Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 May 1897 — Page 3

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NEW TYPEWRITER WILL KEEP PACE IP^rwlTH DICTATION.

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Simple Piece of Mechanism That Accomplishes Astonishing Results—Another Invention Intended For Business Correspondence.

4 The latest aspirant for honors in the dir?ction of rapid typewriting is George K. Andersonrof Brooklyn, who has just taken out letters patent for a word writing typewriter which is meant to take the place of ordinary shorthand writing, at the same lime making a record which can be read by any one.

The results which Mr. Anderson's maohino is capable of, and the mechanical cleverness and simplicity with which those are accomplished, make the machine worthy of notice. Mr. Anderson says that In his studies made in preparation for devising this machine he found the speed of operating the ordinary typewriter was clearly limited by the fact that but one key could be touched at a time and but one charactcr printed at a time, while with each of these operations the feeding and shifting mechanism had to be moved. By a lingering system which would bring nil the fingers into play^these operations might ho hastened, but not enough. On the other hand, if all the finger3 could be made available at once to select the letters for a word and then the word be printed with a single stroke of tho hand, ho believed that the necessary speed would be obtained to tako specche3, testimony or correspondence from dictation instead of having to -use pen or pencil and shorthand characters. This is the kind of machine he has made. Tho whole affair occupies a space only 6 inches square and goes into a case,which is only 5 inches deep after tho roll of paper is removed and its holder folded down. The machine and its case weigh only about 2J4 pounds.

All the lettors and characters that are to be printed are to be found marked upon the 16 keys, which lie next to one another within the four outer keys. If yon press upon any of these keys without touching cither of the outer keys, you will And that you have printed the letter or character which is marked on tho end nearest the operator. Now, if you want to print any of the letters in the second line, ynu can do it by pressing at the same time upon one of the outer keys, which are marked "con's line 2" or "vow's line 2," which bring forward either the consonants or vowels as they may be wanted. So also with line 8. Figures are printed by using the fingers of the right hand while pressing a lever at the left of tho head of the machine.

The 16 keys are so arranged that they can be reached and operated in pairs, so Miat one finger can press down either one or both keys of each pair.

At work the palm of each hand rests upon the outer shifting keys, the little finIftvsupon the next shifting keys, the third, second and first fingers in order upon the r.oxt keys, and the thumb upon those which are clustered at the front of the center of the machine.

It is not contended that accurate spelling can always be done, or that writing can be produced which would do for correspondence. But it is always possible to do phonetic spelling and at each stroke to print either tb& whole of a word or a great part of it.

The printing apparatus is simple. The type is cast on segments of a circle, like those used in the Hammond typewriter, but very much smaller. These segments lie just over the back ends of the keys, with one line of letters over each key. Tho shifting keys merely turn these segments to expose the proper line of type, and then when the keys are pressed they bring the paper and ink ribbon up against the type and make the imprint. With each movement the paper is fed forward the width of a line.

Mr. Anderson says he has made three or four of his machines and put them in use in business offices in this city, and that girls who have been operating them only a short time are now ablo to writo more than 100 words a minute. It will bo evident to any one that one great advantage which such shorthand notes have over the ordinary ones is that any person can read and transcribe them, and that half a dozen typewriters migln^. be kept busy writing out letters which one operator on the shorthand machine could take notes for.

Mr. Anderson believes that his invention will find its most useful place in offices, but he says it could be used also for taking speeches and for other work for tho press, and that in the case of late copy a very good compositor could set up tho matter from its record. I In Jersey City an inventor is at work perfecting a word typewriter which is as different from Mr. Anderson's as one machine Own be from another. Instead of being satisfied with crudely spelled and irregularly printed matter, the Jersey inventor is making a machine whiuh will turn otft finer work, better printed and better spaced, than can bu produced on any single letter typewriter. To do this he employs, instead of the extremely simple devices of Mr. Anderson, a system so complicated that it would be almost impossible to describe it clearly in words alone. In appearance it is not unlike a checkerboard. Its top is about 16 inches long and 12 inches wide, and this is divided into 96 oblong spaces. Each of these spaces is a key, ai'id each key contains six words, or five words and a letter or figure, which it Is capable of printing. Tho words are arranged down the board in alphabetical order.

