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Show A COSTLY DINNER. 'J lie Hvinmt Wan (lie I'lrsl nf l?xu-j l?xu-j ihu i:uti't liiliiiucntK In New s. .,ew York C'ltj. 'Writing of tho lavish expenditures of New Yorkers l.'uiettu Vuu Vorst recalls, in Ladles' Home Journnl.n dlniiergiven ' 1 111 1881 by 11 man if wealth which cost i 10,001), and which astonished hit most c.stravngunt iibsoclatcs, as it wns the most expen.-hu feast given up to that tlmo. Delmoulco, tli'o helpful resource of both thoke who know mid those who do not know how tospuid their money, was nt 11 lots to know how to dispone of this then fabulous amount upon n tingle meal. There were 72 guests, and 'l tliuy were intertnlncd in thu largo ball- 100m wlili'.' 1 in Delmuulco'h rourtcenth j, iitroct cstiilillshmeiit saw so ninny social so-cial triumphs. The house had bi.cn .Mr. Closes (irlnnell's, and ever bore the im-, im-, print of n guitlcmnu's resldcuco even ' when tnuuf rmed Into 11 public plncc of utitertninmi'iit. The table occupied the whole length mid breadth of tho room; b tho waiter had barely spneo to movo I about It. It wns u long, oval tabic, ' jf, round which n massive wreath of ex-4,. ex-4,. , qttUlte llovvi rs wnsluldguardiugu mln- iaturc lake :i 1 feet long. The water, by ".', meclinnlcnl contrivance, undulated Kunlly, and on 1( breust tloated fourllv- &,"' lug swans, a golden network keeping Nif them In place. ; riinl(ufrnililii i:ii'iitcil OliJi'cU. L Olllceib of the Itulltiu engineer corps i. nro nuiklug clTectual use of thu tel- ' people objictlvu In tnklng photographs yi- of objects high above tho ground. 1' Aiming other things they have been en- ?' nbled to discover Krcncli battel les in the Alps, which had not been known ' to exist bi f "e thnt, and to make pho- 'u, tograpluof i!ielroteriialeonstructlon. & Thu nppllciiiiou of the telescopic lenses Ia Qr fU)L''1 I11"!108 "n demoustrnted if tor tno "r' "" c M',cl1 Hit wnffoldlng l' was biillt mi top of the dome of St. j l l'eter's In Hume to icpalr the lightning M, mil, Duspltu the great height, ancx- ,' ccllent plioiuginph wns mude of tho fj sintTuldliig, showing n man in clear dc-tull dc-tull at the top, ijttH. |