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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21
AUDI.

and she was crowded Off the plank and
fell into the river. There were about
live hundred people on the wharf at the
time. and they were all staring at the
poor girl struggling in the wster, not one
of them daring to go TO hsr rescue.
Was in the house when some one came
to give the alarm, and when l got out
there / could just see her dress, as she
was going out of sight, four or five feet
below the surface. jumped in and
caught her, and when got out on the
top of the wharf with her, the people
gave NE three cheers. March 8, 1873, /
saved a young lady called Miss Louise
Mckenzie. This was the closest call /
ever had formy life was in the water
about seventeen minutes, and the river
being full of floating ice at the time.
was nearer dead than alive when got
out. Four men carried me into the
house, and they rubbed me with hot
whisky for over four hours before circu-
lation was restored to its normal eondi-
ton. This severe exposure made me
sick, and it was over three months before
the right feeling was in my hands.
You will remember this incident, for
you came to me when | was unweIl. |
regret very much at this time l lost the
beautiful medal presented me by the
citizens, and | think you were one of
the gentlemen connected with its pre-
sentation. have been informed that
would receive medal from the British
Parliament, but it mas not come.
don't ask any
l saved "a poor unfortunate individ-
ual' last winter, when / took a severe
cold, and as was lying in bed reading
the proceedings of Congress, l saw
something about an appropriation for
medals to persons for saving life on the
seashore, and thought then that some
gentleman would be very likely TO re-
member also those who saved life on the
northern lakes and rivers There are
many other cases which don't mention,
as | have not got their names. You
must know yourself of great many, as
your place of business and warehouse
are near by, and | recollect seeing you
several times when rescuing people from
a-watery grave
Wishing you and your family good
heath, | remain, very truly yours,
JOHN HoRN, JR
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nosfifaI.
THE EyER-NEW QUESTION.

Do love you: Do love you.
Ask the heavens that bend above YOU
10 ind language and to prove you
If they love the living sun.
Ask the burning, blinded meadows
What they think about the shadows,
If they love the falling shadows
When the fervid day is done.
Ask the bluebells and the daisies.
Lost amid the hot field-mazes,
Lifting up their thirsty faces,
Ii they love the summer rams.
Ask the linnets and the plovers,
In the nest-life made for lovers,
Ask the bees and ask the cloyers-
Will they tell you for your pains.
Do l, darling, do love yous
What, pray, can that behoove you,
How in Loves name can move you.
When for Loves sake am dlmb,
II told YOU, if | told you,
Would that keep you, would that hold yo
Here at last where enfold you?
If it would-Hush. Darling, come,
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

PBAYER.-hrayer requires more of
of words, of faith than of discourse
The eloquence of prayer consists in the
feryency of the desire. in the simplicity
of faith, and in the earnestness and per
severance of charity. The abundance
and choice of fine thoughts, studied and
vehement motions, and the order and
noliteness OF the expression are things
which compose mere human harangue,
not an humble and Christian prayer.
Oui trust and confidence ought to pro-
ceed from that which God is able to do
in us, not from that which We can say
to God
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

CONSCIOUSNESS of unbelief is a sign of
actual faith. Infidels are never troubled
with unbelief. Dead men never feel
cold. Frozen feet never ache. And a
soul given up 70 ungodliness, bound
hand end foot in sin, has no trouble
with unbelief. 1t is only when faith
shoats its first illuminated ray into the
darkened heart that the baneful pres
ence of unbelief is made manifest. 1t is
only when the troubled soul can say, Il
do believe that it starts back at the
abyss of doubt which that first CLEAN of
faith discloses, and exclaiIns: Help
thou my unbeliefr
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THE INDIAN MODE OF TAKING
BATH--The Inyo Independent says:
Most of our readers have seen or heard
of the Indian sweat-house, but few have
witnessed the interesting treatment the
Indian receives when he is in anyways
indisposed; when he begins to feel the
effects of filth that has accumulated on
his person for months. he forthwith takes
a sweat bath in order 70 get mp internal
soroe enough to shed the old scales on
the outside. The sweat house il built
of sort of wicker work covered with
sod and dirt; a hole is left for the SIN oke
TO escape and ire kindled at the en-
trance: the patient strips and lays down
inside: in a few nsinuteshe commences
to steam, psrspire, and smell so sweet
tha. the oriental custom of steaming
rails into insigni6cance compared with
this primitive method. This is kept I'D
until the patient is lightened of his out
side crust. then he rushes out and
plunges head first into stream of lev
cold mountain water This part of the
programme. however, was omitted the
ether day at Fish Springs by Big Mouth
Jack and Fish Spring jim. who, while
enjoying this luxury. found their sweat
hou .e on fire, and the way they hustled
out was a credit TO their lazy natures.
They experienced no damage, however,
except TO change the copper color of
their backs into a beautiful pinto.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

