Show ELECTRIC enterprise electricity was the pr oblena of the and promises to become the triumph of the century the keenest speculative minds arc are devoted to establish the principles orthis of this marvelous agency and the most fertile inventive beni geniuses usei arc are ang engaged aged in devising appliances for the utilization of this unconquerable factor of progress and comfort from our eastern scientific correspondent rc wo we learn that the probability that nearly every large town or city will vill soon be supplied with large quantities of electricity for lighting purposes has k given riso rise to con considerable sid erable interest s s in ill the p plan lan of making use of the game same supply for producing power for light household work several small motors have been devised to meet the expected demand tho the first of these little machines was constructed about three years ago ago by M marcel deprez and was found to effect ively A second ap apparatus of this kind has for some timy been used by M an cicaro magnat being used in place of the permanent nen t steel magnet mamet r of duprez tin this s motor drives a sewing machine e very readily kea dily although it is of very small size es little electric canoe at fit the paris electrical exhibition was propelled by gome some of these engines and 31 has bas suggested their use for lin balloon floon steering the last and best motor is that of sir griscom the american electrician one of these those powerful little machines four and a half inches long and weighing little more than two pounds will run a sowing sewing machine very rapidly with a it email small expenditure of electric energy the lack of laborsaving labor saving conveniences in trellous hold lias has often been deplored but the introduction of electricity seems to offer a source of power abich may serve in ia many wars ways to lighten the toil weary housewife wo we moreover learn from authority that electric exhibitions are arc likely to become epidemic close clos so upon the paris exhibition a proposition to bold at the crystal palace london and a like project ia is now on foot a at t st petersburg americans are singularly backward in organizing such an enterprise A AN historical residence burned down on jan in Tallah tallahassee amee r fla li it was the murat mansion one of tho the remarkable hable houses of america arinee asbille murat son the king a of naples lived there when napoleonic mis misfortunes fortu nee exiled the family from europe A price bavin having b been set upon his head lead he lie lived lika like a hermit upon this plantation then upon the edge of the primeval forest here he lie met a relative of gen washington who with her father had emigrated virginia she was a charming young g widow loss jos s than 20 years of 11 age c and she elie lived in a log cabin with but two rooms the consent of the murat family having been obtained the young widow was married to prince murat and mid they lived together in tallahassee Tallahass ec for 25 years during the florida war the kurats protected by tho the friendship of an indian chief who came at night and slept beneath their roof lie quieted acir fears by saying a you and squaw cafe 11 after prince kurats death liis widow visited england and was received by napoleon TIL and eugenic she returned to her southern boric all and d died there during the war she was much interested in ill hospital work and she sold some of her jew j els to feed the destitute THIS tims is the an anniversary sary of the formation of the southern confederacy e racain in the year awen twenty ty oA ob eyears and thet assels of cotton wave over tl alie I blood drenched battle battlefields nelds of the rebellion and the tile smoke arising from bustling factories where once it belched forth from the death dealing 11 mouths of cannon cannons can nonis is an emblem of the progress and prosperity that attend peace and union only a few poor self deluded cranks like jeff davis still harbor the lost cause the intelligence of the south is welded to the loyalty of ac the north under the one star span aled banner |