FIRE AND WATER.
THE first sign of spring accompanied by that tired feeling, comes from our Baltimore friend, the Underwriter. Here is the symptom.
It is wearisome to watch the ever-changing devices for fireescapes which the inventors of the day crowd upon the Patent Office. They are duly heralded in the Scientific American, attract momentary attention, and then disappear for the allsufficient reason that nineteen in twenty are impracticable. Better than any of them would be simple sliding poles, such as are in common use in our fire-engine houses, connecting the upper and lower floors of hotels and factories.
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