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LAST Sunday that remarkable structure, the Eiffel Tower, at Paris was inaugurated with appropriate ceremonies. Whether it prove a success in all that is expected of it, or not, it is certainly in itself a wonderful product of engineering skill, and will form one of the principal features of interest of the great exhibition this summer.
RECENT experiments made with benzine develop the fact that one volume of benzine will render 16,000 volumes of air inflammable and 5000 volumes of air violently explosive, and yet, hang this notice up in every house in the land, and the next day would, likely as not, see someone half roasted or killed by handling this dangerous fluid near an open flame.
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