Seen in Germany . er of Electric Lamps . 185 Making Crucibles 198 Removing the Crucible from the Eurnace .... 200 Pouring Molten Glass into Lens Mould .... 203 Putting Crucible into Cooling Furnace 206 Sealing up Cooling Eurnace 208 Polishing a Great Telescope Lens 210 In the Jena Glass Works. Blowing Chemical Glass 214Blowing and Drawing Thermometer Tubes — the Most Perfect in the World 219 Professor Abbe 228 Shipping the Rudder ........... 238 Illustrations xi PaceThe Deutschland six months after her keel was laid. Showing the keel, ribs, the second, or *false bottom, and the girders which a
Seen in Germany . er of Electric Lamps . 185 Making Crucibles 198 Removing the Crucible from the Eurnace .... 200 Pouring Molten Glass into Lens Mould .... 203 Putting Crucible into Cooling Furnace 206 Sealing up Cooling Eurnace 208 Polishing a Great Telescope Lens 210 In the Jena Glass Works. Blowing Chemical Glass 214Blowing and Drawing Thermometer Tubes — the Most Perfect in the World 219 Professor Abbe 228 Shipping the Rudder ........... 238 Illustrations xi PaceThe Deutschland six months after her keel was laid. Showing the keel, ribs, the second, or *false bottom, and the girders which are to support the decks 254 Bending a Ships Rib 257 Captain Albers of the Deutschland 261 One of the Piston Heads of the Deutschland . 267 Children at Work in School Garden 277 A Lesson in Tree Planting 281 In the Leipzig School Garden 283 The Inn at Wollnitz 289 Interior of a Corps Room where Drinking Bouts are held 295 An Outdoor Mensur or Duel 299 A University Corps House 305 SEEN IN GERMANY COMMON THINGS. COMMON THINGS SEEN IN GERMANY How the German is governed in Small Affairs — TheOmniscient PoHceman — Bowing—Shops — Beer-drinking— Barnums Circus— Idea of Americans— Machinery Age THE American who travels in Germany soonmakes the discovery that he has neverknown what it really means to be has always felt a calm assurance in thesuperiority of his system of public administration, andhe has paid with liberality for the privilege of havinga President, a Governor, a Mavor, and a Ward Boss,yet he has hardlv known that he was governed ! Butthere is no such uncertainty here in the every pfennig that the German pays in taxes, heexpects and receives a pfennigs worth of enjoys being looked after, and if he fails to hearthe whirring of the wheels of public administration, hefeels that something has gone wrong. ^^ ; ?/? ?.;,, Sf;en in Germany From the nioment of landing on German soil, theAmerican begins to feel a certain spirit
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