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60 NOTICES OF BOOKS,
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On the Comparative Value of certain Salt...
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60 Notices Of Books,
60 NOTICES OF BOOKS ,
On The Comparative Value Of Certain Salt...
On the Comparative Value of certain Salts for rendering Fabrics ISfon-London _Xnjlammable : Triilbner . By and P . " Versmann Co ., 60 , Paternoster , F . C . S ., Row and . A . Oppenheim , Pli . D .
As mankind "became scattered over the regions of earth , nature suggested to each race , according to the exigencies of climate , such
protective vesture as the body needed : the dueky Ethiopian assumed the spreading palm -leaves for a covering ; to the inhabitants of the
icy North India fleecy adoj furs ) ted the proved lightest a grateful tissue boon of gauze ; while , fluttering the children fan-like of
sunny in the _tej ) id breeze of evening . Civilisationhoweverin its onward growth , developed men into
, , merchants ; and commerce brought , with the interchange of commoditiesmutual modifications of customs , and sj ) eedy recognition of
the wants , prevailing in stranger lands . The dweller in northern climes began to . long for the muslins of India , and now are the fair
dames of the North found clustering round the cheerful blaze decked out Among in lightest the chief fabrics up . holders of the civilisation of this country may
be ranked cotton and coal ; but coal , the home-born , attacks most spoiled ruthlessl b y y the the exotic soot of intruder the Lon . don Not atmosp only here is m , but any many a gauzy a muslin tissue
dress and curtain too have been destroyed by fire from the hearth , by the radiant flame of gas or candle made , and , sad to holocaust say , many , But but
too many , a beloved life has been a speedy . this last 12 th of November even have we seen the coroner for East Middlesex recording—in one day !—three several verdicts upon as
many little children , burnt to death by their dresses taking fire . Amongst the frequent sacrifices of last winter , from the same
de" p Web lorable ster cause and Mademoiselle , were three sisters Julie ; must the sad be fresh end too in the of Miss memory Clara of
alland bne could scarcely take up a newsj ) aper without finding , day The , by day terrible , the like catastrop sad chronicle he at Prince of sorrowful Schwarzenberg events . ' s palace at
Paris in 1810 is too well known to require fresh recording here . To control in some degree such wasteful expenditure of life , to forestall
as far as possible the recurrence of such piteous sacrifice , by rendering cherished lig b ht tire fabrics world non at large -inflammable , and tentative , 1 as beon efforts a hav desire e been long uny
ceasingly made by men of science _towards solving the generous problem To appreci . ate , however , the means which may be employed for the
purpose , it is necessary to consider the properties of fire , and the art of vanquishing the raging * element . To produce the combustion three tilings are requisite ; a
combustible body , a temperature sufficiently elevated , and free access of airThe temperature required is regulated by the respective nature
of the . several bodies ; for while phosphorus is found to ignite wlion friction
the the temperature degree of heat rises required so slightl by y iron as that is about 'deriving fifty from times gentle as _g-reat . ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/60/
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