the men " 1 think women could disgust men with the practice of eternal expectoration if they all went in for it themselves , " she replied half seriously , "hot women nerve themselves , and band together for one wcok of this business. Chow some saliva provoking substance , and go abroad to spit about the streets and pub- he places , By Saturday night the papers would bo full of anathemas , and the of fense of the women would be the ono subject of conversation. Possibly a re form by force of example would ensue. " Women do keep' a much higher aver age of seemllness'ln ' public places than men. Look down the aisle of a theatre aad 6co tho'old boots and wrinkled socks waving iu tlje air. , Thevaroall mascu line. Thero'the'mon sir dangling a leg as if it was a ttaby with the stomach ache. I saw a man the other night with a foot ( made on the now principle of twenty-one inches makes a foot ) and a c&ae as big as. his log. The foot was beating the air * like the dasher of a churn , and the cane was striking the boot at every revolution that is every UIM the old foot came around. A prinia * O a was singing , and this lovely rythraio boat annoyed every ono iu his Mfgnborhood. X sat next u man who bad the jumps that same night. Ho would convulse ' kljauelf and give n snort , dig his knees into the back of tbo seat in front of him , Itpt his legs , stretch them out till the hats of Jils neighbors were kicked into the or chestra , and then start into the back of that seat in' front "again. The oc cupant looked doggars aml every time J beard the seat crack I got nervous Myself. Between acts ho went out , and while ho was gene I lixod things for him. Every available pin that put mo together I took out , and darned into the back of that Beat , points up , and an inch of the point bent over. St. Vitus came back- Bad began the programme. Ho duuccc his leg in the aisle , then slouched in his seat , so that his knees stuck up nearly as _ high as the back of the heavily protected 1 seat. Ho dug thorn in for a minutewhen they began slipping down ho struck a hat pin. Before ho could pull up ho was impaled on n bug safety pin. That was reinforced by several dimple , common every day pins all pointed , however Wo had no more climbing and 1 bet he aid his prajors ovcry way but on hi& knees that night. Chorus girls and actresses who have * sot yet arived at the dieuitvofa speak IKK part were present m abundance n u the ceremonies attending the dedicattion k ( - THE ACTOU31 KUNl ) MONUMENT i * Evergreen cemetery , There was „ comparatively few well known no I tresses there , but for thousands of curl ' ' ew people who stood about , and pushet and crowded for a front row position the minor artistes were as satisfactory as if their fame had titled > two continents I'or the chorus girl in holiday array is ai striking a ( Iguro as any tragedienne i tkat over played. She boars the stamp . ; ! the stago'In ovcty- feature , ornanicn ad action. Aud'tdls apparently without \ trying to appear conspicuous. The spec- , toMrs , therefore , wonv away under the impression that they lind seen a vast f fathering of popular , successful ; I'M * accomplished women , for that M M the estimation in' which actresses * aw usually held in spite of the social ' taboo against which they have toftrlvo * " Vfwcro ! nbout si'My ° t Vnftw dlsting- hSm0fn ! P IJJSiiOflothorln arudo , * " , , . < llr the purpose of singing P f In two hymns in the courseof CX'rcises. Except that their skirts re long and their throats covorcd.thoy teeked about as they do In comic opera. Their fashionable hats were poised co- " ItUhlr atop of their banged and frix- 1 hair , much of which was of a forced jdathado ; their cheeks wcro marked -fcf kHltby color that accuied ut a ois- tancc to bo capable of standing awash } their dresses were attractive , albeit some what pronounced , nnd their touniurcs were extensive and voluminous. They took a lively interest in iho ceremonies and scorned to bn as much swayed by curiosity as the humble women with ba bies in their tired arms who stood against jUic ropes and stared about them in undisguised wonder. To the chorus girls as to the general crowd.Mr. lidwln Booth > vas the center of attention , and when that dignl- llcd tragedian throw up his hands con vulsively anil went down with the col lapsing platform , there wcro not wanting fair singers to .shriek in momentary terror lest the great ornament to the American stage had come to harm. But it was to be noticed that although they uttered little cries of fright their rosy cheeks blanched not. When it came to singing the "Hallelu jah" chorus from Handol's "Messiah , " they attended .strictly to businessand the grand old composition was rendered with an cflcctiyonc'is ' well worthy of its high rank. Few oratorio societies with twice as many voices could render the iecc with the power and precision , both f rythmical accent nnd enunciation of vords , that these professional comic pora chorus singers did. Not a false iota or intonation marred the perform- ncc , and the girls had reason to feel iroud. So did the three score , plain ooking , plainly dressed , undistinguished gentlemen who sang with them , 'hcso wcro chorus singers also , but vith their last summer's straw hats nnd ast winter's tiles , they could not bo said 0 bear the mark of their profession so loticeably as their companions of the ex. I happened to ride back to the city n the same car with live of these young women. They sat quietly by themselves , mule no cll'ort to attract attention , and ct were the targets for all eyes. Not a , lassongcr got in who did not take in at 1 glance that they were stage folk , and hat point recognized , he or she did not ako eves oll'tho girls during the cntiro rip. The choristers did not seem to cure , hey certainly did not pay attention to t , and at the end of the route wont qui- tly towards their respective lodging louses , and people passing along the trects turned their heads to look at thorn. There was interest , too , iu the way the icoplo on the main stand , who wcro sup- loscd to bo eminent , behaved. They wore JUST MKU THE CIIORt/S OIUI.3 n their eagerness tq.sao everybody and ill that was going pu'.ji Their garments were invariably imnpsmft examples of the ilghest stylo. Tho"mucKa' of most of hem wcro redder than tbo , red , red rose doubly distilled in curn'iiuo. Their eyes wcro lustrous as diamonds sparkling' in citings of jot. This dcscaiption may be uggnstivo of "rnakoup , " and the facts vould amply justify it. Those who wcro eally actresses made a curious study as hey descended Iho stops from the stand it the conclusion of the exercises. It is jnly fair to say that there wcro some vho passed down and disappeared into ho dense crowd as modestly and unob- rusively as parsons' wives might have done ; but the great majority wcro only oo anxious to pause and pose. Half way town the stops naturally brought ono nto the most advantageous position for loing seen ; she would then bo separated rom the crowd behind and in full yiow of the crowd bulow. So nearly every voman stopped thcro on her way down , ookcd about over the heads of people in in Imperious way , turned her head laughtily back to sec if her companions vero following , and then continued her descent impressively , never deigning to ecognizo the presence of the staring housands. jSociety was startled a few years ago , vhen the well Known belle , Marion . .angdon , gave to young Mr. Belmont lis freedom , and declined to renew their matrimonial engagement , after months of good behavior and contrition. Now mother lady , not so well known , but n : harming woman , ha"s severed the bonds hat have bound her an entire season ) ends that would have boon rivctted by ho church next fall. Wo all know why Mr. Belmont got his congo , but the cause of Mr. Million's trouble is not yet widely known. It happened in this way : The lady has her dresses made in Paris , but her most intimate female friend pat- onl/.es u man dress builder hero iu Now fork. A Saratoga outfit was in process of construction at this establishment unit the fiance of Mr. Million , ( as we will lame him ) went witli her chum for a try- ng on ordeal , During the seance a girl ' 'rom the work rooms entered with a largo box containing a costume to get some directions as to its destination. "Don't you leave that dress without the bill is paid , " said the proprietor , in u subdued voice. "Miss Jewell's order was o send the bill to Pine street in the morn- ng , but bo sure and have the dross homo : o-night. You arc taking my orders. Youv'o got time to go to Pine street now , and catch him. He don't go to his sta bles till 3. " "Very well , " was the reply , "will I take a check. " "I'd rather have the money , " was the reply ; "be sure , now. and don't make your business known bpforohis father n big-nosod , tall , thin' man. ' Miss Jewell was very anxious Anrttiafc.drcss- don't play to-night , ana has''an engage ment to go to a theatneyAVith/hlm. too , I believe. " ' j . . Here the convcrtati6a u. 'became indis tinct , but , THE ENRAGED WOMAN WAS QUICK. Herlovcr's ollice was In Pine street. He wont daily to his stables at ! t p. m. His father had a beak like a shovel-nosed shark and was tall mid thin as a lamp post. She betrayed no interest in the scrappy con versation , but as soon her friend could bo taken away and deposited at home , our clover young society lady ( lew to a married friend and invited her and her husband lo take them to the mentioned theatre lhat evening. Sure enough , from the recesses of the box , which her party occupied , a close , survov of the house was uiijuccssful ; but prcse'ntly the front of the box opposite blossomed like that rose as Miss Jewell , the well known actress of nil Opera Comiqtie fame on tcrod Her companion stopped in the back ground , but an animated pantoniine showed that there was au escort and no a sleepy ono in the rear. Our younj , lady was vigilance itself as the curtain fell knowing Mr. Millions" partiality tor a cigarette in the foyer. Her patience was rewarded. A uowapa | > er man wont up to have a few words will Jewell , and know how she escaped the hill for a night , and Million wont out She saw him leisurely stroll up the aisle and pull the cuds of his blonde moustache and , if there was anj comfort in anticl paling troublo.sho realized it in thinking how little ho dreamed of the impending storm. When ho returned to the box an usher handed him this note : "If Mr Million is disengaged at 2 o'clock tomorrow row , will he please call at 33,033 FifU avenue , in order to get a ring left there January and. " Then , as ho road it in the dim religious light of the back ot the logo , ho looked across , aud thcro , in the front of the box , sat his escaped prize , i little paler than usual , but with a tri iimuhant gleam in her dork oycs tha told htm plainer than words that the gem had been lost for an inferior Jo woll. CJJUCA BKLLK. IlAno Tuning by Telephone. A firm of Birmingham music dealers was lately required to tune an organ to accord with a piano in Mosoloy. ( t was impracticable to bring : the instruments together , but a happy plan was at length stumbled upon. A note of the piano was struck in front of a telephone , and the sound was so accurately transmitted to the distant tuner