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Show ELECTRICAL DOINGS. It is stated that the Russian povern ment is about to purchase the telephone system. A novel electric lamp is one in the form of a hen sitting- on a nest of luminous lu-minous egffs. Electric bell signals are said to bo found very useful in navigating the streets of London during the foggy season. sea-son. The electric street cars of Albany, N. Y., are provided with an automatic device de-vice that shows the name of each street just before it is reached. A new incandescent lamp for railway enrs has a thick filament, which, if uncoiled, un-coiled, would be longer than the ordinary ordi-nary one. The glass bulb is shorter, having no neck. A BUDMARrNE electric lamp, which was tested at Toulon, illuminated a radius of one hundred feet. It attracted at-tracted fish in thousands, which flocked ' about it like moths at a candle. A recent improvement in electric annunciators an-nunciators is thus described: Each new call is made to restore to its place the drop which indicated the previous call, so that it is no longer necessary to depend upon a servant or attendant to do it. Now tiiat the inventor of the incan- ; descent lamp has been named by the courts, the next big lawsuit in the electrical elec-trical field is announced as pertaining to the discovery of the trolley system of electric traction. Ay electric light, for the use of travelers travel-ers who wish to read, is a recent addition addi-tion to the cars on British railways. One adjoins each scat, and a penny dropped in a slot makes it flash forth. It burns for half an hour, when it promptly goes out, and another penny is required to make it burst forth afresh. . ' '1 J |