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Down by the Sea.
| Bathing in the Surf at Nlght-TUo Great
Electric Light Supplants Sunshine--
Some Facts Concerning tills
Wonderful Illuminator.
Ic.irreepondonce of the Herald.
,i one of the last things that
Iwould have ever occurred to pleasure
■seekers a few years ago, would have
■been the novelty of a bath in the surf
lit midnight under the rays of an art
ificial light, which for beauty and daz-
liling effect outrivals the fiery darts of
lOW Sol himself. But just now the
T swell” thing is to take a trip to Coney
■island and indulge in the novel luxury
■of an hour’s frolic in the waves of the
(ocean ns they come dashing over the
[sands of Manhattan or Brighton Beach,
liparkling and brilliant, glittering like
Jcrystal as they Bcatter themselves over
■the shells and pebbles which line the
lehore. Nothing more beautiful could
■be conceived than the sight witnessed
Iby your correspondent a few evenings
laince while enjoying a vacation at this
■famous resort. The night was without
la moon uml but a few stars peeped out
■through the soldo mantle which seemed
[tobe drawn twixt heaven and earth,
with the Bky above and the broad wa-
ten of the Atlantic below. At an.early
[hour tho beach was lined with thou-
uda of pleasure seekers who had re
mained to enjoy the novelty of a bath
In tbe surf under the glow of the great
llectric lights. The grand hotels' and
jsyenues already presented a brilliant
piew, and thousands of gns jets dotted
[tbe island on oither hand as far as the
pye could reach.
A BLAZING BEACON.
la an instaut, however, the ponder-
i engine was set in motion and the
feat electric light flashed along the
like a meteor, and darted its
ing rays far out on tlie broad wa-
1™| “if seeking some lost or departed
I™. Soon the throng commenced to
purge in the water, and the ripples of
was laughter which resounded along
■he coast gave unmistakable ovidence
r* | bappy hearts which were being
about on the coquettish bosom
r, ?e bcklo waves as they would come
U P the beach and scattering
', ,P ta 7 over the bathers like wanton
'-tool boys. Tho writer viewed this
Iff? 8Ceno for fully half an hoar, and
Ti. turned his attention to the cause
i i , Produced the effect. At inter
im i^ l " e b®och w ere erected posts
fra,™’ tu were attached the
Li, * n ' c „ e88tlr y to hold the apparatus
E""* ^ or f'glrf; on each of these
0he l , 8 |' V M e8 r. Ua P en( l 8d WliOt U]
imnto I flro wit!l out any 1- - -
L., and of such extreme brilliancy
L , e otked eye could hardly stand
LiT-T f ° r 0" instant. A milliou little
Vll riegated light constantly
S, "J ev ®ry tiirention as if striving
lick in,™ f Vf® da rkness and woo it
L n ® daylight. No moonlight ever
Iv an i a Tenth part of the brillian-
licinitv J 10 d ' c ^ eI *ng gas jets in the
I lontin Wer p t8rned to yellow and sick-
Ku ie i: P ‘.V 6 ta * low d >P8- Looking
L e() fjj 1 ••■rough colored glasses it
Cr,T aB »«ll round ball of white
K,n 01, . of molten lead in its .in-
L i h ( eat - u Pon inquiry it was
THE PLAN OF THE WONDERFUL MACHIN
ERY
which produces this brilliant efleotis
simply this: A revolving shaft is kept
whirling with lightning rapidity between
four blooks of steel, and these four
blocks of steel and the revolving shaft
*2 on a . re the sim P le elements which produce
the marvelous electric light. These five
simple things, with one or two other in
nocent little pieces of copper plate, will
produce one of the most phenomenal ef
fects that the world has ever known.
It produces a current of electricity so
powerful that if you were to stand two
miles off and touch that shaft with a
piece of wire it would burn the wire
like a flash of lighting. The four blocks
of steel are the magnets, and aro oval
in shape and covered with copper wire
coiled tightly around them. The com
mutator revolving between them is what
generates the electricity and produces
the light which bids fairs to eventually
supersede all other forms of illumination
throughout the wide world. The re
volving shaft makes 900 revolutions a
minute and every revolution the current
of electricity travels once around the
circuit, or around tbe wire which con
nects the several lights, and finally
comes back to the battery. The princi
ple is the same as that of telegraphy.
Any number of feet of wire can bo used
and the lights placed at intervals along
the circuit.
AS SEEN AT SEA.
These blazing beacons can be distin
guished by vessels nearly fifty miles at
sea, and their brilliancy far surpasses
the brightest stars the light being much
more dazzling and of a pure white.
Wind or storm, rain or snow, oannot ef
fect the light one iota. It defies the
power of the elements, and will burn
under water as well as above water, and
will make the darkest night os brilliant
as a summer’s sun. Ten of these lights
are more than equal to 30,000 gas jets,
and the cost of running the machinery
is the only expense, aside from the car
bons.
WHAT THE CARBONS ARE.
Having described the battery it is
necessary te explain about the carbons
on which the electricity feeds and pro
duces the light. They are but little
rods, twelve inches long by three-eighthB
of an inch in diameter, manufactured
from carbon taken from the gas retorts,
and which goes through a rather com
plicated process before they are ready
:or use. First it is ground up then
made into paste. It is then made into
sticks and then the hardening process
begins. They are placed in hydraulic
qresses and pressed with a power of one
lundred tons to the square inch. After
this they are baked for forty-eight hours
and then put through a chemical
process, and lastly they are electro
plated with copper and to all appear
ances are but slender copper rods, yet
of no more weight than a piece of pine.
Two of these rods are used to each
light. One in an upright position and
one inverted. Ono positive, the other
negative, and between these two ends is
the ball of lire which produces the ter
rific light. These carbons burn very
slow, always being attracted toward each
other and keeping the same distance
apart, and no heat will burn them save
that generated by electricity. This
wonderful light is used to illuminate
the mammoth tents of W. W. Cole’s
great menagerie, and from the explana
tion given it will prove a gratifying ad
junct to his famous enterprise which is
to exhibit in Rome on Monday, Novem
ber 3d, afternoon and evening.
W a °0 U --o'*****, uuvtoiy >vuh miia.-
VorJ • UorBe , P°w«r engine with a
been?« *n r )0 ^ er » an< ^ this engine
ightby th’ter^'y f ° r ^e eleciri*
»,andio „ llc hburg engine cotnoa-
lewof — ® 0,| structed with a special
ltHd, ,3 Cln ? an uninterrupted and
Hi,yot,,ii’® n " hde the battery is sim-
^ e aof iit, "I’oworful i n Rp effects. Some
N kno»n ' V i. r ,na .y he imagined when
Khifvmi \ wil1 magnetize a
Sfeet„fn , ould approach within
Tour battery with a time-piece
P'oied mo uM* The electrician in-
NiiledinV. he had two watches
“It’s th Way ‘ Said he:
If win ma 0 n U , r - acti ° n the magnetism.
Kd?a 8 r:i 9a11 the Bteel in your
. ( otews it the , 8 P ri ngs toward any
1 ‘ustant.i’ 1 mft y have, and stop it in
Josh Billings on Marriage.
Sum marry bekaus they think wim
min will be Bcarce next year, and live
to wonder how the stock holds out.
Sum marry to get rid of themselves,
and discover that the game was one
that two could play at and neither
win. . ,
Sum marry for love without a cent
their pocket nor a friend in the
World, nor a drop of pedigree. This
looks desperate, but is the strength of
tho game.
Sum marry in haste and then sec
down and think it carefully over.
Sum think it carefully over fust and
then set down and marry.
No man can tell jist exactly whar he
will fetch up when he touches calico.
No man kan tell jist exactly what
calico has made up her mind tew do.
Calico don’t know herself. Dry goods
of all kinds is the child of circumstances,
Chief Justices U« S. Supreme
Court.
Courier-Journal.
On the organization of the Govern
ment under the Federal Constitution, in
1798, President Washington called to
that high position John Jay, of New
York. He was then forty-four years
of age, having been born in 1745, he had
previously filled various important of-
lices, political, judicial and diplomatic.
He had assisted Hamilton and Madison
in editing the Federalist. In 1794 he
resigned'his Chief Justiceship to accept
the.mission to England. There he ne
gotiated tho treaty which bears his
name. He was Governor of New York
from 1795 to 1801, after which he re
tired to private life, and died in 1829,
aged eighty-four years.
In July, 1795, during the recess of
the Senate, John Rutledge, of South
Carolina, was appointed. He presided
on the bench at but one term of the
court, for his nomination was rejected
in the following December. He was an
Irishman by birth and an ardent patri
ot in the Revolution. He was Governor
of hi» adopted State in 1779, and subse
quently a member of the convention
that framed the Constitution of the
United States. He died in 1800, aged
sixty-two years.
