74 THE ARGAND BURNER. 



America to this day. But in France the name of Quinquet 

 finally carried the day, and a lamp there, with a burner on 

 this principle, is always called a Quinquet. 



Argand was worn out, mind and body, by his long-con- 

 tinued disappointments and troubles, and when he was 

 only a little past middle life he returned to the home of his 

 childhood in Switzerland, poor, disheartened, and miserable, 

 and died in the imbecility and wretchedness of. a prema- 

 ture old age. 



And now, nearly a century since his death, they who un- 

 derstand these facts, after they have been reading for an 

 hour in the evening by the bright light which his simple 

 and beautiful contrivance has given them, sometimes pay a 

 brief tribute to hiss memory by observing for a moment in 

 silence the brilliant and beautiful effect produced by the 

 double current of air, intensified in its action by the draft 

 of the chimney, and then saying to themselves, " Poor Ar- 

 gand !" 



