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Show ri t Use or Oal. The history of coal Is comparatively modern. It seems to hiv been used II rut in KnMaiid In the ninth century, cen-tury, lindon has no reen' of It until un-til tho thirteenth ceniory and that Is In the form of opposition. Parliament Parlia-ment in l.'IIS petitioned tho Mug, the second of tho tidn'iird' to prohibit the burning of an article claimed to he Injurious to health and a royal proclamation was issued forhlilillug it. Hut the high price of wi id compelled tho Londoners to resort to it again. |