message be transmitted. A question that naturally arose was : 

 how can such messages as these be differentiated, if you have a 

 number of receiving stations ? To this question, Dr. Fleming 

 said, no satisfactory solution had yet been discovered. At the 

 present stage, if everybody set up " wireless " telegraphy, all the 

 messages would get sadly mixed up. It was a serious limita- 

 tion, but with the few stations so far set up the difficulties had 

 not arisen. Having thrown on the sheet a facsimile of a 

 message received by himself through the air in this way, printed 

 by attaching to the receiver the ordinary machine, he con- 

 cluded by the remark that the most remarkable aspect of the 

 subject was the proof given that space is not empty. Of all 

 the inventions that had ci'owned the reign of Queen Victoria 

 none was more remarkable than this of " wireless " telegraphy. 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 1898. 



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 (Bavlmt Wimt^, 



BY 



Mr. EDWARD LOVETT. 



THE LECTURER, having given much attention to this sub- 

 ject for many years, was enabled to illustrate his remarks by 

 photographs taken from the large number of specimens in his 

 possession. These he had collected from all parts of the world, 

 and it was interesting to compare the forms of oil lamps from 

 the Hebrides, the native tribes of the Himalayas, and from the 

 interior of China. Although all served the same purpose and 

 embodied the same principle for the supply of oil, &c., to the 

 wick, it was interesting to obsene how much the forms varied 

 according to the locality, and what ingenious devices were 

 adopted by different people to obtain the same result. 



It is impossible to do justice to Mr. Lovett's interesting 

 lecture without the illustrations which made it so attractive. 

 Regarding the ancient rush-holder, of which some specimens 

 that he showed were made of Sussex iron, Mr. Lovett explained 

 the reason why it was called the " poor man." 



Before this holder was invented labourers used to be hired 

 to stand in farmhouses at night to hold the torch that gave light, 

 thus making living candlesticks of themselves. When the holders 

 were devised the name of the " poor-man " clung to them. 



