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BjsjjflBslWsBsWesWsWsWBWMs would be two main wires in each street, which could be run over the house-' tops or under ground, protected ry. in ti'lhAAL Th nml ftf th. Ifvht In Ihw, A case would be about one-fortieth that of 1 I gas. A large mill in New England, which.JL,., has beer paying $4,000 a year for gas. ereaid, ha ordered 200 of tha i (' lamps, and estimates tbe cost of the new light at less than $10.

The dr-y' .3 namo-electric machine of any make may be Used as a generator. Mr. Saw- Jei said he had been working on this imp tor several years, and perfected Jt last spring, after having received many valuable suggestions from Mr. Patents were taken oot in August and November, 1870; And in June of this year. The Dynfmo-Electrio Light Company was incorporated July 11.

1878, Uie following being the nrincinal eras- F0KEIU3SEW8. PRESS SOUKDING THE ALARM 1st. Petersburg dispatch of Ho v. 4th I. 1 lift (loina lurlu'ii.

:Aninto.lo.the feet that the chiet I rash box has been returned from Adrianople and asks why. if that they are not contradicted 1 i advance ou wuudiuiujuji wuuiu challenge on the part of Russia. cnlA TO AWi 1 infi uuuj DlAnuAKU A London aispatcn or "jNovem- 3rd Jrnvate telegrams her Ill inn ouioiiiou kuaii wo guvwru- 1 India contemplates the adon- on of ft gold currency, making the relish 8'd coir.fl a legl tender irougliout the country. The importa- ol Oar euvei uiuuuijr uo pro fited after a given" time and rupee jaJ smaller coins useu as iracuonai cur- em''. LOYAL INDIAN SUBJECTS.

Bombay dispatch under date (f November 1st, says: "Intelli-' has been received here which duties the confidence of the English 1 1. .1 in uie ui iub xnuian "Winces. Offers of aid are coming from i Native trnr.ru arp mimp uii fe 0 advance on Afghanistan. The tone fthe vernacular press is all that could desired. DJaJSUAIlS TV THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

4 Dublin cablegram of Oct. 81st says Or, Gillooley, Roman Catholic Bishop af Elohin, has been appointed by the pope to the high position of Apostolic iieleeate from the Holv See to 1. nnl Iks TTniu1 Ct.tnn Hi jurisdiction wul extend to th? Catholic clergy ot the United utes. as in the case of his predecessor. iir Conroy.

'Dr. Gillooly has been for ime rears Bishop of Elphin, and is dirtiDguished from his fellow bishops in Ireland by his activity ana energy. WTH ENGLAND AND BUSgIA WANT WAR A St. Petersburg cablegram of October 30th says: The Oolos if the Russian people were con- it l.l i i .) sulteo, uiey wuuiu uiuietjiutuugiy uo- cide for a renewal of the struggle, de- nitethe expedients of diplomacy to irrest the natural course of historical Jevelopments. It is evident that the Inevitable crisis on the eastern question as arrived.

There is no apparent DiwDect of completing the organization of the Balkan peninsula on the basis of lumanity and justice without a fresh war. A London dispatch of October hth says: The Pull MaU Gazette editorially dtclares that the treaty ol Berlin is a failure; that it will be impossible by it to arrive at a pacific so-ution, and that the sooner this fact is recognized the better. "Peace," it says, must be commanded by commanding u.e arrest of the reckless power whicn has kept Europe in a commotion for years past, and now threatens to break away from all law and all restraint. If is only to be done in concert, and concert is a give and take matter, for die benefits of which all parties must pay something, it follows we should not shrink from any price in reason." LORD BEAOONSFIELD ILL, A London special of October 30th says the air is heavy with rumors of the illness of Lord Beacons- field, and the cabinet has been summoned to consider what should be done -nme of his death. At the meet- ogof the cabinet he bad a serious ap- opleptic ht.and the presence of his phy siciaii was necessary.

TRiKES AND STARVATION IN SCOTLAND. A speeiaT cablegram of Oct. 29th ays: ine various ship-building nrms received notification this morning irom iron-workers' secretary that the Mer-makers and Iron Ship-building association intended withdrawing its men whenever the proposed reduction it i i per cent was enforced. Accord' the workmen of five estab-uhments struck. It is understood that nc Clvde ship-building establish ment, intends to discharge several Hundred men this week, because of 'lie dullness of trade.

