The Nevada journal., 1851-12-04

crackle, roar, and beat about, springing
up to the roof and darting out tongues
and forks to the right and left of the
building, while dense, hot cloud Of
smoke, full of red fragments of shavings
and other embers. comes floating and
dancing over the heads Of the assem-
bled company. Everybody has risen
from his eat,-Ladies, Gentlemen, land
now all the visitors are crowding to-
wards the other end of the building
the whole place is filled with the roar
Of flames, the noise of voices, hurrying
feet, and rustling garments, and clouds
Of hot smoke! But suddenly a man
enters the building from side door,
bearing q portable Fire Annihilator Of
the size we have mentioned he is fol-
lowed by q second the machines are
vomiting forth dense white vapor -
they enter just within the doorway of
the blazing house. A change instantly
takes place in the color and action of
the flames, as though they grew rale in
presence of their master, they sink,
there is nothing but darkness, and the
dense white vapor coiling about in tri-
umph. Life can now exist" cries MIR.
Phillips, rushing into the house and
ascending the bIackened stairs. House
hold Words.
The London Chronicle thus beautifully
describes the instrument "A machine
containing chemical preparation which
whenever occasion demands, will dis.
charge, with the power of steam, va.
por in which fame cannot exist"
On to-day's outside We give an account
Of the discovery Of this wonderous gas.
In reference to this interesting subject,
we design to give from such sources as
we have at hand further extracts, in
future numbers
The Transcript doubts of the value Of
this invention because although it has
has been before the public for two years,
it has not in the least modified the Or
ganization of the fire departments in
those European cities where it was
known" etc.
On this point the National InteHigen-
Ger says;
THE English patent is vested in a
regularly organized company, with man
ufacturing establishments, doing extern
sivo business, and sharing dividends.
Their wonder working, frs-subduing en-
gines are rapidly distributing to every
part of the British empire. The Queen,
the greater number Of the nobility, and
many of the principal manufacturers
have the machines in their palaces, man
sions, and establishments. The AssO-
citation for promoting emigration to the
Canterbury settlement in New Zealand
take the machines out in the vessels
conveying emigrants."
Many principal officers of the Eng
lish navy recommend its use. The COM
missioners of the World Fair also intro
duced them into the Crystal Palace.
Companies are now forming, upon large
scale, both in England and France, with
a view to protection from FIRE, by the
substitution of this new anti-fre agent
for the old mode Of conquering the dan
gerous enemy.
The only thing We soc to object to in
the introduction of these machines into
this State, is the exhorbitant price
placed on them-which in itself is q
regular swindle. From letter in the
Transcript we perceive the California
price is $400 In England the price is
co 2s. We hope the press will univer-
sally frown on this imposition and force
its authors to relinquish it. We need
in California more than any where else
these machines, and as they will be
generally used as soon as our citizens
are convinced of their value, the agents
should at once reduce the price to o
fair standard