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UIU fv i i . IfiXi ILLINOIS. is $&25,159,250, -it billlofcdollar country itrwpect. rial travelers4 licenses in South African colonies tectorates amount to $600 a •Aim Osier will head off the winter tier recollections of the oldest in- it which are about du* we wiH re him. »n nature seems in league with sus. ifcondike's increased out- *dds in golden stream to the tide ^prosperity. It Says Count Boni, "It Is immlaterial to use what the American press say •boot me." The proud indifference of a superior soul, doubtless. An Alton woman who asserts ske married while stupefied by pols- confections now realises that she a mistake in her "candy man." With seats on th^J|M«r tork Stock «zchange selling at fB2,©00, brokers remarks the Pitts!*#* Press, should now execute their qfl^rs standing. Cambridge, Mass., provides for* privilege of study and travel one year ^ven for the public school teach- A tea&her draws a part salary sgular position on return. of how long it w|11 to exidnast the coal- deposits In learth, is not of as much import- that more intimate problem, r kntg the deposit in the collar will from Professor Lowell tfcepeopie of Mars are suffering mme Kentucky colonels , |fia to extend to them the as* Of their most distinguished ion. ate reported to be going flilit This is probably due ; ftlk that general prosperity ads it possible for so many feopl* 'W iitin diamonds that they %ave become common. • l\"i Lj.tft !l> A tomu is going to Java in ofthemissing link probably IK* but, says the PhUa- a Ledger, she may learn how consumption of Java coffee man- to exceedthe product The New York authorities are car- ut a schemefer giving each tsnimals a scenic background It of its native habitat. So, £!lipW**oo will be not only a "l^l^:§n art ^nfcery. •- **" * submarine torpedo r, reports that he is now % on a submarine monster : whose attack there can be no L And which will pnt all war- id business. He ought to jMmorary member of the mesne society, remarks the rlisle, the UUUo^ Of was againsfc^bbrevi- Iple. "At Birmingham was a considersfclepro- , of the people so busy that they lift spare the time when speak- theyear to say 1901, but sharply nineteen one. I rpawjlii abbreviations have an •W effect on men's Blinds." Itmi •' ig "ymx* ago an Italian was con- to ten years' imprttonmeut iter. He escaped, and of until recently, when found that he had built a cell osrn house, had constituted a jailer, and had faithfully sentence upon himself. The |t f&t the government will his years » amateur pris- will have to begin new to liklerm in official incarceration. BgtffRgS^MMO feet deep tn New Or encountered nothing more mud, sand and a little thin ipitce the problem of making foundations for the piers of a railroad bridge which is soon be built across the Mississippi near is a hard one for engineering The piers will rest on tim- s, each measuring over 60 6 and 140 feet liigh. The these caissons will be 170 the surface of the river. Q. W. PERKINS AND C. 8. FAIR CHILD CALLED FORGERS. JEROME URGED ACTION Grand Jurors Seem Doubtful Whether Crime Was Committed--Charges %B«sed on Insurance Cower / PanJ^ Transaction. New York.--The grand jury, which for the past month has been investi­ gating the affairs of the New York Life Insurance company, Friday re­ turned indictments chafing forgery in the third degree against George W. Perkins, former vice president of the New York Life and a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and Gtyftrles S. Fairchild, a former secre­ tary of the treasury, president of the NewYork Security & Trust company (now but of existence) and a mem­ ber of the finance committee of the in­ surance company. Mr. Perkins was In court when the indictments were announced. He was formally arraigned, entered a plea of not guilty and gave bond in the sum of $10,000, his sureties be­ ing J. Pierppnt Morgan, Jr., who pledged a city residence valued at $300,000, and Cleveland H. Dodge, who pledged unimproved city prop­ erty valued v|it $60,000. Mr. Fairchild Is at present in Europe. The court assured Mr Perkins that a double surety was not necessary, but