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Show Five Giant Fingers Bind Cities. The five giant spans of steel, which, like gargantuan fingers clutch the two sides of East river, binding New York and Brooklyn together, cost America's Ameri-ca's metropolis half as much as the Panama canal cost the federal government. govern-ment. Three of them are suspended from cables, the wires of which, if placed end to end, would more than twice girdle the earth. If placed side by side, these five great structures would provide a roadway as wide as the Washington monument is high, and if placed end to end they would make a great bridge over six miles long. Across the Brooklyn bridge alone 125,-000 125,-000 surface cars travel every 24 hours, with other vehicular traffic in proportion. propor-tion. National Geographic Magazine. Souvenir. On the registry of Lyons, France, there has been recorded the birth of a girl child. The father, a working man, limping painfully, his chest decorated dec-orated with the Croix de Guerre, appeared ap-peared In person to make the prescribed pre-scribed announcement. He gave the child's first name as Verdunette. A clerk suggested that It was an odd name. "It will at least serve to remind her," said the honest man, "of the place where her father got knocked out." Affected His Speech. "My father wants a bottle of red-dick," red-dick," said Fanny. "Reddick," said the drug store man, "what Is that?" "It is something you write red with." "Then I guess you mean red ink." "My father said reddick, but he didn't get much sleep last night and talks kind of thick this morning, and that may be the reason." Making Quick Time. Small Nellie had been to an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" matinee. After the show was over she said: "Mamma, does little Eva play again to-night?" "Yes, dear, I suppose so," replied the mother. ..... ... .. . "Weil," continued Nellie, after a moment's mo-ment's thought. "I don't see how she can die and go to heaven at four o'clock and get back in time to die again at eight." An Old Trouble. "Shakespeare says that the fault Is not In our stars If we are underlings." "You bet it is. Who ever heard of a star's giving anybody else a chance at the spotlight?" |