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Show llrxi' Stores in Flat Houses. "Yoii hav a nice place here," remarked a gentleman who had stepped into a drug store, evidently newly established, on one of the Brooklyn. ' ' "Yes," replie 1 the druggist, rather dubiously; dubi-ously; "'it is on!" n.n experiment, though." 'Rather an expensive one," conti.me l t!i9 first speaker, glancing at the haudioaia fixtures fix-tures and belongings. "Oh," laughed the druggist, "that is at the landlord's exi.ense, iv.it mine." Further conversation revealed the fact that it is a common thing for owircrs of flnt houses to fit up the ground floor in tho most complete manner for usj as a drug store as an inducement to a druggist tenant. Shelves, lettered drawers, prescription counters, shelf bottles, and the big window carafes holding the colored liquids, all these and more are contributed by th'3 landlord. In return he expects to giin by a speedy rental of his apartments, people being much more ready to establish themselves o er a drug store tMn over stores of another sort. .Mew York Sua. Knew It All. Two men were star.dins out side a Broad-way Broad-way jeweler's window recently, admiring the-gorgeous dispHyof flittering jewels that lay before thrtn and criticising such ns failed to suit their fancy. Piesc-iuly one of them, pointing to nn object in n red plush tray, said: "Just look at thct .scarf pin representing a fiy. Any one can tell that's not real." "Well. I should think so." answered his friend. "Who ever ;:aw a common fly with such a bright appe". ;vace? Why. 1: makes roe weary when I think t'l.-.t tho j-nveler who produced that fondly hoped thntsome one would purchase it to docc-ive lib friends. If I taw that on a loan's scarf 1 coul tell directly that it was ani-namc'cd imitation, and an unariistie one at that." At that moment the object of the critic's soudcmiiitiiou moved across the tray, flaw in the air and vanished. The two men looked each at t he other, gasped and moved away without a word. Jewelers' Weekly. |