John Elder Clvde shin-builders, employing KOOOmen, have decided to reduce their by 1,200 men. The determination as made known to the men at lunch 'on to-day, after the launch of her majesty '8 steam corvet Oonquat. One "i the firm said: "There are only three ips building, as you may see, Five years we had twenty- ve under contract I regret to that the prospects of more orders wn are not good. Indeed, the out-ok is most gloomy." Notices are ed in Kilsyth district collieries announcing a further reduction in a fort- I'ghiof eixDense Der dav in the wages, is verv severe on the men, who "enow receiving only 8s. 6d.

to 4s vrdav dnrinor fivn rlavs in CAch week Many miners' families are already in a 'eof desUtution. BIO FIGURES. tost for Time and Material for Kill ing a Cat InfflMiapolu Journal. It rennirM' ton wolLliivriAd blows an ordinary boot-jack to kill the erage cat, and at the distance of a the chances are ten to one that you VH miss the cat If you don't believe tT? it. Secure the cat by a string one ot long, so as to give the cat plenty of and alter a week's practice you 'H consider this a scant estimate for fne cat.

Therefore, at a distance of one 'oot it will require one hundred boot- But your chances of killinc the oat decrease as the equar of the distance creases. 'This an axiom in natural philosophy.and a fundamenUl truth of eunology. Therefore, at a distance of feet it will require-ten thousand. gain, the force of the projectile debases as the square of the distance in-reases. Ten squares equal 100; 10,000 IKJ0 1,000,000, equals number of boot-on the count ut then the darkness of night deceases the chances of a fair hit ten to 'Ce- Henee at night it will require leave the domain of a couple of logical inferences.

Rrst, after a man has hurled bootjacks he will be old, as we snail hereafter show, and Terr feeble. We have no means of knowing how much hw projecting force would decrease or his aim fail. But at a very fair allowance the chances from these two causes would decrease in the ratio of 100 to 1. Count fifth, 20,000,000,000. It is true that 20.000.000.000 font.

jacks thrown round promiscuously might afford the cat almost invincible shelter, but to save naDer we will surv. pose this to diminish the chances only as to 1. Count six and answer. 200.000.000. ii is true me man might improve in ti nia aim.

Dut the cat equally in his dodging. Wow, suppose Adam to have thrown on an average, 500 per day. This is a libera! estimate when we make no allowance for 8undays, bums," mending his breeches, blowing up Eve, etc, He would have job of 1,050,220 years, At present the cat would be l-186th dead. Or. su noose the weanon to eon- tain one square foot ofsinch pine and six eightDennv nails.

The lumber. third clear, would cost $26 per 1,000 feet, or $5,200,000,000. And the nails lo.wo.uuUjUou pounds at: cents per pouna, would cost Xhese heures arestarUliiL If ever a tomcat is killed it is by a special inter- venuon oi uivine rroviaence. The All the Year Round Let it not be supposed that people feast on beans, with the accessories of bacon or beef, or other substantial food, or that they thus enjoy themselves more frequently at the time when beans are in season than at any oth er, as is generally represented by antiquaries and philologists, who think they know and can explain everything, however recondite. Beanfeast is derived from an old British or Celtic phrase, in use long anterior to Saxon and Norman invasions of England, and means "bean," a woman, and "feist," a feast or festival, and was originally applied to a marriage breakfast, or other repast, to which women were invited.

The word has long been lost to the English lan guage, except in this instance, and in that of the proverb, "A bean in a monk's hood t. e. a woman dressed up as monk. But its original Celtic, meaning is sun preservea ireiana as "bean and in the Highlands; of Scotland as "bean feisd," and survives in England, though its first meaning has perished, to describe the annual sym posia or the London workpeople, or those of other great cities and hives of industry, such as Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham. Those who manage beanfeasts do not, as a rule, seem to prefer picnics on the grass, but regular repasts in country inns or gardens where they can sit down to well-pre- pareu dinners, ana lounge, and smoke and play at skittles afterward.

