Plenty Of Gas, But No Light

The custom of paying for gas by the cubic toot without, regard to its illuuii nating powor, is liko buying all oloth at a uniform price por yard, without any question aa to the fitness of the wool. No oue would like to pay as much for shod dy as forcassimere, and yet shoddy gas is tho principal artiolo now furnishod to custoiners, while tho prioe actually paid calis for the best gas that can be made. The city conipanies skould be 'oompelled to furnish a gas of a prescribed density and fixed candió power. Some of the London companies prido themselves on keeping up tho illiiminating power of their gas to tho maximum standard of fifteen candles, und in twenty-two English works the gas from tho best coals ranges from twelvo to fourteen candles through burners consuming five cubie feot per hour. Beaidea the loss to the consumer in tlio amount of liglit aftbrded by poor gas, there is another difforenco whicli tells in favor of tho company. Assuining the speuiiic gravity of the poor gasto ba 5, and that of a riek gas 7.Ö0, tho fonnor will piss through a burner much faater than tho rich, and increaso the bilis of tho consumor fvora 30 tu ■": por eent. without any corresponding incroasu in t!; ■ photometic power of the gas. ïhero ought to be a fixed standard (say sixteen caniles) pressribed by law, and au inspector appointed to seo that tho couipanies comply with it, and in caso of any suoh breach of contract a heavy penalty should bo imposod. It is not darknoss that wo, want, hut light.andfor the sake of tho thousands of poor sewing womm and working mon som!thing should bo dons to save money and eyesight. Lat qu.iiit y, not quantity, govern in this nutter. We have plenty of gas, but not onough light. Jeffersoü's TIew of "Old A-o." In liis last lettor to John Adame, Jefferson paid : Oiir next in 'nting must then be in the country to whioh they have flown - a count: y for us not vcry Lar distant. For tuisjourney we shall need neither gold nor silyer i:i our purse, nor scrip, nor ooats, nor staVos. Nor is the provisión for it more eaay than tho preparation has buen kind. Nothing roves more then t'iis that the Being who presides over the world is ossentially bonevolent - stealing from us one by ono the facultios ot' enjoym ut, searching o:ir sensibilitias, leading us liky tho horse in his mil] round and round tilo same beatón cirole - Ta .soc vh;it wc have soes, To taste fcho tasted, and hI enoh retara :ul, o'cr our piilatea to deaoant Another vintage- until, satiatod and fatigued with this loadon i((-iation, Ave ask our own conge. I heard once a verj old friend, who had troublod himself with noither poets nor philosophers, say the sanie thing in prose, thit ho was tired cf pulling oii' his shoes and stoukings at night nuil putting them on again in tho morning. The wi.sh to stay nero is gradually extinguished ; b'it not so easily that of returniug once in a wliiie to see how things have gono on. Perhapg, bowever, ons of the elements of future felioity. is to be a constant and unimpassioued view of what is passing here, If so, this muy well supply the wiBh of oooasional visits. TA has giren us hu visión of 2441; but a prophecy is ou thing and history is another. Ota the whole, howevor, perhajps it is wise to be content with whioh thn Master of tho feasi placea befóre u, and to be tbankful for what vi: havo rather than thoUJ about what we luive not.