that he was soon able to accomplish his task.and the organ was sent in season for its intended , use with the piano in a concert. . . TOE ELECTRICAL WORLD , Discovery of a New Force , Which is Prac tically Tested , ABOUT ELECTRIC LIGHTING. Now Uses for Electricity Train Light ing Piano Tuning by Telephone Electric Locomotion Xclo- graphic Ilablta. Practical Tests With n New Electrical Torce. New York Tribune. The latest impor tant advance in electrical science has been uiado by C. Langdon-lavcsof ! Lou- don , who succeeded In utilizing for tele graphic purposes a form of electric force which can be separated altogothor'froui the ordinary electric current and winch can pass freely through insulators im passable by currents. Among other thingstelegraphic , messages can bo tians- inltted and received through an ordinary line wire , while at the same time otho telegraphic messages are being trans mitted and received through iho same wire by the ordinary telegraphic appara tus. The instrument which secures these results is called the phonoporo nnd when used in connection with the existing tele graph systems will materially increase their working capacity. It was _ while in vestigating the induction noises caused in telephone wires that Mr. Landon- Davics made his important discovery. Ho made the conclusion that the cll'ects ascribed to induction afforded evidence of the existence of a form of electrical force which might bo separated from cur rents and winch would pass frcoly through insulators impassible by cur rents. His conclusions were justified by experiments , but it was not until a short time ago that phonoporic telegraphy could be successfully employed , and that the principle could bo utilized upon an existing telegraph line which was at the same time being worked by the ordinary instruments. "It will certainly come as a surprise to many , " says the London Times , "to learn that the phouqporic instruments have no conducting circuit through them , but this is nevertheless a fact. The phone pore gives uninterrupted passage lo electrical cll'ects capable of being associ ated with sound , although it docs not permit the passage of electric currents. In exterior form the transmitter appears to ba an ordinary Morse key mounted1 on a base about four inches high. This base contains au instrument which somewhat resembles an induction coil. The im pulses are generated in a primary circuit of improved construction over which'is ' wound in place of a secondary circuit a phonophoro of two wires insulated from each other throughout their cutiro length and at both ends , each of these wires being , however , connected at ono end only to the lino. Their number of phon- ophoric impulses generated in the trans mitter per second is regulated by the vi brations of an organ reed placed in the primary circuit. Another rood tuned to the same rate of vibration is placed as a receiver at the distant station in front of an oluctro-magnot , and the phono-phone impulses from the transmitter cause it to vibrato. A now form of contact-breaker , operated by the receiver-reed , completes a local relay circuit when the reed is still , but breaks it whenever the reed vibrates , thereby setting in action any required instrument m connection with any battery. " A practical test with the phonoporo was made on a telegraph line running from London Bridge to Folkestone , the line bcins worked with the phonop'oro simultaneously with the ordinal v needle system working on the lino. The wire lias four single-needle instruments at lxiidon bridge , Nutlicld , ShorncHffc and Folkestone harbor. Two simplex phono- pore telegraphs , one at London bridge and the other at Folkestone harbor , wcro attached to the line , each by u single piece of wire. Five experiments wore arranged by Mr. Langdon-Davies and successfully carried out : (1) ( ) A phono- pore mes age was transmitted along from Folkestone to Londonand thcro received , working a postollieo universal relay nnd ordinary Morse sounder ; ( ! ) ) a similar phonopore message was transmitted and received while an ordinary telegraphic message was traveling in tlin same direc tion hot ween , the .same stations ; ( ! J ) a phonoporo message was transmitted and received while an ordinary telegraph message was being transmitted in the op posite direction between the same sta tions ; ( -1) ) a phonophpro message was transmitted and received between the terminal stations while an ordinary tele graph message was being transmitted between two intermediate stations ; ( S ) phonoporo messages wcro freely ex changed between the terminal points after the line had been discontinued nt London and Folkcstono and the circuit absolutely broken. These and similar experiments : have been carried out to the entire satisfaction of Latimer Clark , F. U. S. , and S. Mc- ( Jowan , dircctor-in-chief of telegraphs and deputy postmaster general of Aus tralia , and Mr. Clark has pointed out many advantages which the duplexing of a telegraph service by adding a simplex phonoporc possesses over the ordinary duplex system now in use. The cost of construction and of working is much lcs and messages can bo carried either in the same or opposite directions. Moreover , if the line is already working either the duplex or diplox on the ordinary system , the phonopore can still bo added to it as if the wire were being used for nothing else. The phono-pores are Jcasily worked- and in the trials mentioned the instru ments was worked at ono station by a boy of sixteen who had no experience with it. Electric fjielitlne * Detroit Frco Press : The reduction by the Brush Illuminating company of its price for electric