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...James Thomas, newly returned home, tried to produce some hot water for a bath, stoked & stoked the heater, finally discovered that somebody had tapped the wrong pipe - one of his children came running from the pond in the yard shouting: "Daddy, the fish are cooking." How Now, Old Mole? In London, a married woman was jailed for helping conceal her lover, a French deserter. She had hidden him for 16 months under her floor, in an 11-by-3 ft. hideaway. He was nabbed when he popped out, suspecting that three other men were around the house...
Tests proved Durham right. He further found that the rotation of a ship's engines sets up a weak electric current, which charges a ship's metal. In salt sea water, which is an excellent electrolytic bath, the metal is swiftly eaten away. Durham had no idea where the metal went, but he hit on a simple way to stop it: suspending in the water another metal higher in the electrolytic scale. Thus, when he installed a piece of zinc, electrically wired to the ship, near a bronze propeller, the propeller picked up zinc deposits instead of losing...
...Bull received 50-odd years of public homage. Statesmen like Henry Clay, authors like William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Thackeray basked in his companionship. Longfellow and Joaquin Miller wrote poems about him. Women begged for samples of his bath water. Sixteen-year-old Queen Isabella of Spain offered him a generalship in her army...
...Struggle for Survival. In Kimball, S.D., Clarence Bely was kicked out of a barn by a horse, presently tried to show friends how it happened, was promptly kicked by the horse again. In Clearfield, Utah, a farmer who tried to heat his bath water by building a fire under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground. In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake...
...beer garden. There is also much dancing, and singing of such deathless ditties as Rosie, Waiting at the Church, Two Little Girls in Blue, plus the new catchy Goin' to the County Fair and the sure-fire My Heart Tells Me (which Miss Grable, enjoying her first bath on the screen, sings from a tall wooden bathtub...