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Fall to be devoted entirely to electricity and its applications. It will give brilliant 

 illustrations of the present condition of the science, and will prefigure the progress 

 to be looked for in the near future. The exhibition will be held in the Palais de 

 rindustrie, to which visitors will be carried on an electric railway. The trains 

 will consist of two saloon carriages, and an electric motor which will take from 

 the rails the fluid supplied by generators at the end of the line. In the center of 

 the Palais will be a small pond in which a steamer will lay a submarine cable. 



In the basement of the building will be illustrated all varieties of such cable 

 and wire manufacture, adjoining but not forming part of the official portion of 

 the exhibition, which will comprise all forms of government electric apparatus, 

 manipulators, receivers, piles, telegraph posts, insulators, switches, and a thou- 

 sand other matters of necessary detail in the complicated system of commercial or 

 military telegraphy. Towering above the building will be an immense lighthouse 

 carrying a light of great power. By daylight the visitors to the exhibition will 

 watch the operations of a whole army of telegraphists, machinists, etc., while at 

 night this swarm of operatives will be visible under the glare of a thousand elec- 

 tric lights streaming from the roof. It is intended to include among the illumin- 

 ators every known burner, and a score or more are now known. 



Among the "inevitables" of the exhibition we may look for fire-alarms, 

 electric dials, municipal and police calls, etc. The railroad companies will show 

 their signal systems, electric brakes and alarms and a new carriage for registering 

 the velocity of trains, force of wind, consumption of steam, etc. The upper 

 story has been devoted to scientific curiosities and fanciful inventions for the 

 delectation of the curious but untechnical observer. Telephones will be con- 

 nected with the theatres and the operas and the visitor to the exhibition will be 

 allowed to hear the utterances and the music at any or all of the places. Con- 

 nection by telephone will also be made with distant cities. Next will come a 

 series of eight rooms, literal copies of a Parisian apartment of the present day, 

 where everything will be, so to speak, run by electricity. The kitchen will be 

 lighted by electric lamps ; the range heated by electric currents passing through 

 water ; a half-dozen cooks, by means of incandescent platinum wires, will turn 

 out waffles and cakes, and electrically heated metallic plates will serve for braziers' 

 and chafing dishes. The dining-room will be fitted out with all the wondrous 

 new apparatus which already threatens our peaceful firesides with its novel blend- 

 ing of science and comfort. The central sunlight in place of a chandelier can be 

 lighted by the pressure of a button or the opening of a door. The dishes will be 

 brought up on an electric dumb-waiter. The only thing left to do would seem 

 to be to eat by electricity, and, in view of the wonders accomplished, even that 

 seems not so very improbable. The parlor will be furnished with electric 

 chandeliers, mantel clocks going by electricity and adorned with electrical groups 

 and figures, telephones and electric fire-places. In the billiard-room an electrical 

 table will enable the player, if not to make his caroms, at least to mark them by 

 an electrical indicator. The bed-room, besides all sorts of electric calls, will have 

 electric hair brushes which will be made to dress the hair in a twinkling by press- 