light in New York , from 70 cents to 25 cents per lamp per night , seems to indicate ono of two things. Either there has been n consid erable cheapening of cost in , ho produc tion of the lighter the company has. been charging heretofore enormous profit. The cheapening theory there is little to support. There has been no marked re duction in the cost of coal or labor for the past live years ; and as thcso are the principal elements in the cost of olectrio light them can not have been anv aucli reduction in that as the immense "drop of the company would indicate. The theory that the company has been charging an enormous protit in the past Is far moro in harmony with what is known as to the history of electric light ing in this country. Yet thcro is n third possibility which may , perhaps , modiiiy public opinion as to the extent of the profit the companies have boon reaping. It transpired long since that thcro was n largo margin for the companies between the "candle power" at which their lamps were rated or guaranteed and that ac tually supplied. In a recent report to city of Bridgeport which we find quoted in the New York Times President H nrv Mortonuof the Jjtcyyjs jgstilu of technology , said on this point : " 1 had occasion some time since to measure the light of a number of the lamps used in the streets of Now York city and found that the best of them only reached 800 caudles. It has been cus tomary over since the first introduction of electric lighting for the clcctrio com panies to call tholr ordinary street lam r'3,000-candlo-powor lights , " though they have not possessed any such actual ef ficiency. If , therefore , you were to hold your electric light company to the word ing of their contract they might reason- claim that the term " 9,000 candle-power" tad become a tcchnlchat expression , noaning only a light of the usual cfllc- cncy , from 000 to 1,000 candle-flower by direct measurement. " It is qulto possible , tliercfore.that it ro- luclng its price more than CO percent the company proposes lo compcusalo itself > y reducing the candle power. The ex- stenco of this possibility makes It worth vhllo for Detroit and other Michigan cities using the Brush light to inquire a iltlo moro carefully than they have over f there is as little reason for calling them so as Iherc appears to have been in New York , the city ought to know it. The { iiowlcdgo might bo of service in con- ractiug for street lighting. Electric Locomotion. So long ago ai May , 1881 , an electric .ramwav opened near llcrlin , and traffic ias been regularly carried on during the six years without a mishap of any impor- auco , although the average speed is twelve miles au hour and 10U.OOO passen gers are carried annually. Iho line has ilways been regarded moro as im experi ment than as a typo to bo permanently adopted , and for that reason cars with liftcrcnt kinds of gearing have been .ried , not for a few months , but in rog- ilar work for several years in order to cst the durability of the mechanism ipopted. To obtain a higher degree of economy au electric motor must run with great velocity , which must bo greatly ro- luced by the time its motion is transmit- cd to the driving axles of a tramway ? ar ; methods of doing that form the sub- 'ects of several patents , and it may bo hat the best arrangement has not yet ) ccn dovised. It seems au easy thing to the uninitiated ; o reduce 800 revolutions of one shaft to iighty of another ; but when it has to bo lone in connection with a tram cart a vehicle on which space i.s limited , noi.so objcctionablc.and dirt and dust inabuud- inco , ono obstacle after another crops up o disapdoint the inventor who imagines ic has solved the problem , On the Berlin- , ichtcrfold line one of the cars has run " 0,000 miles since the opening , and has nilleys on the motor shaft and car axles , with V grooves in which to run coids of spiral sle.cl wires. This device , it scorns , works without noise or vibration , though iomo little difficulty is experienced inad- usling the "cords" upon the pulleys : for f too ticht they will break at the joinis , ind if too loose slip at starting not adis- idvantagc , as that is the most trying mo ment in ail gearing driven by electro motors. Other devices are employed , such as the pitch-chain , but the spiral cords scorn to bo the best. Gnv ana Electricity. Boston Herald : While there seems to > o no reason why the gas companies in ho state of Massachusetts should not be illowcd to make , distribute and sell elec tricity for lighting purposes , it should bo said that the restrictions governing the right to manufacture and dispose of cas do not properly apply to the manufac- .tiro alul sale of electricity for illuminat- ng purposes. T ho gas commissioners ire , with good reason , granted the power to prevent the establishment of rival gas companies in places where the needs of Iho people seem to be sufficiently met by existing facilities , for to establish a new gas company involves tearing up the itroets and putting the people to many nconvenicnccs not at all desirableunless some obvious gain is to result as a cense quence. But in establishing an electric iirht plant annoyances of this kind are lot to bo anticipated. The electric ipht wires are run cither over the house- ops or upon poles , and are located and maintained with no practical incon venience to any ono. There would seem .o bo no moro call for the state authori ties to prohibit the establishment of now ind comyetinp : electric light companies -han to'prohibit the establishment of tow retail crocer.v stores , v But the same freedom which ought to bo accorded to all new electric light companies should jo given to the gas companies to enter , if they see lit , into this new form of sup plying the people with > light. It would certainly bo absurd to tell.