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Show Professor Elihu Thompson has perfected per-fected an invention by which the rails of street or steam railways may bo welded together by electricity after being placed in position. A dynamo propels over th j tracks an electric welding machine, which welds the rails into one continuous line after it passes over them. It is proposed pro-posed to have at every one hundred feet a break, to allow for expansion. Any kind of rails can thus be welded- Words That Sail Coder False Color. Suppose we take up a lew of the words that seem to be sailing under false colors. The antelope is not akin to tho industrious in-dustrious nut, nor ia be given to eloping elop-ing except when the hunter is after him with a gun. Ho is partly liko a deer and partly like a goat, and received re-ceived his name from two Greek words an-thos, beauty; ope. eyes. Ante-lop: Ante-lop: means the animal with the beautiful beauti-ful eye. Tulip suggests two lips, and has served the punster well on that account ac-count for many years; but it is the Spanish tulip, derived from tho Persian dulhand, a turKin. The flower and the Persian turban ure much alike both in form and in name. Tenpenny nails ore not sold at ten fnr a penny; nor do you pay ten cents apiece for them. Penny is in this word a queer corrupt-ion of pound. A tenpenny nail is fo called beeanse 1,000 of that particular size, woisrh ten 1 pounds. Fourpenny nails weigh four i pounds to the thousand. Miniature is not a picture diminished, dimin-ished, but (originally) od colored with UUUjUnum, or red load. |
