The United States pays every year about £-,-00,000 for the patent medicines which it consumes.
Experiments seem to show that a large ocean steamer, going at nineteen knots an hour, will move over about two miles after its engines are stopped and reversed, and no authority given less than a mile or a mile and a half as the required apace to stop its progress. The violent collisions in some cases during fog may thus be accounted for-
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Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6924, 2 December 1887, Page 6
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