Beware Of Benzine

There has been a curious accident at Philadclphia. A Mr. Shoemaker, about to Ieave the city for the summer, got a watering-pot full of benzine with which to dampen the carpets and furniture and preserve them from motiis. In less than an hour the gas generated by the benzine exploded wifch a fearíul concussion and theroom burstintoflames. Theservant-girl was fatally injured, her clothes being burned away and the body baked to a crisp, and Mrs. Shoemaker was very daugerously hint. An examination of the parlor after the. fire had been extinguished showed sometlring of the foree of tlie explosión and the intense heat of the flamee. The w 'ndow slmtters were blown open, glass smashed into atoms, walls cracked and tho register knocked to pieces. The heat was so groat thut a small brouze figure was melted by it. ,