It is only fair to some of the coal merchants to say that they take great pains to reduce this danger to a minimum.

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THE FISHES’ FEAST.

    “Sugar cargoes amounting to over 40,000 tons have been put down
    by mines and submarines.”—­Daily Paper.

  Full many a cube of Sparkling Loaf agleam
    The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear;
  Full many a sack of Crystals melts astream
    And wastes its sweetness on the fishes there.