They are usuallv the causes of much social enjoyment, and, being mostly presided over by the employers of the holiday makers, have the hapuy enects of bridging over thG cold dark gulf of caste that too often, in Great Britain, separates the working classes irom the class that pays their wages 1 have noticed not with any pleasure that the English workmen who make holiday in this fashion are more obstreperous and boisterous than the French and Uerman operatives large numbers ol whom are employed in London, and who conform, in the ob servance of holidays, to the customs of the country in which their lots are cast, The English most commonly make for the nearest public house on their ar rival, and indulge in horse-play, the result, no doubt of exuberant animal spirits, accompanied by the use of horribly profane language, which no amount of animal spirits can excuse. Why lads, from 15 or 16 up to 20 or more, should use coarser And filthier language than full-grown men, is one of those things for which 1 am wholy un able to account, unless the young fools think it is manly to be blasphemous, in which case it is to be hoped that in creasing years will teach them decency and wisdom. The French and Germans do not offend in this manner, and vile words very seldom escape from their iips. The Germ ans have a pleasant and praiseworthy habit of walking along the roads in companies of trained voices, singing part-songs to cheer them on the way a habit in wcich it earnestly to be hoped that the next generation of Englishmen, trained in the Board Schools, may be persuaded to imitate them. Lore and War.

Russian papers relate some romantic attachments which have sprung up be tween lurkish Dnsoners of war ana Russian ladies of various ages in the towns where the former have been de tained, leading in some cases to some what sensational and rather inconven ient scenes upon the departure of the Turks. At Charkoffa Russian girl, dressed up as a Turk, took her place amonsr the returning Moslems, one was detected on numbering the persons conveyed in the car. At Poltava a young lady of position and education insisted urjon accomparrvinsr a luriusn omcer, to whom she earnestly desired to be married. At the same place the de- narture of one railway train 'carrying liberated prisoners led to a regular scene, necessitating the interference of the police and calling for orders which have since been riven to prevent simi lar occurrences in future. A crowd ot ladies, young and old, some only school girh, assembled on the platform and took Ieaie of tha dpnarting A urn in the most pathetic and demonstrative of ways.

All embraced, an Kuaen, some bum into tears, others laintea away. All this was done in public. The school girls taking part in the display have since been expelled from their schools. Apples are so nlentv in New Hamp shire that the farmers cannot afford to nv for nickinr them. Barrels, on the other hand, are in snch great demand that when some thieves entered a barn in Sooth Seabrook recently they emp tied the apples upon the barn floor and carried off the barrels, I sir, there's nothing in my baggage of a auuaoie nature." The passenger was quite surprised to find how differently the officer regarded me iormiaaoie list oi articles, and still more was he surprised when the agent aemanaea ine keys or the trunks and scattered about an array of dutiable goods, among which was a small li brary of new and uncut books.

Two tricks were played on the agents -of an amusing character. They had a large number of children's carriages and. wooden horses to pass, but were much surprised to find them extremely heavy. There was a swindle, but where? Happy thought: the other officer ripped open the cushions ot several, and found. neatly wrapped in cotton-wadding, a considerable quantity cf gold watches and jewelry.

On another occasion a prominent firm importing enormous quantities of hollow leaden toys was found to be doing so to escape tno higher duty on pig-lead. THE PATH OF STORMS. The Source and Coarse of the Great Hnr ricane on the Atlantic Coast. rhlltdelpbU Balletln. The terrific storm which made such havoc on Wednesday originated off the coast of lorida on Sunday, swinging around from starting point, it struck the middle Atlantic coast just be fore daylight Wednesday morning.

Simultaneously a considerable barometrical depression was moving eastward from the lake region, ami when the two areas of low pressures met they united and formed an elongated trough which extended nearly north and south from the Carolinas far into the Dominion of Canada. The greatest force of the storm appears to have been Spent in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. The storm-center moved directly north from this locality, and at midnight was hovering over Montreal. In connection with the source and course of this hurricane, some reminiscences of the great storms of the past will be interesting. On the 3d of October, 1760, a cyclone arose south of Jamaica, passed across that island, Cu ba and the Bahamas nearly at right angles, and expired on the 5th day in mid-sea, 1,000 miles due east from the Jersey coast, having traveled about thirty-five degrees from the spot of its origin, or not rar irom ouu miles a day.

