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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 36, 13 February 1894, Page 2

The Cathedral Ohuroh of St. Paul in Lon* don is iafmred for £95,000 ia ten offices Great precautions are taken to prevent this ohuroh beiog injured or sat fire to by Hirfctning oa a plan suggested by the Royal Sooiety as far baok as 1769. There are, aocording to Dr Stanley, the late Deau of Westminster Abbsy. still eight of the olives of Gethsamene standing "whose gnarled trunkß and Boanty foliage will always be regarded as the most affeoting of the eaored memorials in or about Jeru« salem,"

A remnikable instance of de» velopmenb in the matter of reaohiog lights has been brought to the attention, of the United States Lighthouso Board at the Treasury Department by the reooption from France a pamphlet desoribiog a new light to be ereotad on a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany. The lighthonso will be built oa Penmaroh Point, and will be known as the Eokmuki Lighthouse. It will contifo aa deotrio light of .40,000,000 o*udle mwer oaeting a beam whioh oan be seen at a dial tante. in dear w< ather, of 63 wile?, and i-\ foggy weather a distance of 21 miles. Th« highest order of lighting in the Unit d States lighthouse service oan only be seen « m S 6 u \, ol °" *<*"»>'• The W>fcon the Eokmuki Lighthouse is on the " lightning flash order." At the mual hetett of ordinary lighthonaa towers ita light cannot actually be oaßt more than 26 miles before it strikes the horisson, but beyond that ?t is refleoted in the sky for 28 miles. This light is most powerful, searohingY'&ud penetrating, and ib ereoted at a ooat of about £12,000,