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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 309, 28 July 1868, Page 2

Ljme Light v. Gas.— If the London Scotsman is to be believed, the gas companies are likely to fall on evil times. That journal states that the arrangements for supplying Perth barracks with the " lime light " are being rapidly proceeded with and we are further informed that the light has already been adopted by several towns in Scotland. Three substances—two gases and a solid—are concerned in the production of the lime light, viz., oxygen, hydroxgen, and lime. A jet of hydrogen being lighted, a jet of oxygen is turned on so as to mix with it, and the solid incombustible lime being so arranged as to be exposed to the intense heat, it emits a light, says our contemporary, so pure and so powerful that it is only rivalled by that of the sun.

The Missing People.—Has the apotheosis of the human race arrived ? Is there to be no death but only disappearance ? If half the stories now pouring into the newspapers are true, we must conclude that the vulgar method of quitting life is rapidly becoming obsolete. But whither do those mysteriously translated persons go ? "We have strong suspicion that America becomes tbeir home, and that the United States are gradually taking the place of heaven in the estimation

6. Money may be deposited by or on behalf of minors. Depositors over seven years of age are treated as persons of full age, but minors under seven years of age cannot withdraw their deposits until they have readied the age of seven. 7. Applications to the Chief Office in each Province on t'<ic business of Post Office Savings Banks, and the replies sent thereto are

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