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Show I BlUAfl CURIOSITIES OF PRINTING. HOW HE KNEW. WAS TOO INDIGNANT. IHE WOMAN CONTRACTOR. Doubtless ths Birthplace jg( Mr, (.row of BmIm Toko Mg OrrirM the Art PreisrirsUva. for Moaoory Work, LESSON TALES OF THE POWER OF THl TAUGHT A RATHER China, the "cradle of ths arts, claims They sat upon the silent beach siNow It is the woman contractor anl TOUCHY GIRL. GILA MONSTER. lently, observes the New York World. the honor of the Invention of printing. Boston Is her home, says the New York A big, d wave and the Away fipek in the year 593, nearly 1,000 World. In the Athens of America Mrs ITkii It Doesn't KUI It Goosrolly sweet, serene silence broke simulta- yfiars before Gutenberg Issued the first Acrwtod mi th Street by Young Hu Cram made her entree as a contractor of Kludly Intention She Pretended nine years ago. She has her own office of It neously upon the beach. The young volume of his famous blble, the ChiLearn Forinonant Mark nese were using the "block system of to Feel Greutly Iniulted nt and Is thoroughly business-lik- e la all Fotooo A Ulttea Catllanana Rida man shuddered as this execution sugto In and his 4o0 tenth fevered own the gested printing, his pemind her dealings. Her husband Is also a U-century, Conduct. for Queer Can. cuniary condition, and as the big wave years before Europe had become accontractor. Together they have conreceded and lost itself in dark quainted with tbe "art preservative, for of a tracted AVID M. Putneyi HERE la one lnfal-(- 1 number of the foundation Inwork Celestial typos were depths of the ocean, his silvery voice the almond-eye- d Srj that city. public buildings lible way of telling roomi In a building burst out upon the these are the new public stilly morn In riot- better versed In the science of setting on Main atreet, Los ous oceans of when a woman Among movable were than the types American flowery eloquence. But, new court house and the the library, Angeles, Cal., form like tlje wave, he could not move her printers of the days of knows she Is well FrankBenjamin boulevard over the Boston & Albridge one of the oddest rocks.' A dressed she hardsweet, sad smile emerged lin. The "block system" of printing, is said to be one which bany railroad, museums of animal from his ly looks at other of the finest full, sensitive mouth, played which was so well known in the flowery of masonry In ths pieces and bird life, per women as she passabout his han',-'T.- e a kingdom less than six centuries after fitfully for face United work on States. entire Tho es them on the haps, In this coun' moment and was lost these contracts was delegated to Mnk lovely yel the birth of Christ, did not find its way most There street The rea Cram her try. low of his blliaus bearu id a look of to Europe until about the first of the by husband, who had Implicit horrible reptiles, pain sat son is not far to fifteenth when brow. hie .narble devotional upon rigidly century, confidence In her ability. One of the tarantulas, poison' seek she knows most Ills Ups moved convulsively, in an ef- manuals, each bearing a portrait and notable products of this enterous scorpions, and fort to a few lines In printing, became popular. they are all looking prising woman's skill is section No. 4 speak again, but as bis full, the most deadly insects from the burnvoice ventured out upon the gold These cuts and printed lines were taken at her unless they, too, are well pf the In Stony Brook ing climes of the south are to be found, silence there was a shock, from engravings mads on a single dressed. In which event she does Boston. This section Improvement the contained d not "For twenty years, the care to look at them. Oc and he drew it hurriedly back. At block, the very earliest dated specimen In the sewer lino largest enthusiast tells his visitors, "I have length, with supreme casionally In of drew he that character made Europe bear- ed women one of these carefully groom ever built In this country. To her was effort, been traveling up and down the coun- himself falls victim to the pride that date of 1423. There is still a questightly together and stuck. He before a fall, and a certain young also confided the construction of the try, across the desert and in the moun- was pleading for a lock of hair a token ing tion as to who was the first European goeth e of the woman living on a fashionable ave- foundation of the tains, getting these strangest specimens of love. How earnestly, how eloquently printer to use the movable It types. Edison Electric Light Company of of animal life. Now to this day many he nue had Just such an experience last