Mb Spubgeon :has just received intimation of the munificent bequest of £8000 towards the cost of maiutaiuirig the institutions under his control. The amount is to b« equally divided' between) the Pastors' College and the Stockwell Soys' Orphanage, -
Pbofessobs Elihu Thomson and, Edwin J. Houston have communicated to ihfe journal of the Franklin Institute a paper " On the Transmission of Power by Means of Eleotricity." , They Ba^^'As.ja matter qf fact, ibould i^b#dden^ed:de)iira^le, itii possible r 'i.6''''cimre^ihe t) ,,^{. Niagara a distance of 500 milei or more, by a copper cable not exceeding one-half of an' inch in tbioknei*."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3302, 22 July 1879, Page 2
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97Untitled Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3302, 22 July 1879, Page 2
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