In January, 1796, William Cushing,
of Massachusetts, waB nominated and
confirmed, but he declined the office.
He was then an Associate Justice.
Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut, was
nominated and confirmed in Maroh,
1796. He resigned the office in 1800
on account of ill health. He had been
member of the convention which
framed the Federal Constitution, and a
Senator in Congress. He died in 1807,
in the sixty-third year of his age.
Among the last acts of the adminis
tration of President John Adams was
the appointment of John Marshall, of
Virginia. His nomination was con
firmed January 31,1801. His long and
illustrious career as a jurist is too well
known to require a word from us. He
died in Philadelphia July 6, 1836, in
The successor of Chief Justice Mar
shall was Roger B. Taney, of Maryland.
He died in harness October 12,1864,
aged eighty-seven years.
Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, was nom
inated by Presdent Lincoln, and con
firmed by the Senate in December, 1864.
He died in 1873, aged sixty-four years.
The present Chief Justice is Mr.
Waite, of Ohio. He was appointed by
President Grant.
Succobb in the Stock Market.
COLL!N S »
Few people understand how large I nk ' 8 condition,
fortunes are amossod so rapidly instock 1
operations. Messrs. Lawrence & Co.,
Bankers, N. Y., have just published
‘‘two unerring rules for success,” and
full details, so that any one can operate.
Mailed free, Their new combination
system of dealing in stock is wonderful
ly profitable. By this method thousands
of orders, in various sums, are pooled
into one immense capital, and co-oper
ated as a mighty whole,,thus securing
to each shareholder all the advantages
of vast capital and best skill. Profits
divided every 30 days. $15 would
make 875 profit, $100 would return 81,-
000, or 10 per cent, on the stock in the
month, and so on, according to the mar
ket. A New York Fashion Editress
and prominent newspaper correspon
dent, made over 375 per ot. profit'on an
investment, Oct. 5th, 1878. Many oth
ers are doing as well or better. Large
or small amounts oan be used with
equal proportionate success by this sys
tem. All kinds of stocks and bonds
wanted. Government bonds supplied.
Apply to Lawrence & Co., Bankers, 67
Exchange Place, N. Y, City.
(yiticura
HUMORS OF THE SCALP.
LOSS OF HAIR.
Lon of Hair in thousand! of aasaa ia duo en
tirely to lomo fora of acalp disease. Seventy-
fivo par cent, of the number of bald he,da m ght
be covered with hair by a judicious use of Cu-
ticora. assisted by CcriounA Soap. It Is the
most agreeable ae well as the most offectivo hair
restorer ever produced by man. It ia medicinal
in the truest sense of tho word. All others are
some oleagenous mixture of poisonous dyes.
None but Coticdra possesses the speciBo medfeal
properties that enable it to oure ell itching and
scaly diseases that ibilame and irritate thesealp
and hair glands and tubes, causing promature
baldness. Medium doses of the Cvticdra Rs-
aoAviXT will purify tho oil and sweat glands
of tho viius of scrofulous humor of tho blood
and Insure a permanent cure when taken in
eonneetion with the outward application of
Cdsicdra.
SALT RHEUM"AND DANDRUFF
Cured mat several pit] alcians had failed
to treat aucceeafully.
Messrs. Weeks A Potter: Gentlomom—I have
had the Salt Bheum on iny head aid all through
my hair, alao on my legs. for the paat four yeara,
having suffsred exceedingly witn it. The dan
drulf falling from my hair waa very annoying.
I conaulted several distinguished physicians in
regard to it, and have taken their prescriptions
as ordored, bat did not find any cure and bat
little rollef. I was told by many persons who
have tho Balt Bheum, and who have been doc
tored for yeara, that thero waa no cure for it;
that it waa in the blot d, and I should alwaya
have it, and I waa almost inclined to agroe with
thorn, but a friend wauled me try Odtioura,
mado by your Qrm. I dll, and to my aatonlih-
mont, in leia than three week) my head was
entirely free from all Salt Bheum and DandruO,
and I cannot see any appearanco of Balt Bheum
on my p rson. I think It a wonderful remedy.
Beapectfully yours,
GEOBQE A MUDGE
Portsmouth, N H., Feb. 0, 1878.
HUMOR OFTHE SCALP
That waa destroying the Hair cured with
one box of CUTICURA.
Mossrs. Weeks A Potter: Gontlomen—I want
to tell you what Cuticura has done for mo.
