Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — Seeing If the House Is On Fire. [ARTICLE]

Seeing If the House Is On Fire.

It is a very easy matter, says the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, for some one member of a family to make it a rule to examine carefully, after the others have retired, every place where there is a possibility that fire could be ignited with danger to the house. Five minutes given to the examination of furnaces, stoves, fire-places and their surroundings might be all that was necessary to prevent a serious and dreadful conflagration. And the Advertiser instances the case of a housekeeper, who has been a faithful family servant for thirty-five years—a long time in these days of “hired help.” This conscientious woman made it a matter, one might almost say of religion, to go every night, after the family had re-, tired, without a light, from garret to cellar, to see if every chance of accident from fire was removed. Ridicule did not make her swerve from this habit. One evening, after the departure of some guests and retiring of the family, on her usual rounds, she found the hat-stand in a blaze. Calling the master of the house, with his assistance, but with no little trouble, the flames were put out. It seems that the umbrellas in the rack had been ignited by a spark from a cigar held by one of the visitors as he took his hat from the stand. Needless to say that the housekeeper, after recovering from her fright, was more than ever convinced that it did pay “ to see if the house is on fire. „ —Preparing Small Fish.—Any kind of small fish may be prepared in the following manner: After being well washed and wiped, it is put in a pan with a little butter, and sprinkled over with pepper, ralt and crumbs of bread scraped from a scusty loaf, with an onion chopped small, and fried in the oven twenty minutes to half an hour. - —The Emperor of Russia was not over J leased with his visit to England to see is daughter, the Duchess of Edinburgh. The imperial family rather look upon the English treatment of their offspring