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Show BOMBS IN BIRMINGHAM. J The Spirit of Destruction Makes lUelf Kven Jn tlio Scrp Soifok Anybody desiring an exciting occ",?-tion occ",?-tion could not do better than to obtain a job at one of the numerous metal refineries refin-eries in Birmingham. In addition to the usual risks in such business the workmen work-men daily encounter the danger of being blown up by bombs. A good deal of scrap metal bought for the melting pots comes from the continent, where, it seems, carelessness has almost reached the rank of a virtue. It is a common thing to find loaded military bombs among the refuse. The workmen must always be on the lookout for them. For the second time within a week one Srm has providentially escaped being blown sky high. First it was an old gunpowder gun-powder shell, probably found on some battlefield. Then variety was given to the entertainment by the arrival of a more scientific and up to date bomb which came in a cargo of scrap iron, and the workman just missed shoviMng it into the furnace. It only weighed two i pounds, but it would have done damage altogether disproportionate to its sie, for on being tenderly dissected in the firm's laboratory the little stranger was found to contain a quarter of a pint of nitroglycerin. London Letter. |