Electric Light Progress

By way of conveying au Idea of the exlent to whlch the Edison Incandescent Ligtit is to-day actually employed, the following suggestive comparison is made. There are in every day use to day about 400,000 Edison lamps, of an average of aixteen candles esoh. Reduced to a gas basis lor the purpose of comparison, this would appear thus: 400,000 lamps, IC c. each, is equaled to 400,000 0 foot gas jets, or 57,CO0,OOO pubic feet per day. The total capacity of the light gas companles supplyiug New York City Is 30,000,000 cubic feet per day. Henee, the daily light produoing capacity of the Edison apparatus in use in the United States, whether expended in light or power, is more tlian 50 per cent. greater than that of the combined gas plant of New York City. The electric liglit has come to gtay, and it h being gradually lessened in coat, so that even now t is as cheap as gas and much preferable in many ways. Tho present legislatura ouglit to subinit the prohibitory ainendment to a vote of the people. The official footings give Luce 7,770 plurality in the state agatntt 3,953 for Alger two years ago. The New York Suu wants Samuel J. Ranilall nominated for president in 18S8. The Sun runs to Randall for protectton. The prohibition vote In the state was 85,88 agalnst 89,307 „ 1884, a iain of 3,120 votes in the whole great Rtate of Michigan. The Mercury, Detroit'9 society paper, has been bouirht by G. Asblcy Tomlinson and several chances made in Ita make-np, etc. The paper is bright and readable. Who wouldn't be a Choctaw ? The U. S. Suprevne court has rendered a decisión, living to the Choctaw nation the handaome min of 82,858,793. This is for claims of tliat nation for lands, etc. The present legislature has a rcpublican majority on joint ballot of 48, just 40 more than two years ago. At that rate of progression, when will our fusión friends be able to elect a United States Senator from Michigan ? Even Don will be past the "silver gray" period. At the battle of New Hope Churcli, Ga., near Atlanta, Col. Dean, of this city, saitl lie carne apon the body of a dead rebel sbarp shooter, and laying by his side wero 120 used cartridges with the English Crown stamped upon every paper. The Colonel says that the north attemptcd a tariff by forming a blockade, but England broke it, just the same as she is trying to break up our industries and prosperity to-day. Mr. Powderly, since the recent elections, has azain aftirmed his faith in tlie cause of protection. As a practical man, whicli lie is, lie could not consistently take any other view of the matter. Protectlnn to American industries means protion to American laboren?. Free trade In America means the reduction of wages to the level of the whole world. Free trade is not the panaoca needed for the ills of toilino; Immanity In this country. Gov. Alger waUea few words in his Thanksglvinfr proclamatlOOt jret says all that is necenary to say. The people oaght to be thankful for the bouiiteous harvests of grain and fruits; for freedom for wide-pprcaü ililictions by disease and disaster; for the absence of war and pestilenco; for all of the bleasinga that lmve come to a prosperous nation. Snrely one day ouglit. to be given freely and heartily to the üiver of all good for those biessinjr?. and it is to be hoped thnt nezt Thuisday will flnfl muiy tluinkful hearts In spirit and truth as wcll as in name. The officia! plaralltie, as far as thcy liiive been ndded up, for this county are: Goveriior, Yaple, 1,090; Lieutenant Governor, Curry, 1,051 Secretar? of State, Wntchel, 1,087; State Treatnrer, Beud, 1,071; Auditor General, Farrar, 937; CommiMioner of State Land Office, Frtobee, 1.024; Attorney General, Donnelly, 1,017; Sup't of Public Instruction, Partont, 947; Member of State Board of Educafion, Turner, 1.018. On congress Balttrary had r07. This is at fiu down as can be ivvn this week. It makel Yaple't in J'iiity ju-t forty loss than an nouneed. The Re-Union 8 the name of a live, brightO-column folio, publitbed at S)iirta. Mich., by S. W. Hallook, In tba Interest of the (i. A. K. h s B paper that the old reterant need not be athamed 't. The Michigan Sute Beekeepres' AO ciation will holdits20th .¦imiual meeting at Ypsilanti, Dec. UI anti 21, in Gran-re Hall. St'vi'iai ooteii bie-keepen from the Ualted States anl CanadH ill bc present. I