in darkness, and from the other with the use of the submerged 

 lamps, the result being immensely in favour of the electric fishing, 

 as the nets that side brought in large quantities of fish. The idea 

 is really only a development of the old Norwegian plan of salmon 

 spearing at night with a pine wood fire hung in a cage over the 

 bows of a boat. 



Last March an Electric Club was opened in New York, and is 

 fitted up with the latest novelties. " You ring the bell by standing 

 on a metal plate, the door is then unlocked by electricity ; chops 

 and steaks are cooked on electric gridiron ; boots are cleaned and 

 polished by an electro-motor ; the clocks are wound by electricity, 

 and even the dub piano can be made to play by this most versatile 

 agent." It has been proposed to let out electric power from central 

 stations to craftsmen at tbeir own homes, and in America, and at 

 Geneva, artizans are already availing themselves of the new energy 

 in carpentering, watchmaking, &c. In St. Petersburgh electricity 

 has been successfully used for slaughtering cattle, death being 

 instantaneous. 



Long distance telephoning is rapidly progressing in France, a 

 connection having recently been opened between Paris and Mar- 

 seilles, a distance of 500 miles. The highest telephone connection 

 in Europe has been opened by the Monks of St. Bernard, between 

 their Hospice and the towns of Proz and S. Pierre, in Switzerland, 

 and Fontine and S. Remy. Italy. In many places on the Continent 

 the " Automatic Machine " has been pressed into the service of 

 the telephone, and by dropping the coin into the slit you can talk 

 with your friends for three minutes. A story is told of an American 

 gentleman, who, by whistling through the telephone, which con- 

 nects his private residence with his town office, can at any moment 

 summon his dog, who immediately recognizes his master's voice. 

 The greatest advance in telegraphy is also in America, where mes- 

 sages are sent to and from trains in motion. 



A new method of photography by artificial light, has been devised 

 by the simple plan of sprinkling some magnesium dust on a little 

 gun cotton, which is placed on the top of the camera on a plate, 

 and then fired at the proper moment by a match ; excellent results 

 have been obtained by this process under otherwise hopeless condi- 

 tions ; the flame being large the shadows are not hard as when 

 electric light or magnesium wire is used. Another advantage for 

 portraits is that the eye is shown at its best, the pupil being at its 

 largest in the subdued light previous to the flash, and the photo- 

 graph being taken instantaneously, the pupil has not had time to 

 contract. So instantaneous indeed is the photograph, that it is 

 taken before the sitter has time to show the startling surprise of 

 the flash in his face ; nerve impulse only moving at the rate 



