Show I 1 electric L bigit Ii zita git if 10 japan there has been visiting the city for or a few flays days mr 11 M X williams Willi aniss allo lias has recently returned front from the asiatic empires where lie went to introduce the electric light and lie says that the readiness with which the orientals Orient als adopt HIM improvements Is quite astonishing in japan most of the principal cities are now lighted by electricity ns as oars are arc and ami many ut of the he vincit 11 ile st houses are illuminated jn ill tile sam sa way A large plant has recently C lily been placed in ia I 1 alie lie p palace alace ol of the mikado at tokio a very large building I 1 or rather a cluster 0 of buildings connected by corridors arid and co cobrin crin cring several acres the chinese do not take hold of 0 these improvements as 03 readily at as tho taps but are be kinning to see their advantages the coreana are ready to adopt all modern ideas particularly it if they come front tile united states tl the he palace of the kins king of corea corca has n plant of lights and was first illuminated on oil tho the birthday of tho the hin icings hinos os mother in law on oil the a of 0 february auary with great ceremony tho the palace is at seoul r aud ad consists of it f series ot of long low wooden buildings with irit ii a thatched roof As no foreigner ia allowed to tool look spon tile the features attires ic of 0 tile the kill kins or queen tho the workmen wor kine took great risks when they were putting in the apparatus for if they had even by accident ident seen scon tho the facca of the king icing they v have been put to death according ace to the custom of tile country they were carried into tho the palace and through the corridors in palau palan quins quills and trumpeters trum peters were sent ent s ahead ahod of thorn thein so that the royal family iiii lit lccy out of their N v my ay chicago chicag 0 o herald |