Show romance must retire before tile tha progress of the age the municipal pall government of venice proposes to adopt an extensive system of acing the canals with mith poA powerful erful incan descent gas lamps it t Is true that tho old mode of lighting gave very anade quate from a se practical point of view but it un rivaled light arld and shade effects tha beauties of which have ever been th joy of visitors it I 1 Is therefore there foie tin adly surprising that aithus and other ad aliers of the loveli lagoon city are protesting agal against nit what they hey call an act of the baid coll aglaie of incandescent gas will III the sa as rob I 1 venice entee of one of its greatest greate bt charms that iii twilight which produces pio duces the proper atmospheric for musing on oil the romance and past greatness of the noble palaces of the erstwhile iuliis of the seas |