AN OMINOUS SIGN.
One Po«*ed Sn Government DeaMU*t» toteat ,wto4«b. Should Prove Effective. There la a new sign hanging out of a door in the patent office building. It is a novelty as an official notice put in its place by a formal act of the big department of the government, and in a pedigree book probably would rank as a cross between the "danger" signs that warn people on the streets away from the concrete rollers and the "Lookout for locomotive" signs at railway crossings, reports the Washington Star. Way down in what might be called the subterranean, depths of the building in which a large part of the interior department effects are located, is a room which is lower by several feet than the floor of the corridor with which it con- . nects. The latter was a hybrid idea, perhaps, but it's a condition and not a theory, and that difference between the two floors had to be guarded against. To save the unwary from taking an involuntary plunge for that distance, with possible hospital results, the department has hitched to the door this flaming placard: "Look before yoti leap!" -**^«^
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 45, 10 June 1903, Page 7
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192AN OMINOUS SIGN. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 45, 10 June 1903, Page 7
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