pleaded! What plaintive pathos and is not a question as to what European About a year ago Mi's. Cram deweek. Dressed in perfect taste she was people think there is no such thing as a perspiration attended Invented for his movable Is known , it types, burning on a tour of the shopping districts. cided to embark in business for herself. Gila monster. And yet throughout the words! Who could resist him? A lock that the honor belongs to the far east Independent of her husband's Colorado desert, especially along the of was but a small thing, she The honor of being the first to adopt Whi.e walking between two Btores a hair! It She had, as she so naively Oila River, you may encounter thouand rather ruminated, supposing that the whole the system appears to rest between it, tired of being a secondary puts "got sands. On the other hand, too, you may Bult man came up beside her, raised cost $50. She gave It to him. He Laurens Coster of Haarlem (died 1440) young consideration. Mrs. Cram conducts a scarcely see one. The Gila monster his hat and in said a hesitating tone commission business in connection with Ulelodcrma borridum) is almost as pressed it Joyfully to his heart. She John Faust and John Gutenberg. In I beg your pardon The her other thick as your upper arm and about loved him! 0 bliss! Oh, my! Oh, yes, the above list some Include the name of look the young woman bent haughty selling machinery and upon him materials work, a Peter Schoffer, a Darling! be murmured, in of Faust, used In eighteen or twenty inches long. It has excavating and genarrested his a moment speech for melodramlc voice, "I love Dutch authorities claim that Coster was eral masonry work. Mrs. Cram'B busia head which Is pretty near all mouth Then he I repeated; beg your par- ness and opens clear back to Its ears. The you! I worship you! Tell me, dearest, the first to use movable types, and that don. experience has taught her that head is about as big as a common tea- that you love me in return. I never Gutenberg, who was at one time a financial success depends in great part I do not know loved another, he added, as the thirty-nint- h workman in Costers shop stole the you," was the freezupon cup, set with little vicious eyes, and the personal supervision of the work vision of unrequited love strode idea from him. The Germans give Gu- ing reply of the young woman as she in hand. mouth is powerfully muscled and set She realizes the opportunity to started pass on. The strangers for tenberg the honor and set the date of face splintered with four sharp fangs and a lot of hurriedly through his mind. leaks In the masonry and petty Into an amuBed Bmile, A heavy blush mantled her brow for a his first successful their practice of the art and he was about to serious character where a large grinders. The color of the monster Is a time speak third sum is Involved. So she makes a point reddish, with brown spots. It has a moment and then slid slowly down her at 1436. The first entire European book when the indignant young wroman paidr of ever printed from movable types hears blunt tall, as nearly all poisonous liz- hair and fell sloshily Into the sand. visiting once or twice a day the "Cease your unprovoked attentions I do love you, George, she answer- the name of Johann Faust on its title ards have. I found these monsters livor I shall call for the protection of scene of her operations. She drives a page. It bore the name of Tractatus some smart rig to and from her office. Mrs. ing in the hot sand. They are not good ed, fervently. "I adore you. gentleman. And I knew it, sweetheart, he gur- Petri Hlspanl" and was to fool with, and a man who is in the printed at He Beemed to be distressed by this, Cram's latest achievement was In seGila monster business must know what gled; and under the Influence of that Mentz In 1442. As Gutenberg did but he would curing the contract, from the Chase not yield. he is about One day last June I pulled Elyslan Joy and his unpaid board bill, not put hiB name on all of his books, or Granite Company of New York to team Dont don't be scared, he said. up from the hot desert to a little ranch combined with an effort to press her to the dato when they were Issued, there Is 40,000 tons of stone, to be used in eleam I not afraid, she declared, as on the Colorado River. The man who bis bosom despite tbe sleeves she wore, some doubt when the first appeared or her flashed. Print cannot do Jus- vating the tracks of the New York, owned the place had a pet Gila monster seven large beads of perspiration Btood how many were issued. Gutenbergs tice eyes to her tone; it should have robbed New Haven ft Hartford