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Show British Museum Readers. Charge for admission to the British museum In Bloomsbury, London, does not at present Include the famous reading read-ing room, which Is alleged to possess the largest dome In the world. Many professional searchers earn precarious livelihoods In this splendidly appointed library. According to the Manchester Guardian, an expert reader was recently recent-ly offered 40 to summarize a Latin life of one of the popes. He demanded 80, but some one else did the work for five guineas (about $2o). One man copied all the old prize fights for about 35 cents per 1,000 words, and It recently came out In evidence evi-dence thnt a retired clergyman translated trans-lated Italian stories for about 25 cents per 1,000 words. Innumerable readers search guides to horse racing, a Westminister West-minister city councilor used to work there with regularity, and several retired re-tired generals from the array are among regular attendants at the Brltr Ish museum reading room. It Is stated that recently a Klengle of the Ku Klux Klan asked for English law, with chapter chap-ter and verse, as to right and left-hand flogging. |