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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1367#0035
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to ammonia to volatilize it and cause congelation. We give a
plan of Carre's apparatus which is used for that purpose.
Carre's apparatus for producing artificial cold.
Among the many wild schemes engendered by the Exhi-
bition, was that of an International Theatre, where all
countries were to give us by turns specimens of their
dramatic performances. Shakespeare, Schiller, Lopez de la-
Vega, Alfieri, were to be interpreted by actors of their own
country.
How any one in his right senses could imagine that it
would pay to build a theatre for six months, it is hard to
guess ; but built it was, and very handsomely too, as might
have been expected ; no manager, however, was mad enough
-to run the chance of bringing at a great expense a Foreign
Company to play perhaps to an empty house. The con-
sequence was that, after having tried as a substitute comic
songs, and met with a dead failure, this unfortunate theatre.
RECOLLECTIONS OF
to ammonia to volatilize it and cause congelation. We give a
plan of Carre's apparatus which is used for that purpose.
Carre's apparatus for producing artificial cold.
Among the many wild schemes engendered by the Exhi-
bition, was that of an International Theatre, where all
countries were to give us by turns specimens of their
dramatic performances. Shakespeare, Schiller, Lopez de la-
Vega, Alfieri, were to be interpreted by actors of their own
country.
How any one in his right senses could imagine that it
would pay to build a theatre for six months, it is hard to
guess ; but built it was, and very handsomely too, as might
have been expected ; no manager, however, was mad enough
-to run the chance of bringing at a great expense a Foreign
Company to play perhaps to an empty house. The con-
sequence was that, after having tried as a substitute comic
songs, and met with a dead failure, this unfortunate theatre.