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Show Calvlnlxed. One r'ary hot day the lato Dr. t3enrg E. Ellis, the historian, going to an informal in-formal dinner with a friend, wore a vosy coinf ortablb but unfashionable thin coat add manilla hat. A notoriously orthodox clergyman began to banter the Unitarian divine regarding his big straw hat, whereupon Dr. Ellis replied that he would not have a word said against that article of apparel, inas much as 2i had been a good friend of his for four years. " Why, ' exclaimed his friend, "how could it have lasted so long?" "Because it has been Calvin-ized, Calvin-ized, " replied Dr. Ellis. The host, misunderstanding mis-understanding the word, inquired with amazement how the hat could be galvanized. gal-vanized. But Dr. Ellis, with a sly twinkle in his eye, looked straight q the orthodox minister as he replied: 'I did not say 'galvanized. ' I said tho hat had been Calvanized dipped in brim stone. " San Francisco Argonwit Illinois factory Women. The supreme court of niinois has de cidod that tho eight hour law, or, as it Is generally known, tho sweat shop law, is unconstitutional. The law prohibited pro-hibited the employment of women for more than eight hours a day or more than 48 hours a week in any factory in Illinois. Probably 40,000 women in Illinois Il-linois who work in factories are affected affect-ed by the decision, 32,000 of whomliv in Chicago. They are employed in the main in shoe factories, cloak and clothing cloth-ing houses, candy factories, paper boa shops and various other manufacturing establishments. Tho judges also pronounced pro-nounced unconstitutional section 10 of the bill, which provided an annual appropriation ap-propriation of 20,000 for factory inspectors, in-spectors, whose ch:ef duty was to see that the eight hour clause was enforced. This will probably end the valuable work that tho women faotory fnspeotora have been carrying on, with Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Kelley as their chief. Springfield Letter. Probably the most conspicuous instance in-stance in this country where a woman has been selected as the sculptor of 3 figure of heroio size is that of the choosing choos-ing of Mrs. Theodore Kuggles-Kitson to make for the city of Providence a ttronze statue 7 feet 6 inohes high. Tho statue is to perpetuato tho form and face of Esek Hopkins, the first admiral of tho American navy and a native or Rhode Island. Between 1870 and 1800 over 7,000 patents were granted in Europe and America for various devices connected with electric lighting. |