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Fire Proof Dresses

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
November
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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A chcraist oí Vioima, ït 13 reportea, uas succeeaea in discovering a compösition which will make oven the slight material of ballet dancers' dressos firo proof. The Prince of Lichtensein has given this compösition a first trial on the stage in his own palace in tho presence of a numerous company. The rise of the cui tain discovered two life-size ilolls, drcssed as ballet girls,to both oí' whiöh a light was appliod. One of the dolls was rapidly reduced to ashes, while the othor, saturated with tho piotectivo compösition, oscapod with a smalt hole burned in tho dress. This experiment was so satis 'actory that tho' Prince of Lichtensein is haring a wooden theater erected outside of Vienna, for tho purpose of making another trial of the lire proof composition, with which tho boards aro to be saturated. If tho building rcsists firo the succoss will bo greeted as final, and in that event tho discovorer bas an order so make the sconery of the Yienna City Thoater uninfiam-' mable.

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Old News
Michigan Argus