Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — Iron Not Fire-Proof. [ARTICLE]

Iron Not Fire-Proof.

The American Architect says : The ordinary so-called fire-proof structures of a granite shell inclosing naked iron beams carrying brick arches supported by unprotected iron columns, in point of security against fire, are little better than frames of timber and plank. We have often noticed that granite and iron caught fire more readily and burned somewhat more rapidly than the dropcurtain and scenes of a theater. No iron can be considered really fire-proof until it has bfeen protected by a thick veneering of resin and pine.

The first instance where physicians are spoken of in the Bible is IL Chronicles, xvi. 12 : “ And Asa, in the 39th year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until the disease was exceedingly great; yet in his disease he sought not the Lord, but to the physicians.” The compiler coolly adds, as though a natural consequence ; “ And Asa slept with his fathers.”