The fire at the Chinese Engineering and spontaneous stion in a bale of pea Mining Co,'s lower wharf is credited to
nuts. The buildings twere insured but not the stuff, of which Tls. 25,000 worth was destroyed. Last winter the Bund and some large compounds were stacked mountains high with peanuts. It is alarming to think what might happen if a careless amoker communicated the one critical spark; but Tientsin is going one day to have a big objective lesson in the way of fire, When were burned out and are an impoverished, homeless community, we shall then in our wisdom buy a good steam fire-engine, Ast July.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.