the Editor of the Nonra-Cursa Datty News.
Sim,—So many letters have appeared in the papers here lately complaining of the electric li Tshould feel grateful if me room in your valuable few remarks in its favour.
Ww peopl enormous difficult Electric Light Ca. are working. bons in the are lamps are of course fed by mechanism, and however exact this may be it sometimes happens that the top carbon is pushed down too far, with the result that the light for a few seconds becomes very dim, because the space between the carbon points has been made too small; at other times the top carbon is held too far off, and then the light becomes very bright. The endeavour of the mechanism to make carbons stop at exactly the right distance apart, when successful, produces a steady bright light, and wh successful is the cause of those various bobbings and flickerings that we When one con-idea that the springs and delicate me-of these lamps are adjusted in the burning sun, and that by Chinese employes, who as as they become valuable and of avy use are drawn away by some mandarin, who will pay m double what they earn with the Ca., is hardly surprising that these flickerings occur rather often, especially when the lamps are expected to burn in a temperature of at least 20° lower than that in which they wore adjusted. A thorough kuowledge of the measurement of electric and ical orgy, and that of the light, is essential to every electrical engineer. Of cause we haven't that here, as there are testing instruments; and the rub is that at present money doesn't seem forthcoming to purchase them. A shareholder of any Electric Company at the present date may be compared to a gold digger, who, having gone down a certain depth and found hothing, will sell his claim for a mere song, when almost touching gold, rather than another spadeful of earth. If the Tight ridened it will be backwards instead of one forward in lization, which a go-ahead place like Shanghai doesn't want, And dark night as there have been sometimes, there will be much darker nights if we have nothing but the gas to depend on, Very lately a Me. Greero Howard, reading a paper before the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians on Secondary Batteries," made the remark that it is only in "the last twelve months that any real advancement has taken place," and that it is but recently that they have really become fit for commercial purposes. That a fact which no one who reads the papers can doubt, when we daily hear of torpedo boats and tramear, as well as th ight, being worked by these mea no reason whatever why the houses in Shanghai shouldn't be lighted with the incandescent lamps and worked by these batten The dynamos at present only run about eight hours out of every twenty-four, so that all the batteries could be charged in the other sixteen; and automatically cut out of the circuit one after the other as soon as they become full. Space will not allow me to enumerate the very many advantages of the incandescent light, but one thing I may mention, and that' is that it never flickers, and has been pronounced by the x to be a most "becoming" illuminant, This should speak volumes in its favour, Miscellaneous, COREA AS A NATION SHOULD NOT EXIST.
(Translated from the Jiji Shimpo.)
The British have alrendy occupied Port Hamilton and ma communicated with Von Méllendorff and rebared to invade the country of tion of territory, dependence of -Corea have to a crisis, In making the that Corea will be ultimately ruined, it will be a sorry day for the Li family, the King being the hend, and will be also unprofitable for the officials and nobles serving under that family, but it will be for the interest of the' people, Pho ruin of the country as a nation will be fortunate accident, and will be for the most important thi for a human being are honour, life, and property, and and object of a Government is the protec: tion of these rights; if any one is robbed, the law should punish the perpetrator, and any one endeavouring to evade the respon nlity of the payment of his debts and taking from others by deception, should be tried by the law of the laud in order to protect property; when any one commits murder or inflicts wounds on another, the lam should be applied to for the protection of life, In national honour two phases exist—internal and external, Although there are different grades of society and wealth amongst people, yet they all have equal rights, as.a people. It is not allowable for individuals to commit abi on ott they should be punished by the law, or socially, and this one might call the internal he External honour la th cising Of m poor of intercourse with foreign Powers through the agency of diplomats appointed by the Government, whose duty is the protect of their country, even matter to maitite its independence and thus discharge a duty to the people, and when this is not done there is but litle reason for people to remain under the power of such a Government. ation in a mass of confusion, people having no right in private property, the im: perfect law, killing the sinless, and, for private motives and jealousy of official persons retained in prison aud_ bowel to complain, In the matter of honour,
sidered as entirely different races, and higher an lower classes may be ce those above the military class and who are connected with the Government, have unlimited power, whilst the common people ro their slaves. The people in the country are depressed, and outside the country, when the honour and independence is ques tioned, the Government manifest a total absence of all knowledge of foreign aff and matters connected with civilization When troubles come upon them or di honourableactionsaredoneto them, they remain without any serication, and inattenti age themselves in is in compe each other for power to obtain offi positions. They are divided into partis and attack each other, and all is done not for the general wool, but for their own personal benefit, The truth is they do not sacrifice their bodies for the nation, but the interests of the nation for their carnal passions. They do not cuusider it
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