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BUSINESS LETTERS.
Writ to a Men Ju:t as You Would
Talk to Him st Your Desk.
Business letter writing is no longer
merely "correspondence." but "litera
ture," and the correspondent who for
merly wasted his precious breath on
such Inanities as "Yours received and
contents duly noted" is now relegated
to the "old school" class, and unless
he Is willing to adopt the new rules of
letter writing he is likely to change
not only his position, but find it neces
sary to change his vocation as well.
She up to date business man does
not waste time indulging in the pre
liminaries of "I beg to acknowledge
receipt" or "In reply would say." but
goes straight to the subject at issue
firmly, without frills, even eliminat
ing the time worn advice, "Awaiting
your early reply,", and closing without
the absurdity of "Begging to remain."
"Write to a man exactly as you
would talk to him if he were sitting at
your desk," is the maxim of one of
the best authorities on letter writing
in Chicago. By eliminating useless
phrases having no bearing on the sub
ject the business man not only saves
his own time in dictating, but that of
his stenographer in transcribing the
notes. By the old method of letter
writing the opening and closing of
letters contained almost five lines of
useless "form" matter which would
average on 100 letters Just 500 lines of
superfluous effort. Chicago Tribune.
THE CRESCENT.
Legend of Its Adoption as an Emblem
by the Turks.
The crescent has been known since
time out of memory. In ancient my
thology It decorated the foreheads of
Diana and, of Astarte,the Syrian Ve
nus? Tn the days of Rome's greatest
glory the ladies wore it as an orna
ment in their hair.
Since ' the foundation of Constanti
nople, the ancient Byzantium, it has
been the emblem of the city and .as
such adorns its walls and public build
ings, besides being stamped on its
coins and postage. The legend which
accounts for its universal adoption in
Turkey, and Constantinople in par
ticular, is as follows:
Philip of Macedon laid siege to the
city in the year 310 B. C. He chose a
night of unusual darkness for the pro1
posed assault, but was ' foiled by the
moon suddenly breaking from behind
a cloud. In commemoration of this
providential deliverance the crescent
was adopted as the symbol of the city.
The Moharnmedan sultans were slow
to assume this emblem until some one
mentioned that it was the symbol of
increasing greatness, power changing
as rapidly as the phases of the moon.
Westminster Gazette.
Why He Left.
Long Why did you leave the place
tvhere you formerly boarded?
Short Because the landlady had too
much curiosity.
Long In what direction?
Short Oh, she was continuously ask
ing me when I was going to pay my
board bill. Chicago News.
The Next Question.
"Dora's invited to a swell party,"
said the mother.
"How much will the gown cost?"
asked the father, who knew what was
coming. Detroit Free Press.
Not a Freshman.
Caller I didn't know your son was
at college. Is this his freshman year?
Mrs. Bunderby Oh, no, indeed! He's
a sycamore. Boston TranserlpL
The Assembly of Notables. '
The assembly of the notables at Ver
sailles, Nov. 5, 1788, will ever stand
as one of the great landmarks in hu
man progress, not on account of itself,
but in conseuence of what it led to.
Louis XVI., being in great financial
straits, had already called together the
big men of his realm, but it is with
this second meeting of the great ones
that history will ever be the most pro
foundly concerned. The "notables,"
made up of the nobility and aristoc
racy of the realm, listened to their own
voices and displayed their gold lace
and vanity for something over a
month and adjourned without doing
anything either for the king or the peo
ple. Disgusted with the stupidity and
indifference of the notables, Louis con
voked the states general, which was
composed of representatives of the no
bility, clergy and third estate, or plain
people. Maddened by the contemptu
ous treatment they received at the
hands of nobles, the delegates of the
third estate organized themselves into
the national assembly, which in turn
organized the revolution. New York
American.
John Bright and the Carpet.
A characteristic story of John Bright
is told by Mrs. T. P. O'Connor in her
book, "I Myself." He. was at dinner
one night with an M. P. whose wife
by no means shared her husband's
democratic sentiments. John Bright
was sitting near his hostess, and she
was rather annoyed at having him
among her smart guests and thought
to give him a direct snub, so she said
during a pause in the conversation:
"Mr. Bright, this rug, I understand,
was made by you, and I am very dis
satisfied with it. I have only had it
a short time, and it is very shabby and
badly made."
'-'Ill it?"said Mr Brlrht getting up
deliberately from the" fable ancr taking
a silver candelabrum, which he put
down upon the floor, and, getting 'upon
his knees, closely examined the car
pet. "You are quite right," he said,
blithely getting up; "it is a bad car
pet, and I will order my firm to send
you another in its place." And then
he calmly resumed his political con
versation, and the dinner went on.
The Curious Electric Eel.
The electric eel, which is common In
the streams of Brazil, is possessed of
a natural electric battery a tremen
dous one. Beneath the skin are two
pairs of peculiar little bodies passing
longitudinally along the muscles and
near the tail. One pair is next to the
back and the other near the lower fin.
These bodies are made up of a great
number of little cells, two or three hun
dred of them, and plentifully supplied
with nerves. Examination of one of
these electrical organs has shown that
in action it is very much like a gal
vanic battery, with -the anterior ex
tremely positive, the posterior nega
tive and the current only discharged
at the point of contact with an object.
This has been proved to be so power
ful when complete that chemical com
pounds are decomposed by it and steel
needles magnetized.
Eight Lions.
There are . eight lions known the
world over the lion of St. Mark's in
"Venice, the four lions at the base of
the Nelson monument in Trafalgar
square, the lion of Waterloo, the lion
of Lucerne and the lion of Chaeronea.
Ituskin in his "Stones of Venice" said
that the lion of St. Mark's was the
one lion the fierce expression of which
no artist had ever been able to repro
duce. Ths beast of bronze has the
distinction also of wearing a pair of
wings. London Graphic.
