| Show SHORT STORIES The Philadelphia Record tells thIs story Three eccentrIc men of fenith put Dut up in the furthest and most secluded part 0 of Mount Morian cemetery some years ago three tall tail shafts of rough hewn granite The They had been friends a long time and agreed that as each died his shaft was as to be e broken and the frag fragment meat ment to be left where It dropped Two of the thO men passed away since then and their two Columns are shattered The third still stands erect No lot encloses these strange monuments and no names name are carved on the granite The They make an Interesting and puzzling sIght for vis 1 A Net Nest Orleans clOthing house rece receIved an order from a customer int in the e City of Mexico for several sUits of clothes with these helpful sU suggestions I am 4 years old weI weigh h 1 pounds dark corn com complexion I notary publiCo By way of re reply reply ply the order clerk told him that the spec were very interesting and ex but as a matter of form the house would be glad to have him fill out the enclosed measurement blank Tha second comet of 1900 has been credited to Professor Brooks of Geneva because he was the first to announce it But DanIel E Parks of Denver Demer an ama amateur amateur astronomer with a glas glasnow now asserts tOOt that he saw the object forty eight hours before Professor Brooks did and that he not only had a witness et at the time J J Reilly but succeeded in hay hav Ing a record of the fact made in the Den Denver Denver ver Republican on the day intervening be between between tween his own and Professor Brooks fits dis discoveries It is said that the principal object of Maitre Labors projected lecturing tour in the he United States which is to be made next winter Is to recuperate hIs for fortunes fortunes tunes destroyed beyond repair in France by his connection wi the Dreyfus case Not only did his defense of the persecuted caPtain fail to bring him an any return for j his services but he lo lost many nany of his bis clIents who were necessarily neglected during duOng the Dreyfus trial and blighted his prospect of professional success by reasOn of the of his side of the case Frank F Stone a sculptor formerly of London now In Los Angeles Cal Ca has made a medallion of President nt McKinley which he expects win will be popular during the campaign The German emperor has commissIoned a German manufacturer to make him three electric cars of dIfferent shape hape and desIn in one of which he intends to travel to the summer manoeuvres ip Saxon Saxony |
