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Show i , Clock to Control Lights. i Consul Albeit llalstead of ISIiinhiK-ham ISIiinhiK-ham leiioits that an utitoinatlR ks j conti oiler has been patented and Is now on sale In KiiKlaiul which limy , inaterlally lohseu the cost of public g lighting in the municipalities of the I I nitiid Slates If hi practical operation 1 it fulfills the claims of its owners. The controller is said to be miapt-able miapt-able to any typo of Inoi .Jescent burn-! burn-! or. to fit air. lamp and to lie Install-tannous Install-tannous In Iti lighting and extinguishing. extinguish-ing. The mechanism consists of a clock which can he so sPt ag to Unlit the gas each night and extinguish It each mornlni:. so a to makr au hum- malic arl.itlon of tlie time of lighting . and extinguishing acco-dlnK to the 1 cileitiliu' hi short, by means of a chart, the shear ltcliig a -e tinned on and oft. lighted and extinguished at ! a different moment each day throughout through-out the year, nccotdlng lo the season. This Is an advantage, It Is claimed, over any other conttoller now on thn maikct, one adjustment a year helnK sufficient It Is claimed Hint the apparatus would requite no attention except winding once a loitnlKhl, and that , once set it would not hnvo to he icset c for a ear The hub cau turned ' on and off In the ordinary waj Scientific Sci-entific American FOlt FLAT-BOTTOMED EEL3. Only Kind Suitable for River, According Accord-ing to Humorist. '.jp" v M'n', ui. i) Mall'-y, ilio U-. U-. r." ' .tn! tnari In whom t-my9 tit" write- i,kj ii, k'mmI forluno Ui be. wr.t I the iinfr of a fund of ready wit, bli h li.ei h rf of cropping nut at j i in- mil i uiii-tirft i-j tiaup Id hi dally ' I life At well ,)h in hi writing j One ay he ieelved a cull At Ills , of!P- in I an I. tj i v from a traiiKr who a ' oii"-iiip!jiliis buying uonvi prop- it in Newiiiwu. eluht iollj from 1 Imiiien . anil abutting on a small ' si i earn TIiIh hriKik had been upoknn I of hi the ownei of tilt propcrtj In j glonlnx ii-niw tn the printpoetlvo pur-ibi-r r lin askel ilr. Uailuy ,e!ver-l i (iii-siioii r.bimt ll, particularly In regard re-gard Ut Us Me ' llo ijrge a riser l U' anked the SHdllk'-. Men kuid .Mr ttalloy, rulilcmphv tlvei., to tin- trfrtrt of Dir kufiwlndj), that river, f.om th corali factory to the rii.lJio.iil Milieu Ik tsully luvlKahle aM |