railroad. Mrs. which he kept In a barrel. He stooped out upon his classic brow and then ran great work was his Latin blble, which him of his power of speech, but he Cram has under her control the subdown to get him out to show him to me consecutively down upon bis subjacent appepared in 1456, and which is often seemed determined to rush on to his letting of a patented derrick, invented end some friends of his who were there, features. and owned by her husband. These dercatalogued as the first book ever doom. "Knew It? she repeated. Interrogand the monster shut down on his were used in demolishing the old ricks printed on movable types." Is "There some something I want thumb. ' The monster gripped the atively; and a shade of disappointment Tremont house In Boston, and they are he pleaded. thumb so tight in his awful mouth, swept horlxontally across her mobile THE FORTUNE TELLER KNEW. "How dare you? she demanded. employed in constructing the new Boswhich was like a vise, that his Jaws had face, removing large clusters of snowy ton subway. She profitably lets the use Let me pass! to be pried open with an iron bar. The whiteness where It swept. She had Dldo't Head Rvcond Sight to Fokin of machinery for all building purposes But he would not; determination man lived only a few hours, and died in entertained a certain clandestine Joy "hot Wo Going to lloppeo. or to remove obstructions. flashed In his too. on If eyes, you go I suppose everybody has visited a terrible spasms. Another man bitten in the thought that she had played her No contract of however great magniwhile I was down there has ever since part well and kept him without refer- fortune-telle- r at least once in his life, you you will be sorry, he said. awes her, and In a recent talk in tude At this she to be afraid, and began been paralyzed in the side. Hardly ence to what the true sentiments she remarked a drummer to a New York this city before the Professional Womanybody ever gets over a bite from this entqftalned for him were. Now she bad World reporter, but I'm willing to bet though her proud demeanor did not ans League, on The Business Womprima-faci- o evidence that she was mis- that few men have ever had such an betray It, she glanced around for help. an, she told some terrible animal. , pertinent truths and she had been kept In experience as I ran up against the other In the pause he hurried on, evidently and taken that What physical effects come to a man gave advice of such a character as to embarrassed. who has escaped death from poison by a the dark herself, and she was aggrieved. day. I was walking through a side enable women with commercial In"I I want to tell you I, your. If Gila monster? Why, I have seen sev "And how., she questioned, poutingly, street uptown when I chanced to see a She to profit by her practical experistincts out beseeching hands to a ences. Mrs. did you know It? clairvoyant's sign in the window'. As man flung eral different results. For Instance, Cram dresses simply and who was about to pass. "I knew, he rejtiined, pressing the It had just begun to rain and time was there was the case of a barkeeper In in excellent taste. Sbe wears a tailor-maSir, she said, this person is perBenson some years ago. He had a pet bit of hair to his lips, I knew that you hanging rather heavily on my hands, for gown business purposes, but me, and Glia monBter that he kept in a box on adored me by your locks, he breathed, I thought It was an excellent opportun- secuting to all tho little femclings tenaciously He of course, stopped, and Inquired the bar, and sometimes he would let it ecstatically and all at once. And as he ity to satisfy a curiosity I had often fiercelj' of the other fellow, who stood inine frills and furbelows. She is a out and play with It He ridiculed the folded her to hiB palpitating breast the felt. My ring was answered by a with his hat off: Do you know petite brunette, dark eyes and a radiant stories the cow punchers told him about tide chased Itself hurriedly out and the girl, who ushered me into a still, this Then Bald the first man, complexion. She has a charming perlady? the poison of Gila monsters. He would silent crab buried its blushing face rather shabbily furnished room. with as much show of indignation as sonality, and only her decisive,1 quick I was Joined by an elderly woman of put one Unger In its mouth and drag it In the sand and spake not manner would suggest her astuteness ItLW up and down the bar, and the thing motherly aspect There was nothing of in p,rl.t: affairs financial. Not a lit tie bit but she she Beemed to enter into the fun, and would the proverbial fortune-telle- r