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Show Ra3!ng Water 7-,'lth Alp. As all schoolboys know, a suction fnmip can theoretically elevato water ojly about thirty-three and oue-thira feet, a column of water of that height balancing the atmospheric j,resure. A means has, however, been found 0 causing a suction pump to raise wattr to a height ct even sixty feet. The invention was riiade by a workman in the French marine. Monsieur Eya-er: Eya-er: e, the chief engineer of the ma-Till--:, remarked that one particular p:'!!.'.! showed extraordinary qualities It. drawing water from ships' holds, in .-dry developed the fact, says liar-pc':; liar-pc':; Weekly, that a workman had th :;;.l:t of the plan of introducing air In ! the water ot the point where the sa-.'lioa was applied, thus producing n:i 1. unbbion of air and water, which, b': cm ::(' of its diminisher density, vas capable of being elevated to considerably consider-ably greater i;oig;us tla pure water |