Show electricity catches elephants A novel application of electricity has recently been made in elephant catching at a recent capture of forty of these animals when the last of their unwieldy bodies bad passed the entrance into the chedda the signal for barring their exit was given instantaneously and without a word spoken by means of an electric wire it is only a short time since petroleum superseded native vegetable oils for lighting throughout the bazars and villages of india electricity is now the place both of petroleum or coal gas in the great spinning factories for which it is peculiarly suited climate owing to its coolness and absence of smell philadelphia ledger |