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Show PRICE OF LAMARTINE'S POEM. Peecunlary Value Which the French Poet Put Upon Hie Work. The Oaulols tells a good story of Lamartlne's estimate of the pecuniary value of his poetry, says tho Westminster West-minster Gazette. It was in 1848, when he was at the acme of his glory and a cabin minister. min-ister. Ho had Just contributed "La Marseillaise de la Pair" to the Revu des Deux Mondes and Buloz, the editor, ed-itor, called on him at the ministry. "1 believe I owe you 30. Horo is tho money," Bald Lamartlne, producing a bundlo of bank notes. "Pray deduct the amount of the Revue's indebtedness to you for your poem," said the editor. "I meant to make you a present of it," rejoined tho poet. , "Not at all; I Insist on paying you." "How much?" "Your own price, whatevor it may be." "Ah, well: if you will have it ao. l must oblige you," said Lamartlne, and with a magnificent gesture he swept up the whole bundle of notes representing repre-senting the 80. and restored then; with solemn dignity to his pockoL Trouble a Bird's Neat Caused. A hatpin used by a pair of swallowi as the foundation for their nest, built between two wires, put the entire police po-lice alarm syBtem of the suburbs of Ballard out of buslrioss. The police alarm wires from Ballard to headquarters headquar-ters at the city hall were tested box by box until the trouble was located. It wag discovered that difficulty lay between the box at Fremont and the one next south. The electricians could find nothing more serious than a swallow's swal-low's nest. Investigation showed that the nest, which stretched from one wire to another, a distance of about Right inches, was built on a hatpin, which touched both wires and short-circuited short-circuited tho whole system. Seattl I PoflUntelligencer. , . |