The evening times., 1896-12-16
TALES OF THE TOWN.

The boarding house Ia ndladies ar. making
mathematical calculations these days.
Each one Of tins rapidly incrca- sing class
is pUZZiing Ter brains to discover how
many transient guests to every square of
room she can stow away during InauglIrd-
ton week,
That touch OF nature which makes ailthe
world kin does not come in contact Will,
thelandlady in Inauguration time.
She is not keeping a boarding '.;use for
her health, and therefore she figures on
pressing the human form divine into
every nook and Granny III her household.
Likewise doth the hotclkccpcr and the hail
owner.
All regard visitors To the city during con-
vention time as their legitimate prey, and
wien they have finished tine restaurant and
daIrylunch man are welcome to the re-
mainder
\ ldndlady who has seen better da VS.
and really does not have to keep a bos rd-
ing house, but does because she is so active
and really must have something to DO
walked into the public comfort committee
rooIns Yesterday.
.Iwant to register ms house for eighteen
guests during inauguration time. 'sinIpered
she, in worn widows weeds. E" You know
my husband was Gen. Bruff, ana l Just
take "A few guests such nice people, YOU
know-to complete my home circle, and
really thought could make a. trifle in the
way. la. ha, ha, she wrigcled out
laugh, lin the way Of n-moncy by inviting
some of the distinguished strangers to my
house. Now, remember. do not want any
but the very best-thc generals and the hon
orables, you knqw-and -realip my house
will seem Just like home to them. It is so
quiet and recherche She's glanced tri-
umphantly at Clerk nonneliy. who could
not say "A word ';I've positively had TO
turn people away
How many rooms have you?'' interiect-
ed the clerk. nil
Why, only two gu
And you want to have eighteen people
sent to your house,
why, yes of course. oh. you funny
man, Your are making light Of me-
NO, madam said Mr.. DonnelIy. In
scrio-cornic style. I'm afraid YOU Will be
making light OF fsorBtfof your guests. Where
are you going To pIt theIu?'
why, in the Rooms. OF course. He! he!
hei'' she snfflcd. The idea, You could
not put them on the roof in March He, he,
her.
Eighteen in two rooms. nine to a room,
Very well, madam, I'll try and send you,
say-about eight, and that's pretty high"
Sir" Indignantly replied the lady of
lineage, IN take eighteen, or none at all.
I'm not giving away my rooms"
A revolution in telegraphy is destined to
follow the granting Of a patent to an IN
ventor, who has devised Inultiplex print
ing telegraph system. An inquiry was re-
Gently made at the Patent office. eliciting
the inform alton hat no other such invention
has ever been received there, typewriting
telegraphy having been attempted l,cfore,
but upon entirely different principles.
BY the new instrument an operator Tan
transmit a telegram written upon type
written form at the receiving end.
In addition, the operator can send over the
one wire five or six different messages at
the same time in one direction. which, in
duplex, makes ten or twelve that can be
ira nsInitted in a bunch. So that with five
operators at each endof "A line, sending each
an average of thirty words a minute, 300
words can be transmitted every sixty sec
onds.
TneInventor hasuScd a synchronous sde vice
in his invention, and in the mechanical ar
rangemeut of the typewriter has used but
eight signals, the letters being produced by
combinations.
The current of electricity transmitting the
message can be rela yed and in this manner
the invention can be operated for great
distances The new instrument, it is
claimed, will be as convenient and IS easily
operated as the ordinary telegraphic dis
patching and receiving apparatus.