PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.
"Young gentlemen,'' said the lecturer in chemistry, "coal exposed to the elementloses 10 per cent of its weight and power. This is due to the action of the alkali constituents of " . : " But what if there- is a dog sleeping near j the coal, Professor?" . * " None of your le-yjty, young man. This x is a serious matter." "That's 'what dad thought when 72 per • cent of his coal disappeared during nights of exposure. %Then he asked my advice, as a student in. chemistry, and I told him to buy a dog; He bought a dog with bay-window tesfcb; and- now we don't lose 1 per cent of our co*l a month. That's practical chemistry."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7434, 21 June 1902, Page 3
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