... floor are many windows with the usual quota of doors, and during the day iron fire-escapes are let down, to be used in lieu of staircases. When evening comes, all the fire escapes are pulled up, and under no circumstances are they lowered until the following ...

... a stool in front of the fire, and in picking him off the floor her flannelette skirts caught fire and she was fatally burnt. Dr. Gibson, the Manchester Coroner, spoke very strongly in favour of the compulsory use of fire-guards, and the punishment of parents ...

... DISLSTBOLS FIRE AT ALDERSHOT. The magnificent pile of buildings provided by the War Office as the official residence of Lieutenant-General Sir John French, K.C.8.. commanding the First Army Corps, was totally destroyed by fire lest night. The. broke out ...

... A OF FIRE. Surely it's midnight now? Yea! to the minute —and suddenly the signalman, in his excitement, grabs my arm. Look. sit ! and I look out to seaward, to see a streak of red fire soaring into the sky fft • graceful curve, to break into a hundred ...

... STAGE ILLUSIONS. SUCH IS FLARES WITHOCT FIRE. In the production of Dante. by Sir Henry Irving, an apparatus was used for creating flames without combustion. It was, of an illusion, for there was nothing to buru. In this respect (says the •• Daily Telegraph ...

... land, except a troop Of cavalry. Ile mays Ire has often seen pictures representing the Guards as first on the Alma heights. Alreomisky asserts that the Guards did not fire a shot in action. The Light Division began the battle. won the battle, end took the ...

... turned out on guard for the Nest time. Have 'you leaflet all the calls yet, my boy? asked the officer, encouragingly. Nearly all, air? Do you know the dergeanto' call? Ye., sir. Do you know the.assembly? Yea, air. And the fire gaps? N -no ...

... a party of Foot Guards, lest enterprising rpbbers or lawless mob 3 should try to overpower 'the clerks, messengers, porters, and firemen who regularly live on the premises and patrol the departments. By day the great gates are guarded by beadier in cocked ...

... ON HER BETROTHAL. Upon thin hither side of Paradise There am throe dear, unpurrhasable tfiings From whose every gladness firings; Which the Indies' wealth will not suffice. And one is Youth, whose fair device Might be a radiant bird on quickened Wings; ...

... SOME NURSERY REVERS. _ Never leave a child alone in a room with a fire in it, unless there is a tall fender guard which it cannot remove. Never give baby painted mile , ' the paint is enumerieil. Never nume baby without removing err:itchy ornaments, brooches ...

... For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard All valiant dust that builds on dust. And guarding, calls not Thee to guard— For frantic boast and word, Thy mercy on thy people, Lord! —RUDYARD KIPLING-7 That young fellow Brown wants ...

... disarmed their ulcers on the (;rand Parr.,le. guard, (intuiting of a detachment sit, tioyal lnrultus, endeavoured to the tumult, out, no ammunition, imir , htug oil' tor a reinforcement when an enraged tlighlinder fired and killed I;ne of them, on tee bastion ...