The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 31, 1890, Page 2

j 3 ; nan a sate an aan cinta aia me THE GOVERNMENT CLERK. | As He Appears in the Departments at the | National Capital ! nment clerk is the institue | a corresponds ening Post. He ington, sa ent of the fills the from the| shops, lie he even makes up a |} proportion of those ‘ he consti- What and what be immaterial to | salary he ¢g | questions of sub- | | songressine sistence, or sta ion almost to him. Cet us see what sort of {lore are some types: | The first is b with age and years of | feaning over sdesk. A mild and ami- able atmosphere of conciliation sur- | epunds him, only to give place to al harmless airof importance as he trudges he department corridors with papers in } Gis hand fort »pection of his chief. | And he is f lous, too, but God forbid | hat he s 1 ever give offense to} mortal soul. Even to the lazy old mes- | enger, who responds 80 slowly to hi all, he is polite. Polite he is to every- body, and apologetic, slow toask a favor, wd quick to grant one. If ever there | was any fire in him it has been quenched tong since. If ever there was any atrongly-colored hues inh e the aman he is. | | | | is natur repressive influences that surround the H tife of a subordinate have long since } toned them down to sober tints. Reg- ular in his office hours. provokingly alow and conservative in his methods of work, but more trustworthy than clock- work and truer than steel, such is tho Colonel” or “Judge” w 1 been a Jovernment clerk for twenty. y or sven fifty years. There is little danger uf his being dismissed The young fellow w yidge’s office, like Dick Swiveller, ars a shooting-jac us an office-coat, smokes cigarettes constantly, receives risits which he does not relish from his Laflor’s collector, and his mail consists thivfly of duns. Ie spends much gtime preparing to go home and leaves his office ‘promptly at four o'clock, like Charles Lamb, to offset the irregularity with which he arrives every morning. He (oves cravats and pins and the theater, ind he sometimes takes a “lady friend” out “buggy-riding.” In the next room we sce a different being—middle-aged, rusty, barely re- «spectable, 2 hopeless, helpless look in bis dulleyes. He is ill-educeted and ill- (fained, and treats the < of the Gov- ernment very much as he would treat the digging of potatoes—a thing that «ust be gone at lustily. with the coat offand the hat « italization, as he civil-serviee ¢ sion love to call it, he is learning, but, after the manner of the immortal Cobbett, he persists in eegarding pu ation of taste. Ile is ‘one « and he looks with disfavor “col- tege-bred man.” But now let ws look upon his col- aguc.and here [ must ask you to pause 4 moment, tor this is the type of Gov- ernment clerk whom [ protest [ love. Young, middle-aged, or old, it makes no difference, for the position that he m hold as an old man is the position that he has held ever since he was a man. He is areal, bona-fide swell. He does not ‘write a very good hand—a gentleman should not. He is, perhaps, rather careless — in work-—he has other of, If you want information about the department he is in I would not advise you to question him, but if you want an invitation to 2 german go to him by all means. His oflicial position is incidental. His real life is in No secretary dares to discharge him. He does him it is true, may be ho has a ypinion of him, but he alwa him to his parties. Ile is as of a necessity there asa punch-b +bouquet. [ have known hip married, but since the Gover wan there have been but three « the Government clerk of this class com- mitting h anindiserction. Of course the three married rich girls, and, re- signing their positions, lived miserably apon their wives ever afterward—and just consider the independence that they 1 + FfSam Weller’s inquiry as to what be- somes of old post-boys and donkeys was a difficult one to wer, it is still harder to say what becomes of the Gov- ernment clerk who is discharged. He hangs around his department secking reinstatement. Ho scems to have be- rome absolutely dependent upon the Government, and to expect employment from no other source. Sometimes he gets desperate and commits suicide— there have been several cases of this kind to furnish grim dreams to disturb the spoilmen’s rest-—-sometimes he dies from sheer grief and hopelessness—and the cases of this character are painfully frequent; but what becomes of him when he isn’t restored and doesn't dic is a mystery indeed. He sinks out of sight. a new clerk has his place, the waters of official life close over his head, and he is forgotte fi » shares the his things to tl “socie- not promote poor asks much 1 or to get ent be- ses of } The Deciwal Point. In France and Germany \ reduced to adecimal is written 0,25, in England it as written 0°25; in the United States it is always written either 0.25 or simply written .25 without the naught. In the first two countries the period is never used, always the comma. While English writers use the period they never put it at the bottom of the line as we do, but ETE 12 et TOA ELEN SN OST SACD A I THE MAGICAL “SQUARE. An Arithmetica! Pazzle Held in Venera- | IN ALLIGATORS. | TRADE tion by the Egypt: : } Te wiih be GREE TT | How Many Florida Necroes Pick | square the be nl Up Spending ozey. arithmetic much exte in the Lecds more curious © QUAM ay ei S14] 3) ey 7 j S| 91 10 | 35] 12 | 13 | 18 » 4/35 wo 41 | 42 4344 8 49 MAGICAL SQUARE, 16} 41/10} 35| 4 146, 15149) 9} 34! 