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Show Electric Poetry. A name for the process of travelling by au electric motor was asked by the chairman of the new Electric Traction company iu London, and such terms as these were suggested through the Times: To voltaic, to volve, to eleetri-pede, eleetri-pede, to electro, to leclro, to dyuo, to morse, to telcway, to fare, to fluid, to galve, to clcctricit, to vect, to current, to blitz, to tilt, to burr, to buzz, to elou-troforco, elou-troforco, to trisso, to locro. Tho Scots Observer added this: - THK PASSIONATE ELECTRICIAN. Sweet, shall we volt it? Dearest, shall wo ohm Our winged way across the ocean foam? Or were It fairer to electrlciue (Or clectrato) our path to happier skies? What's in a uamo when all roads lead to Rome? Fairest and rarest, under heaven's high dome, Oh ! shall we squirm, or Watt, or electronic? Or, If you feel you'd rather not vollae, Sweet, shall wu volt? Heart of my heart, no fond and frolic tome But tbe great Times, that, moral metroponie, Bids us coulomb, or spark, or motorize! Aud n'iw 1 think of it, the bluo day dies; 'TIs time, M.Ik time, that we were niotlug home -Sweet, shall wevoll? |