4 frORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law,
"A and SotaIy Public. Will attend promptly
Iu all business entrusted 10 his Q are. Pariicu-
lar att ention given TO Collections, Partitioning
OF Lands and business in Probate Court.
Gfiice on Main Street, IN Rossman's Block,
ne sriy OTyposste the Court House. May Z.
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A TrORNEY AT LAW and Claim Agent.
n Will practice Jaw in State and u. 3. Court,
aud attend promptly to business entrusted TO
his care. As Justice of the Peace. will attend
To cOnyeyanelng and taking depositions. once
Room n 1 Melodeon Building, Findlay, ..
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The following excellent toast was Civ
en- by a schoolmaster: ''The fair daueh-
ters OF our country, may they add vir-
tue to beauty-subtract envy from
friendship-muItiply amiabIe secom.
plishinents by sweetness of temper
divide them by sociability and economy
-and reduce scandal tc its lowest de-
nomination
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CHURCHES.

Methodist Episcopdl-Rev. William Jones.
L,tfteTdn-Rev. q. W. Miller.
CJSJregdttOndL-Rev. Ii. D. Kutz.
Z liied Brettres-Res A. W. Holden.
hrTmda Reform Rev. A. koIsetZka.
Cg,,rch Of God Rev. ID. Kline.
f.e1nan Lul.erda-Rev. N. Buerkle.
81 Ntchaetis CdthOIic Church-J. b. Young.
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TrORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ,
"A Findlay, Ohio. Office in HEADQUARTERS"
BuIldiug, North east OF Court House. Will at
tend promptly 10 business entrusted TO his
Co.'s. April 70, 1872.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

Iowa State Register: Last Saturday
night young mans Christmas present
came to grief throHSh the violation of a
New Years PIE I;.. Ayoung gentleman
had promised his girl that he would stop
smoking New Years Day, and the dam.
sci was so pleased tlat she gave him an
elegant scarf for a Christmas present.
Saturday evening, all oblivious of his
promise, he lighted pure Havana aud
started to take Il walk, with the scarf
gracefully encircling his neck. The
wind carried a burning scrap of tobacco
into the folds of the article and burned
IN it a hole big enough to take i'll love
letter. The confiagration was discover
ed by a gentleman and quenched before
any more serious damage was done.
Now the owner employs his spare time
in hunting up theory that will ac-
count to his girl for that hole without
revealing to her the fact that he lied
about the cigar.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

The path Of duty is tie way to glory:
He that walks il, only fhirsiing
For the right, and learns 10 deairn
Love Of self. before his journey closes
lie shall find the stubborn thistle bur>ime
Into glossy puppies, which Ouircidcn
All voluptuOus garden roses.
The path of duty is the way to glory:
He that ever following her commands,
On with toll Of heart and knees and hands.
Ihro the long gorge to the far light has won
His path upward, and prevailed.
Shall find the tOppliDg crags of Duty scaled.
Are close upon the shining table lands.
TO which our God Himself is moon and sun.
-JTU,,Ux,g
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

The Reason WHY.-An impertinent
youth at Saratoga amused himself by
exhibiting the following lines to some of
the ladies at the I,otel:
Men scorn to kiss among themselves.
And scarce would kiss brother;
But women want to kiss 50 bad,
They kiss and kiss each other
Whereupon a young lady penciled this
retort on the back of an envelope. and
left it for the FOOLS instruction.
Men do rot Hiss among themselves,
And its well that they refrain;
The hitter dose would Yex them 50,
They would never kiss again.
As sometimes on poor woman's lip
Is applied this nanseous lotion,
We have TO kiss among ourselves
Asa counteracting potion.
Prom ''LitsrdtHre of Rtssiag. n
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CeUNTY OFFICERS.

