Show LIGHTNING SHORTHAND Mr Isaac S Dement of Chicago entertained enter-tained a number of the local stenographers and others last cream at Mr McGurrins office by some wonderful shorthand work Mr Dement won the championship of the world at Lake George N Y by writing 267 words per minute Last night he wrote 270 words in u minute and read the same back from his notes iu less than a minute doing it with apparent eats Mr Dement is a jolly man of 200 pounds and thirtyfour years of age and has attained distinction iu a literary liter-ary way iu addition to his wonderful powers pow-ers of shorthand He is on a western trip for recreation accompanied by his wife who did the reading for him After Mr Demcnts performance perform-ance Mr McGurrin was called on to write and succeeded in writing from Mrs Demerits reading 2SS words in a minute With these expert stenographers their speed depends simply on the amount reader spoken to them Very few persons can read distinctly at the speed spoken of I above audit is impossible for anyone person per-son to utter more words than such stenographers steno-graphers can correctly record |