. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . urprise came when its endur-ance proved to exceed the best of thechill d dies in the proportion of two toone. A large percentage of the unexpected most experienced who bring out every-thing according to the original unexpected comes to the good andbad alike, and so, in our teachings to theyoung and our planning for ourselves, isit not well to have our statements and ourspeculations pretty well saturated with theelements of uncertainty? It is an old and common custom to usethe statement that
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . urprise came when its endur-ance proved to exceed the best of thechill d dies in the proportion of two toone. A large percentage of the unexpected most experienced who bring out every-thing according to the original unexpected comes to the good andbad alike, and so, in our teachings to theyoung and our planning for ourselves, isit not well to have our statements and ourspeculations pretty well saturated with theelements of uncertainty? It is an old and common custom to usethe statement that two and two are fouras an example of the certainty of certain-ties, and another, that like causes pro-duce like effects; while, as a simple mat-ter of statement, the first can easily beshown to be 25 per cent, off, and the latterto hold along all the way from like resultsto results diametrically opposite. Views from Nijni Novgorod. We reproduce a few views from thetown of Nijni Novgorod, Russia, to givean idea of the life there, and one from theboiler shop of the locomotive department. TOWN WELL. and this must have been the case withCrookes when he invented the story goes that he first invented onething, and then made it; but it turned outas tradition says the ship did, when somegenius blew into the sails with a went the Avrong way. We laugh at thestupidity of the man with the bellows, andthe next generation may laugh at engineer put in charge of our elec-tric light station found them using oil of26 gravity for lubricating the engines anddynamos. Even when the oil was usedfreely the bearings would warm up, andsometimes get hot. It was the practice toincrease the quantity of oil as the journalsgot warmer and to turn on water when oilwould do no longer. To the engineerssurprise he discovered one night that oneof the bearings kept cool, and he noticedalso that the oil cup was feeding onlyabout one-quarter as fast as had been the CLUB HOUSE OF
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