About ten years ago my hair began falling out,
caused by Humor of the Boalp. I tried various
remedies, too numerous to mention, without
relief, until I began using Ootioora, one box of i
which has entirely cured me, and ntw hair la
beginning to grow. Kespeotlully,
MBS. O. J. BOOT.
807 W. Lake St„ Chicago, III., Nov. 13, 1878.
We know the above to be true.
Mary B. Towrirrd, 412 W. Jaokson St.
Mrs. O. A. Gray, 341 Fulton Bt.
SCALD-HEAD
For Nine Years cured when nil other
Ilcmediea failed,
Messrs. Wooks A Potter: Gentlemen—Bineo
July last I have been using your Cuticura for
Scald Head, and It has cured me when all medi-
oines that I have taken for nine years did mo
no good. I am now using it as a heir dressing,
but my head is well. It keeps the heir in very
"ours truly,
H. A. KAYMOND,
Auditor Fort Wayno, Jaokson A Sagioaw B. U
Jaokson, Mich., Doc. 20, 1878.
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— AT —
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II. D. COTHBAN
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Drng-gists,
ROME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OP
GRASS AND FIELD SPEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (nnj Oats to arrive.)
Which they Offer to the” Trade at Lowest Possible Figures.
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The Cuticura Brukuikb are prepared by
Weeka A Potter, Chemists and Druggists, 300
Washington Street, Boston, and are for Bale by
all Druggists. Prise of Cuticura, small boxes,
50 cunts; large boxes, containing two and one-
half times the quantity of (mail, f 1. Bksolyxrt
$1 per bottle. CurteunA Soap, 25 cents; by
mail, 30 cents; 3 cakes, 75 cents.
Instantly they banish
B Paln - and Weakness, rouse
ELECTED tbe dormant Muscles Into
at ..-me new life, itlmulate tbe
STLl- 8 Liver and Kidneys, oure
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Bilious Colic, Cramps
and Pains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Weak Spins, Weak and Bore Lungs, Coughs and
Coldr, Weak Baek, Ague and Liver Fains.
oot7twwlm
Nashville American: The freight
traffio on the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railway iB now so heavy
that clerks are kept up to an unusually
late hour. One hundred and twenty
cars are daily received here off that
road, and about one hundred and nftjr
are sent south. The clerks in the ot-
fice of Chas. Saunders, General Freight
Agent of the Louisville depot, are also
doing bard work on business of the Lou
isville and Nashville and Great South
ern railroad, sitting up as late as lz
o’clock at night. There has not been so
large a rush of freight in all directions
since the panic of 1873. Everything
seems to be booming about the railroads.
Sixteen hundred and five cars were un
loaded at the Louisville depot last
month, and nine hundred and seventy-
two cars loaded.
It is a mean man who would fool a
fish by wearing a white ohoker and
olerioal coat when strolling along tbe
banks of a brook on Sunday.
A Random Bullet.
Bad luck made George Waterfield
down-hearted, and he frequently threat
ened to take his own life. So discon
solate was he that when somebody ask
ed the loungers on the veranda of the
tavern at Edge Hill, Pa., to go into the
barroom and drink, and all the rest re
sponded with alacrity, he stayed out
side alone. When the others came out
again they found Waterfield laying
dead on the floor with a wound in his
breast. They thought he had carried
out his suicidal purpose by stabbing
himself, but they could not find a knife.
An examining physioian found a bul
let in the supposed gash, and it was a
mystery how the shot had been fired,
until it was ascertained that » man
had fired a rifle aimed in that di
rection from a point three quarters of a
mile away. ^
New York Sun : The eldest of the
three daughters of the poet John G.
Saxe was buried in Greenwood Ceme
tery yesterday afternoon, by the side of
her younger sister, who died four years
ago. The poet and his remaining
daughter, who is in St. Albans, Vt.,
were not present, both being invalids,
The mother and two brothers of the de
ceased woman were at tho buiial. The
grave was covered with flowers, among
which appeared in violets the motto,
“He giveth his beloved rest."
4 m \ ^
“In pursuing nay theme I should like
to cover my ground, but—’’
“Bay shoes big enough for your feet
and you’ll do it,” was the impudent
suggestion from the crowd, and the ora
tor adjourned his remarks until a more
refined audience could be present.
COMMON SENSE VIEWS
FOREIGN LANDS.
BY M. DWINELL.
T his volume, of four hundred
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Dead Boa, ta, in Palestine; Smyrna and An
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Omaha to San Francieco and including a visit to
the famous Yoaemite Falls.
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