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Show Saving Lights In Tfornoway. On a sunl- n roof .. 0 foot distant from Stornovay lighthouse, cotland, is a remarkable beacon which warns mariners with tho help of a light which is only n paiont, Tho beacon Is a cone of cast Iron plates, surmounted sur-mounted with n iantorn containing n glass prism. Tho prism derives Ita light fiom re'ractlng the rajs omitted from tho llghthoiiBC, and the optical delusion is marvelous, Mai biers .naturally .nat-urally supposo that thpio Is a lighted lamp on tho beacon itlf and many of them will not bellevo otherwise. Hut tho object of tbo beacon iff attained at-tained when tliH navlgatm cua tho reflected re-flected light, vhlch Ind!' es tho poi lions li-ons rock below. This bnuon In' the north of Scotland Iibh been In uso more titan half a conMirj. and 'sinco it was llxed in position others have been placed In other neihborhooda to make clear points of dai.xcr It Is nn ingenious nnd vor effouno safpard against perils of the coa t. |