he re­ plied that he preferred it that way. Six indictments were returned against each of the two defendants, but all are based on the one transac­ tion known as the "Prussian loan," the specification under the charge of forgery being the falsification of book­ keeping entries, v It is alleged that certain, railway" stocks were trans­ ferred by the insurance company to the security and trust company in or­ der to comply with the Prussian law, but that the transfer was not bona fide. The grand jury coupled with the in­ dictments a presentment in which the jurors placed themselves on record as being convinced that in doing the acts charged against them, Messrs. Per­ kins and Fairch|ld were "influenced by a desire to benefit the i>olicyhold- ers." , The grand jury further says the in­ dictments were returned only under a <strict interpretation of the law as it was laid down to them by District Attorney Jerome. The statement as it was presented to Recorder Goff was an official confirmation of the reports which had spread about the criminal courts building, where the grand jury was tet session, to the effct that the jureMP were not at all convinced by Hie Evidence placed* before them that ia crime had been committed in the so- called "Prussian loan" transaction. The matter was pressed by Mr/Jer­ ome,* however, who appeared before the grand jngjjr on a number of occa- and mode lengthy arguments. ANOTHER MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR FATHER! INDIANS lER MEXICAN# tly Arrival Near LEAVE Mississippi Town Quiet and NO Mere Trouble Lxpected. * Meridian, Miss.--All the troops sta­ tioned at Scooba, the scene of the re­ cent race troubles, returned Thursday afternoon in charge of Gov. Vardaman, who went there Wednesday night to take personal command of the situa­ tion. Returning military officials and others comment unfavorably on the reports that have been sent out broad­ cast regarding tbe situation at Scooba. The condition there is reported quiet and apprehension of further trouble is passed. Hie railroad officials say there were no fresh outbreaks Thursday. The difficulty which aroused both races in this city and vicinity occurred three miles northeast of here Tues­ day. Accurate information upon this trouble is not yet available here, but it is known that at least five negroes lost their lives as a result of it. There are also reported several others killed. However, these reports lack confirma­ tion. Franz Rakoczy, who led an insur- ; in Hungary from 1703 to 1711. exile in Turkey. He was de- traitor by a law passed in liPhe act was repealed by the parliament last month, and ^IHi»%iian8 of the great leader were taken from Constantinople and re- buried with great honors in Buda- T%» ceremonies lasted four Rakocsy had to wait a lo»g for official recognition of his btft it has come at last Paso, Tex.--The devils of the gbre^ tiott; Caitiano*; Yaqui River & the South­ ern Pacific in Sonora, Mexico, Satur­ day night, in which eight Mexicans were killed and all tent houses burned, have been received here. No Americans were killed, although it is certain that but for tie timely arrival of a work train with a large crew of laborers Foreman Thompson and his wife would have been killed. Reports from th#same vicinity tell of murders and outrages perpetrated by the Yaquis Thursday and Friday nights. The victims were all Mexi­ cans, who were taken by surprise on their lonesome ranches. Details of the outbreak are extremely meager, but show that the situation i's serious. Immediately after the houses were set on fire, and by the light or Use flames the Yaquis shot at the fright­ ened Mexicans who were trying to es­ cape. The reports received here say that in addition to the eight men killed in the station a number of Mexicans were wounded. At a time when the residents of the camp, including Thompson and his American wife, seemed doomed, the whistle of a work train was heard, and a few minutes later the train pulled into the station. The' crew of the train immediately went to the assistance of the people at the station and the Indians took to flight < . Mexican troops are now in pursuit of the band and it is believed the In­ dians will he soon run down and cap­ tured. Soldiers are being rushed to the troubled district in large numbers; as the government is determined to make short work of the latest out­ break. It is believed that the out­ break will not prove general and that the trouble has all been caused by one large renegade band. Nogales, Mexico.