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Show STREETS "LIT DY 3MOKE." It wns on Jnnuftry 28, 1807, thnt I'nll Mal wns lit by gas the first street In any city In the world to adopt the new illumlnnnt. The car-toonlsts car-toonlsts of the period drew pictures which represented people choked by the fumes of the new Illumlnnnt. nnd nil manner of ridiculous stories were a6aftaaaaaftoafte.aft circulated about It, Sir Walter Scott wrote from London thnt "there was a madman proposing to light London with what do you think? why, with smoke." Sir Humphry Davy Is also credited with giving the opinion that It would be ns ensy to bring down n bit of the moon to light London as to succeed In doing so wUJi gus -ajjotfiion Tit-Bits. |