FLOGGING BOYS BY ELECTRICITY.
The New York Herald, commenting on the successful shipment of an immense amount of electrical force from France to Scotland in a box a foot square, says:—lf electricity really can be compressed, condensed, or in any other way stored in small space, to be used whenever desired, steam boilers may as well bo sold for old iron, and the horse and his longeared half-brother be sent to the sausage maker. Every house may be made burglarproof by a guard of wire heavily charged with electricity, if only the force itself can be had in sufficient quantity. A little box of compressed electricity, occupying no more space than an inkstand, might be so arranged on a teacher's desk, with switch or ruler connection, that all the bad boys could be soundly flogged without the teacher raising hia hand to do more than set the little giant at work. A man might deftly coil a wire around himself, over insulating clothing, ■ and then, making the proper connections with. a_. pocket case of electricity, tread calmly on the toes of the biggest man in town and see the fellow tumble the moment his vengeful fist touched the wire.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6147, 30 July 1881, Page 7
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199FLOGGING BOYS BY ELECTRICITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6147, 30 July 1881, Page 7
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