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Show The Smallest Steamboat. Tho smallest of steamboats Is tho Nina, which Is perfect In every part, though capable, of carrying but pno passenger. This passenger must act as captain, stoker, crow nnd engineer, for tho littlo craft Is only twofvo feet Ing and threo feet wide. A speed ot flvo and a half miles nn hour can bo obtained by using n pressure of ono hundred pounds. Tho boat is easily carried in sections, and Is steered with tho feet by means of a wire. Tho boiler weighs SO pounds, tho engine 25, tho machinery 20 and tho hull 00. In all 21G pounds. It was built at a cost of $1,250. Ohio' Stato Journal. |