TOPICS OF THE DAY.
As will be seen in the letter of a Cambridge, Mass., correspondent, an inventor of that city is at work upon an electric light for Steam Fire Engines, to be used both while answering an alarm and while working at a fire. This is something that has frequently been recommended by prominent men in the Fire Service, and it is to be hoped that the inventor will succeed in his undertaking. If practicable, the light would probably be adopted by many Fire Departments.
THE opera house recently burned at Nice with terrible loss of life was built mainly by the American and English residents of the winter watering place. It was only devoted to opera at rare intervals. The building was difficult of access and badly provided with means of ingress and egress, and it offered from the first an inviting scope for the disaster which befell it. It was a cheap affair and the destruction of life is probably due to the flimsy and imflammable nature of the interior decorations.
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