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Show 6aved by a Pair of Spectacles. A writer in a contemporary describes the escape from injury of a workman engaged in a foundry In - thl&.elty. While preparing for a casting he was shot on the leg by a splash of ine liquid metal. It went clean through his trousers and through the wall of the strong leather spectacle case,, which he carried in his tronser pocket. pock-et. But the broad nose bridge of the spectacle frame checked it In its prog-, ress. The intruding metal, yet an-hardened, an-hardened, dashed against this part of the frame, nearly enveloping it, and attaching itself with as much neatness neat-ness and stability as if it were the handiwork of a skilled craftsman.. Had the spectacles' not been in his1 pocket the molten metal wonld as-' suredly have penetrated their owner's thigh.- Westminster Budget |