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Here are some of them: 70 walking-sticks, 30 silk umbrellas, and there are eleven similar lots, besides innumerable parasols 50 muffs and boas a crate containing 140 billycocks and hats 24 looking-glasses 160 packets of cloth buttons 15 frying-pans and 18 ploughshares 3 butter machines 2 gas-meters, 2 shovels, and a pair of spectacles a box of sanitary powder and a 15-horse power horizontal steam-engine!
Their letters and prefaces sounded like a satire upon his own attitude, a reductio ad absurdum of his claims to "genius". Here, for instance, was a man who wrote to introduce himself as America's first epic poet stating incidentally that he was an inspector of gas-meters, and had a wife and six children.
In the meantime some of Henry George's political friends had interviewed the Governor and Henry George was made inspector of gas-meters, at fifteen hundred dollars a year. It was four months' work to make the plates, but early in the year Eighteen Hundred Eighty they were shipped to New York, a few proofs of the book being taken, stitched up and sent out for review.
The first pew on the right side was occupied, when we last saw it, with three brushes, an elderly shovel, and two gas-meters, one of them being a very full-grown fatherly affair a sort of deacon amongst ordinary meters, and looking very authoritatively upon its smaller colleague and the brushes.
Where these are not employed, care should be taken to select the most economical kind of gas tips, and to see that when these become impaired by use they are replaced. In the large cities there is constant complaint of defective gas-meters, so much so that inspectors have been appointed to correct this abuse.
"Little need be said of them, as they fall within the domain of the companies and the public inspector of gas. Under favorable conditions gas-meters will remain in order for ten years or more; and when they become defective they as often favor the consumer, probably, as they do the gas company.
General Bryant had not spoken to the colonel for two months after that, and his son Shelley had proved his superiority by going off to Kansas City and taking a job reading gas-meters. Colonel Price went to the mantel and filled his pipe from the tobacco-jar. He sat smoking for a little while, his paper on his knee.
Watts says the vilest sinner may return as long as the gas-meters work well, or words to that effect. . . . . We were so densely crowded on board the Ariel that I cannot conscientiously say we were altogether happy. And sea-voyages at best are a little stupid.
He has contrived things so various as the self-acting mule and the best electro-magnet, wet gas-meters and dry planing machines, iron billard-tables and turret-clocks, the centrifugal railway and the drill slotting-machine, an apparatus for making cigars and machinery for the propulsion and equipment of steamships; so that he may almost be regarded as the Admirable Crichton of modern mechanics.
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