MODERN SALAMANDERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 60, 30 June 1876, Page 2

MODERN SALAMANDERS.

London correspondents of colonial journals are apt, at times,, to "draw the lobjj bow,' but whether the gentleman who writes "own" from that place for the " Sydney Morning Herald " is doing so in the following instance, our readers can judge for themselves. He says that in Sweden there has been constructed a suit meant to protect the against any danger of fire. The whole suit consists of two suits over each other, with a space between them, which is filled with water, that by means of pipes is continually IS* ceived and kept cool. Another pipe leads into the head case, which gives constantly fresh air to the wearer, The new invention is 'particularly useful for saving 1$ and important things out of rooms that are enclosed by burning walls, &c, and it » only to be hoped that this instrument may get everywhere known and used for the benefit of humanity. A great construction of wood all wetted with petroleum has been lit; the man who 'tried the suit went up to the top in the midst of enormous

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