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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 949, 17 October 1910, Page 4

: Experiments . .near/ Bristol' to,i .ascertain the effect* upon; plants .of. a 1 continucuG discharge of electricity 'in the 'air immediately above them :.resu| ted- in vinci'easee ' of 29: j>er cent, . in^'•■-wheat^lß'-;per.^Snt. : -.:' in mangolds, and 25 per cent, in s'rowberries'. ' Satisfactory _• resultswere 7 . ol>taiii?d in the ' treatment. of- cucuinbers in greenhouses./';::-j' v / Jtr:. Williani; Dover,' of:'ileswell, -..Clioshire, s who ..died recently,/ left instruc- . tioiis ;in his . will that . Ui'e mburtiirig .of liis daughicr should \bb* moderate: and simple;; that 'efe',shouldnot. risk '-heUth' by-attending- his ; fune-.'' ral, and ..requested , her - to exercise' strict- / est economy; over.; tho'J; burial.':/ v"; Ho;' -be- / queathed .£IOO : to/, the , Liverpool -: Cathedral conditional^//nponi'the -justriptipn of. the Ten Coroniandmeiits:in a conspicuous:! place, iii . that r church;V giving ;.;'as/o.his// reason that they.were'fth'e only. pait:- of, -a':. Holy Writ inscribed by .: God's Owk , Hand."