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Show Street Kitchens a Boon ioM Paris Poor PARIS has many queer trades, but few as queer as the street kitchen that provides a meal for the poor. To them the i anise iant ia rue crimes In most opportunely. It I. usually found In a side street or bywsy, not far from a wineshop, to which you can bring food, if you like, and put It on one of the tables. Alongside the street kitchen thera hangs a slate on the wall, and on It Is written In white chalk the names of half a doien or so dishes making up the menu, the price opposite each of them. Just, beside the slate there Is what appears ap-pears to be like the doorway of a cellar. In reality it is a very bu.y and' efficient kitchen that supplies meal, to many hundreds hun-dreds during the short time It I. open. In front of t! doorway I. a large charcoal cooking store, that furnishes an evidently Inexhaustible supply of soup, vegetables and other eatables. On the shelves are all manner of restaurant utensils and stores. A most appetising smell reaches you and you realize you are very hungry. Two vegetables at 25 rentlmea each and a ragout, ra-gout, the day's delicacy, at (0 centimes, are chosen. At your order, the proprietor nods In reply, takes a dish off a shelf and disappears dis-appears toward the back of the kitchen, to return with a dish smoking hot. With a movement of the left hand he or ahe sweeps a helping of pnmmrg riles on to the plate, and aa quickly transfers ths artichokes, cooked also. Then half a page of newspaper Is tugged off .a string of them, and put over the steaming plateful, which yon take, pay for and depart to the wineshop. There it matters not If no refreshment Is ordered. Yoa sre left free to enjoy th wholesome cheap meal In peace. As you take the plate bark to the street toerrisM. lart. t-r kitchen, a pancake maker catches your eye, and dessert Is thought of. He stands further along the street with a little plated brazier of wood and charcoal In front of him, and above It a disc of copper, a aize l.irger tbaa the tiny stove beneath. He pours a white batter on to the copper plat cr disc, und aa be pours It he applies a little wooden rake with bis left band to rraooth the batter down, till th cooking plate is covered. Attentively he stares at the bubbling surface, then In a minute or two produces a great, flat bladed knlie. The batter la vtry thin and forms a large surface; but without t'esiutlnn be slips ths knife under un-der It, and, almost before you are aware, has turned the batter over. Presently he spresds a bit of butter or vegetable fat over the nicely browned pancake, scatters a little On sugar on It also, and lifts It off the griddle, neatly folded up. You spend some sous on those hot griddle vafera. which are not to be despised, then T New tork Htr.ld. pop round th corner, and dlsemjurs a ftw sous for a cupful of coffee. You bar had meal, ample as It Is en-jyable. en-jyable. at th price of an "old song " TIIR Washington Monument, solid as It is, cannot resist the beat of the sun poured on its southern side on a midsummer's day without a sligbt bending of the gigantic shaft. This is perceptible by mean of a copper wire. 174 feet lo '8. l.anglng in tb center of the structure, and carrying a plummet suspended In a vessel of water. At noon In aummer the apex of the monument, mon-ument, 6 SO feet above tbe ground, I. shifted by expansion of tbe .ton a few - un-dredlhs un-dredlhs of an Inch toward th north. Hlrh winds cans perceptible motion, cf th plummet, and In atlll weather delicate vibrations of the crust of tbe earth, otiiar-wIb otiiar-wIb nperceived. are registered by It- |