Show f W i MEAT CUTTER RUN BY MOTOR largest machine of its kind in the world operated by electrical current it Is interesting to note that a meat cutter which Is claimed to be the largest ever made has been recently changed from steam equipment to dl connected motor drive because 0 the delays formerly experienced v getting up steam which materially re deuced the output of the grinder the meat cutter la question has a 43 inch bowl and six helves each of which has a cutting edge 18 inches long the power Is supplied by a 20 horsepower motor in the factory where this outfit Is installed the capacity Is 25 pounds ot sausage a day this cutter can handle the entire output if desired as it haa a capacity of pounds in five minutes one of the main reasons for the change from steam to motor drive was the in the expense tor at of an engineer as well as the greater convenience when motor largest meat cutter in the world driven the direct eliminates belts shafting pulleys etc and effects a substantial saying in wear and tear wireless telegraph in china 1 gracey writing froom tsing tau says in regard to the plan tor using wireless telegraphy in china the acting president of the board of communications las sent an order to the telegraph administration in shanghai directing it to obtain from foreign firms tenders for wireless telegraphic installations which the government desires to establish be tween the altai mountains and ahslee ifa the northwest of chinese turkestan Turk estan the question of a wireless tele graph installation in the interior was pointed out by the administration as one of the most important needs of china today to day it Is said the board con aders it practically impossible to es the ordinary land lines across the great deserts betwee ir peking and the extreme northwest but the natural difficulties could be surmounted by the use of wireless backson s system Is considered by the board to be the newest and most efficient and the ad ministration was instructed to make the necessary inquiries and was also given a list of questions as to the tech matters which it was its busl ness to answer strawberries ARE DYNAMOS english electrician discovers process whereby fruit becomes electrically charged in simple way strawberries and all other fruits nuts and vegetables are small electric dynamos as discovered by an english electrician the process whereby tault becomes electrically charged Is most simple negative electricity Is supplied by the earth to the soil and the extent of such conductivity varies with the degree of moisture in the soil dry earth Is a conductor nonconductor non a fact strongly evident from the truth that unless the roots of the plant se cure a certain percentage of moisture the plant dies the moisture in the soil provides the sap which spreading upward flows to the uttermost ex of the plant through the dit ferent arteries existing tor such cir cul atlon the earth la always charged with negative electricity and the air with positive the charging of the earth be ing secured by water when the leaves begin to burst forth they be come charged w ath negative electricity from the earth As the leaf expands it also becomes charged with positive electricity from the air as likewise do the flowers when the fruit commences to form however na lure provides an impermeable tor represented by the rind or peel enveloping the fleshy portion of the fruit but at the same time the nega alve charging continues from the earth to the center or core through the stalk this central negative cell being insulated from the positive fleshy cell by a thin skin new flexible non metallic conduit A new flexible non metallic conduit known as wire duct has been in vented tor which there should be a ery wide field it all the claims made for it can be substantiated in practice its alber inner tube to the middle tube by meant of a helical bond which entirely prevents ls being pulled out on wires being threaded through it and the whole while en conducting non has great flex and strength to resist froth ten alle strain and abrasion ELECTRIC CURRENT TO UNVEIL st insures removal of drapery without fear of ludicrous failure and embarrassment the unveiling of a statue under or nary circumstances Is a very am press lve occasion but it Is f recently rendered ludicrous by a failure at a ery critical moment often the dra pery which la used to hide the lines ot the memorial refuses to respond to the the statue covered tugs and pulls given at the cords which w ere designed to draw the fab ric away tats sort of mishap Is no alss embarrassing than when the ma terdal falls of its own accord in ad vance of the set time says george J jones in scientific american having witnessed several such accidents an electrical engineer employs em ployd in the department of the interior at wash ington set about some time ago to devise some method of performing this by the use of the elec current so as to ender such oc cassons free from accidents recently he announced the completion of his self assumed task the scheme calls tor ahn erection of two poles placed on either side of the monument with a stout wire cable stretched from top to top the ends of the cable pass down the side of one pole and are secured near the bottom held slightly away from the pole the cable acts as a guide tor counter weights mounted on the cable are two swivel pulleys each supporting a wooden staff balanced flags are generally made use of for the purpose of hiding the lines of the statue until such time as it Is desired to reveal them to the assemblage and in the the electrical process the bunt ing Is secured from these sticks the flags hanging from the sticks corn plemely encircle the statue the lengthwise edges of the flags are sup the statue unveiled piled with small magnets and cor responding armatures the magnets be ing connected in series and the cur rent from a few batteries Is sufficient to hold the edges of the flags together even ir the face of a strong wind this current la conveyed through a small insulated wire when all Is ready one of a pair of touch buttons placed at a convenient point is pressed the flags open like a book and for a few seconds they remain as an effective background to the memorial the second button is then pressed and the flags move oft under the action of the weights toward the poles leaving a free and unobstructed view of the statue the inventor of this scheme had an ambitious desire to put the scheme to a severe test at the unveiling of the franklin statue in paris he submit led a plan to the american ambas his suggestion was that the ceremony be made a double one the actual pressing of the button being done at philadelphia pa at the meet ing of the american philosophical society b some distinguished elec trivlan who might attend the gather ing or by some of the descendants ol 01 benjamin franklin several of whom are still residing in that city there was not sufficient time however to make the necessary arrangements which would require mud correspond ence to determine the kind of current at throes it Is necessary to know whether the current in a circuit Is al direct and as the gen aerator may be miles away at the other end of the line an easy method of determining ter mining this on the spot is desira ble A reader of popular electricity suggests the following method hold a small magnet near an incandescent lamp burning on the circuit it the current Is alternating the filament will vibrate if it Is direct the alia ment will bend slightly toward the magnet but will not vibrate north pole expeditions canada denmark france germany england russia sweden and the united states were in 1908 depre aenied among the 12 expeditions which were struggling toward the north pole eight leaders were vet erans peary and cook of the united states bergler of canada erichsen and of denmark charcot of france shackelton of england and geer of sweden |