--Details are arriv­ ing here of the butchery of a party of Mexicans by Yaqui Indians near Va­ lencia, 60 miles below Guymas. Eleven Mexicans and one American were killed, and, from all accounts, there were over 100 Indians In the attacking party. The employes of the Southern Pacific railroad In that sec­ tion are frightened. It is said many are leaving and that the massacre may delay the road to Guadalajara. vl| DEATH FOR NEBOGATOFF. , <V. ; ̂ ' Russian Admiral and Three, Condemned for Surrender."* 1 St Petersburg. -- Because he surrendered his squadron to the Japanese in the bajttle of the Sea of Japan on May 28, 19%, Rear Admiral Nebogatoff is sentenced to death. The same fate is meted out to Commander Lichino, of the coast defense ironclad General Admiral Apraihe; Rear Ad- miral Gregorieff, of the coast defense ship Admiral Seniavin, and Liuet. Smirnoff, who succeeded to the com­ mand of the battleship Nicolai L Such is the decision of the court- martial which has been trying Ad­ miral Nebogatoff and 78 officers of his squadron, but in view of extenuating circumstances and the long and oth­ erwise blameless careers of these of- l%ei^, the court will petition the em­ peror , to commute their sentences to ten years' imprisonment in a fortress. Four otaer officers were sentenced to short terms of Imprisonment in a fortress, while the remainder were ac­ quitted of the charges brought against them. MOB LYNCHES A MURDERER TAKEN FROM JAIL AT LAS ANI­ MAS, COL., AND STRUNG UP. FATAL WJtECK IN* SCOTLAND. QRAIN TIE-UP NEAR ENO. of New Hampshire are a majority vote; that is, ful candidate must have than are given to all of ents combined. If he lack majority the legislature ha* governor. In the other ity elects, and It some- that U£ji||cce88ful can- Pfew hundred total vote £pt* theHtW Hampshire Will have to elect the' gov- *0 candidate received a ma- ' • f c Hundreds of Cars Arriving In Minneap­ olis Every Day. Minneapolis, Minn. -- The back­ bone of the grain tie-up will soon be broken, as hundreds of cars of grain are now coming into the city daily, particularly over the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo, the roads which handle tite most grain. Great Northerafioffleials assert that they will have handled over cars locally by the Mid of Osonitttier, as against 3,000 in the month sof No­ vember. The Northern Pacific will have handled between. 1,200, and 1,500 cars at the end of December, as against 558 in November. The other roads do net stow fngr In­ crease worthy of mention but the •In­ crease. on the two big roads is grow­ ing daily, and it is therefore believed that the tie-up will not last long. Sixteen Killed in Railway Collision Caused by Snow. Dundee, Scotland.--In & railroad collision, caused indirectly by the hsavy snow storm of the l*at few days, 16 persons have been killed and over 30 injured. The accident oc­ curred near Arbroath, on the North British railroad, between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. London.--It is inany years since central Europe generally has suffered so severely from an Arctic visitation as it has this Chrlstsiss week. From France, Belgium, . Switzerland, Ger­ many and Austria-Hungary the same tale is repeated of heavy snow storms, he lnterrufftk>n/of railroad, vehicular :nd telegraphic ^communication, the ass of life, and general diseomfo Crowd of Masked Men Ayenge Bru« tal Crime--Victim Cooll/ AwaKa Hie. Doom. ^ -. lis 'Animas, • Col. Leberg was lynched here Thurs­ day night for the murder of Henry Lavenmeyer, by a mob of masked men. About 40 men entered the jail shortly befbre nine o'clock aa£ easily overpowered the stieriff, under sheriff and two other offleiiis and locked them securely in a room of the building. Then men went to the cell