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Show NikAiti a.uu'u persons now und employment employ-ment in tbo Edison oloctrlo works at Schenectady, and this company Is so extending ex-tending Its plant that many moro will soon bo employed. Id tbo now powor station now being built will bo located monster dynamos, which will furnish electricity for tbo many motors which aro to supplant tho stoamonginos now in uso. Iff tbo country, at tho chateau in France. ladies aro wearing llttlo If any classical jowolry that is, ornamonts of hitherto well-known styles. Only fancy ornaments aro tolerated, and two pink pearls studded into the ears, or mounted singly with two small brilliants, aro tho most fashionable aural ornamonts of tho season. Evidkntlt tbo days of big nuggots in Australia aro not yet over. By tho last mails from Perth comes tho statomont that "flvo men arrlvod from Shaw Falls, Nullaglno (a Western Australian gold Held), bringing with them 4(30 ounces of gold and a big nuggot wolghlng 353 ounces 0 ponnywolgbls." It Is doscrlbod an "a vorypiasslvo andjiandsomo-nug-ijot.""' I'iik lierlln Arc department has lately received a novul Uro-englno which has uxuilod much Interest In that city. Tbo carrlago is constructed cullmly of pa-lilur-macbo, all tho different parts, tho Iwdy, whools, polos and tho rest bolng iluUbod in the best possiblo man nor. Wbllo tho durability and powors of ro-ulstanco ro-ulstanco possessed by this material aro fully as great as tboso of wood tho weight is of courao much loss. This lightness is cunsldurod a groat advantage, advan-tage, as it will onablo tbo now engines to roach tho scono of a flro with corro- spondlnglygroatcr promptness. Itsccms . not unlikely that tho wooden carriages will in a short tlmo pass out of uso altogether. |