The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-08-20
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SUN.
Vacuum Tubes VIII Rsyolutionlso a
Lightning OF Churches.

Lightning OF Churches.
The churches and cathedrals Of the
future will be lighted as they have
never been before. People have had
to content themselves for centuries
with worshipping in inadeQustely.
lighted churches. The invention Of
the new vacuum tubes is destined to
revolutionize the lighting Of such In
teriors.
The architects Of all the greatest
churches Of the world have been Obliged
to make the best use they could of
candles, lamps or gas, which at best
gave out a reddish glare and cast deep
shadows The use even of the ordinary
electric light produces q brilliant eff
monize with church interiors.
The new light is very soft and clear,
and is capable of producing q great
many different effects. By using small,
tubes and running them along the
edgesof the arches or pillars q very
even and subdued light may be pro-
duced throughout an immense interior.
The tubes have the additional ad-
vantage of not casting the slightest
shadow. This subdued light will not
necessarily be at aIlgloomy or sohber.
The new light is noted for che quail
ity known as its range of legibility.
Congregations in the churches Of the
future which are lighted in this way
will have no trouble to find the right
page in the hymn books. The light
from vacuum tubes is almost the coun.
terpart of ideal daylight.
One of the most important advan-
tages of the new light is that it gives
out very little heat. The contrast in
this respect between it and the ordi-
nary forms of light is so great that the
vacuum light is frequently called
"cold" light The temperature Of the
gas in these tubes seldom exceeds leo
degrees centigrade, while the temper
atures of some solids must be as high
as $4,000 degrees centigrade in order to
produce white light.
The Importance of this can hardly be
overestimated in lighting interiors,
such as churches, where a great many
people gather. The tube lights will
keep the atmosphere of churches much
cooler than any other light, besides
being much more healthfuL-N. Y.
Herald.
early EuGl00s
Edward L reigned from 1879 to 1907.
During this period the language of the
court and of the other classes was
Norman-French, but the people spoke
a form of English known as middle
English. OF these there we're three
chief dialects, the Northern, the Mid
land and the Southern. There was
then no one standard Of speech (for
English was not officially recognized
till the middle of the fourteenth cen-
tury). Consequently each of these dia.
lects was as good English as any other,
and it is the remains of these dialects
that still exist in various parts Of
the country, and are generally con.
sidered as corrup* form Of English,
which they really arc not The three
dialects mentioned differed SO much
that "works written for the Southern
Engliskmen had to Be translated for
tho benefit Of the men of the north" !"
The comparative fntelligibility of the
language of that day may be judged
from the following extract from Rob
ert, of Gloucester, who wrote Gn the
southern dialect), during the reign Of
Edward l.: -'Vor bote q man couthe
French me tolth of hym well lutte. 40
lowe Eaen holdeth to Epglyss and to
her kundle speeche yate. Ich wene
there be ne man in world contreyes
none thst he holdeth to her kunde
speche but Engelond one." That is:
"For unless man know French, one
talketh of him little. But low men
hold to English and their natural
speech yet. think there be no people
of sany country in the world that do
not hold to their natural speech except
Gn) England alone. st Louis Repub
lie.