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more houses than any other fireworks,
but it makes very few bad hurts.
The paper from which it is made
CLOVIS for some time after it eXplodes,
so one of them thrown into trash or
through a window is likely to start a
fire. This frework is a roll of paper
with a cork of mud in each end and
holds a charge of common %gunpowd-
err.
Red fire and torches hurt no one,
and the pinwheel seldom does because
it is fastened to a tree or fence.
The Roman candle, if we'll made,
is not likely to injure. Usually it is
exploded in the street and sets no
houses afire. The stars are shot
from it by a charge of meal powder,
and if the stars near the end which
hold the fuse are packed too tightly,
the powder may explode through the
p%asteboard shell, or may come. out at
the wrong end and hurt the hand
that holds it.
The stars, except the white ones,
are made from chlorate of potash,
rosin. charcoal and a metal substance
to give them color.
Many mines, fountains and flower
pots are very beautiful and few
persons are burned by them. Those
that whistle contain picrate Of potash
and are very dangerous.
The sparks from the German
sparkler' will not burn the skin be-
cause they cool too quickly. But N
of these Sparks will ignite the fuse of
one of them ignited "a rocket fuse in
a pile of fireworks in a Cleveland
store causing TIE death Of six per-
sons.
Sky-rockets, if aimed high in the
air, burn but few building because the
falling stick is seldom afire. But in
Pittsburg a falling stick struck a
baby's head killing it in its mothers
arms. The colors in ~sky-rOckets are
made by different metals added to
the stars. Paris green makes a
beautiful blue.
A sky-rocket should stand in a V
shape trough to be set off. One of a
size in common use will go through
the body of a man or through the
heaviest plate glass window. The
rocket is raised by the force of gas
from slowly burning powder coming
out where the fuse goes in. At the
top of the tube which holds the pow
der are fuses which run into the stars.
These are lighted when the powder
burns up to them.
The grass-hoppers' and devil
chasers" which travel along the
ground while exploding are not very
dangerous to the user, but they are
likely to pop into rubbish piles or
cellar windows and start a fire, or
to ignite dress skirts.
A new firework called son-of-a-
gun" is like a lozenge an inch across
1t makes a number of explosions if
stepped on. Putting them where per-
sons may tread on them and get a
fright may be more serious than
funny, for the dress of a lady step.
ping on one of them is very likely to
take fire. This firework gives more
than twenty explosions and each eX-
plosion drives it into a new place.
They are likely to jump into a win.
dow or trash or clothing or ones
eyes. The Jumps seer in this ~lozenge-
shaped thing are chlorate of potash
and are tied together by a small fuse.
More children are burned to death
from their clothing being set afire
while exploding small crackers than
by any other firework. The pr~ettiest
fireworks are the least dangerous and
fireworks which go up in the air are
safer than those exploded near the
earth.
The cannon cracker is a murderer.
The largest ones have in them two
thirds of an ounce of chlorate and
one-third of an ounce of sulphur with
a little charcoal. Those seven inches
long have half that much. One went
off in a boys hand and no part of
either of them could be found after
ward except one little finger. In
Cincinnati n exploded while a man
was holding it under his arm. He
was torn to pieces so no one could
tell who he was until his nam was
seen in mis- watch which had to be
dug out of a telegraph pole into which
it had been blown.
Sometimes the fuse in one of these