BEING " DYNAMITED."

Kumara Times, Issue 489, 22 April 1878, Page 4

BEING " DYNAMITED."

We chronicled but lately a poor fellow dynamited out of existence on the C.P.P. The painful fact would seem to be worn quite barren, but in a conversation with a friend a few evenings since, who recently nvrt, while travelling, a manufacturer of nitroglycerine, we find our error. Ho was remarking to the manufacturer of this playful explosive something about its deadly risk. "Why, yes," said he, "it is a. sort of resky; but then, you see, it has its good points. When a man gits set: up' by dynamite there ain't anything left of him, so to speak—at least, not enough for his friends to cry over—he goes oui sudden, and stays out. There ain't no long sickness, a-wearing Ms-wife's life out a-nursing him ; no doctor's bills, no casket, no hearse and Carriages, no choice lots in a fashionable cemetery, nor a fancy tombstone. His widder gets all this outlay—and perhaps she wants it bad to get along with, poor crrter. Then there ain't no crowdin' of the house to see how you look; you're layin' round loose enough, but you ain't on view—not any." Here the dynamite man paused a moment, and then broke out: " And that ain't all—it just sails a man, this doest, when it hits him—he goes up as fine as sand, and when he comes down he may fall into a field that they are going to put in wheat; and the next ihinsf that happens is, he comes up in the grain; and its just as like as not, when he gets into the flour, they'll serve him up at "liis*.own breakfast table in a batch of hot' roUs," and here the, disciple of explosive evolution laughed softly. " But your wife, she ■ must suffer from apprehension." " Oh, no ! Mary Ann's none of your faintaway'kind ; she says I'm a born fool, that's all; she's safe on chances, that woman; shoknows how to take a risk, .she does."