Show LIGHT OF OTHER DAY it is not long lone since the teal real dark ate aae the tallow candle aze aee ended here and there through the coq coultry cou atry in tte garrets and trumpery rooms of grandfathers and gaind a others way may be found elaborately wrought bras candlesticks dle sticks once bright and lustrous and considered worthy ot of the most conspicuous place in the family mansion and by their side the hb seeker after curiosities might discover other utensils that were once among the most useful household articles but which were relegated to the garret about the time the present generation came into being these the molds used for making candles and in their jay day they were thought one of the great inventions of the age but what is this it looks like a gallon can with a handle where you yon would expect the stopper it has a door and its sides are perforated with hundreds of holes A I 1 la lantern tern yes my boy that is exactly wha whai it i is ana and many a bushel of corn has your grandfather husked by the uld aid of its dim and shadowy rays it t had bad its merits too the candle which it contained never caused any explosion and it if the cow kicked it over at milking time it did not set chicago on fire lanterns are an ancient institution diogenes aked one is his eccentric efforts to discover som something ebIng he did lid not belleve believe in the lantern of odthe the greeks and romans contained au an ell eil lamp its sides made of thin layers of aarn waxed parchment el linen or bladder flaks tan lanterns terns were used ln jn england as a early as they were expensive however and 1000 years later the tin lantern was chiefly in use among the poor p people e io p 1 T the chinese excel la t the a man manufacture u f s e t ure 0 of th lanterns grese kup i they have used them i for or agas aes bome of their mandarins have them chopi built at a cost of thousands of dollars each the to word bu built iltIs Is not out ol of place here ere for these lon lanterns terns alq 20 feret feet high and cont contains lus hundreds of candles their sides are pt or 61 ot rich colored silk on anthe the of january of each year they celi celebrate brite the feast i of the lanterns I 1 candles are most moat primitive form of light in romor hoefers Hom fers I 1 s t time I 1 etor torches were used even inthe diac fes B of the wealthy rush u ash lights lichti early i m use were rushes dipped in grease pitch or wax lamp comes from a greek word lampas the candles of sarp scripture u re are on supposed to have been lamps i in wl winch iv olive oil was burned the earliest ar e t lamps were shallow vessels ot or tetra cotta either round or ob longin j shape I 1 there was a small opening gi ij W the top in which thecil the ail was poured poun 1 4 1 at one side wasu was s handle and opposite e a gozs 0 an ale through which tao tn wick prot protruded d e many of them were ornamented with i representations of war scenes or chariot races broue bronze lamps ano and golden lamps have been discovered of such beauty as to entitle them to rank rack among the choicest specimens mens of an clent art in the acropolis at athens was a golden lamp amp large enough so that when filled it would burn bur n night and day for a year above it was a bronze palm tree to carry off its fumes lumes and act as a re reflector ector while in west virginia virgnia recently said qaid a traveling man 1 I saw a lamp that was primitive enough a saucer was filled with grease and over the edge of it bung a lighted wick it s some but bat made enough light to rendel the darkness daT kness visible and its heat beat was sufficient to wisht the pipes of the family it was more used for that purpose than any other it appeared tome to me 1 though 0 t was the only light in the house there are many malay people in the mountain moun tiia regions whose vv hose only lights are a r tallow W dips dl PI A form of the ancle ancient t errek e Is ia lawn w r s s still ieuse among the canadian french finch iu in the remote districts of scotland the crisle cr a 10 is sometimes some tides lound found olavi ou oil groundnut oil poppy oil and other vegO vegetable table oils bits are used in iia various districts of the world in the tropical regions cocoanut coco anut tint oil is used in lamps the trade of candle making usually combined with that of poap boiling twi ling was an important ont one franklin worked at it until ne ran kan away the chandler made wicks molded and dipped his candles until driven out of ane bustness by the theAe general adoption of df whale oil as an early in the present century improved lamps were about a century ago A frenchman iman pawed named aigard AT gaud in 11 invented a burner with two concentric the inner one oyen open for a current to pas asa brough and the outer one containing the wick lie HS bad a metal make it draw and carry off the smoke else elge soon found that a atas chimney was better for purpose Ar gands lamp variously modified and improved is the parent of i all of tie the best modern lamps 1 various substitutes lot for whale oil were tried during the present century c bugnone bat but none came into general use until coal oil was pro produced dued it was hrc made tram from cannel coal anat and that bat is the way it got its name the general development of the petro lium region so in pennsylvania which began in 1859 60 soon destroyed debt myed the manufacture ot of coal oil aust as it wis was get gettine t I 1 iii to be 8 profitable industry many improvements in lamps fol followed lovied this discovery but peti petr oleum oCum is s not a ne new W abing thi ug neither is natural gas gap oil was mas found la in a spring on or zante one of the ionian In le lands 2000 years ago and burned in lamps in sicily at an eat early ly age it was not unknown to the indians and to ahe western pioneers of amerita america but come somi body had bad to discover bow tomtit to betit in quantities and use it before knowledge became of value to the I 1 worldly world petroleum exits exists exi ts in peijin york ohio west Vl virginia rinia a oada iada india and thy the caucasian mounta lbs natural nati ral gas is as a old a agthe th e vyrrle oric and was not firsa firs discovered around aroun tl pittsburg it was as pro probably babiy the mite material that fed the holy fires of baku ot on the caspian sea and the sacred flies fires of the greeks the chinese clinese have utilized for centuries in the evaporation of brine alkis a gas which issues from coal seams beams near pekin an Eug englishman lishman discovered and described gas which he be found incha in coa regions in tits bis country in 1659 A cen turk later it was proposed to light the town of White whitehaven haven with natural gas fredonia N Y was lighted with natural gas over years ago attempts to make an illuminating Illuminati mg gas from coal began in england la in the sixteenth century william murdock succeeded in making such gas in cornwall in 1792 pall mall london landon was vas lighted by gas in 1809 and g great reat was popular prejudice against the new and it was supposed dangerous igau the first gas pipes were made maae from gun barrels screwed torether tov together ether in america the manufacture of gas iba began in baltimore aaa ai d was madea madda success in 1821 in 1822 boston was lighted by bv gasard gas aad IQ 14 1823 the I 1 N jaw 4 york gas light co 00 was formed eado q e |