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[Footnote 1:  I use here the official nomenclature of Pennsylvania:  by whatever title the local officials are known in the various States, the general fact is of course the same in all.]

[Footnote 2:  In some tests given in Richards’ Treatise on Coal Gas (p. 293) the following results were shown:  Obstruction of light by—­

A      clear               glass  globe, about 12  per cent. 
An    engraved              "     "      "     24     "
Obscured  all     over      "     "      "     40     "
Opal       "       "        "     "      "     60     "
Painted    "       "        "     "      "     64     "               ]

[Footnote 3:  There is a recent method of adding carbon to the gas which is not liable to the objection of clogging the pipes.  By a small apparatus a stick of naphthaline is attached to the burner so as to be slowly vaporized.  It is not yet in the hands of dealers in gas-fixtures.]

[Footnote 4:  Our narrative is drawn from the Libra del Passo Honroso, defendido por el excelente caballero Suero de Quinones, copilado de un libro antiguo de mano por Fr. Juan de Pineda, Religiose de la orden de San Francisco.  Segunda edicion.  Madrid, 1783, in the Cronicas espanolas, vol. v.]

[Footnote 5:  In modern French, Il faut delivrer—­“It is necessary to release,” referring to the chain worn by Quinones.]

[Footnote 6:  “If it does not please you to show moderation, I say, in truth, that I am unfortunate.”]

[Footnote 7:  Prosper Merimee, in a note to his History of Peter the Cruel (London, 1849, vol. i., p. 35), says, referring to the above episode, “I do not think that at that period an example of similar condescension could be found anywhere except in Spain.  A century later the chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, the valiant Bayard, refused to mount a breach in company with lansquenets.”]

[Footnote 8:  Beginning, “Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna,” etc.]

[Footnote 9:  The Church as early as 1131 (Council of Rheims) endeavored to prevent these dangerous amusements by denying burial in consecrated ground with funeral rites to those who were killed in tournaments.]