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Show IHMHsbIHsbbMMbMiBsbM GAS NOW "BE- ' LIVE'RE'B IN CANS. H Undonbtedlv one of the most remarkable re-markable features of the Parts exhibition exhibi-tion Just closed has been tho multl-pllclty multl-pllclty ot curious and nvvBl systems for producing light In electricity the extraordinary el.. trie lamp that mutt bo lighted with a match proved one of tho triumphs of the Herman section I In gas llghtinc the portable boxea of I a Paris oorljnany havb already found I their way intu general life Acetylene, that peculiar icrrcli discovery and Invention aitnnlshed the visitor by Its white effulgence-all along the Seine, between the niw hrMtn and th Street whispering t gether over something lit tho miinlripil and hn ise-llghtlng line that Is nlMOlHtaly sensational Tho discovery or Indention contemplates the disintegration st the burner of common air pumped rh rough tho mains sir that coals nothing but tho pump Ing The great question is which Is ' to be the cheapest and the best. Oas I And electric llghtlna companies may or may, not have to go into liquidation liquida-tion In any case, the honest eltlten may hope at last to como Into his own at no distant day 1 first noticed the 'fountains" ot t Nations. The powerful new American Ameri-can piroleum-Jarnps on the Qual des Tulllerios show that old fashioned "coal oil" Is still to tie heard ffnm tln tho exhibition grouuds and on the Paris boulevard the alcohol lamps with Incandescent gas burners compete with the electric light More curious still and full ot a vague promise nro tho mysterious psychological and luminous lu-minous metallic limp I'lnally the scientists and capitalists of Paris are this cannod-gas company at the exhibition, ex-hibition, but they nro now doln'C titfil-ncs titfil-ncs oh tho Hue Aubcr, besldo tho Grand Opera and nro beginning to extend ex-tend their business all over Huropo, Asia and America writes our correspondent corre-spondent It Is In tho full tourist quarter and 1 fancy thero havo been few Americans In Paris this summer who have not stood In admiration bo-fore bo-fore the simple looking devlco displayed dis-played In thoto show windows by which the suburbanite and the farmer 9jkM equally with the dweller In cltl mar W-91 enjoy gaa lighting all over hit housn. miiaB These gas fountains -tiling the word JJwfll In the l'reneb sense are long, narrow )9jKI metal boxes standing upright, ot solid CflXl construct l( n to h !d (offipreased Hi H'-?3?3 tnmlnatlng m tl t by means of rtitM lily? her tubes la lei to I im ieseent burn 8tV? ra by way of movable lamp like IvSK those that stand on center table In, Ifiuff America. This 1 the story ot thai fr "fountains": but simple as it Is, how' ( ,jSi Is It that noon th.m-.tit of It twforeT JIM Tho gas box sold to the consumer j 1 ' 1 i IT" T at 3 aih, rcqulro oul to be taken ,i home and let up on sjirlvis Thrca " form tho rrgnlatlon "bnltiry" for a pioderatc-sixtd house, llgbtlng tho a three moms which tho Trench light 1 brilliantly the dining room, the ante- j chamber and the kitchen You will not often find gas-burnere In Trench, , bedrooms candle being considered I the correct thing The company as- i I torts thero Is no other Installation ot : gas that can be made so cheaply , |