Show WITH THE electricians THE original incandescent lamp inventor henry goebel is dead the board of aldermen of meridian aliss has adopted a resolution to pur nase the edilou electric light plan for the city for the sum of IT is said that the commissioners 0 irish lights are about to improve th light at the old head of kinsale light house and will shortly introduce elec trie lighting there AN electric railroad from washing ton D C to falls church passing through the center of alexandru county by way of baleston ballston Ball ston is said t be in contemplation it ie to be bull by the land owners along the line PLANS have been made at geneva N Y it is said for putting on seneca lake an electric boat for commercial purposes the boat is to be feet long 25 feet wide and 9 feet deep with 5 feet draught it will be driven by twin screws is said to be at columbia S C a cotton mill nearly ready for operation which is to have its power brought from the canal by means of electricity instead of the old fashioned belt method A boston man is the engineer and the capacity of the mill ia forty five thousand to fixed star prof holden communicates to a san francisco paper what he calls the very important discovery lately made at the lick observatory by prof campbell it is an ingenious method for measuring the dimensions of the fixed stars in many cases the method is BO delicate and beset with ao many difficulties that success is doubtful but prof campbell haa found one star on which he hus made successful observations they are directed to the lengths of the bright lines in the spectrum which indicate respectively the height to which each substance extends not difficult in the solar spectrum but it was entirely unexpected to find a bright line spectrum in the star under observation surrounded by an atmosphere of hydrogen gas of huoh enormous extent aa to be measurable prof holden dc clarea the discovery to be entirely unique and to open an entirely new field of knowledge |