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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3291, 9 July 1879, Page 2

A fanatical interest in their investments and their future prospects is the thing that makes people dissatisfied nod morbid and apt to question the varas of life. To any one who looks outside his own petty affairs, the mere joy of adventurous living in an age of great events and colossal experiments is' sufficient in itself. We have all life-tickets admitting us to what is probably the best dramatic performance in the universe, and that should ,he enough for us at present.—Saturday [Review. \ The experiments of the new system of " gas lighting in the Hue dv Quartretjeptetnbre (Paris) have succeeded. The light, as compared with the electric light, ■ is as sunlight is to moonlight. ' The light is, in fact, strong, golden and yet soft, and ' its illuminating power very great. The" lamp-posts are of the same pattern as the old ones, only much more lofty.. Xhe-» lantern is. much larger and the hood of it ' serves as ,a reflector. The increased-■? illuminating power is obtained*by in.«~" creasing the number of burners and by M placing them around and insido. «,-heinis. phere of crystal glass. The result is feW * satisfactory. .It;is; now the,tarn' QrthJ \ electric light to make some progress and' to vindicate its claims to recognition.— Figaro.