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mplighter, occasioning many public manifestations, noisy meetings, and even interchanges of blows, resulting in an effervescence which had not yet subsided, and which would account for

ey were not engineers by profession, but simply amateurs of all that appertained to aerostatics, and they were amateurs in a fury, and especially foes of those who would oppose to aerostats "apparatuses heavier than the ai

thing surprising in America in the qualificative uncle, for you can there be uncle without having either nephew or n

founded at Buffalo for working the cataract. It seemed to be an excellent speculation. The seven thousand five hundred cubic meters that pass over Niagara in a second would produce seven millions of horsepower. This enormous power, distributed amongst all the workshops within a radius of three hundred

nemies, although he was president of the club-among others all those who envied his pos

. Phil Evans would have passed for one of the happiest men in the world, and even in the United States, if it had not been for Uncle Prudent. Like him he was in his forty-sixth year; like him of invariable health; lik

udent and him. Twenty times there had been a scrutiny, and twenty times the majority had not declared for eith

rmented liquors, half a Mussulman, half a Brahman. On this occasion Jem Chip was supported by another member of the club, William T. Forbes, the manager of a large factory where they made glucose by treating rags w

pported by William T. Forbes and others, that it was

ost worthy; and a number of Americans of high intelligence are already thinking of

of the first triangle in a trigonometrical survey. That done, the two boards were erected on the same day in the center of the conference room, and the two candidates, each armed with

shots allowed; nothing but sureness of eye. The man must

vans did his. Then there began the measurement to discover whi

ciable difference. If they were not exactly in the mathematical center of the line,

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can divide a millimeter into fifteen-hundredths of a millimeter with a diamond splinter, was brought to bear on the lines; and on reading the divisions through a microscope t

resident. A difference of three fifteen-hundredths of a millimeter! And on account of it Phil Evan