-tho gas com- [ > aniqs that became tlvcyi wcro making ind.ijupplying the publie with jras , thorn- Foro..thcy wcro prohibited from using another light medium ? , which a great many , people behevo to bojaupcriortothat now employed. New Uses For EMcetrlclty. Electrical Koview " "Tho . : l.ght-out- spceding telegraph , " siid Emerson , in one of his poems in 1316 , ' ( bears nothing on its'beam" but it did , cY n then ; it bore from city to city at least the market price of whisky. And if to such base uses the thunderbolts of Jove can bo ap plied thus misusing a force which en wraps the key to the mystery that lies around the very gates of life if t'ao au gust lightnings of heaven may bo so abused , why need any ono bo astonished to learn that among the latest devices for the amusement and depravity af men ( and women ) is "bull lighting by electric ity ! " It seems a little late in the century for such barbaric sport which would better befit the brutal scenes once enacted in ttio ampithcatcr of Vespasian at Rome and it sounds slrango to hear such things almost on our own border. But the mysterious element that in ono form is utili/.ed to bring the news of Iho'perform- anco , was used in another shape ono night in the City of Mexico to light up the arena tor , i bull light. Owing to the novelty of this part of the performance , "an immense crowd" was attracted to the secne President Diaz and the mem bers of his cabinet being among the spectators. "Tho arena was brilliantly lighted by ten electric lights , " and the dazzhntr blaze seemed to infuriate the bulls. The lirst ono quickly killed four horses and tore open and disabled as many more , Hung ono swordsmannearly dead , over the bars , disabled the mata dor and several picadors , and ramped around the arena the lord and master of the situation. Thcso thincs arc hiclily relished still in Spain and our neighbor republic on the southwest is much.more Spanish than American. How much better are such scones than those of the colosscum the "thumbs do\yn" spec tacles iu which human beings instead of bulls wcro the sacrifice. And what must bo the influence of such exhibitions on the people who uphold thorn ? "Will Use a Pail Hereafter. Troy ( N. Y. ) Times : A leak in the Itoor of the Western Union telegraph office , corner of Broadway and Hiver street , allowed water to drip last evening upon wires leading to the electric light in \ \ 11- liam Ahern's saloon underneath. The contract of the water permitted the clec- tricity to escape , and the coiling in Ahorn's place was ignited. Ahern seized a seltzer bottle and prepared to give the flames an extinguisher. Ho was u sur prised man , when , after having opened a stream from the seltzer bottle upon the tire , he was violently thrown from the bench upon which ho was standing. The glass of the bottle saved him from moro severe handling. The stream of water bad completed tbo circuit , nnd the shock was the result. Mr. Aliern has ceased to act as a bottle-holder in a tight with elee- tricity , and will hereafter use the pail. Trains Lighted by Electricity. A few weeks ago a tram was started on the Connecticut river road lighted by electricity from the dynamo in the bag- car , run by the cur wheels , S. H. gngo arrctt electrician Ind AJUIAVhb. U t\iH lUiUU , IV4 experimented for weeks on his InvcnDoniAiid since put ting into practical work has watched it constantly and added improvements , so that it may now be coniulercd a practi cal arrrangomcnt , which Is pretty likely to displace the methods of lightning by storage batteries alone. 'Iho experi ment .lias been tried o * a train of two passenger cars and a combination gage and smoking car. The dynnino occupies a closet built on ono side of the baggngo Ecctioii of the car next to the ( Mitrunco to the smoking apartment. There are sixteen incandescent lamps tea a car , arranged on each side , while ex periments have also been made with a huge G-1-caiidlo power incandescent lump in the baggage car , which Is not con sidered a practical or economical light. The small incandescent lamps of sixteen- camilo power , and difltsr from these on the Boston & Albany train in the con struction of the film , which is of carbon- l/.cd silk Instead of bamboo liber. Few people have noticed the huge cubic concealed - coaled under the car which gives power to the dynamo , ami the machinery runs utmost noiselessly. Klcctrle Alnrnia In Hotels' . If hotel men cannot afford to build fire-proof hotels , they should at least pro vide every moans of escape and all the latest electrical alarms to notify guests of impending danger. Had not tin elec trical flro-alarm communicating with every room in the house of the Richmond mend hotel , burnnit at Bull'alo last week , awakened the guests , the loss of lifo would have been ut least live times as large as it was. So rapidly did the house burn that nven the instantaneous alarm of the "Hess .system. " of the lire call could not save them all , but , as the les- tlinony shows , what the result would have been without such an invention is appalling to contemplate. That such a serious loss of life resulted in face of the Fact that an alarm bell was ringing iu every room from the instant the clerk bo- cntno aware of the lire , proves that the Richmond hotel must nave been oven worse constructed than the average lire- trap hotel. In the absence of lire-proof hotels , what is demanded of hotel men is careful management and the provid ing of every possible precaution