The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-11-22

structure. But how much better is heavy
wooden cornice with wood backing? Or how
much better is a thin metal cornice with
wooden frame behind IT, making way for fire
70 penetrate under the wooden frame Of the
roof But ManSards need not be made on q
wooden frame. The Supervising Architect of
the Treasury Department described recently
the mode Of constructing the Mansards on the
public buildings, which he claims to be about
as near fire proof as is practical for any part
Of stone building. But, without doubt, a
wooden framed Mansard, ,on substantial build
ing is an Absurdisy in poiut of security against
fire.
An interesting case for landlords was recent
" decided in Washington City. A female
lobbyist left a hotel without paying her bill
The landlord retained her baggage for long
period, but it was finally returned to the wo-
man. the proprietor supposing he would never
get his pay. The woman, ten years afterward
bring suit TO recover the value of two hundred
and seventeen dollars for certain articles which
she alleges were abstracted faom her trunk.
Judge Cartier, in deciding the case, said the
landlords lien gave him the right to detain
the baggage reasonable time, and then to be
sold at public sale, and the hotel bill paid out
of the proceeds. If he detained the baggage
beyond such reasonable time, he was RESPONSE
BILE for the loss. The jury gave the plaintiff
fifty dollars, although she confessed she had
not yet paid the board bill. Ike defendant
will now bring suit for the AMOUNT of his bill
London has Get show, embracing about
400 specimens. They are kept in small cages
provided with cushions and food. They are
divided into four great classes, with prizes
ranging from two guineas to five shiuings, in
cludiDg short-hsired, long-haired, and cats be-
longing exclusively TO workingmen. These
are again divided into 4S classes, beginning
with the short-haired tortoise-shell he-cat aud
geing through all the varieties of brown tab
bies, blue or silver tabbies, black and whites,
pure white and unusual colors. Among the
interesting animals in the show is an ocelot,
OF young tiger cat. There is a tortoise-shell
he-cat valued by his owner at ESQ A tortoise
smell he-cat short-haired is something entirely
new-cats of that marking being almost in
variably .'she's." No. 95 is valued by his own
ers, two maiden ladies, at R5OO. To crown
all, there is a cat weighing twenty-five pounds
without his collar.
A Sunday in Texas is thus described by a
Correspondent writing from San Antonia;
This is Sunday, and I'll try and tell you what
I've seen today. In the morning passed an
untold number of barrooms, and in all of them
people, and the best citizens, too, playing bill
lizards or cards, of course for drinks, and "for
the crowd" really, il you won't drink and play
billiards on Sunday you are not respectable.
There are more bar-rooms in SanAntonia than
any place out of Texas of its size in the Unit
ed States. As I sit in my room now at 10
O'Clock at night, hear the band playing at
the circus, and net very far OF is a panorama
on exhibition. To-day was walking along
the street, when was suddenly startled by
hearing lot of boys shouting and the band
playing; looked up, and just then itall cane
in sight. Is was this: The circus with all It's
riders, performers, &C, in regular circus style,
were coming down the street, with the band
playing, the boys shouting, and ever SO many
Mexicans and stragglers following them. Re
member this was on Sunday.