Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — Bolling the Water. [ARTICLE]

Bolling the Water.

When Swindells, of Anstin, was in New York, he saw a steam fire engine tot the first time. “Don’t you think it is a pretty good arrangement to put out a fire?” ' “Yes, it does the work better than the old hand engines we have in Austin, but what I can’t understand is why they boil the waters (before they squ rt it on the fire.”— lex** sifting*.