The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-25

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Ten NEW 0xYaEH LloHr.-The Ameri-
can proprietOrs Of tho oxygen light.
recently invented In France, have been
submitting it to Professor Doremus for
stand that the results of these sxpsrimenta
have been DO satisfactory that COMPANY
has been formed to introduce the inv1ntion.
A large laboratory il 70 BE- erected, two
hundred feet long and ONE hundrsd In
breadth, on Ferty-6rst street, New York,
for the sxtsnsive Inanuhacturo OF oxygen
gas. This gas II to b mixed with the
ordinary strost 90. An exchange says:
It 10 net iatsndsd t. lay pipes in the
thoroughfArea for the eonauStiOn Of the
oxygen for s6sns time, even il the company
were authorised, but they do propose con-
veying in portable vessels to the buildings,
public or privsts, in which il nay Be desired
for illustrative purposes. Mr.. Booth IL
placing throughout his new thsatre on
Sixth aveaae dupiieots Pipes, - that, when
the oxygen il manufactured in quantities
sufficient, il can b introduced without
delay, and nsDy gentlemen Of fortune who
have sssn the light ct the oAlcs Of the con-
have ii in their hOussA
"Aboss the middle Of Nsvsnbsr, il II
thought, The new light, which 10 nearly two
hundred tiDeo N0rs brilliant than thot
emitted By . w11 oendls, and fourteen
times more powerful than the iuaniAssivs
and one Aak times tAas q the 6as made
By The AaaAatsaa Company, - sAewa By
actual measurement in the laboratory Il
the College Of the City Of New York, y will
b formally and permanently introduced.
II 10 not only more powerful, - has bssn
d:nonstras:d, in brilli.ney, but, compared
With the ordinary gas lishs, many per cent.
cheaper. A thousand cabis feet Of oxygen
will cost the consumer, it 10 estimated, $25,
and . thousand cubic feet Of gas g, or e26
for two thousapd fest Of Oxygen and oar
bufsted hydrogen, which total Of mixed
gssss il equal in their illuminative quanti-
ties TO not lees than twenty eight thousand
fbse Of tho gas that 10 consumed in our
street lamps, st . cOst Of 974, or 346 more
than, apart from its great stsadiness, purity
and beauty, the oxygen light it il now be-
loved will cost. This will certainly, in
the courss Of . year, aggregate to the pso-
PIE OF = city SO large @ 10 New York an
enormous saving"
InP1.IAL Library At PAnIs.-The Ia
the public, Is saia to surpass any siRilar
institution in the world. 1t 10 thus de-
scribed
1.-THE new sSalls de Lsoswys 10 q spacious
chamber, one hundred and eighteen feet
square. It may be BEST described az form
AuS - o4OAX0 WIN - AtA 20 dACOVo VI WV On
the side facing the entrance. In this alcove,
which is separated by book cases and an
ornamental screen from the body of the
room, are the seats of the officials; here
books are supplied to the readers. A few
very light and elegant iron pillars support
q domed ceiling in which kyights are
pierced. The walls above the bookcases,
the latter being two stories high, and reach
ing half way to the roof, are divided into
large panels, three on each side the room,
and painted in foliage with very doubtful
taste. Between the panels are placed
twenty -four medallions, each containing a
bust Of one of twenty -four chiefs of modern
Notwithstanding to the authorities of
the Bibliotheque. OF these eleven are
French. England is represented by Shaks-
peare, Milton, Newton and Bacon; not,
however, the author Of the Novum Orga-
non,' but Roger Bacon, the tabled inventor
of gunpowder. Goethe alone represents
the country of Schiller, of Herder and of
Leasing.
The tables for the readers are arranged
mOdate nearly four hundred students"
Granite, Notwithstanding its exceeding
hardness, splits as straight and clean as q
chestnut stick. At one of the granite
Quarries of Maine, recently, q block was
split out which measured 100 feet long, 81
feet wide and 5 feet thick. 1t weighed over
800 tons.
AGRICULTURAL.
EARLY Rose PoTATo.-From all the
reports we have seen, this is one Of the new