and improvement that shall make human life safe in case of emergency. lightning. The length of a Hash of lightning is generally underestimated. The longest known was measured by M. P. 1'or.itt. of Toulouse. This flash was ten and a half inches long. The longest in terval ever remarked between the Hash and the report was seventy-two seconds , which would cor respond with a distance of fourteen miles. Direct researches have shown that a storm is seldom heard at a grcutcr distance than seven to ten miles , while the average are barely heard over four or five , miles oil * . This fact is more curi ous , as a cannon may be distinctly heard double or treble that distance , and in equal cases much better. Electric LlKht ut the Winter Pnlncc. The czar of Russia , at his winter palace on the banks of the Nova , possesses what i.s probably the largest permanentinstal- lation of olectrio light ever placed in a single building. The palace itself is illu minated by 12,000 incandescent lamps , while lifty-six powerful arcs lighl up the front and the various court-yards. The machine room contains eight engines , capable of developing 2,500 horse power ; the dynamos , including reserve machines , are twenty-six in number. The work was planned and earned out by the engineers of the palace , in con junction with the St. Petersburg house of Siemens & Halsko , and the installation has been at work since the commencement of last winter. _ Spiel CM and Elec trio Lights. Some time ago electric lights were placed in front of thn treasury and other public buildings in Washington , and a curious result has been an extraordinary congregation of spiders' webs. Thcso cunning animals have discovered that game , in the form of Hies , moths , and so on , is very abundant near the electric light , owing to the attraction it has for some insects , and hence their webs are in some parts so thick that portions of the architectural ornamentation arc no longer visible. _ Concerning Canctlo Power. Electric lights were measured recently by _ Prof. Henry Morton , of Stevens in- .stitnic of technology , iu the city of New York , and ho found that the best of what were called 3,000-candlo power lamps gaVe only a power of 800 caudles. Ho assumes that the term " 3,000-candlo power" has bccomo a technical expres sion with the electric light companies to denote a lamp of from 500 to 1,000 actual candle power. _ Death to nook Agents. Dr. Cornelius Hera Frenchman , has invented a telephone which costs 03 } cents. Wherever the ordinary electric button can bo used the telephone button can be introduced. It will be possible to give or receive instructions by it , to show who is knocking at the door , to communicate , in short , by speaking as well as by ringing. Telegraphic Habits. The other night at a Now York bureau of a western newspaper , the telegraph operator was busily engaged in trans mitting the latest news. It was noticed that while ho manipulated the key with his right hand lingers ho kept drumming on the table with load pencil held in his .loft hand. When his right hand had stopped so did the left. After watching the knight of the key several mo ments , a reporter ventured to re mark , that ho seemed very nervous. The operator smiled , and said such was not the case , but that 00 per cent of the male telegraphers accompany the transmit ting movcmcnts'of their right hands in various ways. Some operators drum on the table , while others tap the lloor with ono of their feet , like a musician keeping time to music. An operator employed by the Baltimore & Ohio company in this city cannot transmit wjthoiit hold ing his left hand across his face and gently patting it. Another operator duplicates the dots and dashes which his right hand forms by wiggling the lobs of his ears with the idle hand. These peculiarities are not noticeable among women telegraphers. Telephones Around Now York. Few people have any idea of the num ber of telephones in use immediately around Now York. The number is 15,000. On April 1 the Now York and Long Island division of the Now Jersey company had : t.4a8 , atid the Now Jersey division and Newark had 3,201. New York city had 0,800 , Stalen Island 250 , and Westchcster county about 800 , mak ing 14.5M within Now York city reach. Such a network of wires and service for intercommunication can bo found no where else in the world. A Wlso YounK Wife. Boston Courier : "Thcro , " said the voting wife , turning from the mirror to her husband nnd giving him a sweet smile , "what do you think of thcso bangs , Charles ? Do they bccomo mot" Charles , who was at that moment en grossed in the task of reckoning UP the total cost of bonnets , bangd. dresses and so forth , answered with a clouded brow : ' 1 should think you would bo ashamed to ask mo such a question , Mary. Your vanity is bccomingactuully insuttbrablo. " "Cfiarlcc , " she said , in a tremulous voice , ' 'if ' I am vain it is for you. You would not love mo if I was a slattern and a dowdy. It is for your sake that I try to make myself as attractive as possible. " Having said this she burst into tears. Then Charles arose and gathered her into his arms and kissed her fondly and said : "Your bangs are lovely , dear , and you are lovely , and if all wives wcro as neat and desirous ot attracting the admiration of their husbands as you are thcro would bo a great deal more conjugal happiness in the world than there Is at present. There , my love. Now forgive mo for my rudeness. " HYMEN'S ' HAPPIEST BOWERS , Where the Husband and the Wife Daily Add Strength to Their Bond of Love. AN ODD WEDDING INCIDENT , Fidgety Husbands A Wlso Yonnjj "Wire Homo Mnrrlngo