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during the hours when they are engaged in this 

 service ? 



An account lies before me of an appalling fire 

 in a crowded circus in Russia, where the side exits 

 were nailed up and the doors of the main entrance, 

 which opened inward, were kept closed by the 

 pressure of the frantic throng. Parents threw their 

 children into the ring, and then, as the flames in- 

 creased, leaped after them, the scorched and mad- 

 dened horses also plunging into the area, and, in 

 their frenzy, trampling people to death. And the 

 cause of this terrific fire, in which about three hun- 

 dred perished, is stated to have been a cigarette 

 thrown carelessly among the straw. 



LAWS LIMITING USE. 



We find from " Chambers' Encyclopaedia " that in 

 Great Britain sailors are generally limited to chew- 

 ing, smoking at sea being prohibited, or greatly 

 restricted from danger of fire. 



To a certain extent, the laws in some parts of 

 our own country have been cognizant of this dan- 

 ger. In 1818 the following Acts were passed in 

 the metropolis of Xew England. 



"Every person who shall smoke, or have in his 

 or her possession any lighted pipe or cigar in any 

 street, lane, or passage-way, or on any wharf, in 

 said city, shall forfeit and pay, for each and every 

 offence, the sum of two dollars." 



M And, further, if any person shall have in his or 

 her possession, in any ropewalk, or barn, or stable, 