Tha famous storm of October, 17eo, which lives in nautical history as the great hurricane, struck Barbados on the 12th of the month, reached itayti on the 14th, and Turk's Island, in the Bahamas, on the loth. It was there deflected in a sharpcurve to the northeast, taking the general course of the Gulf Stream, and Anally stopping in mid-Atlantic, half way between Cuba and the Azores, on the 18th of the month, without having touched either Cuba or the mainland. On the 12th of August, 1830, a storm appeared on the outer edge of the An tilles and descended a grand curve of 709 of progress, stopping near Cape Race, X. on the seventh day, touching only the Bahamas, but sweeping right up the Gulf Stream and the path of shipping. In September, 1830, a cyclone also arose north of the Little Antilles, where these storms generally make their appearance, and without striking land at all it traveled more than forty degrees in three days, swinging around under the influence of the Gulf Stream, approaching Hatteras, then expiring off the mouth of the Gulf of St.

Lawrence. On June 23, 1831, a cyclone appeared near the usual starting place, close by Trinidad. As it got into the warm basin ol the uaribbean sea, near ine ooutn American coast, and touched no land until it reached Yucatan on the 27th, it was not deflected at all into the Gulf Stream, but continued on into Mexico, where it was followed no further. On the 12th of August, 1845, another cvclone appeared east of the island of Guadaloupe, advanced nearly a straight line across all the large Antilles and in six days struck the coast of Texas, between the Rio Grande and Indi-anola. It was uninfluenced by the number of mountainous islands in its passage and by the Gulf Stream, and it waa not followed west of the high altitudes of Texas.

In 1846 a cyclone appeared in the Caribbean sea. off the coast of Guate mala, and, striking the western part or Cuba at right angles, missed both the gulf stream and the gulf and landed in Florida; thence it made a clean sweep up the land parts of the Atlantic coast between the coast cities ana ine Allegheny, and was eight days reaching the latitude of Philadelphia, in the Susquehanna valley. It expired in eleven days on the palisades of Labra dor. Another land-travelling cyclone, in 1804, began in the Little Antilles and expired in the bay of Fundy at the close of a week, running over Charles ton. Richmond, the Chesapeake penin sula, New Jersey and Rhode It land.

ur late years, tnj cyclones originating in the vicinity of the West Indies have generally been deflected towards the Gulf Coast where they have almost in variably been very destructive, mis was the case especially with the storms of September and October, 1860; October. 1865: July. 18G6: October. 1867. and September, 1875.

The last-named hur ricane started south ol uuoa, on tne 12th of September, and struck the coast of Texas on the 15th, with terriffic vio lence. Half of Galveston was nooaea from the gulf, while the town of In-dianola was completely prostrated, and besides the vast destruction of property 400 lives were lost In August 1871. however, a cyclone starting in the West Indies was deflected up the Atlantic coast, and was especially destructive between Key est and Charleston, being most severe Savannah. This stornv nnlike the recent great gale was predieted sev eral days in advance by the signal service weather bureau. M.

Gambota is to be married to a widow witn a fortune of $8,000,000. Vlrs. Hooper adds that the lady is tbe niece of VL Dnbochet the great gas con tractor, whose heir was one tune Gambetta was to be. ANOTHER ELECTRI LIGHT. An Investor Who Pro i Household IllnnlaatioB at One-Fortieth the Cost or Gas, Mew York A new form of the electric light, pro duced by what is known as the Sawyer- Man electric lamp, was publicly exhibited for tbe first time yesterday at the offices of the Electro Dynamic Light Company, No.

4 Walker street The lamp is entirely different from any now in use, as the electrio arc," or the illumination of a current pf electricty passiag between two carbon points, is not used. In one respect the labtp re sembles that proposed by Edison the incandescence of an indetilruc table sub stance, and the subdivision of the cut- rent to any extent for use in the lamps. The Sawyer-Man lamp consists of two sets of conductors supporting a dia phragm. On the diaphragm is an up right metal bar, from the top or which extends transversely another metal bar. Under the transverse bar is an up right piece of metal called the which is also fixed to the diaphragm Between the transverse piece of metal and the "anvil" is a carbon pencil about one-sixth of an inch in thickness, which is the light-giving substance This whole apparatus is inclosed in a glass tube closed at the top and fastened to a stand at the bottom.

