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mediately, will have a strong taste of phosphorus ; and will 

 very soon afterwards become putrid, that is to say, in two 

 or three days. When broken, the white and yelk will be 

 found completely intermingled with each other, if several 

 shocks have been passed through the eggs. 



Price, 81.50. 



Fig. 341. 



Fig. 312. 



Electrical Fire House. (Fig. 341.) This is a neatly-made 

 tin house, having in the front five windows and a door, which 

 are handsomely painted, and the front crossed off to repre- 

 sent brick or stone. On the one side of the house, attached 

 to the chimney, there is a glass tube, terminated by a brass 

 ball, A, within which is a wire, proceeding down the tube 

 into the house, where it is terminated by a second ball, B. 

 Through the opposite side of the house is a second glass 

 tube, wire, and two balls, marked at C and D. The wire of 

 this part is capable of sliding backwards and forwards, that 

 the balls withinside may be made to approach each other 

 more or less according to the strength of shock to be passed 

 through them. The balls C and D are loosely covered with 

 tow, and dipped in or sprinkled with powdered yellow 

 rosin. When the shock is passed from A to D, the rosin 

 will be inflamed, and the fire appear through the windows. 



Price, $3.50. 



The Belted Bottle. (Fig. 342.) This is a glass jar coated 

 as represented in the figure, having an arm attached to the 

 bottom supporting a rod of glass, to which a sliding piece 

 is attached, to connect the belt with the lower part. This 



