Feline Electricity

The mot rcmarkable inYfiTilionrn tlili or any other age is chily chrónicled in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. It is : upon the eléctrica! proporties of the fur of eats. With a battery of 128 cats the inventor sucerci led in generatinp; n, cürrent so strong that it inslantly polarized all the lightning-arresters and demagnetized all tho switch-boards on the way to Omaha. 'J'hc operators aQ; slons: the line wera terror-strickön, and rushed from their offices. Eighteen hundred and ninc glass insulators '.vero broken and as many polos shattered as ií by lightning. A great deal more damoge would donbtless have resrüted if the eopper rod overwhich the battery was suspended had not suddenly become red hot and burned the tails off the cats and lot thera drop. When only a moderately strong cnrrent of eleetrieity is desired, it is obtained by densely populating the snmll Hoor of the cage, which is made of sheet eopper, that being the best conductor. The eleetricity thus generated charges the eopper rloor of the unre, and as it can not pasa off to tho ground through the glass insulators il aeeka its exit over the wires that are oonnected by soldering to each end of the eenper plate. For generating a povrerñil cnrrent, the cata are carefiüiy and secxirely tied tail to tail in pairs, imd by the loop thus formed they af e suspended from a heavy insnlated eopper rod that passes longitudinally through the cage, to the ends oí hich are at-: taclieil the telegjaph or telephone