Word: wateringly
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...mentioned, yesterday, one annoyance that is endured, though unwillingly by those of us who frequent the gymnasium. But, as John B. Gough used to remark of the cold-water question, "it is a large subject," and perhaps a few words more will not be out of place...
...laments that we attack the subject. It is a matter of interest to all. Everybody has had some experience with the coy willfulness of those faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody does not know that in the present condition of affairs it is impossible to supply...
...spoke, a few days since, of the annoyance arising from the bad condition of the water-works in the gymnasium. This trouble was the fault of the directors. But there has been brought to our notice again and again, an intolerable nuisance which cannot so conveniently be laid to the door of the gymnasium authorities: it is caused by some -, we hesitate to call them by the name they plainly deserve...
They enter a bath-room, say at half-past four; after carefully wasting about nine tenths of the hot water in the boilers, they proceed to soak, and enjoy life for an hour. Then leaving the tub with evident regret, they dress with a masterly leisure that is only acquired by constant practice. If fortune smiles, the bath-room is well rid of them by six o'clock; if she frowns, the rows of shivering men waiting for their turn, are lucky if it comes at half past...
...Claudius. In the course of this work cassions were first used; the great ship which had brought over the obelisk that now stands in Rome, from Egypt, was filled with concrete until it sank to the bottom. Then the stone work was built around it and up to above water-level. On top of the break-water a mighty lighthouse, in imitation of the famous Pharos, was erected. All Rome's demands were supplied through Ostia and we therefore find enormous warehouses there...