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kno\vlf:i)ge. 



Ai'Ril., 1912. 



now (^ivcn. Tlic j,'ariKMiinj; exercise failcil to CDtnliat 

 the constant increase of atlipositv wliicli eallefl forth 

 Doveton's coarse, if truthful, epithet " |)himp as a 

 Chinese pig." He suffered much from had teeth 

 and swollen gums, and earl\' in l.S2() his eyesight 

 began to fail. From this time onwards he could not 

 read without immediate fatigue and strain. During 

 his last illness he lost some of tlu' fat which had 

 given him the protuberant abdnnun wliich Dodgin 



made the inost of, but at the post-mortem dissection 

 Antommarchi had to cut through three-tjuarters of an 

 inch of subcutaneous fat before reaching the viscera. 

 Immediately after death the fat under the skin of the 

 face, as Ibiietson noticed, dried up and the cheeks sank 

 a little. When friends and foes stood round his death- 

 bed on Ma\ 6th, the dead Napoleon had once again 

 the finely-chiselled features of the P'irst Consul. 

 With one accord thev said : " How beautiful ! " 



CUTTING DOWN A CHIMNEY LIKl' .\ TRl-i:. 



I" RANK C. PERKINS. 



The accompanying illustration. I'ii^uic 164, shows 

 a chimney ready to be thrown like a tree, while 

 Figure 165, shows the stack wiieii faJHng to the 

 ground. This stack \\as ten feet square at the base, 

 and a hundred feet high, and was built of common 

 brick, lined with lire l)rick. and topped out w ith a 

 cast iron cap. 



It will be seen that the method of throwing this 

 stack was quite similar to the cutting down of a 

 large tree. Brickwork on the south side of the 

 stack was cut out. extreme care being taken to 



make tlie cut 

 s\inmct lical 

 on each side 

 of the centre 

 line of the 

 stack. 



(see l-'igure 164), shows ipiite clearly this method of 

 cutting, which was continued until the weight of 

 the stack began to crush the brickwork at the 

 edge of the cutting, and as soon as this occurred 

 the stack, of course, fell to the south. 



It is stati'd that, so accurately was the work done, 

 the fallen stack lay exactl)' parallel with the 

 sidewalk, as was intended. The outer shell of the 

 stack crushed downward, while the inner lining 

 maintained its original sliape until the falling stack 

 struck tlie ground. 



It is nf interest to note that the stack was 

 originally part of the Brush electric plant in 

 Cleveland, Ohio, the site of which is now occupied 

 by some of the factories of the National Electric 

 Lamp Association. It was used in connection with 

 the japanning process, and the stack was removed 

 in order to make room for a large new incandescent 

 lamp factorw 



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