The city of Brooklyn, disgusted with the gas companies, has resolved to light the street lamjs with naphtha instead of coal gas. The saving on the contract will be 261,200 dollars a year. Naptha gas gives a better light than coal gas. An electric light com pany is fitting up a powerful engine in San Francisco, and will soon be ia a position to light all the business houses in Kearney street. The gas company is endeavouring to saddle the city with a five years' contract at exorbitant figures, and as there is money in it Mayor Bryant and the Board of Super visors will doubtless give the city away.