occupied, by Leberg, struck the shackles from his limbs and took him from the jail. A larger number of men and boys were waiting outside the walls and when the prisoner and his captors ap­ peared they formed a procession and marched' a short distance from the jail and hanged Leberg to a telegraph pole. The self-confessed murderer made no resistance and made no statement. Before the mob reached the jail Le­ berg hetyrd them coming. . He arose from his cot dressed himself coolly and awaited the coming of the avengers of Lavenmeyer's death. The leader of the mob made no effort to disguise himself, and it is declared that the ringleaders are known to the jail officials. Leberg's crime was inhuman. Alighting from a Santa Fe freight train Tuesday afternoon at Robinson station, near this city, he crossed the river and secured a meal from a farmer named Purvis. When lie fin­ ished eating, he den^anded lodging, but was refused because of his abusive language. Leberg left the Purvis farm and after preparing a camp on the river bank, atarted back toward Pur­ vis' place. He set fire to a hay stack belonging to Henry Lavenmeyer, thinking it was the property of Pur­ vis. The fire attracted Lavenmeyer, who took Leberg into ^astody, allow­ ing him to ride behind him on his horse. When Lavenmeyer dismounted to open the gate at his ranch, Leberg struck him on the head with a ham­ mer, which he found tied to the saddle. The fanner fell stunned, and Leberg beat him over the head until he be­ came tired. Then with a pocket knife he cut Lavenmeyer's throat from ear to ear and attempted to scalp him. The burning haystack attracted the neighbors to the scene, who found the mutilated body. A posse was formed and Leberg was caught a mile or two away riding Lavenmeyer's horse. He submitted to arrept quietly and even boasted of his crime, saying that he had drunk the blood of his victim. A. J. CAaSATT DIES SUDpENLV* President of Pennsylvania Railway Succumbs to He art Disease. Philadelphia.--Alexander Johnston Cassatt president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company and one*of the fore­ most railroad ioen and flnainders in died suddenly at his resi an Illustration of the violence common during politi- in England is a quaint a lawyer, after an election a* in 1768: "To being thrown George Inn, Andover, to mr thereby broken, to eurg- loss of time and busi- United States is now tending vMjaUtoAtev mnflll" hit imported tfcre-igh Bombay. Negro In Uniform Shoots Chinaman. El Reno, Okla.--Resisting an at­ tempted holdup in his laundry^. Friday night, Le Sung, a Chinaman, was shot and dangerously wounded by an un­ known negro who wore the uniform of the United States army. cans Slain by Yaquis. Arit.--Business men of Sonora, Mex., recently arriving here, say that within the last two months 16 Americans have been killed by Yaqui Indiana one point y an­ other In Mexico. ^ - 5 •- Well Known Artie! Oles. New York.--Walter Appleton Clark, the well known artist and illustrator, died Thursday at his home in this city. Mr. Clark was 31 years old. He was born in Worcester, Mass., in ]£76» and had won a high place In «rt Former Railway Agent Arrested. Denver, Col.--F. F. Coehm, Jp|gierly city passenger agent of the >re j«||road at Niagara Falls, waff|iie*ted Imw* Thursday on the char|î t em- bezsU&g several thousand fflHp the railroad company. ^ < loss and inconvenience in the well as In the country districts;. Tt a*d Milwaukeean Fined for Briery. Milwaukee.--Former Supervisor Au­ gust Puis in the municipal court Wednesday afternoon pleaded guilty to two Indictments charging bribery in connection with county contracts and Was fined $700. Shaw Spurns $100,000 a Year Office. Washington.--Secretary Shaw has rej^ed the offer of a big commercial Atlon to become its treasurer headquarters in New York at a of $100,000 a year under a five contract .1 years* • -- • -- • -- ' V v ' 4 Dynsmita Explosion Kills Three; '* FjUrgO, N. D.--THas men were killed Thursday and a th|Pd so badly Injured that he has since died, by the explo­ sion of- dynamite which was being thawed at Ulifcotfft?