Electricity In The Catacombs

The catacombs of St. Calixtus. noar Rome, were recently illuminated with thousands oí electric lampa, filling the gloomy vaults and passages with a bright light, whose effect, as it , feil upon the rows of bones and skeletpns, is described as being startling and.almost uncanny. The use of electric lights in the catacombs is perhaps the latest example of modern practical science brought face to face with antiquity.