At the front of the keyboard are five shifting keys, upon which rest the fingers of the left hand. Each of these keys is marked with a particular color. If you touch any key on the board without touching a shifting key, it prints the letter or word that stands first upon the key. The pushing of the first shifting key brings up the second word on each key, and so on with each shifting key and set of words on the keys, while at the same time a color like that of the shifting key shows beside the words on the keys to make tho operator sure that he is getting the word of the series which he wants.

The words ire printed from single typo set in place for each operation, and the paper is fed forward automatically each time for just the number, of type spaces •used, and th for one more to mako the ppace between tho words. .With this machine, the inventor says, correspondence or other work can be taken from dictation like shorthand work and written out in a finished form at one operation. Of course only the words which the machine has been prepared to make can be printed, except by spelling them out in siugle letters •s at present, but the inventor says hij tnaohine cont ins more words than one ordinarily uses lor business correspondence, "While I was making the machine," he laid recently, "I began to gather up busi

ness letters from many sources. I got letters which related to as many sorts of business as I could, and I got hundreds of them. Then I analyzed all of these, sorting out and cataloguing the words I found. It will probably surprise you to learn that I found that 5)0 per cent of all the business letters of the country can be duplicated with a use of only 135 separate words. That, however, is a fact. "Now in my machine I have nearlv GOO

reasonable period of time to have a pooket device which will savo them nearly all the work of 5^riting and spelling.—New York Sun.

TEE TOMBS DOOMED.

New York's Historic Prison to Be Turn Down. The arrangements for tearing down tho Center street frgnt of tho famous old Tombs prison in New York and beginning work on the new prison building havo been completed, and the work of demolition will bo begun at once.

Only that part of the Tombs which comprised the old court of sessions, facing on Center street, will be torn down, and ifpon this fiita an entirely new building will be erected, extending across the block on Center street, a distance of 200 feet, and back into the block B0 feet.

The pare of the building to be tern down is now occupied by the general offices of the prison, the kitchen, storeroom and part, of the female ward.

To many tho destruction of the historio old structure, which is known all over tho United States, seems an act little short of vandalism. Representing one of the very few pieces of Egyptian architecture in America, and inseparably associated with so much of the city's history, it seems only right that it should be allowed to escape destruction.

But .the powers that be have ordained otherwise. True, the recollections which cluster about the Tombs are not all of tho pieasantest, but none can gainsay that they are historic memories, and it is doubtful if there can be found today a half dozen buildings in America which are as well known as this grim old structure, which, for over half a century, has echoed with the curses pf men, the sobs of woman and the wail of children.—New York Journal.

A MATTES OF DBESS.

Sandals Killed Out of the Library of the British Museum. The British museum has just turned out of its library a reader who came into its solemn precincts wearing sandals.

The man had a ticket such as everybody must obtain in order to use this library, and it was not noticed until after he had entered'that he was shod in a peculiarly unconventional manner. He wore sandals of a classical pattern, consisting of a fiat sole bound to the foot with leather thongs. His modern and inartistic British feet were fully exposed to the public view.

Ho was a respectable and educated person. The officials of the library took counsel together, and informed him politely that ho would have to leave, and would be admitted only in leather shoes completely covering his feet. The sandals they considered a menace to public order in tho library. The readers, who are supposed to be engaged exclusively in research and literary work, would neglect their solemn tasks in order to gambol about the man in sandals. Af n- a spirited protest he left.

Hearing of this incident, Mr. Edward Carpenter, a scholar and a gentleman, has announced his intention of proceeding to the library wearing sandals. He invites all citizens who care for personal liberty to accompany him, shod like himself, or at least otherwise than in the ordinary manner. He does not know why any man should not make use of the British museum and its library wearing the chlamys. the chiton, or the toga.

I.effc His Young Bride.

George Monnicr, Jr., the 19-year-old son of a wealthy Frenchman who owns a wholesale and retail liquor store in San Francisco, is missing.

He has deserted his bride, a pretty girl of no more than his own age, who up to March 4 was Miss Violet Henry.

All the trouble, it is asserted, has been caused by the opposition of Monnier's father. The h.tter objected to the match, but he learned of it too late to prevent the marriage. It is supposed that he has sent his son to France. The bride, in order to protect her rights, has placed her case in the hands of an attorney.—San Francisco Examiner.