*. Of Fargo. , * Heavy Snow tn Great BHWri. London,--The heaviest snov,-storms the United Kingdom has had in many ysars raged Tuesday, with heavy gales. Traffic was badly hampered and there were many small wrecks along the coast, mmt at tlw sailors being rescued. ' •; "FaUier of Alfalfa Is Dead, ^ka, Kan.--Harrison Pnrkman^j Who first brought alfalfa from South America and pfyuited it in the United Stntes, died Wednesday at | Kan., a^ed 7$ year§. _ 1 > j- IT f Cassati .̂̂ .S dence in this city Friday. Mr. Cas­ satt, who was a little more than 67 years of age, was stricken with heart disease shortly before one o'clock and died before assistance could 1)3 given him. He was a victim of an acute heart attack known profession­ ally as "the Stokes-Adams syndrome." VICTORY FOR STANDARD OIL. Kentucky Feud Fatal. Lexington, Ky.--Hiram Mullins and his son William were shot and fatally wounded-In a fsud battle fought at their home with a gang of despera­ does, headed by Charles and Bud Lit­ tle and John Brewer. The house was riddled with bullets, and every window was broken. The battle ceased only when both the Mullins were shot down. 1 Costly Firs at Marietta, Qa. , 4 Atlanta, Ga. -- A special from Marietta, Ga., says the plant of the Georgia Manufacturing and Public 8ervice company, Including the Mari­ etta Paper mill, was burning Monday evening. Already a loss of $150,000 had been caused, and the fire was not yet under control. Recent Verdict Aflalnst Trust «t Flndlay, ©., Thrown Out. Flndlay, O. -- The Standard Oil company won a victory 4n common pleas court here Monday when Judge W. S. Duncan decided that the probate court had no jurisdiction in the suit brought against it in the probate court and threw out the recent verdict of guilty against the company- Prosecutor David sometime ago filed an information In the probate court against the Standard otaurttag it with violating the ju^-trust MkWa of state. He maintained get action quicker MSlliiilHM cont- pany by this proceedtSi &wjSirough indictments In the eomtfron pleas court '" • ' f This decision In no way eSectt the indictments recently returned in com­ mon pleas court by the grand jury against John D. Rockefeller and the other officials of the Standard Oil company, charging them with violat­ ing the anti-trust laws. It is understood the prosecution will appeal the case to a higher court HUGE MOTOR TRUCK** Telescope deslgnedto up A monster mobile truck, desi ed for th© speciflt to the top of Mouit^ adena, Cal., the lectrlc auto- land construct- e of moving son, near Pas- _ t telescope in l^^osi been completed in "'fSjIich.,., says' the New •Sii- Grand One of t drives throi being ^oljto motor four turs is that it wheels, each electric tne'top bf'.fhc' inp getting them th< one of the most lems inl&nnection with the great tdK others where hundred an a such a by and the bull&jRg^ top of the among other rfUlway to tipfl was considered^ . or; a score ^1. Tntfi^t #sigiatrueted txp^esii*. ti Cn«»y^fse -'-scope Up 'Sleep MMintaW'- ̂ ' t J*' possibles,. Jafid affor^ing the - widest The potWl^ Jit: plan of mnni Iiafaup^llid by' a smk^ electric pla^t which it carries with it--an electric dynamo directly connected with a gas­ oline engine supplying current to the four individual motors, instea^of the ordinary storage battery. The telescope which is to be moved to the mountain top is being compet­ ed at Pasadena, and work on the lens of the instrument has been in pro­ gress about tlyee years. This lens measures 60 indies in diameter, or 20 inches more than the great Yerkes tplescope, which is now the largest in the world. This mass of glass weighs a ton, alone, but there are other 6 -W. IMt^ey/ superintindent bf ln- ......jdOlrted tb» tbe rtHidway to tlw top of the mountain Mid employing this specially designed automobile- truck. The sum ot $25,000 is now be­ ing expended in improving the trait and converting ft into an eight-foot, roadway from tile: base of the moun­ tain to the observatory. ' i*o attoSS^t was mate to obtatii.^ SB!