If the London Scotsman is to be believed, the gas companies are likely to fall on evil times. That journal states that the arrangements for supplying Perth barracks with the "lime light" are being rapidly proceeded with and we are further informed that the light has already been adopted by several towns in Scotland. Three substances — two gases and a solid — are concerned in the production of the lime light, viz., oxygen, hydrogen, and lime. A jet of hydrogen being lighted, a jet of oxygen is turned on so as to mix with it, and the solid incombustible lime being so arranged as to be exposed to the intense heat, it emits a light, says our contemporary, so pure and so powerful that it is only rivalled by that of the Biu.\
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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 400, 6 August 1868, Page 2
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