The Japanese took great delight in seeing the rapid movement of the Liliputian locomotive; and one of the scribes of the commissioners took his seat upon the car, while the engineer stood upon the tender, feeding the furnace with one hand, and directing the diminutive engine with the other.

Vitellius had one made of such prodigious size that he was obliged to build a furnace on purpose for it; and at a feast which he gave in honor of this dish, it was filled with the livers of the scarrus (fish), the brains of peacocks, the tongues of parrots, and the roes of lampreys caught in the Carpathian Sea.

He had found nothing, had examined the furnace, locked the door at the head of the cellar stairs, and gone up to his bed-room.

Q.What work will be done by a given engine in sawing timber, pressing cotton, blowing furnaces, driving piles, and dredging earth out of rivers? A.A high pressure cylinder 10 inches diameter, 4 feet stroke, making 35 revolutions with steam of 90 to 100 lbs.

at me with lungs that would have been strong enough to set their furnaces going or blow them out.

But since I'm not, I'm truly glad that I am strong an' stout, An' ain't ashamed to go myself an' clean the furnace out.

"I usually bruise it in the mortar before cooking, without breaking up the fibre too much, and then I heat up the little cupel furnace to about 600 C, and put the steak in on a tripod.

You ought to come over; I'm going to try out my furnace.

I carried the things into the Grey Room, and there, in the center of the Electric Pentacle, I erected the little furnace.

He's having a furnace put in it, for one thingit's a limousine, you know, and all enclosed in glass.

Quintianus then ordered a furnace to be heated, and cast her therein.

No sooner do I find a man who can run my furnace than he goes off and leaves me.

I went towards the boulevards; I saw there a furnace; I heard there a thunderstorm.

In 1867 the society expended a considerable capital in the erection of smelting furnaces and hydraulic machinery; but until a very recent date, owing to local difficulties, particularly the want of roads, it has not produced any copper.

A.In tubular boilers, the smoke after leaving the furnace just passes once through a number of small tubes and then enters the chimney.

[Illustration] I will now show you by a practical utilization of the well known flameless combustion, how to light a coke furnace without either paper or wood, and without disturbing the fuel, by the use of a blowpipe which for the first minute is allowed to work in the ordinary way with a flame to ignite the coke.

Q.What method of firing ordinary furnaces is the best?

I s'pose we've got a furnace,haven't we?and a coal grate, too.

" "But it is worth tryin'," sez Thomas J., "for his scheme must be broke up, and if you git your furnace in now it will be all ready for another fall.

I see I am not mortall, For I with patience have thus long endur'd Beyond the strength of all mortality; But now the thrice heate furnace of my bosome Disdaineth bounds: doe not I scorch you all? Goe, goe, you are all but prating Mountebankes, Quack-salvers and Imposures; get you all from me.

And such a running to and fro and a go this way and a go that way, and a burnishing up of old brass and a shouting of horrid words, as though the Devil himself were inspecting his own furnace.

It was not any spirit of hatred or cruelty, but an intensely personal sympathy with suffering, that tore his heart and kindled that furnace of indignation against the stupid, the hateful, and the cruel to whom most suffering is due; and it was a furnace in which he himself was consumed.

'Why, Sir, for making a furnace for the chymists for melting iron.

The tube plate nearest the furnace in tubular boilers should also be so inclined as to facilitate the escape of the steam; and the short bent plate or flange of the tube plate, connecting the tube plate with the top of the furnace, should be made with a gradual bend, as, if the bend be sudden, the iron will be apt to crack or burn away from the concretion of salt.

As for the kitchen, I had noticed, as I passed, a portable furnace for charcoal, without, and at the rear of the tent; it was plain they did their cooking in the open air.