Snow Si*ty Feet Deep.

Special Agent Sherrard Coleman of the land court, who recently spent two weeks inspecting grant surveys in northern New Mcxico and southern Colorado, states that adjacent to streaips flowing into the Rio Grande in that region the snow is now 40 to 60 feet deep in many places, the cold weather having prevented it from melting, and should It suddenly turn warm he thinks the lower and central Rio Grand' valley floods will surpass all previous records. Never in history has suoh a quantity of snow been stored in the mountain cuts at this time of the year.—Denver Republican.

Occupation For Ex-Presidents. At last we havo coma to it. General Harrison 1)88 shown us what to do with our ex-presidents. The plaoe for them is at the cradle. He has been doing yeoman's duty for his country and posterity during his recent family visit to Chicago. He has 'tended the baby whilo his wife went shopping. Good! Only two of our presidents have beon able to boast of being fathers after the close of their terms of office—Mr. Tyler and General Harrison. But the probabilities aro that the stork has not deserted tho home of ex-President Cleveland. Tyler, the luokiest man who ever became president, was the father of six children after his retirement from office. Ho never expected to bo president, and had to borrow a suit of clothes to be inaugurated in.—New York Press.

Horse Climbs Buggy. Edward C. Parish of west Nineteenth street, New York, whjlo out horseback riding one evening recently, happened to pass the corner of Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Fortieth street just as the 6 o'clock whistle was sounded by a rock drilling engine on that corner.

Parish's horse shied and reared, throwing its lore feet into a buggy driven by John Mnllcr of East Fortieth street. One of the horse's knees struck Muller in tho face, smashing his glasses. Parish pulled his horse down to the ground, and then it ran away with him for a block.—Exchange.

PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

Prince Bismarck was ablo recently to go out of doors for the first time since Jan. 2.

The birth of a daughter to the Duke and Duchoss of York brings the number of tho queen's great-grandchildren up to 30.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady gtaiiton expects to bring out the second and concluding part of "The Woman's Bible" in June.

Bristol's memorial to John Cabot will I)e a tower 10& feet high on Brandon hill, Which overlooks the city and the river from which Cabot sailed.

Pnderewski aroused greater enthusiasm than usual in Paris recently by bis playing at a concert in the Gaite theater gotten up to procure money to erect a monument to the composer Henri Lltolff.

Sir Isaac Pitman, the shorethand man and vegetarian, who died a short time ago, was peculiar In his habits. He arose every morning at -1 o'clock and went to his desk,

separate words and chapters, and these where he worked with short pauses only »re enough to enable a person to writa *or simple meals until 10 at night, upon any but a technical subject without having to spell out a thing except nam af persons and places."

Undoubtedly other inventors are at work upon machines for purposes similar %P and people may hare within a

Mr. Fairfield, head of the South African department in the British colonial ofiSce, aud the one man whe probably knew the whole truth about the attempted outrage la the Tran^mal, died sooeptiy Rate

Ono queen's jubilee Is very like another, and about the only difference between the fiftieth and the sixtieth anniversaries of Victoria's accession to the thron9 is embodied in this sentence, for it 13 mainly a difference In the ordinal adjective.

So those of us who saw the 1887 jubilee and are denied the sacred privilege this year of being jammed to a jelly whilo watching a heavy, somber faced old lady— God bless her—in probably the same white bonnet with black feathers, or black bonnet with white feathers, in which ber features were framed ten years ago, must be satisfied with looking back to that ordeal and remembering—as one does in looking back—only the pleasant things about the episode. Processions are very much alike the world over. You wait an unoonseionable time for them, and they are over in a minute. Both these conditions were fulfilled in a superlative degree on the day of the last jubilee. Every one waited threo hours for the procession, and it took it five minutes to pass.

Fortunately, our London lodgings not being on the line of march, we were not ruthlessly tipped out of them on the eventful day of the parade, as many sojourners in hotels and lodgings were. It wa3 with that currish understanding they took their rooms in the first place. Windows were at a ridiculous premium along the route, and unless you were willing to pay a small fortune for your own suit that day out you went. We went out of our own free will when we were ready. But that was very early on the great day. "Vehicular traffic," as the signs said, being stopped at 8 in the morning, it was Important to get out early if one wanted a hansom. And we were far from the procession's route.

