The Archive · 1898

Two Buckets and a Pipe

Take two common water-buckets; connect them at the bottom with a small pipe: Now: undertake to fill one of them with water; on perceive at once that the water tends to the otice pail'uleo, What's the'use of saying that? you ask:

"Beery fool known thirt wate® in con-netted reservoirs will'sssume the sane Quite'so," Yet the wisest mien'on earth didn't know once. If the'nncieht Romiin' had Koown it they: wouldn't have gone' to the trouble and expense: of building: their great agueducts. Oh, dear! oby.dear! After a thing is pointed out what a lot of people are able toeee it. takes eyes. To explain it the, fest time? Ah!

But to cee it-the'firet time? Ab! that that takes" bring. The blood. circulated through pipes inthe human body thousand of years" before anyliod)' "vei suspected Tan' that queer Now, there' the theer 7 A father writes thus xbout his daughter "Daring: the: summer of'1890 my laughter; Rebecca, got into weak languid way." Her appetite' was pour, and after eating she had 80 much pain at, the chest and sides that "he div't know where to put herself. She also complained of pain in the pit of the stomach, inthe throat, and at the back of her neck. Cold Gauiny sweats used to' break out all over' her." Her breathing became'

Intoured and at times she could nov"even Tigin'bed'on accom it: of it. She consulted fMiscellancous Entelligence.

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