«e4, resets in designing the car. Th» truck is expected to go seven miles hour on a level roadway and a^out two milel en hour in climbing mountain, fully loaded In either caser; The avet$SB! load in moving the UMfi scope wlU fee about five tons. "ti*-- "."j* * ii~ > n r i r i r i A ̂NEW IDEA IN AIRSH -- ^ ~ 1 ir r r ifirnnr i^njfjl. Wlil.Wfeeieae Locomotion Solve the of Aerial Navigation? Some years ipp, b^foi« wireless tele^faphy |Was Jeye^oped to its pres- the Uttle dreaxnlni, s^me dwPIId in iea«ng the pris^m of I navigation, but my invention wa»'*'deiUiiM[ to e an important faCtor ln this rful achievement 1 © Adoption Of my device for this purpose #as brought by the construetkftt of a wlreffess electrical flying-machine, which only lacked emit- KKK--Dr. Beirs Tetrahedral P--• Propeller; 8--Shaft; M- less Motor; A--Antenna*; Rudders. Judge Upholds Mneklln Will. Rock Island, 111.--A verdict declar­ ing invalid the will of Father Thomas Macklin, a Catholic prleet who left an estate worth $150,000, was set aside Friday by Judge Gest on the ground that* the verdict was not in ac­ cordance with the evidenced Bad Earthquaka' In Chili. % Santiago, Chile.--Half of the town of Arica, in the province of Taena, has been destroyed by an earthquake, and other towns in the neighborhood have suffered more or less severely. The seaport of Iquique, 120 miles south Of Arica, was not damaged. Bryan Will Be Candidate. { Topeka, Kan.--In an Interview here Thursday William J. Bryan practleaUy admitted that he would be a candidate for the presidential nomination before the next Democratic national conven­ tion. Ruaisan Consul a Suicide. Liverpool. -- The Ruslsan consul here, Col. De Heimann, was found dead in bed Thursday morning, having been killed by a pistol shot and a knife wound that were Inflicted by bias" self. -f: y4- Russia* unknown Two Killsd by Bomb In Kharkov, Russia.--An traveler dropped a bomb in the rail­ way station here Wednesday evening upon alighting from an incoming train. Two passengers were killed and many wounded.." Outlaws Shoot a Tulsa, I. T.--In a running flg£t over m rocky country. Deputy United States Marshal Strickland was shot and left for dead by two desperate outlaws. The battle occurred near Dawson, a •mall mining camp. > • . Ralsull Preparing to Fight Tangier, Morocco.--Ralsull has re­ fused to resign his governorship, has sent his harem to the mountains un­ der the protection -of a detachment of Kabyles, and is preparing to meet tlw forces of War Minister Gabbas at Zinat S. A. Sherman, of Wisconsin, Dies. Stevens Point, Wis.--Simon A. Sherman, aged 83 years, died here Friday. He was known throughout the state as historian of the Fox river valley and as a pioneer lumberman. Commercial Teachers Meet. Cleveland, O. -- Th» National Commercial School Teachers' fed­ eration convened here Thursday with an attendance of between 400 and delegates, representing all the country. ^ ^ Woman Dies of Nssr fOrk.--Mrs. Clm^es - years old, of New home from hydi bitten three weeks terrier her '• street / nt her able means for SoRectmg the deotri- cal Waves to make tbe machine a suc­ cess. . The machine was constructed ay Capt. Raymond Anglemlre. attd Prof, Howard Taseweil, of Boston, and con­ sists of three of Dr. Bell's tetrahedral kites, a large lifting propteller, and a wireless electric motor direct-connect­ ed to the propeller by Weans Of a ver­ tical shaft. Capt. Anglemire selected my anten­ nae a! the Ibesf suitAble for this pur­ pose, writes Edward Herbert, fn Pop- ular^MefihanicSi because of their ex- trems li^itness and ta^ge area of ex­ posed surface, sad because they pos­ sessed the edduional advaptfge of re­ ceiving the electrical waves With equal efficiency from all directions. When C^pt. Anglemire first outlined the undertaking to me it seemed so unfeasible io my understanding that I woî d haf e\dismissed the proposition without any furthet conaWemti^ had it not bs î for my tmftipft ̂ enfid îce in his ::m3foy and admiration luî JWs achleveMents, but after being hoaend with the privilege of witnessing the first ascension that was ever made in a machine heavier than air I feel fully repaid for my contrlbuttah to the en­ terprise. The test was made August $7 at Brantford, OntaanO, the city in *^Ich Alexander GrahaikLdell resided When he invented the telephone. A small outskirts of the city electricity, the curren* from a nearby trolley lip through some kind of If devlee, which wfs fumlih. Taxewell. A number of railroad ties were fMtted on the sarfSceof the lake and tl}«»» were ajl . connected by a Sre.