'The Electrical Engineer', July 1st, printed at New York, contains a sketch and portrait of F.W. JONES, who was born at Weymouth, N.S. and was for some time an operator in the Western Unuion Telegraph office in this city. Mr. Jones is at present the assistant general manager and electrician of the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Company and the Postal Telegraph Company. In his early days, when an operator in this city, he showed his inventive genius and suggested a scheme for connecting the wires in such a manner that the signals - for St. John was then the repeating office for Atlantic cable - could be repeated free from atmospheric disturbances. The 'Electrical Engineer' says: Mr. Jones thinks that St. John was perhaps the first American city that saw a public exhibition of the electric light. About this time, 1868 or 1869, the city being visited by a member of the royal family, he connected two battery carbons to a Grove battery of 80 cells, fed them by hand and from the Western Union windows made a fitful but very brilliant display to an immence crowd of puzzled and dazzled sight-seers on Prince William street.