HOW LONG WILL THE COAL LAST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 9 February 1884, Page 4

HOW LONG WILL THE COAL LAST.

Not long ago English coal consumers were anxious because some geologist bad calculated that the coal supply of the island would at the present rate, be exhausted in some thousands of years, more or less. The Pennsylvanians have a much shorter supply. Some one has shown that the amhracite at least, will last but a little over three hundred years. When coal first came into general use a wealthy old gentleman in a New England town, who was a noted grumbler, refused to alter his fire places to admit grates and coal stoves, He regarded it as a needless expense, as in a few years the supply of coal would be exhausted. "Why, Mr D.," said ?. neighbor, "g>o)ogists calculate that there is coal ''iv-iish ro last the (?oi">try a millir.n

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FEARFUL VENTURE OF A LUNATIC.

At Marylebone, London, Douglas. William Nimmo, a clerk, was charged with being an insane person found wandering without ,propor control in the Priory Road, Kilbum, A policeconstable said he Was on duty in Prior jioad about five minutes to seven on Sunday night, when lie saw tho (risoner standing on the top of a 70l'ling bidder, apparently looking round it'iout London. The ladder was leaning against a high house, surmounted by a steeple, and tho prisoner was sending on the part of the ladder which extended far'above the top of

Ie steeple, tho ladder all tho time' raying to and fro with his weight. |ie witness dared not shout or move i' fear the man would fall, i which he niected ho would do every minute,

o therefore waited till he.camo down his own accord, and then took him tho station. He produced a cortifi-

to of insanity, which had been ;ned by the divisional surgeon. In

ply to the magistrate, the prisoner id the constable's statement was

cuite right. He Avas just coining home i om Hampstead, and seeing the ladder standing against an empty house, i lought he would go tip it a little way, 1 ut he did not mean to go right up to tic top, 110 had never beeu up a liddcr before, and as there wore no plonks on it to prevent people going iip, ho took the opportunity. There wis nobody about as luck would have t. He did not think any of his friends jvere present in court. Mr Marsham ordered the prisoner to be taken to the Hampstead Union, to bo seen by another doctor, and bo dealt with as a ilunatic.