about her, Ilod Mooncr. Is she losing the ruf ruffle off her hold back and wiggle its tall and appear A London hatter once met an and I was more than astonished when Cjcllntr I'aitamM. os pleased as a dog. I told him once acquaintance who owed him for the hat she introduced herself as a celebrated dress, and I Ive been trying to tell Forty girls In forty styles of cycling that he was taking terrible chances, and he wore. The hatter, who was accom- clairvoyant. But her gentle smile and her, b but I stut tut tutter! With this he swept her a profound costumes were on exhibition, to women that some day the monster would bite panied by a friend, lifted his hat to his manner soon put me at him, sure as fate. But he laughed at the debtor, but the latter made no sign of my ease, and I felt almost as much at bow, jammed hia hat on his head, and only. In Philadelphia the other day, at session of the womans congress. Evidea of its biting him. It knew him so recognition. JS II I had He does not salute you,' 1. m, own bonne. , eral TT ery sort of costume was represented yards her , petticoat well; and even if it should bite, he said the hatters friend. No, said the Her motherly eye detected that, my behind her, caught at the bloomers of all lengths and sizes, ample streaming didn't believe it would be poisonous. overcoat was inrather wet, and she hatter. I think he might at least sisted that I take It off and let"her fag end on a distant curb. Another step and scant; divided skirts, bifurcated in Well, one day he put his finger in its touch my hat to me." and she would have stumbled. The sec- various styles, and an abundance of mouth when Mr. Gila monster didnt hang it by tho fire in the other room. ond man grinned and passed on, and different sorts of plain skirt costumes. so I felt comfortable that it was with SIGNS OF THE WEATHER. happen to be good natured, and it sent dresses were the work of big firms real regret I saw her at last terminate . she, with the tears of mortification in The its teeth to the bone. Its Jaws closed in her the eyes, and with city, and a committee of the conhurriedly stooped When potatoes mature early and the Interview by going into the other down like a vise, and the men in the sasome difficulty severed the ruffle, liu gress investigated the merits of the vabuckwheat room loon couldnt pry them open. It Just sat for my coat. She was a very en-- 1 grows bushy branches cold .... , J. J. Baa par" rious styles, with a view to a report there and blinked Its wicked little eyes weather is ahead, and not very far tertainlng talker, and told me the same d ., t ' of some 10 A bicycle was fastened M at them and held on, and they had to ahead at that. r. w1 V has got eto firmly onkind. stereotyped thins, that , fortune-telleon .. . the , ngnt and on this many stage, If Is moon the cut its head off before they could make red, or has many red of the girls illustrated the appearance it let go. That poor fellow's arm soon spots, expect a cold and stormy win- ning, the majority of tf-- are sure nr-- Without interrupting and advantages of their particular began to swell, and he suffered Intense ter; but If only a few spots are visible, to happen to every man and woman in actual wheeling practice. A Narrow Kiripr, who ever lived. As for the particular pain In his arm nnd hand and In his the winter will be mild. Capt.-Geback. And after a while the flesh began When muskrats build their houses things she told me, only one, so far, Spinner "I may have to shrivel and the muscles to become two feet thick and begin lranscended has military EXCHANCE. discipline, sir, and out turned She true. would said can I early you weak, and inside of three months the depeud on It that the winter will be lose a large sum of money. I never perhaps ought to hare captured the whole arm, from the shoulder down, a long and a mlgbty cold one. Perhaps the defect in the battleship thought anything more about the affair whole band of insurgents was as shrivelled and helpless as a paraGen. Decarnyus You had a fierce Texas might be found in the failuro If the November goose bone be thick, until the next day, wLen I felt for my to provide it with a hip lytics. That was some four or five years so will the winter weather he; if the bank roll and found that the wallet battle, I understand" pocket and a We e- r- made a stand, sir, and Buffalo Express. ago, but bis arm remains in that con- November goose bone be thin, so will had been taken out of the Inside pocket dition to this day, and there is no pros- the winter weather be. when we saw them coming over the disThe Supreme court of the United of my overcoat. tant hill States insists that it knows beans. In pect that he'll ever have the use of it. rams and goats that spring Sheep, There was no permanent 111 effect, noth- around the meadow more than usual You charged them! Bravo, bravo, a decision rendered it holds that they Word In Ilnok. are vegetab!es.