The 'Gazette de St Petersbourg'
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary |
Subjects: | Light, Technology, Commerce |
Reports that Russians are resorting to gaslight owing to dwindling supplies of tallow candles, and notes the use of the more expensive gas-lighting in Paris and London, expecting both capitals to be shrouded in darkness. | |
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