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  Electric lighting

  Currently, there is an attempt to discover the benefits of the different systems that can be employed for lighting public roads.
  
  It is certain that the electric lighting, which has only existed in satisfactory conditions for a relatively short time, is destined to one day replace gas, just as they had replaced oil lamps which themselves had replaced lanterns carried in front of bourgeois by their people.
  
  Although definitive conclusions have not been reached, tests have shown that electric lighting, of equal brightness, currently cost more than gas lighting. But since the advantages are considerable, the Paris Municipal Council decided not to recoil before the costs and to develop this method of lighting as soon as possible. Parisians will thus soon see electric lighting illuminating all the plazas and all the roads of their city.
  
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  The fashionable hand fan, is the autographed hand fan. The mount, quite simple, is made of violetwood. the vellum sheet, both sides gold-edged, bears a crown or the number in one corner, and, pell-mell, in an artful disorder, friends and family inscribe a date to remember, a couplet, a quatrain, or they add drawing following their imagination. The ultra-chic, in this matter, is the collection of famous signatures.
  
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