Customs Mnrrylng to Avoid llnnlsli- incnt Connublnlltlcs. Host of Frlomli. C/inilfo / L. Dtan. Oh , best of friends who taught mo how to love Who taught mo what no other friend could ilu. It God would Klvo mo whntso'cr 1 wished , I'd nsk for you. Kings might near crowns , with richest jewels set , And statesmen gnln thoprnlso to greatness due ; Their \\ealth ami glory 1 would cuvy not llnd 1 but you. Poets might slug of Ktlen'a hnnpy bowers , Artists portray Its beauty to our view , btlll would I urue us talror spot , by far , My house with you. And when our souls had bade farewell to enrtli , And In immortal lands did live an ow , I'd crave no other paradise than this Your love and you. lluibruirti. Cincinnati Knquiror : James Payne writes : 1 would solemnly warn all women about to marry to ascertain be forehand that the contemplated husband is not what is called a lidgot. A loaning to intemperance may be greatly mitigated in a husband by ono keeping the collar key and not allowing him any pocket money ; but a fanaticism for being always before the time it is dilHcult to repress mid impossible to extirpate. Better that a bridegroom should not be at the church door until after the rubrical hour , and your marriage bo postponed for a day. than that ho should prove himself a lidgct by presenting himself at the altar before the clergyman or voursolf is ready for him. Your sclf-loyo may suggest that such haste is only thu result of his eager devotion ; but do not deccivo yourselves , young women ho would Wave been nt the church equally early if it had boon to bury you. Tompkins iilmsjdlr ism , many respects an excellent hifebniiiK ami I do believe he is very fond'bf ' ma , but it is timeliness first aud feelings' afterward with him , I know. When business calls him on a journey only one eye drops a tear at parting with his wife aud off spring. The other is lixcd on the clock to sec that the cab is sent for in time to catch the train. That "catching the train" is the thought that makes him thin and that keeps him so. Much of his time is necessarily consumed in traveling but not nearly so much as spent iu pre paring for lite journey. The day previous to an expedition Is mainly occupied in packing his carpetbag and writing out his direction labels Ho leaves over night as in a will , the most elaborate directions for the proceedings of the next morning. with a codicil appointing that he shall be called half au hour earlier than he at lirst considered soon enough. This last command is wholly supcrlluous , since ho always wakes of himself long before the appointed hour-anil proceeds to ring the house up. Previous to this ho has Kept mo from my rest since earliest dawn by perpetually getting out of bed to sec whether it is going to be fine. Upon this depends the momentous question : "Shall he take his waterproof coat or not ? " If lie does it should bo strapped up at once with the other things already lying on the hall table ready for departure ; not a mo ment is to bo lost. His toilet , is hasty enough , but not speedy , for in his eager desire on retiring to rest to have every thing ready for the morning ho has gen erally packed up his brushes and comber or some other iudispcnsiblo thing which has to bo disentombed from the portman teau. He generally shaves overnight ; but , if not , I tremble for his throat , since 1 know witli what inprudcnt rapidity he is performing- operation in his drcss- iugroom. _ An Odd Wedding Incident. Chicago Tribune : An odd incident happened recently at the West Arch street Presbyterian church , Philadelphia. Thcro was to bo : i wedding there at half past 7 o'clock of a young lady of an ex- tcnsivo social connection in that and other churches. Thcro wore great prep arations , and it so filled the minister's mind that ho entirely overlooked the fact that ho had an appointment to marry an other pair at exactly the same hour. When a quarter-past 7 arrived , the largo church was as full of people as it could possibly be , and the pavement on each side of the projecting awning was crowded with the non-invited waiting for that boon which the highest to the lowest enjoys a pcop at the bride. There wore at least lifty or sixty carriages in frontof the church. Among thd , guests iu the city's best sociaF aud1'material pros perky. The organ was pealing and Iho minister was m place. Just at this juncture bride and bridi-groom-olect No. 2 , who had been at the minister's house and been told to go to the church , drove up in n carriage to the side door and entered. Around the side door every thing was as quiet as if nothing was going on. Through the door leading from the chapel they saw the illuminated and crowded church , and just ( hen the other brldo in white , with jewels , and attended by a bevy of radiant bridesmaids , all in golden-colored gowns and preceded by a retinue of elegant-looking youths , came up the aislo. It was a curious surprise for the puzzled pair in the chapel. In about ten minutes thc.church was empty. While the last of the'"gucsts were going and the sexton was putting out the lights the minister married the seeond pair brielly in the chapel. The bride was in a plain traveling dress and the groom in ordinary attire. When they came out to outer the solitary carriage that stood on the side street she was leaning proudly on his arm , and they looked at loubt as happy as the other pair. Trannylvanta Marriage Customs. Popular Science Monthly : When the young couple go to church the day after the wedding they arc mot at the church door by u group of masked ligures , who surround thorn singing and hooting , and playfully endeavor to separate the young matron