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Show Fiiuc An alarm of Cro was raised hsh night about half pa-t eight, on 1st riouth street, between East Temple and 1st East, and flames were seen issuing is-suing from the roof of a building nearly opposite tho theatre, on tho south side of the street. Willing hands were numerous, and banded buckets of water, got where it could bo found, up stairs, and in a few minutes the llatuos wore extinguished. Fu the garret of the house thero was a quantity quan-tity of shaving-i and chair-round.-1, the result of some turner's operations, and fire had been coinimtnieatt'd to by nine means. If it had not been for prompt work there would havo been l.cavy daiungn, but as it was tho loss was trifling. Mr. Stoflors iufonus us that the lire was communicated from tho next houso, u little boy with a candle having set lire to a bed, from which it reached to tho roof of the houso where tho Uaojos burst out. I Home Bouk of Health. "Gunn's Now Family Physician, or Home Book of Health' ' is one of the best works on mediciuc, for family requirements, that wc havo seen. It is very complete in the list of subjects treated on, embracing embrac-ing not only the ordinary diseases incident in-cident to humauity, their symptoms and remedies, but a large number of other bubjeots which have a direct influence on the preservation of health and tho prolongation of life. One thing which commends tho work to the people at large, is tho fact that it gives the common com-mon names of remedies as well as their technical name--, and describes their naturo and medicinal properties, ao that a person who may.not bo posted in the nomenclature of medical agents uced not be entirely at the mercy of a prescription clerk, but can understand the properties and characteristics of the medicines required. The volumo is largo, containing over twelve hundred hun-dred pagie, is dearly printed and handsomely hand-somely bound, and is a valuable addition addi-tion to any library. Mr. Howard Sawyer, of Cincinnati, is now in town rxooiving bub&orip lions for the work, which should meet a rapid Kile hero M it baa done clwhr , |