A MANSARD ROOF DWELLING. Second Floor.
These plans will prove suggestive to those contemplating the building of a new house, even if radical changes are made in the accompanying designs.--American Cultivator.
A MANSARD ROOF DWELLING. Front Elevation.
THE HISTORY OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
[Footnote: Aug. Guerout in La Lurmière Electrique.]
An endeavor has often been made to carry the origin of the electric telegraph back to a very remote epoch by a reliance on those more or less fanciful descriptions of modes of communication based upon the properties of the magnet.
It will prove not without interest before entering into the real history of the telegraph to pass in review the various documents that relate to the subject.