"He wanted to know what I thought concerning the tariff on aluminium hydrates, and how I stood about the opening of the Tento Pu Reservation of the Comanche Indians, and what were my ideas about the differential rate of hauls from the Missouri River.

One pair of strong shooting boots (plentifully studded with aluminium nails) is enough.

" On examination, the only articles of value Mugford's pockets were found to contain were an aluminium pencil-case which wouldn't work, and a dirty scrap of indiarubber.

One noble son of Africa who was being treated in one of the hospitals once presented me with an aluminium ring made from a piece of German shell.

I prefer a thick plain aluminium plate, and find that the snow does not stick to it.

One small frying-pan and one light aluminium pot, with single knife, fork, and spoon, constituted all in the way of cooking utensils.

He smiled and his nurse, who was passing, added, "No, he had not got any more aluminium, but when he is better he will get forty-eight hours' punishment; he has been into the kitchen, stolen one of our best aluminium saucepans, and has been making souvenirs for the ladies."

I was thankful that the spike was a short one and not one of the newfangled aluminium spikes which would have penetrated much further and might easily have done damage to the bone.

The haversack was filled with aluminium fuse tops and one large piece of a "Jack Johnson" shell case.

A set of aluminium cooking-utensils is much to be recommended.

A friend to whom I submitted a small portion broken off from the rest expressed no doubt that it was a kind of aluminium bronze, but inclined to believe that it contained no inconsiderable proportion of a metal with which chemists are as yet imperfectly acquainted; perhaps, he said, silicon; certainly something which had given to the alloy a hardness and tenacity unknown to any familiar metallurgical compound.

They were clothed not in cloth but in under-garments of woven rope and outer clothes of felted aluminium wire; they were shod with timber and iron, and the links and buttons and belts of their clothing were all of plated steel.

"It has collapsible aluminium centre seam," he retorted rapidly, "which can be used as a tent pole in severe weather.

Some experienced runners prefer the Bergans Rucksack on an aluminium frame.

The coat itself, when stretched on our patent aluminium framework, makes an admirable hip-bath.