Show inventions and new nem appliances fol TOW ilow each other in our time with bewildering rapidity tho the insecurity ot or ten tell lure by which steam holds its place aa a 4 ithe uie most useful motive power for long ions Ai distances stances has been made apparent by ithe ahe success of recent experiments with electricity carried by a third rail which were nere undertaken by an eastern railroad the president ot of the road put the ae possibilities of the future in concrete form by saying our locomotives may soon follow tile the old stage ico arbes to the scrap heap |