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Show BOMBS IN BIRMINGHAM. Tho Spirit of Destruction M alecs Itself Felt Even In the bcrnp rile. Anybody desiring an exciting occupation occupa-tion could not do better than to obtain a job at one of the numerous metal refin t:ries in Birmingham. In addition to tho usual risks in such business tho workmen work-men daily encounter tho danger of being blown up by bombs. A good deal of 6crap 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. Tho workmen mu;t always be on the lookout for them. For the second time within a week one firm lias 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 shoving it Into the furnace. It only weighed two pounds, but it would have done damage altogether disproportionate to its sire, for on being tenderly dissected in the firm's laboratory the little stranger wat found to contain a quarter of a pint of nitroglycerin. London Letter. |