Show Electric Light a Generation Ago SALT LAKE Crrr Nov 10 8 E Editors Herald Ai the electrio light Is working up into an object of interest just now in our goodly city I may say that the other dy I came across a short newspaper news-paper notice of an exhibition of the same thirty three yqara since In 1847 I Mr Staite was lecturing on his then new mode of lighting by electricity for which he had taken out two patents In November of that year tbeSunderland Literary and Philosophical Society gave I public soiree at which Mr Staitea mode of lighting was the principal 1 attiction The Newcastle Guardian of that time ears of the afiaii Tho light which was of astonishing brilliancy and beauty was placed under an airtight glass ya = e When the gas was turned down it sufficiently lighted the spacious building and bore the closest reem blance to the great orb of day of Any lightjjfvhich ire ever witnessed The electriu fight was next exhibited in a vessel of water with equal success MrS Mr-S stated that i was the cheapest as well as the best for all practical purpose and the marvllous invention was hailed with rapturous plaudits The New York Tribune oomment ingly remarked that the expense of the new light wag not onetwentieth of that of gas Bo that people were a sanguine of the success and economy econ-omy of the electric light then as now although the intervening thirty three years have not done so much for its general introduction and use I at was expected A |