6.,aaat % Flegs .Tu,lge James Pillars.
osd.Lyr t,s-t' ~ =. MosheT.
ff.rk- yg [DHsEs-P-ter Par.
Tie fsstreT refer HOsleI.
L.eeordi@T-Pstul Kemerer.
T. bite JU,i1r Samuel b. Huffman.
ssgf~.5G G-~sus.i,-i Myrss.
f;nOsc, t,ing i 'tOg-ECy George r. PendietoD,
tsgO.er -. r. Cline
CoaamLS,fcHers Joseph Saitzman, John ID,
Bishop and John EdgIngton.
Isarm0Sy DfreetOos-JacOb Thompson. X. NJ
Watson and J. X. Bnshong.
EaGysaarg gSuJ,tTinteHdent-R.M NJ. Lee.
sch a E1amlseTs-J A. PitisfOrd, j. X. Kagy
and Doriias Martz.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

Az odd ceremony took place in the
principal circus at Berlin, at the com
pletion, by monkey. of service of
twenty-five years. Jocko was formally
installed in the place of honor at a grand
banquet, and beside his sawdust ac-
quaintances made his g-imaces Of thank
fulness to number of prominent mill
tsry men and lawyers of the city.
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From the New York Tribune.l
A HONE-BRED HER0-MARTYR.

Over One Hundred Lives saved by One Nan-The
Brave Deeds OF an American John Lambert
What John Horn. OF Detroit. Has DOne-His Own
Life Risted Again and Again for Others-Seyere
Attsrks Of Illness Resulting from Cold and Ex-
paSurs Harms Account Of His Exploits.
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CITIZENS BANK

ARLiNS s CO.. BANKERS. Ranking House
Z IA IL, ..fson, 5 Block, No. &c Main ST, Find
has .JhiJYc BaRk,alg llUalrs from 10 II II. and
ir,;1a 10 r. u. A general banking business
dbiIe inter est on special deposits.
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W. T.. DAVIS. j. DAVIS. N. L. DErwILER.
DAVIS 0ETWilER A. co,

NtY HOLESALE AND RETAIL GRoCEpS,
w ana Dealers in Flour, Provisions, Wood
en- vii ow and Stone Ware, Confectionery,
r. uits, and a 'iene-ai Narie' Y. Goods at Whole
sale at u veland and Toledo prices Nos. Il
and p Main street.
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.fndlap Bnsinsss lirerforu.
n BEARDSLEY,

4 YroRNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
n Findlay Ohio, ONCE over Patterson's
store. Entrance, seconC door, up stairs. PISS
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A REMIyIsCENCE OF TRAFALGAR.

The London Daily Telegraph, Of Dec
2Sth, has the following: Anchor,
Hardy, anchor-kiss me, Hardy" These
were the last words of Horatio Viscount
Nelson and Duke of Bronte, as he lay
gasping for breath in the feebly-lit
cockpit of the Victory, at Trafalgar;
and i'll the arms of Captain, afterward
Admirable, Sir Thomas Handy. did the
hero expire. The death is now an
nounced of Miss Hardy. the eldest
daughter of the distinguished naval off
Ger, who enjoyed the intimate friendship
and confidence of his iIlustrious chief,
and who died Governor of Greenwich
Hospital Miss Hardy had been for a
heightened period the occupant of a
suite of apartments at Hampton Court
Palace, conceded to her by the munifi.
cence of her Majesty the Queen. The
passing away of Miss Hardy will recall
the circumstance that her father kept
for many years, as a memento, locket
mounted in crystal and silver, encireling
the bullet by which Nelson met his
death, and which was curiously identi-
fed by there adhering to it portion of
the mullion of the epau1et through
which the ball passed, forcing the
strands of golden wire before it into the
hero's body. Other almost equally in
teresting relics vi Nelson's belongings are
to be found in the uniform coat and
waistcoat and the ribbon and orderhe
wore at Trafalgar, and which, for some
time past, have been exhibited in the
Painted Hall at Greenwich, where so
strong is the instinct of hero worship,
that they are regarded with as much rev.
erence as that which Frenchmen extend
to the little cooked hat and the sword
of AusterlitZ in the crypt of the Inva
lides. The mention, however, of the
bullet enshrined in silver and crystal
may re-awaken the curious controversy
regarding the hand by which Nelson
actually fell. In a book called the
Memoirs of a French Sergeant" an
English translation OF which was pub
lished some forty years since, the writer
distinctly and impudently claimed the
''honor" of having slain the seourge of
the French Navy. He was armed, he
said, with ships musket. and fired at
random, but was much overjoyed when
he saw a proud English lord drop
On the other hand it has been stated.
with greater weight of evidence, that
the fatal shot was fired by T5rolese
rifleman, stationed in the main top of
one of the enemy's line-of-battIe ships.
Napoleon, it is well known, had drafted
a number of sharp shooters from the
italian Tyrol into his navy. They were
all excellent marksmeD, and there could
srarcely have been better target for
their weapons than the red ribbons and
glittering orders which Nelson, with IA
tai perversity, insisted in wearing over
his full uniform on the day which was
the cause of so much pride and so much
sorrow to his eountrymen, but which
endowed his n Ime with imperishable
glory.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

OMEUPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Main Street, Two doors North of karst's
t;-ssaery store, FinGlay, Chic.
-bhice hosrs-From & to 7lza. m, IL a. m. to
D. IN and t0 5 p. M. May 1871
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r., 4. DUNN,
IL III IAHN&AN

ATTORNEY AT Law,
Office in New Bank Building, West side oi
Ma IA street, No. 90 NOV. 22-iL)
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If MES A. BOPE,
JkCOB 4, RUREET,

A OHNE+ Al Law"
Office over W. L. DAVIS. & Co.'S Store, Main
Street, + indlay, ohio. April IA, IL
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BOROUGH OFFICERS.

LONOV.kFI OF TNI"S-
si0.aF-N illiam Giibben.
fIc5E T.. SOurs
T,.IsureT-M. ID Sours.
NrTsit tL-Jolin Euhl-
lS,isc.l0r-James A. BOpe,
C1,tacH-Wm. Anderson. w. w. Mcconnell.
John Parker. J. L.. Linviile, A. Brown
and V. II. CoOns-
..OgrJ o| IDipTOreiaenfs-WIn. GribDen, r. 7.
Jones and j. A. Bope.
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HENRY BROWN,
l. a. KIMMEl. M, d,

4 rTORNEY AfLAW. Once up stairs, arsi
Il Door Sonth OF Court Ho, Sc; findlay, v.
November "a, 1874 tf.
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WM, I'M. DETWILER, n

OFFICE Va Main Street, oTsr Lem. MoMan
Y ne ses Grocery store Findlay Ohio.
aarch II 1875
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

THERE are fifty eight Savings Ranks
In the State of Maine, with deposits, on
the I'd day of November last, amounting
to S3l. .061, 937. 73-a gain of about one
million ,fce hundred thousand dollars
over the previous year.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21

THE oldest married couple in the
world, are believed 20 be in Montgomery
County, Indiana. Their name is Fruit,
they are 113 and Ill years old, respec-
lively, and have lived together IS years.
The husband is a hale and hearty man,
having never used tobacco; and the wife
is tobacco smoker for so years, though
she has been lighting cancer for 40
years. The old man was personally ac-
quainted with Daniel Boone, Simon
Girty, Simon Kenton, Williams and
others of the first settlers of the West.
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McComb Hack Line.

III acss on thlsiine leaze FindIay az O'Clock
IL T.. NJ on Tuesdays, Thursdays ana Satuf-
na5 : and arrive at McComb at O'Clock.
Leave Accomb al A. NJ. on Tuesdays
lay at giszs A. ~,
Psssengers and Light packages carried at rea-
Noisable rates. Orders lett at Old White Corner.
or ai Edwards Livery Stable IN Ffndlay or
with me AT Accomb, win rcceiye prompt at
.enfion. CURTIS APGER.
Apr % N Proprietor.
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WANT ~ LIFE.-There is aothin0'
more fortunate for modern genius than.
to be born poor. The silver spoon.
class are a very comfortable set of peo-
pie, no doubt, but the great trouble
with them is their education; but if they
do not become very great they are ex-
tremeiy likely to become the very opp-
site. There is no middle ground for
them, for they were not taught to regard
any, and consequently they are, as a gem
eral thing, unfit for it. Poverty has
helped men to solve some of the great
est problems of life. Half its brave
deeds have been a necessity, and most
of its noble sayings have been born of a
determined opposition. Isdoes a man
good to put him at his wits'ead. Emer-
geneies make men. A man may be
general or a pilot in calm; but
storms show the metal. Reputation is
made more by boldness and will than by
ability AID patience. Life is too short
to wait for the tide whose ebb leads ON
to fortune. We must make the most of
present opportunities. The man who
works out these to the fullest extent is
the most successful man.
An interesting incident in the life of
the late DIR. Howe is told by the Boston
Herald; "After the war he taught the
Greeks in the arts of peace, like a true
Yankee as he was, and the first cart ever
made in modern Greece was built under
his direction. Twenty years afterward.
when he rode along into Greece on
horseback, he was seen and recognized
by peasant woman, who spread the
intelligence of his arrival He was i'm
mediateiy surrounded and borne upon
the shoulders of the people into the
neighboring city, upon the site where he
had founded village. At this time the
Greeks were in a fresh triumph over their
ancient oppressors, and in the right
mood to welcome their former ally and
friend. This incident in the life of DIR.
Howe was derived from Greek news
paper of the time, which some friend In
that country forwarded to Charles
Sumner"
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"WE must creepbefore We can walk. {"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-23