Never will one forget the period of wait ing for that procession. Infinitely more in terest'ing, more varied and more absorbing than the royal suits it waited to sea was the crowd as it surged and swelled and at last congested. Fifty thousand people were visible from our seats, massed as tightly as they could be packed. Thinking of the long and dreary waiting, one had taken a book to read. It was never opened or thought of. The human volume at ono's feet was more thrilling than a thousand novels.

When there were more bodies in a given space than that space could possibly ac commodate, the weaker ones lost consciousness. As they were like brioks in a wall, they could only faint standing. But the celerity was marvelous with which hospital ambulance made for each affected spot and bore each victim off on a stretch er to a heap of cool brown earth deposited for the purpose round a lamp post in the middle of the street. Atone time I counted 80 fainting figures at this refuge.

As, however, the number grew, and as, when the prooession came by, every prosr trate image raised itself up, and saw everything most beautifully, and could have touched the queen in her oarrlage as she passed, the conclusion was reached that fainting was not such a bad specula tion after all and repaid the fainter with interest. It was worth a good deal to get out of the human wall in which they were all stuck.

It was worth the big price—8 guineas each those uncomfortable, perilous, wooden scaffolding seats cost—to be on such near and yet such far terms with a British mob. Never will one regret the decision in favor of temporary seats outside a ramshackle building near Westminster bridge. There was no better point of view for populace or procession.

It was like a day with Dickens. There was almost every character that ever quickened his books. Chadbands and Grtfdgrinds and Pecksniffs and Mrs. Gamps and Little Nells and all kinds of funny, snuffy creatures swarmed, looking as if they had merged from dust, darkness and cobwebs for the first time in years. And their conversation—without the wit, which one felt more than ever convinced. inust have been purely Dickens' own, that pervaded it—was just like the dialogue^ with which his characters enlivened their, otherwise dreary existence. "'Wot beautififl heyes yau've goti'-'e says to me, 'e says. Han hi says to 'im, hi says, 'What's to do with my hoyesl' "Let go my bloomin coattails, %rn't you?" This a father holding a 2-ydhr-old child to one of a larger growth trying to raise himself by a thickness of cloth and blubbering. The mother meanwhile^ wit'h the baby, had decently fainted and was being hauled out over the heads of the orowd and taken to the lamppost wi,th the dirt around it. Such bally rot—bringin the byby!" ejaculated the head of the family in disgust, yanking himself away from the still tugging boy, who forthwith screamed. "Hit's a shyme, thet'e wot it is," commented a motherly woman with a purple face down which streams of water poured. "Hi' d'old yer up, but hi carn't heven mop my fyce my hown self, and my heyes is full now."

One significant fact came to light that daj% and that was that almost none of her majesty's meaner subjects had ever seen her. We all remember the story of the very old woman wl.* was wheeled to Buckingham palace to see and bless her beloved queen and died without the sight beoause the queen was hidden in the corner of a close carriage. I don't know what longings may have thrilled the rather disloyal looking forms I saw, but none, even on the benches with us in the aristocratio attitude of trembling on a tippity foundation built outside a barber's shop, had ever seen the beloved monarch whose semicentennial was in process.

But, after all, it was the great public that- was the main feature of tho day. Shut up in a houso, seeing the glittering pageant of gilded coachcs, cream colored ponies and men on horseback on' their way to church meant sentimentally a gocd deal, and historically more. As a spectaclo aud an experience it did not compare with that of the swarming, seething subjects, most of whom know nothing, and care less, about their beloved queen. And with tho distinction that this year the experience will not bo new, except to those who were unborn or in arms in 1887. the 18&7 jubilee presents no new features as a pageant or a mob.—Cor. Chicago'TimesHaralcL -.

WILDCAT IN A CAE.

An Xlxpress Messenger Has a Thrilling Run on a Kentucky Railroad. There was plenty of excitement In' the train 6hed of the Union Central depot at Cincinnati one evening recently while a number of railway and express men were endeavoring to capture a wildcat. Some time before the arrival of tho Lexington express on the Kentuoky Central, at 6:20, a telegram was received at the office of the Adams Express company, saying that a wildcat was looso in the express car of that train and asking that arrangements ba made for its capture when the train arrived. In the meantime, Express Messenger W. F. Garrett was having a very interesting time on his run.

