The Press., 1884-10-09
HOW QUIET WAS SECURED IN A FLAT.

HOW QUIET WAS SECURED IN A FLAT. AN oRaU1NETTE, AGAINST, A PIANO IN THE s4t EARLY MORNING HOURS
 The modern flat is undoubtedly the cul- imitation of. all thatiis convenient ln city dwelling. But even in , flat life IS not without drawbacks A gentleman who re- gently placed his family in one ot these horizontal sections of space relates the Iol- lowing experience:
 II live in fifth-foor set of rooms Ill large uptown apartment building. Imme- piately above and below are families bless ed with a: superfuity of marrr1ageaole daughters About midnight, when l wish ed to retire and sleep off the worry and fa- tigue of business, these fair ones used to come in from the theater with their es- corts, drum on the family piano, eat car amels, and between the mouthfuls carol forth sOne-lee CT p-ansee blossom and similar affecting ditties, until l :3O and a. m. After vainly waitinig in the hope that a change might come over the troubled spirit of my dreams, I confded to my wlfe's maid-in the belief that 1t would go straight to the other servants and through them to my neighbors- s-the fact that 1 was a lover of music, but that from l2 o'clock on l prefer ed to sleep. But this only aggre- vated matters, for on the succeeding n1ght the serenade Was continued until 2:oO a. m. Driven to desperation, devoted the next morning to tour of the music stores, purchasing the largest orguinette that l could fild-one of those machines With a voice like that of one crying lu the wilder ness, unable to find his way out full assortment of popular songs and an alarm clock warranted to wake the dead. Set ting the alarm at 4 o'clock, 1 retired. At that hour arose, responsive to the call of duty and the alarm, o'clock, and ground away upon that orguinette until 6.
 s"The next morning there was an indig- nation meeting, and through the medium of the servants came various requests couched in the nineteenth century slang, to the effect that [ pull the string,' give that thing Test, etc. But to them all l replied that I liked music, and that l should choose my own time for satisfying that liking. The next morning rose at 3 and rattled away religiously until sun rise. And since that time, /" concluded the narrator, with subdued chuckle, "the stiffness of death rests upon that flat after midnight, and its inmates sleep the sleep of the righteous.
 A JOURNEY TO THE SUN.-As to the dis tance ot ninety three million miles, can- non-ball would travel it in about fifteen years. It may help us to remember that at the speed attained by the limited ex- press on our railroad train which had left the sun for the earth when the May flower sailed from Delfhaven with the Pil- grim Fathers and which ran at that rate day and night, would in 1884 be a journey of some years from its terrestrial station. The fare at the customary rates, 1t may be remarked, would be rather over two million five hundred thousand dollars, SC that 1t is clear that we should need both money and leisure for the journey.
 Perhaps the most striking illustration oi the suns distance is given by expressing it in terms of what the physiologists would call velocity of nerve transmission. It has been found that sensation IS not absolute ly instantaneous, but that it occupies a very minute time in travelling along the nerves so that if child puts its finger into the candle, there is certain almost inconceivable small space of time, say the one-hundredth part of a second, before he feels the heat. In case, then, a child's arm were long enough to touch the sun, ii can be calculated from this know rate ot transmission that the infant would have to live to be man of over one hundred be- fore it knew that its fingers were burned. - Ibe Century. .....'......e. ..... .. A PAPER DOOR. .-"Feel the weight ot that door," said New York builder to 3 reporter, who was looking at an unfnish- ed apartment house uptown. The re- porter prepared to lift what seemed pol ished mahogany door but it proved too light for any wood .:It is made of pa- per" said the builder, land, while it costs about the same as wood, is much better, because there is no shrinking, swelling, cracking, or warping. It is composed o1 two thick paper boards stamped and moulded into panels and glued together with glue and potash, and then rolled | through heavy rollers. It is first covered with waterproof coating, aud is painted and vanished and hung in the ordinary way. Few persons can detect that they are not made of wood, particularly wher used as sliding doors: sss Efa.
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 only restores wasted tissue, but gives strength and heartily recommend it for diseases at tended by atrophy."
 The story MT. Blaine tells of his two marriages recalls the same incident in the 1 life of General Jackson, who married hi
 wife second time because he found oi1
 that she was not legally divorced at tht
 time of their first marriage. In these mat
 ters there is 8 good democratic precedent as the affair figured largely sgainst Jack son ill his first term as president, when he explained it for the first time.
 Boston Transcript: The Danbury News
 which in 1873, when everybody was wild t( see the latest nonsense from it's funny man
 had circulation of 39,00O copies, has drop iped to an edition ofs2, 900. For four years i
 was flush times in that office.
 OPENING THE FoNTA1Ns.-In numberless
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