The entire lamp is 7i inches high and 2 inohes in diameter. The principal value of the apparatus depends upon the fact that when the globe is placed over the lamp the atmospheric air is displaced by nitrogen gas, in which no body heated to an intense degree will undergo oxidization that is, be burned. The carbon Sencil of this lamp, which is readily estroyed by an electric current in the open air, suffers no change whatever in the nitrogen, although the light caused by the intense heat of the current suffers no diminution. In the office where the light was ex hibited yesterday them were five lamps, two" being in a chandelier and three on the walls. All were similar to that shown by the diagram, butbeing among the hrst manufactured, had spiral tubes in place of the straight jonductors and thick carbon points at the end of the transverse metal bar and on the top of the anvil.

The engine that drove the dynamo-electrio machine was of U-horse power, and at full speed was claimed to be capable of supplying sixty lamps. When the engine was started the five lamps were simultaneously lighted, the carbon pencils instantly giving out an intense white light apparently about one inch in diameter. The light at a glance was not unpleasand, although glazing at it produced an effect similar to that caused by looking at the sun. The globe of one of the lamps was of opalescent glass, and this almost entirely did away with the dazzling brilliancy without preventing the diffusion of the light. The five lamps illuminated the room brightly with a white yet mellow light, and each was calculated to be of the value of three gas-burners.

There were five key-holes in the wall of the room, and in these successively Mr. Sawyer applied a key, turning down or altogether extinguishing one or another of the lights without affecting the remainder. The effect was the same as in lowering the light of a gas-burner, excepting that when the current was altogether turned off from one light the carborn pencil glowed for a few seconds with a dull red heat it is a peculiarity of this lamp that only that part of the globe around and above tho pencil becomes heated, the diaphragm preventing the transmission oi neat ueiow mat point, a or uo ine transverse and upright metal bars or the anvil become heated, this being accounted for bv the fact that all of the electricity supplied is used up in heat ing tho carbon pencil. The glass globe being hermetically closed, whatever action takes place in it is confined to its interior, and there is no smell from it nor any deterioration of the air in the apartment in which the lamp is burn ing. There are other advantages claimed for this lamp besides tbe indestructi bility of the carbon pencil.

The resistance of each lamp is always the same this being due, to the perma nence of the carbon and the electrical current is therefore not interfered with. The light does not flicker and will not go out of itself. The current, the inventor claims, can be distributed with certainty to any extent and tho light can be easily subdivided. It is claimed that this is tho only system ever devised which controls the distribution of electricity to different lamps, and this is due to tbe regularity of action of the lamps. The light will burn under water and cannot possibly set fire to anything.

Mr. Sawyer, in describing the apparatus, omitted to call attention to one point At the bottom of each lamp is a little bag, evidently distended with some substance. When the World reporter asked him what this was Mr. Sawyer said that the bag and its contents prevented materially the destruction or the carbon pencil, although nitrogen gas was the chief agent to that end. He declined to say, however, what was in the bag on the ground that as the invention was so recent other persons might take advantage of it if all of its parts were made known.

The practicability of this lamp is claimed to be beyond all question. The lamp itself is exceedingly cheap. The cost of the light depends upon circum stances. In factories, on steamboats and in places where steam-power already exists all that is necessary is the generator, and the cost of production is nomi nal One small dynamo-electric ma chine will give at least thirty lights, each of tbe power of ten candles, with less than one-horse power, ana a ma chine three times larger will give nine times that illuminating power. It claimed that the distance to which tbe electricity is conducted is of no importance.

The machine may be in New York and the lamp in London. Practically, a radios of one mile from the central supplying stations to tbe lamps would be about proper. Mr. Sawyer suggested that in the event of Manhattan Island being supplied with light from these lamps there should be ten stations along the North River and as many along 'the East River. There is A SEARCHER'S STOBY.

The Devices f-bjr WhlcB Wemen Defraud the CftsWmsDiamMas la the Hair, Lace Id Dress Lininr ad Geoda in TerrthhirUow Get New York star. In a Wa wcrwn stone mansion up town lives a keen-eyed, sharp-featured woman, who is employed as a searcher in the custom-house. Madam, you know something of the trioxs or smugglers, do vou not widtherenorter, fr glers, who, I may say, carry on their nefarious business with the most charm-in effrontery. Of course, there are petty smugglers of both sexes, but for cunnuigjboldness and determination the women cannot be approached. Do vou know that women are born cheats? Oh, well, I mean in this direction.

