"FELINE ELECTRIC ILLUMINATOR."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 262, 28 December 1880, Page 4

"FELINE ELECTRIC ILLUMINATOR."

Professor Maynard, of Cincinnati, it is tlleged, owna the most powerful electric battory in the world. He is also the fortunate proprietor of a black torn cat, unrivalled throughout the United States for beauty, size, and intelligence. A few days Bince, bo the story gceß, these two belongings of the learned Professor, each unique of its kind, came by chance into contact, in each fort that the cat became the recipient of a Btrcnm of electtic fluid,

estimated fit about one thousand horsepower. Forthwith its bair Btood erect end emitted a very coruscation of fpetks, A series of heartrending etjaalls Lowcver, calling the IVofeesor'a attention to hie favorite's perplexing situation, be promptly disconnected the cat from the battery; but, to his great surprise, found that it remained luminous, having taken into its Bystem euch a tremendous dose of electric fluid that it had become a permanent generator of electricity giving out a light equal to that of eight hundred wbxcandle. This it has since continued to co, cud it is now the terror of its feline colleagues aa it pi rarnbulates the tilee by night, blhzing like a ecmef, but with insufferable radiunce. It appears that Professor Mnynavd, deeply impressed by the importance of thia accidental discovery, has taken out a patent for lighting etreels and public buildings by means of luminous cats, and that B company ie being formed, wiih a capital of tea millioos of dollar?, for the purpose of inlioiJucing the "Feline Electric Illuminator " to all the countries of the universe. A single radiant cat, suspeuded chandelier-wise from the ceiliog of a theatre, would emit more light that a hundred gas jets; or, enolosed within an ordinary street lump, would turn night into day for a distance of some five hundred yards from its crystal place of confinement. It will be a proud day for science when electrical aats shall revolutionise all the lighting systems of creation.