Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — Too Many Fires. [ARTICLE]

Too Many Fires.

It seems from the New York Commercial Bulletin that property to the tune of $105,000,000 a year is being destroyed by fire in the United States. This is simply monstrous. , One hundred million a year represents the earnings of a nation, and yet it seems we wipe it out of existence in each year. Surely there must be something wrong in this. Can it be that the crime of arson is on the increase? - Men’s Hearts.—An old maid suggests that when men break their hearts it is the same as when a lobster breaks one of his claws—another sprouts immediately and grows in its place. Life is a stormy and dangerous voyage. The vessel we start in—our cradle —is childhood’s first rock.