Artificial thunder.

It seems that we are getting there little by little. It's not quite there yet, but there is a beginning, a very beautiful beginning.

The master of this thunder is an Italian physicist, Mr. Faccioli, who works in the United States. He recently succeeded in producing a thunder of two million volts, which reduced to dust an entire village built expressly for this purpose. Natural thunder has, it is true, 50 billion volts. There is still room between the two,

A city made of silver...

By chance, an engineer passes through the isolated, almost unknown, and very difficult to access town of Catorce, in Mexico. The color of the houses and the streets strikes him. He examines the stones more closely and realizes that the ancient inhabitants, in their ignorance or their excess of wealth, built and paved the city in silver.

The Catorce mines once supplied very large quantities. The locals finding the extraction abundant and easy, also transformed them into quarries to build their homes and to lay out the roads. Doesn't this remind us of those fabulous stories from the sixteenth century, where we see savages playing with golden pebbles?

The discovery of the engineer naturally caused a sensation. At the moment we are demolishing, we are demolishing. The materials are sent to powerful mills, which crush them and separate the pure silver from the foreign substances with which it was mixed. We have already made splendid profits and the whole city will benefit, that's for sure.

Perhaps she was happier when, forgotten, silent, she lived a peaceful existence in the middle of the steep mountains...

Protestant missions,

Here are some interesting figures, taken from a British magazine, on the considerable development of Protestant missions.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Reformed churches spent 250,000 francs per year on propaganda costs. Today, these annual fees exceed one million. They had 200 missionaries a hundred years ago. They now number more than 10,000, including around 4,000 unmarried women. These Protestant missions, which were only able to convert 7 or 8,000 Negroes at the beginning of the last century, currently pride themselves on having been able to bring more than 2,000,000 Blacks to Christianity throughout the world. . The zeal of the male missionaries is indisputable, but it is mainly to the women that we owe the magnificent results of this propaganda.

The mysterious villa.

Not far from Rambouillet on the main road, passing automobiles suddenly stop in front of a pond, then, some distance away, in front of a deserted house and garden. This is the domain of Gambais, where the | famous villa of Landru. A sign warns passers-by: “Prohibition from entering these places under penalty of prosecution. » Because it seems that the curious, unable to cross the gate, climbed and demolished the walls of the garden to see the “house of crime”.