A woman's dress affords her more facilities for hiding small but costly articles, and it "is far less easy to detect them than men, and almost impossible to eircumvent them, as the elder Weller would say, when they set their wits to work, it talres an experienced search er to say whether a woman has got anything concealed about her, and, as wecanpot search everybody, some of the clever ones manage to get through witnout aetecuon. Some very funny instances have come under my own observation. once searched a young a thin- faced delicate creature, and my reason for doing so was that she appeared rather abnormally developed aDove the waist Well I found in the lining of her corsets a quantity of welry, valued at several thousand dollars. She was evidently a new hand at the business. and was quite amazed when we inform ed her that the jewelry must be confis cated to the uses of the government.

"'Yes. quite a number of lady search era are emploved by the custom-house authorities. When a party is suspected, she is taken into a private apartment and then carefully stripped, garment after garment; even her boots and stockings are removed, and her underclothing examined rigorously. This is done despite the most affecting protestations on the part of the victim. It very often happens that a lady' will pass tre stripping arses: succcssiuuy.

Nothing is found on her, and the searcher is afraid a mistake has been made, but a lucky rip of the corsets, dress or pantalettes brings to light a glittering mass, of caiefully concealed precious stones or costly laces." "I suppose," said the reporter, the lady-searchers have to drop all sentiment in making their searches." Why, certainly. We are the most matter-of-fact women in the world. These female smugglers imagine that their sex will protect them from a personal examination. An amusing instance of this comes to my mind. One of the lady passengers was detained by the authorities, on information received.

A stout elderly-looking female, who had been her companion during the voyage, accompanied her to the search- room. The stout lady was loud in her denunciations, and threatened all sorts of vengeance on the bold, bad men who were giving her friend so much trouble. But the searchers found on the suspected person a large quantity or hne laces and several cut diamonds. Now, here's the joke. When the old lady and her friend were about leaving the room, one of the lynx-eyed search ers noticed something peculiar abaut the hang of the unsearched woman's dress.

In an instant wo knew some thing was wrong. We lifted, the skirts of this respectable party, while both women shrieked. Now, hanging round this woman's dress, securely tied with tape, were some highly valuable violins, which are Bubject to a heavy duty. I remember another case; that of a middle-aged woman, who roused my suspicion by her jet-biacit nair. iou see her lace was wrinKieu, anu i thought it strange she should have such fine hair.

I politely intimated my de sire to search her, and commenced by exploring the mysteries of that beauti ful hair. Why, it was a wig, so skill fully constructed that the chignon con cealed a number of precious stones. On this discovery we decided to make fuller examination, and were amply rewarded for our trouble. An old trick of female smugglers is to have rare jewels and laces sewn in folds about various parts of their dresses and underskirts. 1 once seized some fine Evans velvet done up in this way.

Sometimes I find precious stones lightly covered with cotton and secreted in the bosoms of these ladies. I saw one searched who was completely enveloped in Jace, wound about her person, lace of such cob-web texture that a roll of three yards of it could be passed through a small finger-ring. In the days when wide hoop-skirts were in vogue I saw a slightly built lady walking as I thought rather heavily, and I felt sure she required my services in re lieving her of some dutiable articles. found hanging from each wire on the inside of the skirt a selection ot valu able gold watches; in fact quite an invoice of time-keepers. I found out afterward that the lady was not a pro fessional smuggler, but that those watches were for friends who bad personally solicited her to get them an English watch.

She looked very much confused when detected, and innocently asked whether we couldn't allow her to have the watches, because her friends would be disappointed In conversation with a shrewd special agent the write! learned that a great deal of smuggling is done in a quiet Wajrhy naval officers. Of course these gentlemen bring "presents for their mothers, wives and sweeineans, out thi roods are generally too costly and rare to admit of this explanation, and, notwithstanding stringent rules and strict watch, the game goes on. "Oh, yes," said a passenger to an agent recently, I've got- some new clothe. How many 7 Oh, about five suits, three silk bats; I think, and two opera hats, a watch or two. My wife! well, I don't think she's got anything.

Yes, she had a few new dresses and omeshawk; well, just few Tarda of lace and some diamonds. I forgot to Bay I've a box or two of cigars, fto. at tees and stockholders; Hugh MoCuJ-loch, ex-secretary of the treasury; William H. Hayes, president of the Bank of the State of lew York; Jacob Hays, L. Meyers, James V.

