The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-02-27
The Fire King--A wonderful Invention

MANY OF our readers have heard of the Won
derful achievements of Babcocks Patent Fire
EStnguisher, but accepting them as creatures
more of the Imagination than reality, have
invested them with no consequence whatever.
By some the idea of combating the progress
Of q serious conhagration by the contents of
i six gallon cylinder, was sneered a. as
/ prepos.erous, and the whole thing put down
/ "a humbug We are about 10 have prac-
.ica ie.. Of the merit, oi these little lro-Aght-
er., righ; here in our city, by which it will
be shown that they can accomplish all that
! has boon claimed for them.
! In Chicago, recently, pyramid of tar bar
! rels with shayings saturated with coal oil,
was permitted TO burn in IA strong wind until
the flames had reached an intensity and vol
ume believed TO be beyond the control OF any
human means when one Of these eItinguish-
ers commenced playing uponit In less than
three minute, the pyramid stood charred
mas, the fire having been completely drowned
out with less than three.;Ourths the charge Of
the eItingui.her, Other tests were made
with like wonderful results-the whole being
certified to by COMMITTEES from the Chicago
.
!, experiments were made.
The machine, ~ stated, is cylindrical in
form, weighing when charged for use about
40 lbs II i, readily adjustable to u mans
back, may be carried anywhere, and works
itself Tho propelling power ia generated
within the instrument, and Is Of sufficient
force to throw the water distance Of sixty
feet, The water being unprecedented with
carbonic acid gas, one gallon has the extin-
gushing Or qu"nching property Of at least
one hundred when unprcpared in that man
Hcr. But, we have not space 10 enlarge Mr..
/ J. Radio SuitL agent for southern Illinois, is
now in the city, and proposes at an early day,
I due notice Of which will be given 10 dem
onstrate, by public trial, that the Ertin-
| guisher observes tbs high eulogies il has
called forth from the press, and from those
/ who have witnessed its success in combats
! with the destructive and "dcvouring element
A colored individual named George Rob
inson visited restaurant kept by Lewis
/ Dresden, and not receiving all those attcn-
! tons and courteses hs conceived to be due TO
B his color, he despatched Dresden with "mouth
. mud unsparingly. He even went so far as
! to question the fair fame Of the restauratsur's
maternal ancestor. Hauled up before his
honor, squire Shannessy, this morning he
attempted u giEdication Of negro rights but
the squire failing 10 recognize unproyoked
assaults upon white citizens as among those
rights muloted Mr.. George Robinson in the
sum of five dollars and the trimmings. Ac-
lively bestirring himself the negro found a
friendly wench who loaned him four dollars,
and having an old silver watch TO pawn, he
employed these means in a manner that kept
him out of the calaboose
George is said to be very saucy negro
who many time and oft has had his
mouth slapped for his impudent talk to white
people. .....,......... ,,......
y A Boston paper says that the chief of po-
lice of that city, urged on by many com
10 plants that street loafcrs had been insulting
"a respectable women, for the purpose Of find
F. ing out who some of these fellows were, at
tired two or three of his trusty policemen il
women's apparel, who walked through thu
streets. In the morning, one of these police
men reported twenty-seven mon, who had in
iuangly approached him, many of whom
were regarded as some of the best men in tn
e."