Show CITIES GROWING NOISIER it Is one of the penalties of civilization t on but no man could endure continual silence no doubt all cities are growing noisier this Is of the penalties of thore there I 1 Is now no be sound ol 01 a hammer was never headd liven even parts paris la Is said to toe be as noisy at ari it t is now dirty nut but in ill the paris of 20 years ago mr adolphe rette hette was so disturbed by the din which ich would now bo be considered in comparison only an agreeable bustle that he dreamed a dream there was a singular silence men and women moved as aa a procession of shadows cartwheels were inaudible jbv abe c ally was under cotton wadding and tho the came to the dreamer dreame r noise Is dead ranU lie he burst out laughing at vie khe deduction that the earth was hence earth arth doomed to eternal silence then caime came a letter of ceremonial invitation you are begged to be present at the funeral of Ilon monsieur noise who died this evening killed by contemporaneous excess he was held in horror by the eternal hiru himself self on the part of Us ils widow humanity yet who could endure the silence th ehst t coated awl the irps tri n in roes roea tale talc the tal talu 0 told old by thu the demon the talo tale more wonderful than any in tile the ironbound iron bound melancholy volumes of the magi and the demon laughed but could not and the demon cursed him because he could not laugh and even the lynx that dwelt forever in the tomb looked it it t the demon steadily in the face |