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Show ' SHORT STORIES .OF STREET AND TOWN J f ,. - . A local auctioneer has a grlrl about 10 years old. who troes to one of the East - side school Her teacher had reproved - the child many' times for Inattention and continual talking, but the words of , advice and admonition of the teacher seemed to have no effect on the little girl. Finally, a few days ago, the acher lost patience with the child and ued her from her seat to the front of the schoolroom, to make an example cf her. , "Mollie," she said, "you are the worst ' girl In the entire room; you are continually continu-ally talking, talking, talking. It's a . great wonder to me that you don't wear out your tongue." "Well, teacher," said the child with an air of injured innocence, "I can't help it; it isn't my fault; I Just can't help talking so much." . IVYou can't help itT Why. Mollle, what do you mean T' asked the teacher in amazement. "Why," said the child seriously, "my papa's an auctioneer." - - The case of Mllo Pippett charged with belnginane had Just been concluded and Judge Lewis had ordered the unfortunate un-fortunate man committed to the State Mental hospital at Provo. He left the courtroom In the company of two deputy sheriffs. Following a few feet behind came the interpreter and Deputy Clerk D. B. Davis. Suddenly the Insane man turned and with a quick movement started for the two. Mr. Davis has seen a good many Insane In-sane people in the four years that he has been connected with the Clerk's office and he long since decided that he did not care about having any close conversation con-versation with any of them. When he saw Pippett rapidly approaching he had a thought. The thought required action which Dave did not delay a second. Jumping past the side of the on-coming man he made a bee line for the Clerk's office at the other end of the halL" He made the distance In record-breaking time and when he reached the'inside of the office he was not only pale but out of breath. To the anxious Inquiry pf two of the young women clerks as to what was the matter Dave replied that he didn't Just know except that he was In a hurry to get inside of the office. It later developed that the insane man only wished to ask the interpreter a question. , A man and his wife boarded the car together. He was smoking a cigar and not wishing to throw it away, stood on the platform. The woman took a seat in front of two other women. The man paid the fares for himself and his wife. The women who sat behind her did not see the man pay her fare. Then the women in the rear began to gomlp about the newcomer. "That woman hasn't paid a cent," said one, as the conductor took their dime. "I know it," said the other. "Did you ever? She looks so cool that butter would not melt in her mouth!" "I guess she's an old stager at the game. I wouldn't dare to try a thing of thBt kind. I'd die of fright." "She certainly won't She's as cool as a cucumber." "I'd like to ten the conductor. Just to see what she'd do" when be asked her for the fare." . "I'll bet it wouldn't feaie her" she pronounced It "fare," of course. But they did not tell the conductor. Just then the man threw his cigar away and took his seat beside his wife. The faces of the women were a study in scarlet They were rtlent about "dead-beats" for the rest of that trip. STORAGE OF HEAT BOUGHT. The storage of heat has been one of the dreams of the engineer for years, and various schemes have been suggested. sug-gested. One is now being tried at an electric light station in London. The boilers of this station, of the water-tube water-tube type, were capable of generating steam of 125 pounds absolute pressure at the rate of 12,000 pounds an hour. " While this suffice for most purposes, the demand Is now so great at some times that the- boilers are inadequate and no ground Is available for extension exten-sion of the plant The period of maximum maxi-mum demand is, moreover, so fluctuating fluctuat-ing as to be uneconomical. Heat storage. stor-age. If it could be realized, might be a great advantage. The arrangement adopted In this London case. Is to fit a large cylindrical vessel containing water above -the ordinary ordi-nary steam drum of the boiler. When there Is only a normal demand upon the station some of the steam from the boiler Is passed Into this water-storage cylinder, with the result that the water Is kept at a high temperature, so that when the extra demand comes upon the station this water Is fed Into the boiler which, owing to this hot feed water, can give 15,000 pounds of steam an hour an increase of 25 per cent It is said that on occasion the evaporation was actually 25,000 pounds, but 25 per cent Is probably sufficient, especially as there Is no priming. There is no economy In the system; the coal consumption must increase even at a greater rate than the evaporation, evapo-ration, as there is considerable lots through heat radiation from the hot-water hot-water storage tank, so that the system may meet special conditions, but beyond be-yond that its practical advantages are not observable. |
