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Show A Smelting; Experiment, Another smelting cnterpriso has gone to tho dogs, and another smeltei has come to grief. A few days since a well-known mining speculator of tho city visited tho mining office! of his acquaintances and collected together to-gether all of the choice specimens of argentiferous ores obtainable. A veil of mystery hung over this singular action, and many were tlie conjec-'tures conjec-'tures as to what was tho object; but all donated liberally until tho speculator specu-lator had enough of tho richest specimens speci-mens in town to found a valuable cabinet. This mysterious action was going on till a day or two since when the speculator was missed from his accustomed haunts and strango sur-misings sur-misings as to his whereabouts arose in the breasts of his acquaintances. t'inally evening approached, and as the shadows cast by the setting sun grew longer, the portly form of the speculator appeared in the distance, his face florid and burned, his hair singed and his lingers draped in variegated va-riegated rags. Ho bore the gene; a 1 appearance of one who had passed through a fierv fnrn.n?n and papAiiorl with his life. He slyly enterel ft friend's office and said "I'm ruined; but please don't tell anyone." He then related how he had, unbeknown to his acquaintances, built a small smelting furnace in an old house in the western part of the city, how he expected to "run out" any quantity of silver from rich specimens, how he started a fire in the smelter, how the furnace was a mass ot smoldering ruins in less than fifteen minutes irom the time the fire was startcd,and how ho came near perishing with it in his endeavors to extinguish the flames. He is very anxious to be healed, and no longer contemplates building smelters to experiment with. |