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causes great loss every year, has led ire
underwriters tC attempt to secure the
enactment of laws providing for the
adequate investigation of the causes of
all fires and the prosecution of all persons
believed to be incendiaries. The
National Board of Fire Underwriters has
sent to the Governors of different States
a communication calling attention to the
need of legislation on this subject, and
has also issued a pamphlet containing the
recommendations of insurance commits
sloners that laws be enacted requiring
investigation of all fires. 1t shows that
the fire waste has increased from $S4,-
00O, 900 in 1882 to SAB, 600, 900 in 1891.
The Insurance Commissioner of Colorado,
in his report for 1892, says that fully 35
per cent of the fires there are of incendi-
airy origin. The Connecticut Commits
sioner says that the risk should be
divided between the companies and the
insured, to induce greater care against
fires. Copies of Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire statutes on the subject, and
of bills introduced at the last sessions of
the New-York and New-Jersey legisla.
lures, are included in the pamphlet.
One Of the curious experiences of some
of the recent Greenland travellers was to
learn after their return that an odd waltz
performed by the South Greenland Eshi-
mos was in reality a European dance all
the rage last winter in Paris, thence trans
planted to Copenhagen, and, by easy
transition in il Danish steamer and in the
person of a Danish official or perhaps
officialers, taken to the ford cut and
glacier proved west coast of Greenland,
1t is the old, old story Of going away
from home to hear news or learn some
thing of that that we should have known
from the very association with it; but
the incident after all suggests what a
compressed little globe this is after all.
Paris and Upernivik, Hammerfest and
Melbourne, Cape Barren and Cape Town
are so near each other that one can almost
touch them; while experience proves that
to go to any out of the way place and not
find something in common with the
locality, its people or its visitor is so rare
as to almost be an impossibility. Every
pressed with this; and as for the globe
trotters the world to them is but a little
back yard geographical patch, in which
Kingdoms and empires take the place Of
the long rows Of cabbages and turnips.
Moreover Heaven itself is sacred to tbs
advertiser, and the Milky Way is abou.
to become a valuable advertising medium.
The other night at Ealing, a town half
way between London and Windsor, an
enterprising genius, rejoicing in the
name of Sidney Hodges, succeeded in
projecting a large and highly luminous
letter on the sky by some means of his
own invention, and demonstrated to an
interested party of spectators that with
the electric light there would be no diff
Guilty on a favorable night in displaying.
not only letters, but words and signals III
the same fashion. The heavens will soon
be telling, besides their own story, one
of certain peoples soap, or liver pills, OF
porous plasters. To what extent this
new branch of advertising enterprise will
interfere with the science Of astronomy
can only be left to the imagination.
CAPTAIN C. w. ADAMS, of West
Addison, VT, has raised quite a large
portion of the timbers of the flagship
Congress, of General Benedict Arnold's
fleet, which was sunk in Lake Champlain,
in October, 1776. The timbers, of which
there are about thirty feet of the after
part of the keel and k~eels0n, with a num-
Der of the ribs attached, are of oak, and
perfectly sound. The wood, when
polished, is very dark and takes a beau
tiful finish. 1t will be either worked
into canes and other articles, as relics, or
kept intact for the Worlds Fair. Mr..
Adams has also several shells and solid
shot, grape and musket balls. which he
has found near the wreck.
A NUMBER of German dentists have
been heavily fined by justices in Prussia
and SaSony for advertising themselves
as doctors of dentistry on the strength of
diplomas received from American col
leges. The German laws recognize only
four classes of doctors those of law,
theology, philosophy and medicine.
Speaking of dentists, it is worth noting
that the three dentists of Berlin, Dresden
and Leipsic who have the largest and
most remunerative practice are respec-
lively Messrs. Sylvester, Jenkins and
Young, all natives of Maine. The two
last mentioned were formerly residents of
Bangor. Sylvester and Jenkins are court
dentists.
PROFESSOR l.. T. Blake, of the Univer-
sity of Kansas, in an article on Safety
from Electricity" in the Electrical
World says: ''For buildings in cities,
except churches and other high struc-
lures, rods, | think. are unnecessary.
Lightning strikes seldom in the cities
compared with the country, n reason
being hat the many electric wiIes-tele-
phone and telegraph and electric light
are really safeguards. A building is
safer with such wires over it than with
out. In the country, however, buildings
may need protection.
Four years ago, it is said, General
Harrison vent to bed on the night of
election before he knew the result. The
wife of general Hancock declared that
the latter went to bed at ! o'clock in the
evening On election day, 1880, being too
tired to await news. Next morning he
awoke at dawn and asked if there were
any definite tidings. Upon her reply:
Eyes, you are beaten" he turned over
and went to sleep again.