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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1859, 8 July 1874, Page 3

Ia days of yore the idea ot ceacmug our little ones'science inany form maid hare been scouted, — " but now all we caa say ia that no pantomime oc fairy piece ciuld have better please! a juvenile s audience,.or drawn forth more ringing peals of childish laughter, tlm Mr J. L. Kins; ia his . lecture at Polytechnic oa ''Domestic Electricity • in Application to Home Purposes." Learning i . : - is' really made e*«y, and daily enjoyed by an*' audience ranging from uix to sixty years of ago, more or less. Alosb housekeepers kaov how difficult it is to awaken the drowsy domwtics, but by a simple appliance a bell may be sot going any disttnce jrom the mwipuUtor, ani-v' *' kept going to all eternity if desirable, or stopped iu a moment. The sybarite in his dining room or library need no longer rise to ring thi belt, but, through tlieagency of ajaeries ofornamental • ■ kuobs attached to the table, can summon his ' attendants from above or be ow t with a touch of the finger. Nervous females may go to bed ia . 'peace without fear of lire or robbjrs,. tbanks. to ! ;'[< domestic eieotric.ty.: By a simplo little apparatus arranged in the wall a lire alarm is set in • M)tion.(ijio.ild there be any over-lmtinj) which ... , . , makes noise enough to aw ikon any household. <«.• Sat What mosumused fclio young folks was the * • _ assumption by the lecturer of tho ohvaosor of ;i millioaaire, who kept unboundol woilth in ,• ■ his library, not under look and key, but still. • • . f . more securely, gutrdid by electricity. A robber.: caters at midaight;»a bail nng3 violently as the villiau opens the door, aud whatever he touches. produces the sitae result, softer or louder; the very fraiie of a valuable picture ones out when ■> molested; the grand climix arrives when the.'.i. > thief put j his - hand 011 the caak-bjx, and; the - ; i peal is abounding, whon the owner entors and ■: ,v shoots theiinlofwtor.' " Does- tho clever gen- ■ - ■:' tlemau kill a bad man every day, Papa?" asked i blue-eyed little maideu, ".'cos r don't lika clntpart at all."' To speak seriously, there.; vi ! ~ caa be no doubt that, when properlyunderstocd ; ; ; • aad directed, dimestia electricity, miy ba> . . applied tVinnumerable and useful'purposes, -: and tbli Mr J. U. King lus takea rturijjtU .