Milford chronicle., 1895-01-18
PER YEAR IN ADJ GF =.


urged upon her the necessity Of having
something to occupy her mind besides the
mere discharge of social duties, which arr
wearisome at best The bane Of many
women is ennui, which causes them tc
take up all sorts Of ridiculous fads, as you
know
'Latterly have noticed a change in my
wife, Her former listlessness is gone, and
she seems to take more interest in what S
going on about her l even saw her read
ing the paper one day last week This
/ change naturally pleased me- and ques
1 toned her in order to find out what had
brought it about. Though somewhat re-
! luctant at first, she finally owned up. Her
confession ran somewhat as follows:
You have heard of Smithkin's auc-
tion rooms on Fifth avenue, haven't your
Nof Well they re just lovely They sell
the most beautiful things at ahsurdly low
prices They all belong to wealthy people,
you know, who have been unfortunate and
have to let them go for a song The real
values are marked on them in plain lg
ures, so that you can always tell how high
you can bid and still get bargain
The first time / went there was with
Mrs Ungerman a few weeks ago She
was quite used to it and bid on lots of
things, but stopped just in time for some
one else to get thom. It'squito exciting, l
assure you. kept still till they put lp
a delightful oak bookcase, with little
square mirror in the middle and the cutest
little drawers on both sides, just above the
places where the books 60 you know.
thought it would be just the thing for
Ned's S room, so bid on it. 1t was started
at 81, and bid $685. right away Do
you think that was too much? Anyway, ]
got it for that, and it was really worth
SAL, the auotioneer said. gave him So
for a deposit and told him l would send /
for it the next day, but when came to see |
it near by was afraid 1t wouldn't fit into |
Ned S room after all, so 1 took piece of /
string and measured it.
When l got home, 1 found it was I
really too large, and then tried all the
other rooms There WASH a place in the
entire fiat large enough, except in the par !
lor, and it wouldn't match the furniture
in there at all Besides we couldn't spare
the piano could we, deari
The auctioneer was awfully nice
about it when 1 explained it to him and
said cCuld have them put it rp AGAIN
and sell it to some one else. If they didn't
bid high enough, could buy 1t in, and it
would only cost 10 pei. cent for the com.
mission
They had an auction the next Friday,
and IL was raining hard but ] had to 90,
BECAUSE l was afraid some one would buy
it for less than l paid if / wasn't there
Hardly anybody went that day and bid
it in for $3.50 The commission was
81 so, and 1 just added that to the S15.25
paid and made up my mind that
wouldn't let it 60 for less than S1675
have been going back ever since, /
md two or three times they almost reached
ny price, Some days when l go they
lon't get around to the bookcase, and then /
have to go back the next day. I'm going
5oday My commissions so far have been .
625, and l will have to get $2l.5O now,
,ut it's really worth SAL, you know, so
here's plenty of time yet Now, do call a
alb for mo, because it's almost time for
he sale to begin.
1 have no idea what it costs my wife
or cabs to go to those sales, but do know
does her a world Of good to have an in
crest in something When her invest
lent gets so large that it begins to worry Z
er, shall send my bOokkeeper up to bid S
Al for that bookcase and give it to him c
Or present. New York Sun
The Star Systems. A
The internal heat of the earth is sup II
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by which the energy of ag
regation in the days of chaos was con
orted and stored as heat in the slowly
1rming and now cooling mass, says Pro
lssOr Robert H Thurston The heat Of O
ne sun and of all the stars is presumed 6
} have had similar origin, and the forma T
on of the universe, with its nebule, its
lmets, its countless systems of unmeas q
red stars and inhnity of satellites, our o
gn little sun and its attendants included h
as very probably the grandest of illus v
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on center Of gravity, and the production a
light and heat of every grade by the col 4, 4,
sion of atom with atom, of moleoule with u
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article, the impact of meteorite with g
eteorite and the crash of world upon il
orld during the eternity Of preparation, ! D
sulting finally in the construction of the
ar systems and the solar systems as we
w know them