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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 309, 29 December 1881, Page 1

LANCASHIRE HOUSE,! BRIDGE-STREET. IS NOW S^LIilNGr; s. d; ; I Trimmed Rusli Hats ... ... ;'■'.*.'. each 0' 9? ; .• :. ! Trimmed Hats ... ... ... ... each 1.0. Ladies' Collars ... ... ; ... : ■/;.'< each 0 4/ ; Silk Scarves ... .... 1...,; : ,.. ; each 0 9 . Prints, from — ... ! ... ... yard 0 5£ ' : Black Cashmere... ... '!...,. . . , .... yard 1 ,11 7 Brown Holland ... ... j ... ... yard 0 5^ j Black Lustres ... ... I ... ■ ... yard 0 7^ : ! Seventy-two-inch Tvdll Sheeting | ... ,' .... yard 1 8 | Ninety-iuch Twill Sheeting I ... : '.'...' yard 2 2 ! Superior Long-cloth ... .■ j ... ... yard 0 :3i . :.' : Grey Calicos ... ... . j ... ... yard. 0 3 ? Colored Stockings ... j ... ... pair. 0 9 Ladies' Gloves ... ... ! ... ;.. pair 0 6 . , Corsets ... ... I ... ... pair 111 . i All other Goods marked equally low,, shirts, Collars, Ties, Socks, Braces, Pants,! Under- vests, Umbrellas, etc, etc., in great variety. enql is h :p i^"i cc s MILLINERY, DRESS, AND MANTL E-MAKING Mourning Orders promptly attended to. Charges moderate. JAMES HART, Lancashire House, Bridge-street. TO THE LADIES. Now on hand at "The Leather Palace" ■ ] A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF T ADIES' CASHMERE AND LAST- •^ ING BQOTS, FOR SUMMER WEAR, From SS. to lOS. 6d., Quality Guaranteed —- M 1 — — - Healy & Son, .. BBIDGE-STBEET. FIFTEEN HUNDRED JAM JARS g FESTIVE AND FRUIT PRESERVING SEASON. W '- — ■ — «- . w Why pay more ? when you can purchase at the Stores of § o ROBERT SN;ODGRASS, & Q ] % g THE WOOD AND WASHINGTON VALLEY, O O i Finest New Fkuits, Sugaes of every shade and pij quality, .Groceries, and all other m W General Stores r. AT LOWER PRICES THAN ANY LIST YET PUBLISHED ! H n ' . . ' co - < ■- ■ . • — ; H. OF THE VERY BEST.

THE CONQUESTS CJFELEC- of expectation. Since. we began to _____ play with lightning what marvels have (« cms » m thT^ago'witkkss.") Ye n ?* f***' 1 But m one can sup- ! pose that we have nearly arrived at the Electricity is making marvellous tether end yet. Every year will reveal conquests. The telephone is no sooner some thin g new. We can turn tmechanigetting into practical use than we are cal forco j nto e l ect ric force and use it told of another invention which con- over agaia iv a a sorts " of convenient veys, not sounds but sights, to a shapes, and as it runs along the wires distance. It is called a dioscope. Fix and Beems to lose a part of its strength, it in front of a stage, aud carry a wire WQ uave on j y to pass j fe through a into any private drawmgroom at a « re l a y," and it is as vigorous as ever, distance, and there, reflected on a plate What won ders wil this something come of glass, is an image of everything that to yefc ;We are f airly in the electric is going on. Seated in your arm-chair, age? and if tlie Rip V an Winkle now with your telephone to your ear and cou ld sleep for twenty years, what your dioscope before your eyes, and wou kl he not see in 1900 as the result there you have your theatre transferred of the discovery upon discovery which to your drawmgroom. I suppose it's is developing from Franklin's original all true—there is nothing I can't be- experiment with the kite ! Great lieve nowadays; but I own this last storehouses of machinery for supplying invention does make demands on my a given quantity of electricity to every faculty of wonder. Then there are hovLae , as water is now supplied from thofce wonderful little boxes of M. tlie ma i nSs and subsidiary appliances Faure. So many lead plates coated f or producing light, sound, transmiswith red oxide of lead. They are sion of news, and for performing innumsponges which soak up any quantity of erab i e domestic offices ia automatic electric force. Set a machine to work f aß hi O n. All this is on the cards, anc to charge them, and you can carry I think it is time c .ir youngsters shoulc away, a force equal to doing all sorts of begin to learn something about this things, fiom driving a bicycle to strange, impalpable, but all-poten lighting a railway carriage. What something, which is becoming oui next ?— and next ?£l am on the tiptoe beii arid;in# tractates py^ ? ;V ; ! . ■/■ ' ■;■•• -.yrd ■'