WOHENS CURIOSITY Ii i I Causes the Fire Department a Brisk I Run The overweening curiosity of womanhood woman-hood gave the fire department a tight I run on a false alarm yesterday morning For several days past a number of the I alarm boxes throughout the lire district hrve been defective and the electrician i started out to repair the circuit Among other stations he discovered box 214 cor nor of Third South irnd Seventh East to I bo out of order After connecting the lf i < yA M fuse he slammed the iron door which I protects the mechanism of the box butte but-te force of the slam was so great that the lock failed to srap The door rebounded and stood ajar inviting in-viting the curiosity of two passing schOol I misses The girls began to wonder over the curiouslooking Interior and finally one of them pulled the hook which starts tho alarm They had gone but a few rods from the box when the clang of the approaching apparatus fell upon their ears and very much frightened both of tho younr maidens who took to their heels The episode furnished a good deal of merriment for the partment and the Itddies did not begrudge the exercise begu One of the gallant members remarked that a woman was always found at the bottom of everythuii I I I 1