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Show Proof Against Burglars. The United States Electric Company have introduced here some novelties in the way of,, burglar alarms, etc., which are destined to become .decidedly popular in this city as well as elsewhere." By a most ingenious contrivance, consisting of wires, bells, and numerous supernumeraries supernumer-aries which only electricians can describe, de-scribe, a residence can be made positively posi-tively burglar proof, so far as rendering it impossible for a person to enter the house without sounding a noisy alarm. The system, when arranged- completely in a house, makes it impracticable for entrance to . be effected through door, window or other opening without arousing the household, no matter mat-ter how soundly the sleep may be ; and what mayr truly be looked upon as the most astonishing feature in "the "whole contrivance, the gaslight may be thrown on at the same moment that the alarm is given, thus furnishing a double exposure ex-posure to Mr. Burglar. The system is one which has already been demonstrated as being simple in operation and at the same time comparatively inexpensive. A number num-ber of the finer . residences recently erected have adopted it, and in all cases experiments have proved eminently satisfactory. sat-isfactory. A more general adoption of the system would cause the burglary depredations to grow' wonderfully fewer here. I |