Leclanche battery

Leclanche Battery.

It is a mistake, say the makers of the Leclanche battery, to assume that a battery is a battery, and that the less one pays for it the more is saved: "When one takes into consideration," they go on to say, the amount of pure cussedness which can lie hidden in a cell of poor battery, the trouble such a cell can make for its owner, the injury it can do to its surroundings and the loss which its behavior can entail, it becomes apparent that the entire cost of the cell is comparatively of little consequence and the difference in price between it and a good cell of none whatever. A battery should be made of

the purest materials by the most careful workmen and under the direction of accurate knowledge on the subject, or else it ought not to be made at all. In other words, it should be the best possible, or nothing. For many years we have been trying to inculcate this axiom, and thousands have learned it never to forget it, but there are other thousands who still have it to learn and can only be taught by object lessons at their own expense. Buying experience is expensive, and while it is not confined to battery purchases but is applicable to almost everything from a paper of pins to a locomotive, the practice seems to be a favorite method of wasting money with battery users. If we can save any such the cost and trouble of trying it for themselves we are glad to do so, and it is therefore not only with pleasure but with confidence that we speak of our battery, which has for more than a quarter of a century maintained its reputation in such a manner as to justify us in calling it, as we do, the standard open-circuit battery of the world. Our company is now in its twenty-seventh year of existence. The various battery cells made by us under the title of the Gonda trade-mark cells are known and used all over the civilized world, even in such remote plaices as China and Farther India. They were awarded the only gold medal given for batteries at the Paris expositions of 1878 and 1889 and the highest award and medal at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. The Gonda trade-mark cells are so well known in this country and their reputation is so great that it is unnecessary for us to enter into a detailed description of them. We will be glad to furnish full information to anyone applying for descriptive catalogues."

The Gonda cells are made by the Leclanche Battery company of New York and are in widespread and long-continued use for telephone service. The cut shows the standard type.