Crosshead pin boxes cannot be babbited in place, so it is obviously best to babbit the boxes on a mandrel of cast iron and of such shape that when ready to use it will resemble part of the crank disk with the pin in place.

The result of this liberty was that a number of weekly or twi-weekly news-sheets were soon started, which, though they were small and at first but poorly furnished with news, laid the foundation of our present-day newspaper press, wielding a power that makes the world one vast judgment-hall, and to a large extent the initiative and referendum of all measures for the public good and the advancement of civilisation.

But now we’re seeing increasing numbers of superbugs that survive antibiotics. One of the best-known —[is] MRSA, a kind of staph infection [that]— kills about 18,000 Americans annually. That’s more than die of AIDS.

One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a topper, dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […]