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Show i The Umbrella Lonj- .go. It Is not known dcfirdiely when umbrellas were Invented, but something some-thing of the sort mustha,e been constructed about the year 800 of ou' era, forin the year S02 Alcuin, bishop bish-op of Tours, sent a present to Bishop Arno, ofSalxburg.wIUt these words: MI ha vet sent your reverence screen which -will protect your ven-e-rable head from the beating rain." Whatever tho contrivance was It inust then have been something strange and tare, otherwise it mutt have hardly bean worth sending 300 mile. JtttladeljJaa Timtt. |