A Use For Niagara Falls

ir we may believe Kir Wiimm Thomson the famoua complaint which was once expressed as to tlie waste of good water-power at the Falls of Ntagara is destined to be at last satisfied. Sir William, in his evidence before the Select Committee on Electric Lighting, proposed to light North America, or a jood part of it, by means of electricity generaled by dynamo-magnetic engines n the neighborhood of the Falls. These engines would not only light the ïomes of New York and Phüadelphia, jut also turn their sewing machines and boil their kettles. This prospect was at ftrst a little too ïnuch for the committee, and Dr. Playfair seems to iave timidly suggested that the Fálls of Niágara were a little out of the ecord. He evidently forgot that Great iritain, by means of Canuda, lias a eerain proprietorslüp in those falls, and hat we must not allow our friends of ,he States to monopolize the good gifts of science and Providence. Possibly the Atlantic cables might be utükctl so as to make Niágara light London, and in that case amiable noblemen of ,he future will have other associates jesides Uritannia's trident on the azure sea to couple in verse with the ;reat cataract. There is au opening, ,oo, for his enterprising Ilighness the Khedive to utilize abouttheonly thin in Egypt which lie has not yet utilized -the falls of the Nile. Jt would not )e surprising If some enterprising proector had already telegraphed for a ïoncession of the second cataract after ïearing sir William's evidence. He is evidently an enthusiastic partizan of the new method of illumination, and no one can deny that his opinión is a weighty one. - London (Éng.) New.