Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College watchman was exhibited in an iron cage, heavily shackled; he looked sleepy and harmless, and some urchins running along-side even dared to tickle him with a straw. The whole pageant was brilliantly illuminated by an electric light in charge of a professor of physics, who had borrowed it from Edison expressly for this occasion. The enlivening strains of heavenly melody, the brightly flashing armor of the knights, the brilliant galaxy of starry loveliness, the ferocious roaring of the imprisoned monsters, - all combined to make a scene richer than
THERE are numerous curiosities to be seen in the public exhibition-room of the Library. It is reached by the iron staircase behind the catalogue. There are illuminated Books of Hours, old calendars, Hebrew MSS., chained monastic MSS., and other objects of interest, which are well worth a visit...
...unsupplied. It has been said that the beams, from which it was supposed the apparatus was to be hung, are too high. The effect of the interior would have been marred by placing the beams any lower, while by the present method a great advantage is gained. An iron framework is fastened to the timbers, on which are running beams and eyes that can be placed at any desired point...