(Chicago Times.) only last July—tess than a year—since the firet telephone was put up in Chi The American District Telegraph Com now has over fifteen hundred patron: is to say, it has put up that number of telephones with the corresponding number of Wires, The carbon telephone constructed by Bdieon is used. The company has a central office and nine branch offices, which take in nearly every portion of the city. At its "What do you want?"
Who's at the pipe?"
Blister, of Quassia & Ca."
"Ab, all right, Um John Smith, Send me two dozen sheaves of catnip, ete. ete."
All right."
Mr. smith then turns the pointer to "Telephone Out," pulls back the lever, and goes on with other business.
Over to the central office, when Mr. Smith first pulled the lever, one of the £-shaped As to paying funeral honors to unworthy Masons, it is a hard thing to do, but often harder to refrain from doing. Lhe trouble is that you let your unworthy brother go on and get hardened in sin, without discipline, and when he died, and was past hope of repentance, you had nothing for it lut to extend the honors which were only intended for the worthy dead. It is not fair to the living to praise the dead more than he merited; and it cheapens Masonic honors to bestow them upon the drunkard, the licentious, and the law breaker of any class.—Masonie Review,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.