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...When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending to the nearest lake or river. One of these engines is shown in the accompanying picture with a fireman on top directing the liquid stream...
Genesis of Continents. Earth has a rind 2,000 miles thick, a core 4,000 miles in diameter. The core is a hot, viscous liquid, composed chiefly of iron and held within the mighty pressure of the rind. At times the central heat melts spots in the rind; asthenoliths or blisters result 30 to 600 miles below Earth's surface. The asthenoliths may be hundreds of miles wide, 10 to 20 miles thick. So theorized Leland Stanford's Bailey Willis...
...bombs ready. At the signal they let fly, aiming not at the players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their...
...most amazing drink invented by Professor Thomas is the BLUE BLAZER. His recipe: "Use two large silver-plated mugs, with handles. One wineglass of Scotch whiskey. One wineglass of boiling water. Put the whiskey and the boiling water in one mug, ignite the liquid with fire, and while blazing mix both ingredients by pouring them four or five times from one mug to the other. If well done this will have the appearance of a continuous stream of liquid fire. Sweeten with one teaspoonful of pulverized white sugar, and serve in a small bar tumbler, with a piece of lemon...
...ship to carry a paying load in place of the many tons of gasoline which used to be an essential weight. Furthermore, as its specific gravity is nearly the same as air, its consumption does not necessitate a constant shifting of ballast as in the case when tanks of liquid fuel are being emptied...