^i carnlSme Ouitent. The number of spectators was lim­ ited to a few friends and two news­ paper reporters, and no photographs were allowed to be taKeii during the test, as the details of the system of wireless locomotion wUl not be di­ vulged at present. When everything was tln *eadlnees * TazewSlV took hls positton *t m himself beneath tie slender frame­ work of the machine. "All right," he said, and Prof. Tazewell turned the switch. Instantly there was a crack­ ing aoise accompanied by flashes of light Which appeared all over the supj face of the lake. The wireless motdffe4 quivered and then began humming^ with ever increasing acceleration u*->; til the. Mge prophet:' lifted tfce sp#^ chine from the groi|$& At a heigbt of 200 feet Capt. Aiglemire Prtrf. TazeweH, wto fumed offxthe «ipv ground. . j' J^fetest proved Jtatal to«any of thb? ^ smail fish and frogs that inhabited tl%v lake, but proved beyond doubt tblPf*;^ possibility of operating a fiying-msr- chine heavier than air. ELECTRICAL OSCILLATIONS'.- Peculiar Effects They Have on Irosr Magnetized. "W* The effect of electrical oscHlatl on iron in a magnetic field fof the subject of a paper recently before the Physical society by Dfc. W. H. Eccles. In attempting to make* precise measurements of the effect qjfc high-frequency oscillations on irdj$; held magnetized by a magnetic field,, two main difficulties are met Th|*>: one Is that arising from the fact that: > tiie Oscillatory currents induced oi» the surface of the iron investigated shield the inner layers, and thus maker, the mass of iron affected a variable quantity. The other difficulty aHse#^ in the matter of producing oscillatloisi -, of determinate sad invariable chais acter. The author has endeavored t» meet the first difficulty by using-os­ cillations so feeble that they affected only the outermost layers of the iroa wlres^mployed, and these even on$ slightly. The second difficulty hast been met by using the oscillation* produced in an open Insulated sole^- noid by a single small measur­ able spark passed to onie'end of the* solenoid. ' c a American Lamps SuperlSf- : Sir William Preece made staaiife. statements recently before the British ^ association which are calculated to* disturb the equanimity of English-. . mpanfacturers of electric lamps, e|^c pedally since he based them upatifci tests made at tbe instsiiips^; of tile- EIngilWtering Standards committee. H»- sbowsd, among ottier thfngs, jthat the BriUsh-made hMttp falls short of the- American-made lamp in efficiency, te li«B, and in ac|ai^acy of tmmi' Maiiir lamps nominally of 16 cand% power, purc&ssed in open marked showed an average n^ only 13.2 candle power, as cih lamps. wasN near the with taken id passed ^storming by Prof for the Amerl- Idiowed a muclk and .,tlMrir useful <m«4lfth that of tuis Hiis difference, as. ifcrks, is so enormous: th»t the British makers Will have beeUr themselves. : : ••• , /C *- k* - 'SwitzerlsneTs ̂ Whlls CeaAP *•**&•" This term--in French hounfp bl anche--refers, as most readers a|v ^ > ready no doubt know, not to a mtil- eral dug from the earth like ordinary «oai, but to the gleaming giaiitmlKad!" foaming torrents of die mow^hML which snpply energy by the, jteSftint ' crf thslr wnl̂ s under the force of gravitation wrff||Csellv^y as coal sup> plies it by un<Nirgol^ toe process ofT . burning. From eoal steam Is derived;, from waterfalls electric power. At* present Switzerland derives 300,000 horse power from its streams; but this is only a fraction of the power available, and the federal/go>#iff4i]iHMkt is about to refer to a formal vote <i!^, ' the Swiss people the question of how best to utilize this store of power*, whose symbol glitters on the sno#« crowned peaks--' ploitation by .private entm^rise. through or in Mexico. Wlre^ss telegraph stations ha been Installed at two pqils oa 1 west coast of Mexico. „ ^ • : *i. .... " - .V