The Vancouver Power Company will soon undertake a novel piece of hydraulic engineering work in connection with an electric transmission project. A water-power electric generating station is located near the headwaters of the Co-quitlam River, and to add to the supply of water furnished by a dam it is proposed to tap a lake at an altitude of 2,500 feet above the sea. Instead of laying a pipe line, the company will drive an inclined tunnel through a mountain of solid rock. The bore will be 3 feet by 8 feet, and 21/2 miles in length. The cost of the tunnel is estimated at $350,000. The cities of Vancouver, B. C, and New Westminster will be supplied with current from this source.

Coal in China.- A coal-field of great extent, yielding fuel of a high quality, will shortly be in full operation within a few hours' steaming of Shanghai. The new fuel lies in the province of Anhui, near Ngankin, the capital, on the Yangtse.

A Marconi wireless telegraph station is to be established at Sagaponack, L. I., and will probably be the central station of the United States.

A factory is to be started in Philadelphia for making cloth, resembling silk, from Wood pulp.

A wealthy Russian died not long ago and his heirs could find no will. One day a young man seeing a graphophone in the library, put into it what he supposed to be the record of a song. The words which came forth were those of the missing will in the dead man's voice. The will thus curiously recorded has been submitted to the courts.

General Funston says that there is no war in the Philippines; it is true that murders are of frequent occurrence; that assassins lurk in ambush and shoot down their victims passing by; but there is no war, no more than there is war in Kentucky.

Wanted.- Something besides spruce and white pine wood pulp from which cheap paper can be manufactured. These sources of supply are so rapidly becoming exhausted as to threaten the existence of the one-cent daily newspaper and other large consumers.

At present, as one manufacturer said, "paper is made from nearly every old thing." Linen and cotton rags and waste flax make the best. Old grass ropes, coffee sacks, banana peels, waste wheat and oat straw, hemp fiber, and in fact nearly everything that is thrown away, are used in its manufacture, but still the source is not equal to the demand. Experiments are now being made with all kinds of grasses, bamboo fiber, banana stalks, dis grass from the north coast of Africa, leaves of the dwarf palm, sugar-cane bagasse, hop plant, ramie, agave, nettles, sea grass, etc., and some promise well of success.

Says the Southern Industrial Review : "A material which nature may renew yearly must be discovered and adapted to the trade, and the most natural sources must be sought in the field of agriculture or among the fibers and grasses which have annual growth."

Sixty new storm-warning towers, equipped with the latest improved lanterns, have been installed at the Great Lakes by the U. S. Weather Bureau.