-Chlc- ago ing but the temporary pain. In any other and are given to much fighting Indicate my boys Record. The total words distinct cumber of It may yet be necessary to bring Mr. that rainy weather Is at hand. part of his body. "No, sir; we in the new testament, excluding propAllison before a Judge and See a gray deer early in October and them! "The Postmaster down at Yuma told In "Ah, vlltrapped the Bring er names, and their derivatives. Is la Jury nnd evidence before he can be conme of a little Yuma Indian girl who you will know that we nee going to 4.1829. present y The vocabulary of the old testa- ?,J 1finn ?iLh, t stepped on a Gila monster one night In have an erred on victed of carrying a concealed boom winter, with ment is much larger. According to ,ma? of mercy, but when I saw them Chicago Record. side the the dark along the muddy banka of the plenty of skating and sleigh riding. Gesmins "Lexicon, the old testament Our International matches in When the Colorado River several miles below d defiantly over the distant yachtwoodpecker contains 5,810 distinct words, not marching Iathletics and pugilism are crukIub ing, Yuma. She was bitten in the ankle. goes to work at the bottom of a tree names and obsolete hill, proper counting a Two army physicians were called at and goes to the top, removing all the roots. A few "You what? great deal of trouble, it is to be comparisons with the that the difficulty wHl not exhoped I hoisted a once, and by the use of powerful drugs outer bark on his way. It is a sure Indiof truce and flag retired above may not prove uninteresting to to tend cation to to international matrimonial save that the them a there will be deep snow. chance to bury their they managed give girl's life, the readers of this department. The matches. If a mole dig a hole 2 feet but she was crazy with pain for two dead!" Exchange. deep a Iliad and- the Odyssey" together Another woman has weeks. Her leg and foot from the knee very severe winter Is at hand. If the contain 9,011 distinct Good! Bravo, boys: We'll have expressed a words; Milton for hades over a course down have been so tender that now. hole be two feet the winter will not be used 9.028 different words preference them wound up in a Jiffy!" Cleveland at and forms some seven years after the bite, she quite so severe. If the hole Is rollege. This sounds like the despairone of expression In his entire works, and Plain Dealer. only ing complaint- - of a "college widow cannot bear the least pressure or weight foot deep, the winter will be a mild Shakespeare, the peer of all language Rpramlinff tho do pel. whose twenty-fift- h without excruciating pain. She always one. engagement has Just d twisters, used over 15,000, or The American Board, as shown by its been broken An old English authority sleeps on her stomach w.th the injured more than wes used by all the writers report made at Press. that says Brooklyn recently, has If Dunraven and Sholto are the best foot in the air, and lias not walked for the saying: Everything Is lovely and of both the old and the new testaments, 571 missionaries In counthe British peerage can do In the several years. Internally the leg and the goo so honks high" not way hangs 2,870 native tries, na41.871 and of freaks, the bearded helpers as A foot look well as ever. Doctors don't high, as is frequently Dublin lady and the livthat a says correspondent is by tive members. Its expenses last quoted year ing skeleton need ask no know what the poison did to affect the weather proverb, meaning that when the death of Lord Waterford the Irish protection Indian girl so, and they have tried hard the wild geese fly Ugh, it" i8 a sign of ; landlords have lost their guide, phil-fa-lr were $678,169. Its debt Is $115,000. One against the competition of Europe dursubscribed gentleman $25,000 toward the out. museum to find I 0BPlier ing It's a queer case. nd friend. weather. New i0rk World. koo overcoming the debt. Journal. BRINGS SWIFT DEATH to Cliiaa Aad the Wild Waves Hud Nothing ny About It. Vh silver-creste- ni the-dee- . 1 . free-silve- ry gray-haire- "bell-mou- th powcr-houB- Bof-to- n. well-dress- ed good-looki- d, softly-modulate- ng son-in-la- w . . ' de frowsy-h- aired ed ho, StLTS? be. ! : "S' 1 cos-tum- es n. - six-shoot- ( i ed I' - Ivory-bille- , one-thir- ! non-Chrlstl- an scason.-Milwau- |