Among his receipts at Berea, Hy., was a cage consisting chiefly of wire netting and. containing two large wildcats, consigned to a party in Lexington. To the horror of the messenger, one of the animals got out of the cage soon after leaving Berea. The wildcat took up a position oa top ol a lo» 04 kegs that were in that

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS,! JDAY MORNING. MAY 25.1897.

ABOUT THE JUBILEE.

BRITISH QUEEN'S GREAT FE^j^AY DESCRIBED IN ADVANCE.

Countless Thousands Form the Many Colored Swaying Mob—Few of Victoria's Subject® Have Seen Her Face—Brilliant

Pageant and Accompanying I»cldfent».

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end of the car and amused itself by following Garrett about with its glaring eyes and switching its bushy tail. As long as it remained there Garrett had no objection, but his oonHtant fear was that tho animal would spring upon him.. He dared not take his eyes off it, and finally managed to find his pistol belt and strap his weapons about him. Strangely enough, the cat seemed to be so dazed and scared by the motion of the train tljat at no time during the long distance over which they rode together did it attempt to attack Garrett, bxit the constant dread that it would do so made the journey seem doubly long to him, and his friends wonder that his hair did not turn gray. Garrett retained his presence of miffa, however, and had his door opened and received some gocds at both Wlnohester and Paris.

When the train arrived here, means of capturing tho animal was discussed. Three unsuccessful attempts wore made to throw a blanket over the cat, but each time it slid out of the folds, and the trainmen beat a retreat. The fireman then brought a torch, and struck the animal in the face with it, blinding and dazing the cat. A blanket was then thrown over it, and it was captured, put into a barrel and shipped back to Lexington.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

DOG- RAISES DU0KS.

Tlio Animal Hovers Over Kggs Until They Are Hatched. A contributor to tho columns of the tyloultrio (Ga.) Observer tells of a remarkable incident ns follows: "I am very fond of domestic animals and fowls, and the possessor of a fine, intelligent fox terrier which answers to the name of Fannie. I attended a sale some months ago and bought a Poland duck. I brought her home and put her among the other poultry in the yard. "In a few days I noticed that Fnnny and Miss Poland ware on good terms with each other and in a few weeks were inseperable. Finally Miss Poland thought she had loaded long enough and went to Bitting. "Fannie made regular visits to her and seemed to take great interest in the proceeding. The duck rarely left her ne3t. After sitting for about a week she sickened and died. Fanny seemed almost broken hearted over the untimely death of her friend. "The evening of her death I missed Fanny from her accustomed .place in the yard and began a search for hor. I found her in the duck's nest with the eggs underneath her. The next morning I visited the poultry house and found Fanny still covering the eggs. I concluded not to disturb her, but await results. "This continued for some weeks, and at the end of the usual time allowed for incubation I found that 6ix lively little ducks had become citizens of the poultry yard."

DANCED nr HAVANA.

L.ole Fuller Grew Tired of Working Tor 80 Cent Dollars. Loie Fuller, the dancer, returned recently from Havana, where she has been waving the sticks for audiences that wero large, but not as profitable as they looked. "I was paid my percentage and salary in Spanish paper money," she eid, "and it had depreciated so much that 1 only got 80 cents on the dollar for the first week. During the second week it had dropped to 60 per cent-, and for the last week I got only 40 per cent. I didn't see the uso of dancing any longer at that rate, so I took the steamer and came homo instead of remaining to see the audiences growing larger and the profits smaller every night." "There were no signs of the war in Havana," fliio said, "beyond tho presence of the great number of -Spanish officers. Our audiences were entirely Spanish. Tho Cuban husband?, brothers and fathers were all with the insurgents, and we saw nothing but Spaniards."

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It is said that lead working disfigures the humafi body more than any other kind of work.

In this industry it is inevitable that sooner or Inter the workers must succumb to lead poisoning, and there would appear to be no part of the body that the poisonous fumes and floating particlos which permeate tho atmosphere of the workshops do hot affect. The complexion takes on a ghastly, corpselike pallor, the gums turn blue, the teeth decay rapidly and fall out, and tho eyelids aro hideously inflamed. A scratch or an abrasion of the skin beoomes an uniiealable sore.

