with marbles. The hall is a large apartment about 25 ft. high, with
paneled ceiling, having galleries on two sides, giving access to the
rooms surrounding it on first floor, and to the turret staircase leading
to roofs, etc. With the exception of sanitary apparatus, painted
windows, etc. (which will be supplied by English firms), the whole of
the work will be executed by native labor. The architect is Mr. Edwin T.
Hall, London.--_Building News_.

[Illustration: SUGGESTIONS IN ARCHITECTURE--A CASTELLATED CHATEAU.]

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ELECTRIC POWER.


Just now nothing save electricity is talked about in scientific circles.
During the meeting of the British Association the greatest possible
prominence was given to electrical questions and propositions The
success of the electric light, the introduction of the Faure battery
with a great flourish of trumpets, and the magnificent display of
electrical instruments and machinery at Paris, have all operated to the
same end. The daily press has taken the subject up, and journals which
were nothing hitherto if not political, now indulge in magnificent
rhapsodies concerning the future of electricity. Even eminent engineers,
carried away by the intoxication of the moment, have not hesitated to
say that the steam engine is doomed, and that its place will be taken by
the electricity engine. In the midst of all this noise and clamor and