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Show Salamander. At the fire last night, the stubborn and unaided resistance re-sistance of Mr. Winder's new house to tho progress of the flames was remarked remark-ed by every one. It was a wooden building, and yet with its entire gable on Gre from bottom to top, and about a width of four inches of the shinglo roof adjoining the gablo. It resisted a further extension of the flames for a full half hour, and then only permitted permit-ted them to extend about half the distance over the roof, the inside re maining intact until the whole structure was pulled down. Tho causes of this remarkable resistance of a wooden building to tho attack of furious flames fiercely driven directly against it by a high wind, wcro primarily, that the house was sheathed with red wood, and tho spaces between the studding were oompaotly filled with adobies. These are facts worthy tho attention of persons intending to build wooden dwellings. |