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...Thereafter, whenever the moon was not full, Mr. Brown almost daily caused his chef to heat large panfuls of gold and silver coins as hot as possible on the galley stove. The beggars of Brightlingsea, anxious to humor his whims, appeared in rowboats and caught the coins in their bare hands as Mr. Brown hurled the bits of gold and silver overboard with a shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes...
...Swedenborgians. As everyone knows, Emanuel Swedenborg (originally Swedberg; 1688-1772) was one of the most original geniuses in history. He dealt capably and creatively with poetry, history, philosophy, art, geology, mathematics, astronomy (nebular hypothesis), crystallography, anatomy (texts on blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...
...first family consisted of the two parents, both of whom worked, two children at school, and three others under school age. This family of seven lived in three small rooms, only one of which was lighted by a single gas jet. Most of the heat came from the cook stove. Only one room had windows. For this mite they paid a rental of about $26 a month out of a joint weekly wage...
...Tumulty returned home in Washington from a dinner. He had a severe cold. He thought he smelled gas and went upstairs to find his wife and daughters, Grace and Alice, violently ill and coughing. A physician was called and found them suffering from monoxide gas poisoning. The kitchen stove was suspected...
...final page. Vide such delicatessen as "Do you own much in Flerida?" and its answer: "Oh, lots and lots," or "She: You look much better without those glasses. He: So do you" and even the whiskered one about the coon who burns his finger on the "damned stove" while his wife asks "Why didn't you feel the stove before you put your finger...