Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...specimen of a new kind of chestweight has been placed in the gymnasium. It has several advantages over those now in use. There is no wood about it, cast iron taking its place everywhere. There are two pulleys instead of one, the second one being placed on the top of the weight box. Thus the box moves only half as far at each motion, and there is no danger of its striking the top or bottom of the slide when in use. Having two pulleys and a shorter range, twice as great a weight can be used without any more...
...entering the main hall the first thing which strikes the observer is the substantial appearance of evrything about him. Quite in keeping with the solid exterior is the heavy woodwork, iron s aircases and tiled floors, all giving the impression that the building was made to last through many years of hard usage. Though substantial and solid in appearance, the building, neither without nor within, is unsightly, the decoration and finish in the quiet style and colors now prevalent satisfying even the eye of the artist. The first specific thing which attracts attention is an inscription on the wall above...
...which would fill the soul of a dime museum propritor with envy. As, for instance, a cast of the skull of the horned woman, who had ragged pieces of horns six inches long protruding from her forehead, and the skull of a man who was cured after having an iron tamping bar pass through his head. Such are few of the wonders of the museum...
...Persephone down there. Great chaldrons may be seen, presumably filled with some strange liquid or concoction, to judge from the fearful rumbling boiling sound that comes forth. Bones and skeletons of every conceivable kind of animals are there; dark holes and passages, steam from unknown recesses, the clanking of iron, and the roaring of fires are everywhere met with. Indeed, what a place this is ! What a hall it is, with a lower world, our intermediate world, and an upper world, almost a little universe by itself...
...claimed that the Tariff is a cure-all for all industrial evils; its object is to equalize conditions, to promote home production and to improve the condition of all classes. One of the chief objections urged against Protection is that prices are raised. But does any one imagine that iron, for example, would have been as cheap as it is now, had not that industry been fostered and protected? The increased production has made cheap iron possible. Protection cannot create a monopoly, as some people assert. Completion is the great regulator of prices. Even under a prohibitory tariff there could...