Kernochan, Albon Man and W. Sawyer. The nominal stock is $10,000 and tbe scrip $290,000. It is said that many large stockholders in gas companies bought stock before tbe company was incorporated. In addition to the lamp, Messrs.

Saw- i er Man have invented a patent regulator that supplies just the proper amount of electricity for a certain number ot lamps. There is a cost, there- fore, for only the amount of electricity that is actually used. A switch or crank for each lamp regulates the in- tensity of its light. GAS FROM WATER, Montreal Invention to Illuminate and Heat Buildings, Montreal Witnoae. On seeing the application made to the City Council by Messrs.

Murphy, Quinn, and Beique for permission to cross Sher brooke street with a three-inch for the purpose of heating with gas the Montreal Seminary and College, our re porter considered that tbe matter inter ested our readers and the public in gen eral; for if heating can be done with gas on an economical scale an immense amount of labor, expense, and trouble will be spared our citizens. Conse quently, our reporter determined, in their interest, to leam something about the scheme, and with the following re sult: It is well known that cooking and heating can be done with gas much more conveniently and effectively than with any other fuel; if, then, an economical mode of making the gas can he invented the problem is solved. This the above named gentlemen claim to have done. Tbey make the gas from water by passing steam through red-hot coals Contained in a hermetically sealed vessel, and by certain special devices relating to the heating property of tbe coal the steam is decomposed into hydrogen, carbonic oxide, and car bonic acid the last is removed by purification, and the other two gases passing into the bolder are ready for immediate use. These gases, it is known to all scientists, givo more heat than any fuel ever yet used.

As to the economy of their process the proprietors assert that with the use of one ton of coal they can make 60,000 cubic feet of gas, while by the old system only 8,000 could be produced; that with the same apparatus they can make gas twice every hour, while by the old system it takes from four to eight hours for each operation; that their, gas will not cost more than 15 cents Ser 1,000 feet, a quantity for which or-inary gas companies onarge from $2.60 to $4. These gentlemen have spent over two years and much money in experimenting, and, having finally succeeded in their efforts, made applications in different quarters to use their gas. The reverend gentlemen of the seminary, with their usual farsightedr ness, gave them every facility, and they have now a contract for tbe heating of the college and seminary, -not for the lighting of the buildings, as these gases give litUe or no light The company is now formed and almost all the capital subscribed. It is hoped that the members of the council will give every facility to the enterprise, as it concerns the welfare of all our citizens, tbe poor even more than the rich, as we are informed that the gas can bo delivered much cheaper than any other fuel. Grain in Europe and America.

American Miller. Europe produces now on an average 5,000,000,000 bushels of and France 520,000,000 each, and Austria 500,000.000. The United States produces 1,600,000,000 bushels, or about the same as Russia. In order to appreciate the advantages of the United States, the population should be taken into account; this is for tbe United States, 40.000,000, and therefore we produce forty bushels per head; while Europe, ith a population of quite 300,000,000, produces sixteen bushels per bead; ttussia twenty-six bushel per headland Great Britain only four bushels per head. As the average quantity of grain consumed per head is nfteen bushels, we produce nearly three times as muoh as we wantRuaaia scarcely twice its wants, Europe on an average all needed, but Great Britain not much over one-fourth.

It will be seen that the general production far surpasses the consumption, but this excess absorbed by breweries and distilleries all over the world, which do more to keep the price of breadstuff! at a high figure than anything else. A cmzEH of Newport, R. reputed to be worth over $100,000, recently de termined to have his house resbingled. He purchased the shingles, and, desir ing to know if they were all there, ac tually counted every one of tbe fifteen or twenty bundles. One of them was found to be- two short, and instantly he shouldered Che' bundle, marched to the lumber-yard, and demanded two more shingles.

He got them and was satst- ned. One Ihrauinii teams are engaged in freighting from tbe end of the Utah ft Northern railroad into Idaho and Moo- FoTATOEi were land 1610. introduced into Ire- 1 I 1 1 si: B. 8 5 i fourthly, the tomcat being black, deceases the chances twenty to one, to the weO-known rule of optics. Jrth count 200,000,000.

At this stage of oar solution we will.