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Show (IT JVKYEK. MPtUDKS." Mr. Gray, an ingenious gentleman of Sussex county, Deleware, invented a new non-explosive, burning fluid, and invited his friends to come and witness a test of its qualities. He gathered a select circle around a barrel of the fluid up in the garret, and, to prove how non-explosive it was, be stirred it up with a red-hot poker. In six seconds the inventor and his friends were seen to emerge from the roof, with trapdoors trap-doors and chimneys and things on their heads, and scud away to the north-west towards the river. While enjoying a bird's-eye view of the State of Delaware, Dela-ware, at an elevation of thirty thousand mnw JiliOVH lllft level of the SC3. Mr. Grey observed to the friend nearest near-est him "that he thought perhaps he had made a mistake in mixing too iniieh lenzine in the fluid. Mr. Gray did not wait to hear his friend's re-plv, re-plv, beeauso ho apparently had an en-giuterucnt en-giuterucnt higher up, and he seemed 'in hurrv t.) go. His wi low will soil the patent for the non-expl -oive fluid very cheap; and she needs th-J money veiy badly, because Mr. Gray scat-n scat-n red so much around Su-s -x co-inty when he came down, that site hid to hu.y him gradually during the next throe weks. Mr. Gray's clcva-foiV'io.i-trates the eondd. iuc w'aicll 'a" lueu have ioi their "ron xpiosive.s," He should have arranged lor a balloon to gi tip with Iron, so that he could have come diwn qi:et.y to permit . f his Icing carofuilv lo'dei up an 1 laid away next miming, in-tead of ken-ii-g his po"r widow toilini around for most of a month to save the ri"- |
