Show ot of nerves aforesaid and lockjaw is a likely to follow the estimate of wounded does doea not include the slight hurt who will mako magoa a much longer list dut but taking the figures given and leaving out cut of consideration all destruction ot of property by fire it would seem that the nations bill for its fourth of july celebration Is a pretty heavy one the property nos loss by fires due to careless use of explosives will amount to at least possibly it may run up into the millions but the estimate here given represents presenta re merely an average fourth of july people will throw firecrackers into places where they are likely to start conflagration and which excite fluch enthusiasm when they go up have a deplorable way of coming doming down upon roofs and making mischief then too many ot of the modern kind of fireworks such auch as the bombs bomba which rise 1000 feet in the air and explode liberating beautiful showers of vart varl colored stars contain considerable quantities af 9 high explosives and are proportionately dangerous only last fourth of july it will be remembered many people were killed and wounded by the accidental setting off of a quan city of cuch bombs which had bad been put in readiness for a fireworks exhibition hibi tion some probably a dozen shops that contain large stocks of fireworks will be destroyed by the accidental setting off of the combustibles incidentally endangering much property in their neighborhood few finer and more striking exhibitions in the fireworks line are glye given n on the glorious fourth than are furnished by such impromptu displays but they cost a great deal of money it grown people are satisfied to risk life and limb in playing with the high explosives contained in many kinds of fireworks it Is nob odys business but theirs unfortunately some of the instruments st of celebration placed in the bands of children are loaded with arnall quantities of similar deadly materials naturally the little ones like boat best the ha torpedoes which make he loudest noise and those are the ones that con wn tain fulminate of mercury an exceedingly dangerous substance and sometimes even dynamite just why the police do not take the necessary pains to suppress the sale of such buch torpedoes nobody can say to offer them tor for sale is against the law but ordinarily the regulation Is not enforced and little bobby or johnny walks walka innocently about the streets on the fourth of july with enough dyna 1 mite in his big jacket pocket to injure him bin seriously or possibly killuim kill him if a mischance should set off his gerot torpedoes MI all at once parents are not acquainted sufficiently lewith with the danger that thai lurks in some kinds of torpedoes it they were at all al aware of it accidents of the kind would be less frequent and public opinion would bring about the proper enforcement of the law which forbids the sale of these bombs tor for bombs they are though only small ones of |