Word: pailful
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...Atkinson has been experimenting for some years, and he has now invented a cooking pail which he believes will save the waste. The apparatus consists of a tin-lined paper pail, surrounding a tin-lined paper pail, surrounding a tin pale of three compartments, heated by a common lamp. The heat in this pail cannot go above 320 degrees, which is the proper temperature at which to cook food, and by its use a man can get good food, properly cooked for a dollar a week, and the best of food for two dollars a week...
...Atkinson had a pail at work during the lecture, and the club tasted the food after the lecture and pronounced it delicious...
...setting forth the merits of the "New Grand Opera House" performances in Boston, aroused the inhabitants of Little's Block and Holyoke yesterday afternoon by its dulcet bugle-notes. In response to the cries of "More! more!" the band had just started out anew with great vigor when a pail of water from one of the windows above so disconcerted them that they retreated in confusion, and the quavering note of the horns died away in the distance, much to the relief of every...
...elder Aggassiz learned something one day in Chicago. He saw a workman place five bricks in a pail even full of water without causing a drop to run over, and the great naturalist handed the man a $2 bill and made a note of the circumstance...
...that the instructor will be able to adopt one or the other. An improvement could also be made on the present mode of supplying one's self with water for washing paint-brushes. Instead of letting each one bring a glass of water up three flights of stairs, a pail of water should be kept in the room. Aside from the inconvenience, it is almost impossible to keep from spilling the water on the staircase and floor. Unless the authorities wish to have these painted, they will see that water and a slop-jar are put in the room...