for this purpose is arranged compactly before him, and no scientific knowledge is required to manage it. Switzerland has developed the use of electricity to a greater extent, probably, than any other country; the mountain streams furnishing a power ready to hand, and the Swiss in every possible way are utilizing it for electrical purposes. There is a railway to the summit of the Jungfrau being projected that will surpass all existing works of the kind. It will be built entirely in the rim of the mountain, in order that it may be completely safe from storms, avalanches, and landslips. The tunnel will be on the western slope, which is very steep but the shortest route. It will start from Stegmalten, two miles from Lauterbrunnen, a point two thousand eight hundred feet above the sea, running a southeasterly direction, under the Mönch and the Silver Horn, to the summit. The road is estimated to be twenty-one thousand four hundred and fifty feet in length, and will run as close beneath the surface of the mountain as possible. The engineers supervising the construction are Herr Köchlin, who was one of M. Eiffel’s principal assistants in building the lofty tower in Paris, and Colonel Locher, of Luzern, the constructor of the Mount Pilatus Railway. The cost is put at 56,000,000 francs, and it is to be completed within five years. The magnitude of this work is shown in the statement that the quantity of rock necessary to be removed is thirteen times that taken from the St. Gothard tunnel. At Winterthur and Schaffhausen, locomotives, other engines and heavy machinery of superior character, are being made, with occasional shipments even to the United States. The recent movement of Switzerland, following the example of other civilized nations, in adopting a patent law, will give a new impulse to the natural mechanical genius of its citizens, and the resultant establishment of other prosperous manufacturing plants. This patent law, which went into effect November, 1888, protects only material objects and not _processes_. This feature is said to be due to the efforts of the manufacturers of aniline colors and chemicals, whose interest would be injuriously affected by a law as comprehensive as that of the United States, which protects “useful arts” and “compositions of matter” as well as tools and machines.