Courier. Journal. 22d
Many persons are inclined to regard
the snow storm of Sunday night as IN
precedented in this latitude. Such me
neurological vsgaries seem on the con
trsry to be things to be looked for occa,
sionslly in the process Of the seasons
A reporter was informed yesterday by q
gentleman that he saw a storm exceed
ing this 10 the spring Of l843 1t oc.
CURED near Murfreesboro, in Tennessee,
in March. The snow began to fall on the
l4th, and continued uninterruptedly fol-
three days, when it attained a depth OIL
fourteen inches. On the morning OF the
18th his thermometer stood at 90 below
zero, and be had his ice.house filed with
ice between three and four inches thick.
On the same morning the Thermometer
in Louisville stood a. above zero. The
difference was caused by the snow, o.
which the earth was bare at Louisville.
The fruit this year was all killed in Ten,
%nessee, and it vas April before the snow
had entirely disappeared, aeae
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-23
AsHINGTO

\ wAsaISsroS. March 2s.-The grand
Jury have agreed upoa an indictment in
the case Of Halle,t KilbOurne. for refus-
Jog to answer q question regarding the
socalIed Real Estate Pool before the
select committe ofthe HOUSE.
Ex-senator Stewart resumed his testi-
mony, saying that on his return from
Paris to London he met General
Schenck, who stated to him that he had
concluded to become a director in the
Emma Mine Company, not thinking
there was any improperly in doing SO
for the reason that at that time the Min
lister Of Portugal. one Of the oldest and
most respected diplomats, was the Pres
ident Of q TramWay Company, and also
vendor Of the stock. Witness said he
had reason to believe that Gen. Schenck
knew, before he became a director, that
Albert Grant was to receive cleo, 600 for
being promoter of the scheme.
C. NJ. Peck wal recalled and testified
before the Committee on Expenditures
in the War Department to-day that the
posttraders we're assessed for political
purposes, and that during the last Presi-
Dental canvass he paid from six thou
sand 10 eight thousand dollars. BE
thought he RENTED money to the
Chairman Of the Committee at Wash
ington. He presumed they we're asked
to subscribe because they held the
post-trsderships under the admiuistrA-
ton; he did not consider that they were
obliged to pay. but we're notified that
contributions would be acceptable, He
thought that the amount Of contributions
from the military posts was designated
in proportion to the number of troops
there.
J. ]. Fisher being recalled testified
that the firm of Evans 4 Co., post ira.
dsrs, contributed money for political
purposes 10 pursuance of q request
contained insi7 printed circulars.
he did not understand that a contribu-
ton was compulsory, but he thought it
the safer way to pay the money.
Apart from q political consideration
Mr.. Evans testified that during the last
Presidential canvas be, in compliance
with a circular received at Fort Sill, sent
5000 to the Republican Executive Com
mittee in Washington.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-23
Iron Rust a Cnu,e Of FIRE.

A great many fires undoubtedly arise
when their origin ia apparently traced to
steam pipes which are surrounded by
wood. An English writer asserts that
the rust on the outside Of the pipe has
the power, when the temperature is in.
creased, of slowly giving of its oxygen
and OF being converted into iron again.
The character Of pyrophorus iron and
the rapidly with which it takes Ere, is
we'll known. Very fne fragments Of iron
and steel, by their oxidation, become red
hot. This ia the simple explanation of
the FIRE drawn from the flint aud stsel.
Whenever, then, az this authority states.
iron pipes are employed for the circula.
ton of either hot air or steam, they
should be encased in cement, otherwise,
when they rest in contact with timber,
the finely divided particles, trust (oxide
Of iron), lose their oxygen and become
ignited. Mechanical contraction or ex.
p~ausion Of the pipes may have something
to do with effecting this change. These
circumstances may account for many Of
the fires which take place at the CON.
mencement OF q winter season.