Later on, when nerves and muscles become affected by the poison in the blood, the eyeballs ard drawn into oblique positions and take on a dim and bleared appearance. The joints, especially the knee and the wrist, beoome semiparalyzed, and the wholo form is gradually bent and contorted.—New York Journal.

A Fellow Feeling.

"ThereVno doubt," said Mr. Mcekiob, "that tb« bicycle has done much to promote the happiness of mankind." "Inwhfttwayy" "It makes people more sympathetic. It was not until she had a bicycle that my wife ever expressed any sympathy with me when I lost a collar button."—Washington Star.

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Eighty Years Old and Lost, John II. Carpenter and his wife, both over 80 years old, lost their way in Williamsburg, 1". Y., one night recently. They were wandering aimlessly about on Grand street, near Driggs avenue, when a policeman took them to the Bedford avcnud station house. They could not tell where they lived. The police decided to keep them at tho station house for the night.

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His pulse, was stirred?

How did she read his secret thoughtsAnd never err? How did she know hor glances thrilled His soul? That all his heart was filled

With love for her?

How many years was it? Twenty, thirty, forty—no matter. At tho sound of the old "Now I lay me" they have all rolled back their massive doors and we go down through them to the old, red, one story house where life first took its morning. We see the little window on the right side, close under the rafters. Well, we slept sounder slumber and dreamed sweeter dreams in that old garret than we ever have in our lofty chambers, with gilded ceilings and snowy draperies. And what of it, if the bed was a straw one and the coverlet made of red and yellow "patches" of calico? We have never snuggled down 60 contentedly on our springs and hair mattresses. "Now I lay me." How softly sleep would come and weigh down the eyehds as we repeated the words after mother. We can hear her very tones, though it Is so many years since death silenced them, and feel the soft touch of her hand

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SOMETIMES "IT HAPPENS SO.

How did she know iis heart was hwsf He spoke no word Of love to her. How did she know That when she passed cr touched hiaa—so—

How did she know their life would be One grand, sweet song? To tell the truth, she didn't know These things. She thought that they were so,

But §}ie was wrong. —Pearson's Weekly.

THE CHILD'S PRAYER.

Simple lanes That Sweetly Linger In Our Memories. It is said of that good old man John Quincy Adams that he never went to rest at night till he had repeated the simple prayer learned in childhood—the familiar "JSOW I lay me down to sleep."

Is there not something touching in tho thought that theso words, breathed from the rosy lips of infancy, went with him away down through old age into the dark valley of death? And who is there, man or woman, for whom this littlo prayer has not old, sweet associations? Who, hearing its words, hears net, too, the "memory bells" ringing up from the golden plains of ohildhood? It may be a man in pride and strength of years, who has carved out for himself an honorable name and destiny in the world, perhaps the owner of bread lands and proud homes, with heart grown hard in its battle with the world.

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low and the tender lingering of her kiss upon our lips. It may be years since we have repeated this little prayer, or it may bo that, in tho din and struggle of life we have forgotten it and that at night we have lain down on our pillows never thinking to give thanks for the day and for the night.

But Booner or later we shall "lie down to sleep" when this prayer will be all our souls can take, all that will avail of rank or wealth or fame whatsoever we most prize in this world. But the little prayer, tho first, it may be, that we took upon our childish lips, shall follow us as we sail out under the solemn arches follow us as a sweet, faint, tender air from the shores, and when we cast our anchor, "the Lord our souls shall take."—Boston Herald.

Theory and Practice.

They were two pretty girls on the street ear. They were talking at a rate to make phonograph throw up its hands and everything was said in the strictest confidence, though all in the car could hear. "Did you ever see such airs as Alice takes on 6ince she's married?" asked the little biond as the pink in her cheeks deep- world, but really ened to a flush of scarlet. "She seems to think that her new existence is so delicious that we of the set who are not wedded must be pitied and patronized. It's too ridiculous for anything. I guess that there are other fish in the miitrhaoni&l

"It's a xvay they all have," smiled the more philosophical brunette. "Mamma •ays that- a young married woman simply can't help crowing over her girl friends and is pleased rather than troubled when she sees how they bate her for it. Don't you understand? She has landed her fiah, and we are still angling for bites." "Indeed we're not. I've reeled in two or three myself and then tossed them back. She has no business crowing over me. And

Then there was a gasp, the blond whispered excitedly into the oar of the brunette. tbetrn was an embrace, a resounding kiss sounded through the car and iho paa-

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In some rejects at least fiat life in Pari/ s«?cms to hold advantages over that in Nc~v York und Harlem. The concierge, for instance, has not obtained yet the despotic power cf the imperial Harleia Janitor. Ha does not even attempt to dlctaw to the tenants when they shall or shall nrr& eat, and they may dump their ashc« aad cooU their meals at their own sweet will.

