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Show NEW USE FOR GLASS. Invention That May Supersede All Other Building Materials. A practical Inventor and scientist, M. Qnrchoy, known all over Franco, hns mado a very Interesting experiment experi-ment In Lyons. Ho has discovered an entirely new method of molting all kinds of glass and transforming It Into material as hard and serviceable as Belgian blocks. In 1898 ho ob-talnod ob-talnod porralsslon from tho municipal authorities of Lyons to pavo n portion of ono of their main streets with this now material and thus provo to tho world tho valuo of his discovery. Tho street selected was a principal thoroughfare thor-oughfare which was under continuous continu-ous and heavy traffic, and yot tho glass is still as sound n3 when first put down. M. Qarchey claims for "ceramo-crystal," as ho call it, that it can bo manufactured at a much moro reasonablo flguro than any othor ro-llablo ro-llablo building material now on tho raarkot in Europo or America, and that it is practically indostructiblo. |