Electric Fairies

The St. James 's Qazettc, Loudon, correcta some misstatements rcspectingthe "fairies" af the Savoy Theatrc, w ure nightly illuminatod by electricity. Kach of the fairies is supplied wilh okctricltv (generatcd as required, and not stored) by ïucans of three speeially constructed Planto batteriés inclosed in a guttapercha caso. Tire whole apparatus, which weighs loss than threc pounds, is worn aftor tlic manner of a soldier'-; knap.sack, and is eonnected wit the lamp on the fairy's head by a Bèsdble doublé wi re This arrangement is the joint production of the Swan and Siemens Companies, but is capable of nmcli improvement in the muiters of weight and the number of cells employed. A switch is placed on the top of the battery by means of which the current niay be turned ofl'at pleasure, and the light produced is equal to that of six candfes. From this it will be seen that the wearer of the lamp runs no risk. There is no current capable of giving a severo shock, and practically thero is no more (langer from contact with tfie conducting wires than there is in walking imder an ordinary telegraph wire. It seems there wtiz" a nolion that these "fairies" -iverc lighted by a wire from the main dynamo machine which illuminates the entire building. The floods in Germany along the Khino are very disast rous." That river :il Mayence had reaehed a height day before yesterday of 5.7G metres. The town of Kobstadt, with the exception of the chnrch and houses of the clorgy, is deeply sabmerged. The water in ma'nv houses will nearly reaoh the roof. In Friesenhölm, on the llhine, the sceuo beggars descrijition. In the districts near Worms 10,000 persons are rendered homeleas, umi are in dauger of starvation. The Eoifn of Manuheim appcars to stand ou an isthmus in tlie middle of a vast sea. The great Khine dam o-ave wajr night before last. A stèamer and 4.5 boats resened the people torchlight. The vülatee of 'J.'riesenheim is deserted, and a third of the inhabitants appear to have abandoned thcir homes. ' Central relief committees have formcd. i They appoal for help for sufferors.