The concierge, Ilka the janitor, lives in the building, and he is ttxpeoted, basidea keeping the building scrupulously clean, to attend to all tho wants of bis tenants. He or his wife must ruu all the errands, tako up the cards of visitors and see than no guest is compelled to climb up to a fiat when the owner is out. For hh? services the concierge reoeives a regular fee, amounting to about $250 a year.

The rental, too, of the Parisian fiat is much less than that of New Yaxk, Harlem, or even Brooklyn. At Neuilly-sur-Seine, a bus ride of about three-quarters of an hour from the heart of Paris, one may get a three room fiac, with kitohen and bath, for less than $10 a month.

The apartments in this suburb overlook a beautiful park, the rooms are honestly "light and airy, "and the kitchen contains running water, a stove, meat safe and ccal bin. All tho roctruj are furnishedwith parquet flooring, the ceiling is decorated prettily and French windows open out cn to little balconies.

The markebmen in the neighborhood deal in products suitable to Buch miniature homes. It is possible to buy rabbit, duck, hare, chicken, turkey, goose and other game by the pound. Vegetables, out ready for soup, can be bought, and the bakec brings around crisp bread at 6:80 every morning.—New York Press.

24 ELEPHANTS IN LINE.

The Greatest Exhibition of Trained Partly-? "'derms lr. the World.

A herd cf twenty-four elephants is rareiy encountered by hunters and we are certain no such stupendous herd of them was ever exhibited in any part of the world before, which are more than all the other shows iti America own or control. But that number of these beasts will positively be here with the Earnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth on Thursday, June 10th. What makes The exhibit equally as remarkable, all of these huge brutes are trained, and separately and together perform many wondert'ul and curious tricks. The Barnum & Bailey three herds of elephants are almost as famous as the show itself, for they ave known as the most eagacious, intelligent and wise, and consequently the best trained aoima.'s of their kind in the world. This triple herd of elephants will be seen in the new parado on the streets, too, together with the grand team of forty horsen, in the new pageant called the Return of Columbus to 'Barcelona. In the same' tent with them is the giantess gorilla-cs.i!ea Johanna—and the big biue-r.osed maTidri", the only two creatures of their kind in captivity in the world, and fifteen camels, also more than all the other shows in America have cbmblined. Besides theso there is the only eland, only addis, only uirar-antelope, only wart hog, only rhinocerous, o::ir hairless mare, three-nosed and tiirff-horned steer, dwarf zebra, and gi»:it giraffe in 'the country, aud fifty cagcs of wild a ni trained wild beasts, with scores of a*b animals, such as alpacas. llamas, susnaw?, bisons, buffalcs, sacred Indian ainmais, etc., etc. Altogether the zoological exhibition of the Barnum & Baiiley Show is rot only unsurpassed by any zoological garden in the contains mare rar# «nd euriwra quadrupeds, mammals, and amphibious creatures than any two sardoos anywhere.

A tremendous circus ia three ricfrp. on two stages, a racing track with marvelous display of champion aerialls's and the great new display of curious people, such as tbe giant, dwarf, Orissa twins, and others are a few of tho wonders and attractions. Aod ail of them conse here, with nothing oniiiied cr curtailed, on four trains, or sixty railroad cars.

A Guilty Conscience.

"I waequite at a loss," ?nid Mr. Storm* lngtou Barnes, "to understand why, when I pointed mv finger into space and said 'the counterfeit presentment of a roan,' a

she needn't think I'll be good nafeured un- nian got up and left precipitately.'' der it either." "i guess," exclaimed the treasurer, "Bat she hooked the fish she wanted "that ho must havo been the man who and wouldn't throw it book, dear. That's where she has tho beet of us." "No she hasn't. I"—

did it." "Did what?" "Came in cn a lead quarter."—Washington Star.

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