Show A remarkable reman REMAE rable KABLE INVENTION T 1 tho the new york correspondent i of the boston journal writes whether electricity ill ipp will III ever be a substitute for steam seems likely to be settled an invention looking towards that issue has been introduced to a practical illustration iv tra tion for some months there has haa been a model machine running in this vicinity propelled by electricity the work that it performs astonishes all that behold it in one of our colleges coll there is a magnet weighing weigh ing a thousand thou pounds three hundred cups are necessary to operate it in invention a magnet of forty pounds and nine sine cups more than double the power of tho the large magnet latap machines and alid other mechanical arrangements are driven by the power to run an engine of twenty horse power by this thi invention s would require a space of only three feet long two feet wide and two twofee feet high thigh the cost per day would be thirty nive five cents on a steamship at no coal would be required and aud tho the space used for cargo the stub born resistance of electric electrio electricity it y to I 1 cal use heretofore has it is believed been overcome A continuous battery has been secured an and dother other difficulties removed principally through tiie tue coil of the magnet if the invention works as well weil on the large scale aa asit it boeson doeh does on the machinery to which it ia Is now applied steamships will soon ply the ocean under the new now propelling power A I 1 i machine of great capacity is being con strutted ted and will soon be on exhibit tion in new york the whole thing mighty enough to carry a to liverpool can be secured in a small trunk I 1 need scarcely sear scar cly ely add that this bia marvelous invention is the work of a massachusetts boy |