Mr. Case has found a means of generating electricity without the use of
heat. It has long been known that there was a terrible waste of electrical
energy through the use of heat. The method of producing it by galvanic
batteries was impossible for large electric plants, because the zinc that
had to be used was too expensive.

The great point of Mr. Case's discovery lies in the fact that he has
succeeded in doing with carbon, and without heat, what the galvanic
battery does with zinc.

He is very modest about his invention, and says that at the present moment
it has no practical value whatever; but that to scientists a way has been
opened which will lead them into a new field of thought; and that, when
his discovery has been worked out, and applied to practical methods,
tremendous results will be achieved.

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A BIG PYTHON.--A story comes from St. Augustine, Fla., of the
capture of a huge python by Walter Ralston, a young man who was employed
in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

Some weeks ago a story was told of the wreck of a ship carrying a circus,
and that the big python had escaped, and was in Rock Key, off the Florida
coast.

Mr. Ralston determined to go and catch the horrid reptile, so he went down
to Florida and tried to secure guides.