| Show AN ADMIRABLE SLOT INVENTION our impulsive and somewhat volatile foreign friends the french lead the world in a great many things in none anore so BO than in their regulations and devices device for supplying applying the poor with the necessary conveniences of life at the minimum of cost As a rule french financiers and speculators are among the most moat daring of their usually conservative serva tive dais class and no DD scheme that offers a fair show of moderate returns on the I 1 investment ip ip vestment t espell especially ally where the advancement of national prestige or the promotion of the popular welfare Is in likely to be sub served need long go eo without the requisite funds to put it into operation one la Is newly reminded of th these elle praiseworthy characteristics by the successful inauguration of a plan for supplying parts paris w th hot water fountains the subject was proposed some time ago and it met from the first with favorable consideration the means to carry it into effect were accordingly for the im ing and word now comes that a number of fountains are already in working order and giving good satisfaction the process is not intricate at all an automatic machine is used to which the water is conducted by means of subterranean pipes it runs through a coiled up copper tubing three hundred feet lonor and is heated bested during its progress through this by gas which is turned on by a sou turned into the blot lot which c h amount furnishes echt liters rather more than seven quarts the convenience veni ence of this arrangement and ite ita economy to the poorer classes cla ases will be readily understood by those who realize how much of a luxury fuel is to such residents of the french capital as have to restrict their living within the limits of a very meager income |
