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Show TALL CHIMNEYS OF EUROPE. Two In Scotland Have an Altitude of 400 Feet. Tho highest chimney In England Is that at Harlow & Dobson's mill at Bolton, Bol-ton, according to Harper's Wockly. It Is 3C8 feet In height nnd the material mate-rial used In its construction wns 800,-000 800,-000 bricks and 122 tons ot stono. Tho big smokestack Is excelled by at least two In Scotland tho St Rol-lox Rol-lox chimney In Glasgow Is 145 feet nnd tho Townsend chimney in tho snmo city Is 4G8 feet high. Hut tho stccplcjncks make no more of climbing climb-ing such shafts than one n third of their height, though the vibration is much greater nnd more serious at times. All chimneys vlbrnte, especially In a gale; It is n condition of their safety, but the oscillation nt tho top Is n serious matter for any ono nt work there during u hlir' wind nnd the Job Is postponed to n calmer nay Lancashire also boasts ono of the crookedest chimneys In tho world, o shnft at Hrook mill, Iloywood, which Is nearly 200 feet high nnd moro than six feot out of plumb. It has boon belted with iron bauds and Is consld cred safe. |