The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-23


| Chief Engineer of the Baltimore Fire Depart
| ment, has prepared some statistics showing
the number Of fires occurring at different
hours of the day and night feom July, 1859,
to October, 1873. Out of 2O99 fires reported,
1862 occurred during the day time from 6 A..
M. to 6 p NJ and 1927 at night. The
greatest number occurred during the hours
between midnight and dawn, and the statis-
tics for each hour show curious ascending
and descending grade. There were 43 fires
at II A. Nj. and 43 at II NJ; then the
number for each hour increased I'M
til it reached 81 at Z ?. NJ
number from 2. NJ. until the citizens
began to retire to their beds at 10 or II
o'clock At midnight there were 1873 fires,
and this number was almost, but not quite,
eqraied eacn hour until O'Clock A. NJ,
when there were 10 fires. Citizens may be
presumed then to have been awakened and to
have commenced moving about, and from
that time until noon the lumber Of fires de-
creased hourly until II A. NJ The aggregate
statistics agree in these Indications with the
statistics tor the year 1873. Watchfulness
and care are thus shown to be important
influences in the prevention of fires, and as,
during the night, mos people must forego the
watchtulness they exert during the day, fire
sible, take their place in the protection Of
property.
He Caught THE BoAr."-A resident of
New Haven has given up steamboat travel.
Not long since. having occasion to visit New
York. he started for the steamers landing
with carpetbag in one hand and cane in
the other in what he supposed to be ample
time. But when he came within sight Of the
ing away from her moorings, and amid the
shouts and ieers of the bystanders he broke
INTO a frantic run tor the landing. The
boat was eight or ten feet from the wharf
when he reached the place where he had
hoped to find gang -plank, but nothing
daunted, and trusting to the momentum ac-
quired during the run, he leaped into the
air and gained the vessels deck. Not with
out accident, however. The carpet-bag struck
one passenger so viole ntly in the stomach that
he doubled up like iack-knite and absorbed
whole flask of brandy in getting straight
ened out, while the cane struck another man
in the face with sufficient force to induce him
to get down on his knees to look after his hat.
When he had recovered it, the man who had
occasioned all this commotion, said to him, in
tone of mingled apology and self-congratu-
lation ''Well, l made it p Yes, you did,
said the sore-headed passenger, but, you
old fool, this boat amt going out, she's
coming in =
Regulations have just been issued for the
formation of councils of honor among Prus-
sian officers. Every officer who considers his
honor attacked by IA comrade is required to
give information to this tribunal and no duel
can come off without its approval, nor until
the failure of any other solution. The presi-
dent of the tribunal is to be present at the duel
to see that it is properly conducted. Officers
engaged in duels are not to be subject to Grim
inal proceedings unless the occasion or issue
of the encounter is u violation OF the rules of
honor such as a serious unproyoked assault
81 will no more" says the Emperor, GO toler-
ate in the army an officer who wantonly at
lacks the honor of IA comrade than an officer
who does not know how to guard his own
honor
Among the papers of Thackeray there was
recently found and afterwards published in
London magazine humorous poem on king
Fritz, describing royal dinner at Berlin.
Along with other verses was the following,
which must be read with sort of special rel
ish by John Bull about this time, when the
intended application to Parliament from the
Prince OF Wales for a few million dollars to
pay his debts. is under discussion
Flitz quaffs his bold bumpers of Rhenish,
1t can't be too good or too dear:
The princes are made to replenish
Their cups with the smallest of beer.
And if ever, by words grimaces,
Their highnesses dare to complain,
The King filings dish in their faces,
Or batter5 their bones with his cane.