BARNDM'S BURGLAR ALARM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1255, 15 December 1882, Page 2

BARNDM'S BURGLAR ALARM.

Barnum it not dead; he is devoting his stupendous energy to the great burglar. question which iaperturbin'g Iraiiistan, the family, seat of the Baruums, Burglar alarms, man traps, spring guns, eleotrieity are uied in profusion, but tho mind of Barnum is in favor of simpler instruments Innismn, as its name suggests is a picturesque oriental edifice, crowned with innumerable domes, in the shape of inverted turnips, like the Pavilion at Brighton, ,and lends itself admirably to the defensive measures. Without the least interfering with its architectural beauties lie has contrived to hang round the etlerior a number of powerful gongs, ; which, by a simple mechanism, can all be banged at once. On hearing a suspicious noise the awakened sleeper id requested to pull the rope. it< his bedside, wheu a roar is brazened forth that surpasses Wagner'a wildest conceptions of thunder in Walkyrid, and can only be realised by those flip have spent Lalf-an-hour in a balloon during a thunderstorm; Whether house rent noar Iraimiau; has fallen ; 'we are not told, but it is probable.' It would be curious, moreover, to know from a periou who has spent a week with Bar' num, if he too, has passed many sleepiest uights, and whether his host guarantees the absence of unnecessary nervousness on the part of one's fellow visitor.