Mr. Joseph G. Falcon, of Evanston, Ill., submarine diver and manufacturer of the Falcon Ball Joint, has just successfully completed the laying at Burlington, Vt., in 75-foot sections of an intake conduit of coated cast iron pipe 24 inches in diameter and over two miles in length, connected under water by means of the Falcon Ball Joint. He is now laying a 16-inch cast iron pipe across the Kennebec river, using forty of these same ball joints. He has tested 1,000 feet and found it tight at 150 lbs. pressure. The pipe laid there last year by others has proven a failure. It was laid from the top with another joint. Mr. Falcon connects all his pipe up under water.

Mr. H. Mueller of Decatur, Ill , inventor of the Mueller tapping machine, has a curiosity in the shape of the only motor wagon in central Illinois. It is the Benz patent, and was imported from Mannheim, Germany .where Mr. Mueller was born and bred. It reached Decatur last, May and has been in constant use ever since. Mr. Mueller, who is a practical mechanic, says that the wagon is built on the same plan as all the Benz motors. The principle is that of a gas engine. Crude gas is used and, the gas generated from it is exploded by an electric spark. On the paved streets of Decatur the rubber-tired vehicle glides along as smoothly and noiselessly as a bicycle. It carries four passengers setting vis-a-vis, and is controlled by a person sitting on the rear seat. With a party of three persons it recently went from Decatur to Warrenburg, a distance of thirteen miles over country roads in forty-five minutes.

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