Show ali hii V 21 n A about gas lints HINTS ABOUT ersk ersa ND D 1 A gentleman who claims to have test edthe matter batter thoroughly gives g i ives tile tiie following information regarding gas lights ifa if a flame consuming eight cubic feet of gas per er hour gives a light of sixteen candles candies per hour and this be reduced to six feet three fourths of eight then it istead instead of the light being equal to twelve candles athe the theoretical proportion it will only be equal to eight candles caus causing ilig liag a kossof thirty six sit simper percent cent so on until lastly if the flames be r reduced to one and one fourth feet per hour a small blue name flame will be seen which ilves elves gives no available light if you have save ave four two and one half feet jets in your room making a ten foot burner you will got a light equal to twenty eight candles william richards ric Bic hards an english writer on the subject furni furnishes furnished shei the following table illustrating the true proportion between the amount of light produced and tho the amount of gas burned in an ordinary fishtail fish nish tail tali burner and the table is indorsed endorsed indor sed by the engine engineers ors of the itow new york gas house consuming one and one half neet feet gives candle consuming two and one fourth feet gives liblit and two thirds candles consuming three and one half feet gives if light lyt lit of six and one fourth candles consuming four and one half feet gives light of often ten cad caf caddies idies idles consuming five feet gives light of twelve and one half hait candles ron mon consuming suming seven keven feet gives light bight of eighteen candles mi richards says that the thea tres lighted by two hundred small jets consuming coil suming two hundred and fifty feet per hour and giving givin 9 the j light of two hu hundred i adred candles candies can be lighted as well with wilh fourteen seven foot burners which would use only seventy seven feet of gas per hour a saving of and seventy three deet reet it if you want a small light havo have a big burner berand and aud turn it down for gas coming inc through a jarge large orifice gives more than when foicey through a small one light is 19 also di diminished mi asbed by using globes lobes especially if of ground or painted glass glassy the latter destroying sixty per cent of the light cleveland |