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Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions may require permission of the copyright holder. The gas-stokers had struck without a moment's warning, and the meters by such measures were placed in immediate peril of utter exhaustion. The sympathies of the British Public-by the British Public we mean that portion of it affected by the gas-strike-were not altogether with the Companies, but they were strongly with-the British Public If the Companies had behaved with as much fairness as pace MR.
BRIGHT is compatible with commercial enterprise, the sympathies would not have had to fall back quite so much upon selfishness for support. But the Companies, availing themselves of their monopoly, have so long laid-on for their own purposes air, gas-tar, sulphur, and water, in the pipes by which they were supposed to supply London with pure gas, that when the strike compelled them to fall back upon the raw material it rather improved than injured the position of the consumer.
But at any rate the Gas Companies contrived to create a panic, on the occasion of the strike of the stokers. This was so general, that people who lived in the South Metropolis, and who had been accustomed to light candles in order to be quite sure their gas had ignited, began to hope that the strike had something to do with it. The Worshipful the Mayor observed that the darkness must necessarily afford a great opportunity for betting. He was interrupted by a voice from the background, which exclaimed, Shut up " It was found that this courteous intimation proceeded from the Chief Commissioner of Works, who had for a long time past been seeking admission to the Editorial sanctum, but had been excluded on account of his rudeness to the office-boy.
We're all in the dark at our place he urged. And so are we! But this darkness is a serious question-can you grapple with it? Ignorance is bliss, and fatal Is a little erudition:- But be sure, if that's a curse,. Little-earning's ten times worse! A Coup de Theatre. THE Swiss Timres tells a deeply interesting story. A friend with truly Christian consideration took him a small bottle of Prussic acid, but PYAT on learning that if the cork came out it would be dangerous of course if the cork never did come out, a fellow might carry a phial of it for ever declared he would prefer a pomniard.
