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Thames Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 5844, 26 July 1887, Page 3

Wrought iron expands and contracts with a force of about 200 pounds per square inch for each degree Fah, This property was taken advantage of at the. Museum of Arts and Trades, in Paris, to draw in the walls of a gallery that had bulged outward by the weight on the arch. A number of bars were placed acroea the building and screwed into plates on the outside. Alternate bars were then heated, and when expanded were screwed up tightly, when the cooling and contraction of the bars drew the wall closer together. By repeating the operation the walls were brought into their original position.

How to IiET chck, - Jixpose yourself day and night, sit too mu:h without exercise, Work too hard without rest, doctor all the time, take all the vile nostrms and imitations advertised, and then vou will want to know '

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. PUBLIC MEETING. OIR ROBERT STOUT will give an ADDRESS at the ACADEMY OF MUSIC, on Wednesday Next, Chair to be taken at 8 p.m. POROTORUA TTJMEL. MAIN TRUNK LINE OF RAILWAY. LENDERS are required for DRIVING •*■ about 300 Feet according to specifications to be seen at the office of the Thames County Council, Mary street, where also a sample of the rock now in face of Tunnol can be inspected, . Tenders to be addressed to JoM Briton, care of E, Pobtkr & Co., Ironmongers, Auckland, and to bo. sent in on or before SaiubDAY, 30th July,