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Show HOW THEY BUILD HOUSES IN ENGLAND. A Birmingham (rCfghwuI) correspondent cor-respondent of the B'isLoii Journal, appropoB of the Chicago Are, nays: One faimliur wllh t lie fearful confla-jratious which often occur In America is imprtsscd with Ihe exemption ex-emption of HreN in England. During Dur-ing a residence of two years In a town of nearly four hundred thousand thous-and inhabitants, I have never witnessed wit-nessed the burning of a building and have seen but very few notices of such misfortunes in the papers. They are almost always confined to a single building where the llres occur, so that the term "burned out" Is substituted for the American Ameri-can expression "burned up." Here the walls aro usually but slightly injured, and the repairs are easily mado. The reason for the difference differ-ence in rt farence to these calamities calami-ties in fouud in the slyle of building, build-ing, English houses are almost exclusively built of stone or brick, both in the city and in the country. The plaster is placed upon the walla without laths, and the partitions are of brick. A large proportion of the Honrs are tile, nut! the roofs are generally covered with a similar material, Instead of the felt aud tar so often used in America. Shinglea are wholly unknown, and the po)-plodonotkuowthe po)-plodonotkuowthe meaning of the word. Alanyofthe churches aud public buildings are entirely ol stone, with the exception of tbe limited amount of wood required for furnishing, and there la but little couibtiHliblo material in the fitructurts of he country. Prts.-Ong through some of Die narrow, crooked streets of the old town, and notieirg the ancient and oflen dilupid:tU"1 Imnu'R of Iho poor, one cannot but think how greatly tbe appearand) oflhings would brt improved im-proved if ft sweeping lire could clear away the buildings which have stood for centuries. But the boon of exempliou is priceless. |