3| 28 3 ee tu ! The magic square was held in gr at | veneration among the Egyptians and | dedicated to the then seven known plan- | ets in various Tos: n they at- | tributed the s «© of nine places, the | side being three a the of the numbers in « row being fifteen. To! Venus they attributed the square I have | given. Finally, they attributed to God the sq of only one cell, the side of which is only a uni hich, multiplied by itself, undergoes no change. The ancients having used these magic | squares for various purposes, they be-! came a subj of consideration among mathematicians: not because they im- agined that they would be of any solid | use oradvantage, but rather as a kind of play in which the difficulty makes the merit. If your young readers want a! little recreation in the combination of | figures, let them make a large square in | which there are 255 smaller squares, and | place in those squares all | the numbers from 1 to 256 in such al manner as will answ the following | conditions: 1 ne suin of the sixteen | numbers in column or rc verti- smaller calor horizontal, to . 2. Every half column. vertic or horizontal, kes 1,028, or on If the sum of] 3. Half a diagonal ascending added to half a diagonal makes also the san um—2,056, taking | these f diagonals from the ends of | any sides of the squa of it, and upward or downward, or sideways from | right to left, or from left to right. 4. The ne with all the parallels to the | half diagonal in the great square; for any two of them being directed upward and downward, | from the place where they begin to that where they cond, tl sums make the same, 2.056 hole equal in) bres es to the middle | so reckoning them either | | 3.3. If asquare | Ith to four of the little squares be cut in a paper,} through which any of the 16 little} squares in the great square may be seen, and the paper be laid upon the} great square. the sum of all the 16 num-| bers seen through the hole is always) equal to 2.056. bers in column. I horizontal vertical | any or ed to the noone co : placing ¢ s which will the above condit but can a that if a tho ople now mence to arrange the figures they may | work all their lives, and each of them} form a square a and althou every com they will 1 millionth part of the i tions which can be ing aps this} fv is a sufficient ation of the frequent assertion that there is no rule for the} formation of these magical squares GAVE HIM A CUTTON. Now a Rural Hebe Disconcerted a Senkes| Insurance Man. | The girl who waited at our table in| the little hotel had big brown eyes, a soft voice, and enough rural modesty to fit out city housemaids, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. $a sufficing | asure to ask for som g you didn’t 1t just to see her bli nd hear her say: “I'm afraid we haven't any, sir!” But a smart insurance man, one of those keen Connecticut Yankees who go West to take advantage of the country} before it grows up, was lined to tease our rustic Hebe. He gave minute directions to her about the frying of his steak—tho civilization of the place had | not reached the broiling point—and sent | back some boiled eggs because they | were not done enough. | “Will you have some pertaters, sir?” the waitress asked, as she was taking away the eggs. “Yes, Mary. I want some potatoes”— nobody else had called her Mary, and it was not her name—‘you'd better cook some for me, and I'l] have them later on. You must boil them with their jackets on—now be careful about that— always use it thus: 0°25. This style is said to have been introduced by Sir Isaac Newton, who placed it at the top of tho line to distinguish it from the | punctuation mark. : A Sole Leather Calculation. There are 300,000 of people t walk about the streets of London daily, and in so doing they wear away a ton of leather particles from their boots and shoes. ‘This would in a year form a leather belt six inches wide and oue- fourth of aninch thick long enough to reach from London to New York. The amount of disintegrated leather at 25 cents a pound (what it costs consumers) would amonnt to $25,000. Reduced toa strap one inch in width it would reach more than once around the world. and puta pinch of salt in the water, and”—he paused. and Mary, who had been gazing at him steadily with a heightening color, said: **Pertaters with their jackets on, sir?” “Yes, Mary |The Croce (a triangular head. of wh 19 many as can be drawn | * will | ‘ the sum of the 16num-} , | sized alligator the b: ' goes to. Flori itean of the Southern States of Ove Repnblic- Wherein Me Differs from the Creecotl = -Gater Piesh Not Consideres a Delicacy. ad by means of i times a fairly 3s Weekly, the rlous t, says H man in Flori man) Ame finds, tu never and | ored } to pick up | sans of the | does mar in the allig though a his oppor a ten-foot "gator le, even when | pared | and by the brought rth We need not find fault with nature, and tax ith having slighted us in | ne crocodi If in India there is | the gavial, i there is t cor | dile, and 1 the alligator and the cayman. It can hardly be ques- tioned but that we have on this con- he dile and the al- f difference, lows: “A cr ch the snout is ' children A Mother's Crime. | Louisville, Ky. Dee. 18.