--1 illustration

XII. TECHNOLOGY.--Gaseous Illuminants.--By Prof. VIVIAN B.
LEWES.--The fifth and last of Prof. Lewes' Society of Arts lectures,
concluding his review of the subject of gas manufacture

* * * * *



THE NEW LABOR EXCHANGE AT PARIS.


There will soon be inaugurated (probably about the 14th of July) a new
establishment that has long been demanded by the laboring population,
that is to say, a new labor exchange, the buildings of which, situated
on Chateau d'Eau Street, are to succeed the provisional exchange
installed in the vicinity of Le Louvre Street. The new structures have
been erected from plans by Mr. Bouvard, and occupy an area of
seventeen hundred meters.

The main work is now entirely terminated, but the interior decorations
are not yet completely finished. The distribution comprises a vast
meeting room, committee rooms for the various syndicates, offices in
which the workmen of the various bodies of trades will find
information and advice, and will be enabled to be put in relation with
employers without passing through the more or less recommendable
agencies to which they have hitherto been obliged to have recourse.

[Illustration: NEW LABOR EXCHANGE, PARIS.]