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Died With Little Neil. During the period when “ Master Humphrey's Clock,” or, as it became afterward known, the “Old Curiosity Shop,” was running in some current magazine, a young girl in precarious health became perfectly enthralled with the story, and so absorbed did she grow in the development and character of Little Nell that she felt persuaded her own life would continue just so long as the little heroine's and that both would terminate together. This she told her father one day, adding that she knew Little Nell must die in the course of the story. And then began piteous letters from the afflicted father to Charles Dickens, stating the case and his daughter's in fatuation, and pleading as only a parent who watches his child standing on the threshold of death can plead, that the novelist might preserve alive Little Nell. Dickens was deeply touched, but replied that he could not do it that the child in the story must die, only he would keep her alive through still another number of the magasine, notwithstanding the story was already dragging, and that was all he could do. Finally came the closing pages of that sweet, said tale of Little Nell's life’s, and even as she fell asleep the young English girl, who had bownd her flickering life to that other's, turned her face to the wall and waked no more. See With the modern elevator almost any speed desired can be obtained; it all depends on the power used and the distance traveled. In a building which has a shaft of 250 feet a spred of from 850 to 1,000 feet a minute van can be attained. On a rise of 150 feet it is easy to get a speed of 760 feet per minute with a weigh of 1,000 pounds aboard the elevator. In New York the fastest elevators are in the Union Trust Company's building on Broad way, near Wall street. They shoot up or down, carrying 3,000 pounds, at a speed of 600 feet a minute. When tested with lighter weights they have traveled from 800 to 100 feet in a minute. But the average speed of elevators in office buildings in and around New York is 300 feet a minute. The largest elevator cars in the world are now at Weehawken. These eleva tors, of which there are three, are de signed to carry 135 persons on each trip, and are equivalent to 10 tons.
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Olympia Washington Standard
Olympia, Washington, US
Fri, Jun 17, 1892
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Francisco N.
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