Extraordinary Enterprise

A quarter of fi century agb there was a memoréible conflagración at Sacramento city, Cal., by which the cntire. business porticm of the city was luid in asiles. "When tlie great ñre was at its maximum fury a wealthy mercliant námed McNnlty, who oivnedsome of the heaviest business establishment in tlie city, gazed íor a few moments upon the. work of destruction, and then, iustead of folding liis hands and weeping oyer the disaster, he went to the nearest livery stable, hived a ileet-footed horse, rodo like John (rilpiii during tlie remainder of tlie night, and before daylight the next morning had purchased every foot of lumber and every sawinill at Grass Valley and Nevada City. There is, possibly, n human being 011 earth who would think of running off by the light of his burning property in order to íiterally make, his fortune out of the disaster except au American. MeNulty did so, however, and alinost immediately realized out of the sale of his hiniber' fourfold as muoh nioney as he had lost by the great tire.- Grass Valleij i' nioii. To the inquiry of the Chicago Tribuno, "How sleep tlie brave?" the Kockland Conrier replies, "Nicely, thank yon, except when it is oppre'ssively warm; then we lie awake half the night.'' A Meeiden watchmaker has made a stoam engine weighing only fifteen graiiiK. Thoworks are silver, and three drops of water are enough to keep theni in motion twenty minutes.