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Wishing With Electric Light

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
July
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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A French yachting paper describes the new apparatus which is used with the permission of the Government of that country for flshing by electricity at night. It consists of a globe of glass within which the electric light is shown. Two conductors incased iu gutta-percha are arranged so as to meet one another on the inside, very much on the same principie which is now familiar to all visitors to the Crystal Palace. They communicate with a Qshing boat, anchored at a convenient distance, and can, of course, be set into activity by the occupanta ot the boat. As to the globe, it is attached to a weight below and a float above, so that it can be raised or lowered to the desired dapth. As soon as the carbons are ignited and the glass is in proper position, all the sea in its vicinity is illuminated brilliantly, and the flsh, over whom light is well kDOwn to exercise an irresistible influence at night, comeeagerly, and sometimes in large schools, within the rays. They may be seen from above disporting themselves in the unaceustonied brightness, and little dreaming of the sinister purpose witb which the little fete is organized for them. It is then that other üshing boats, armed with nets, come up and set to work at the uneonscious victims which they surround as well as they can without interfering with the apparatus connected with tho lighted globe. It may be supposed that this device is calculated to opérate with much deadly effect whenever it is used; and there seems to be much doubt whether it will ever be allowed as a recognized kind of üshing within territorial waters. Indeed, the Ucense granted by the Government is said to be merely provisional, and for the purpose of testing the new machine. Within a radius of flve miles from a place on the Skagit, Washington territory, there is estimated to be at least 200,000,000 feet of flr saw timber, exclusive of the maple, spruce and cedar Outline embroidery on crash, pongee or linen willremain the favorito needlework for idlers in the country during midsummer weather.

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Ann Arbor Democrat