trorn her husband. If tlioy suc ceed in so doing then ho must win her back in a hand-to-hand light with her ad versaries , or else ho must give apicco of money as her ransom. In general it is considered a bad omen for the married life of the young couple if the wife bo separated from her husband on this occa sion ; therefore , it Is customary for the young husband to take his stand clobc by the church door while his wife is praying within , and then bo ready to eaten hold of her us soon HS she stops outside. For greater precaution the man often holds her round the wai&t with both hands during the dance , which im mediately takes place bcforo the churdh , and at which they assist merely as spec tators , taking no active part , as it is not considered seemly to dance in the church atliro. As commonly several couples are mar ried at the same time , it is usual for each separate wedding party to bring its own band of music , and dance thus indepen dently of the others. On the occasion of a triple wedding 1 lately witnessed , if was very amusing to watch the three wedding parties coming down tha street , each accelerating its pace till it came to be a eort of a race up to the church door to secure the best dancing place. Tin ground being rough and sl.'tntlni ; , there was only ono spot where anything hko n Hat dancing lloor could bo obtained , and the winning party nt ouco , * o- curcd this enviable position , whlla the others had to put up with an inclined piano or a few hilfOoks accident- ing the ballroom lloor. The ton to six teen couples belonging to caoh wedding party arc inclosed in a ring of bystand ers , each rival bund of music 'playing away with heroic disregard for the scorched cars of the listeners. "Polkal" calls out the llrst group ; "Walzerl" roars the second , for it Is a point of honor that each partv should display a noblu inde pendence in taking its own line of actions and if , out of mere conincidenco , two of the bands happen to strike up the self same tune , ono of them is sure to change to something totally different as soon as aware of the unfortunate mistake the caterwauling o fleet produced by thla system Itntlllng all description. "Thai is nothing at all" said the worthy pastor , from whoso garden 1 was overlooking the scene , laughing at the evident dis may with which 1 endeavored to stop my cars. "Sometimes wo have eight or ton wedd'ngs ' at a time , each with their own fiddlers. That is something worth hear ing , indeed ! " Marrying to Avoid HnnMimenf. London Standard : The case of the no torious Mllo. Do Sombivuil came on for hearing April : tO before the French court of appeal. After having been expelled from Franco she returned , and , being , arrested on French soil , had boon con demned by the correctional tribunal to two months imprisonment. The appeal court reduced the term of prison to ono month , on account of her promteu that she would for the future respect the French law. The court cyidently be lieved that she intended to quit Franco forever ; but It is said she intends to remain , and , to prevent for the future any decree of expulsion being issued against her , she is about to make herself r return by marrying a French man. It would bo impossible for Mllo. DoSombrcull to act otherwise than in an eccentric manner , so she decided to pay a man an annuity of 43 for the service ho would render her by going through the formalities of marriage. She is said to have receive an immense number of applications from men anxious to confer on her their name and with it the much- coveted French nationality. In any case It will now bo useless for other Frenchmen to apply , us the woman has made her choice. Her future husband , whom she has never seen , and whom she intends to see only once that is to sayat the marriage ceremony before the mayor is a peasant of soventy-threo years. What nrideiualdu Wear. Harper's Ha/.aar : lirldcmalds at June weddings will wear lace dresses made of the now silk law ) in designs like those < of the black marquise laces , and thcro itro also dresses of plain Brussels net , of point d'csprit with its tiny dotsof striped luce , of the square meshed Russian nets , and of the polka-dotted not with lurgq ball-like spots. V-ncckcd , half-low waists gathered on the shoulder at the top , or else plain to the elbow , with a pun" there , are the corsages of. such dresses. The skirts have two or three lloiiuccs gathered all around or length wise , or else festooned , and Marie Antoi nette pauicrs short aud full in the hips , with one or two long points in the back. White silk French lacu in largo rose pat terns , made over a white moire skirt is a fashionable combination. The deep scal loped lace is draped as au apron , cover ing the front and sides , while the back has a lace breadth in pleats down the middle , with a moire breadth each side of these pleats , turned over at the top in handkerchief points. A bridle of moire ribbon is down the left side of the lace front , and a great chou or loose rosette is on the right side. The moire basque is draped with lace , and has a high col lar of uioirit ribbon , with a bow on the left sido. The full lace sleeves havl ) a deep moire cuff. Yellow if a favorite color for bridesmaids' dresses , aud ap pears in watered silk skirts aud waists and sashes , with white lace or Russian net dresses , or clso it is scon in India silk for a full waist , and drapery over a cream nainsook embroidered skirt , with n border formed of live or six rows of picot- edged yellow ribbon an inch wide run through the open ligures of the embroid ery. _ CONNUULVIjlTIES. 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