—Mre.} Jessie Higbee, whose home is near | Brand dy to- + Was taken into custo-} her four | poisoning ms i She is believed to be crazy She is the wife of a well to do fgrm- er and is « had five ci years old. She bes iren and is soon to be come «a mother the sixth time. October 15° one suddenly dicd: October 31 a second followed with symptoms of pains in the neck and back and quivering similar to those first; December 1 and 15 two more e sauie Ib ei followed in uu showed that the child had been giv ed arse: The poison was admin- listered upon bread. Mrs Higbee was brought to this city several days previous to her ar rest to await the analysis of the food. - Eupeps This is what you ought to have, in act you must have it to fully enjoy and canine j =X 1 enh aes r jew which pass | hfe. Thousands are searching for stches in the side Jit daily, aud mourning because ther of the upper: whereas the alligator |Sndit net. Thousands upon thou- (also ca a or e) bas a broad, | sands of dollars are spent annually flat muzzle, and the canine teeth of the lower jaw fit into soc surface of the upper j The business of collec of alligators has y somewhat diminished the quantity of these sau- rians in certain parts of Florida, but they are still to be found in large num- bers further inland. It is bare.y sup- posable that allivators ever will become ts in the under extinct in Floridi while those vast in- | i A visit } terior lakes and swamps exist. paid by a naturalist this year to Fior- ida was convincing that alligators were still very abundant. To kill an alli- gator, however, is by ficult as to secure him. The ‘gators bask in the sun on the song stretches of sand, but they are never quite They always seem to be their nd repose, never sleep. very f:r from water, with their heads pein in the direction of flicht times as It is not mother to ver to the ky flavor, with an made end yors in ~peat- been howe ten the S the fee that merican vari- 3 fish, and he de- was white, ten- able musky » nicest roas: tha tion of the you will take a not s dis morn ery of the rging may have se- cure hatched them out himself. An alli . and to impos- : of brain, tha especially small. In wate | barely fill We are not to look upc ; ble of any ai- (a ving | ) they are oc native taxidermists in Florida who devot portion of their time to the preparation of specimens, and notably of littie alligators. Gen- erally, however, som business who lives Northern ¢ health, and c mounting you al USING CATS AS CLOCKS. An Ingenious Expedient of the Chinese— Abbe Huc’s Story. Every one knows thatcatscan seein the theireyes. You may have noticed that in a moderate light the pupil or black part of pussy's eye is small and of an oval shape, while in a full clare of light it be- comes narrow. Now, in the dark it ex- pands to a circle and nearly fills the sur- face of the eyeball. the cat's eyes is turned to account in a curious manner heChinese. The Abbe Hue relates that when he was traveling time it was. The man went over to a cat that was quietly basking in the sun, and examining its eyes toid the Abbe that it was about two hours after noon, that, he explained that the pupils of a cat's eyes were largest in the morning “With or without. “Without what?” quer a little confused. uttons!” said the ¢ of all but he nade her “1 the Yankee, rl, and amid the oncerted tor- Power of the Mosquito. A scientist computes that with the aid of a machine constructed on the princi- ple of the boring, drilting and pumping apparatus of the mosquito, a hole could _ less than a day. | and that they graduaily grew smailer as ‘the light increased, till they reached | their minimum at noon: that then they began to widen again. tiil at night they ionce more became large. The good | Abbe was filled with admiration for the | ingenuity of a people whocould use cats jasclocks. But it must be admitted that | this way cf telling the time of day is {rather a loose one and could only be trusted in veryclear and serene weather, ; for temporary gloom or the darkness of be bored to the center of the carth !n| 9 Storm would sadly derange your four footed clock and put it all wrong. no means as dif- | nesta | es. To eat | ng a large | » one in the line of | winter for his | ies out his calling by } dark, and the reason they can do sois be- | cause of the peculiar construction of | This peculiarity of | inChina he asked his attendant what | and on being questioned how he knew | by our people in the hope that they may attain that boon And yetit inay be had by all. We guarantee shat Electric bitters, if used accord- jing to directions and the use persist ed in, will bring you good digestion aud cu-t ihe demon dyspepsia and install instead eupepsy. We recom- mend Electric Bitters for dyspepsia dill diseases of liver, stomach and i ys, Sold at 50c and $1 00 per \bott'e by H. L. Tucker, druggist. Robbers Near Hannibal. Hannibal, Mo., Dec. 23.—Masked roblcrs last night entered the house of Leland McE'roy, a farmer living 1, holding McElroy at | bay with reyolvers, went through the Jnouse and secured $4,600 in money. | They escaped. Pro Froin a lette E Hud of a near here, an sYers yd. itten by Mir. 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