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Show To Prevent Accidents. An arrangement for the prevention of accidents by the electric current has been adopted fit the worlcs of the Morgan Mor-gan Engineering company of Alliance, O. A board is fixed on the wall facing the dynamo in tho engine room. On this board are six hooks on the checks of the six men who are employed in looking after the circuits. When a man is called on duty he removes his check from the hook and takes it with him. The engineer engi-neer sees by a glance at the board that one hook is absent, and that therefore one mau i3 engaged about the lines around the shop, and tho dynamo is not started until the check is replaced on the hook. The engineer then understands that the coast is clear, and turns on his current without fear of accident to any of the linemen. Exchange. Tlieebaw, Ex-FJng, Explains. A late .copy of The Rangoon Gazette rives ex-King Theebaw's official explanation expla-nation of how he came to lose the throne. Theebaw writes thus: "My late father, the royal Mindoon Min, the golden foot-e foot-e l lord of the white elephant, master of a thousand golden umbrellas, owner of the royal peacocks, lord of the sea and of the world, whose face was like the sun-he alwars smoked the Esoof cheroot che-root while meditating on his treatment of the bull faced, earth swallowing English Eng-lish Had I done the same I 6hor;;d never have lost my throne, but I need the opium drugged cheroots from Manila Ma-nila and the trash which was sent me from San Francisco, and I fell, (feigned, Theebaw, formerly king. |