Show FREAKS OP OF FIRES P chable articles saved and other burned speaking of fires said the insurance man they are the queerest things in the world A fire will sometimes take infinite palus pains to burn up everything indestructible in sight and leave an inflammable article untouched I 1 have run across an all sorts of queer freaks played by fires in my time in a printing office fire every mae case was charred and every line of metal type was either or warped so as to be of no further use but the only font of wood type in the office turned up all right and when the linseed oil which had boiled out oct of the wood and stood all over it in beads was wiped off it was as good as ever 1 I remember once when I 1 insured a stone entrance to a cemetery which I 1 thought was as safe as a load of pig iron under water but the thin thing burned up inside of a month at another time I 1 canceled a policy on a rickety old frame mill which I 1 knew would bum up inside of a year or two that was years ago since then every brick p laning mill that I 1 have insured has been burned but the old frame shed a tood stood until last year when it was torn tora down and replaced by a new brick building ice houses would seem to be good risks but they burn more rapidly than match factories and when the fire la Is over the contents are usually a total loss I 1 would rather insure gunpowder than ice any day |