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— MEN WHO MEMORIZE. ‘The Big Burden Tied by a Kallway Mall | “THE PEDOMETER. | It Ha» « Prototype in an Ancient Koman Service Clerk's Mind. eee \ “I suppose that the clerks in the When the little instram Railway Mail Service have to exercise | ® Pedometer wes inve their memories more th ofeliees | ee crac ate Chie’ prac \ class of persons.” said V Brad- | be the bed ete eee nollie : ley, assistant superintendent of the | ih hte etlia Papen aen orem : cS Second division of the Railway Mail | #PPears. however, that its spplication | Service, recently. “For instance, some | t? this purpose is by no means trust- | of the men of experience are expected | Worthy if we may judge j to have the situation of 14,000 or 19,000 | dence el ae post-oflices in this country fixed in their | !#\ouit in London, minds, When aman ent smploy | t sa di spute between of this branch of the Postal Depart- | (iver of a cab and his passenger as | ment of the Government, he is put on | t? the amount ef fare payable. the probation fora time. He is assigned | CoMtreversy turning on the quesuon to fixin his mind certain number of | Whether the dist accomplished j vost-oflices within a given time, and if | did or did not eed) three miles he does this satisfactorily, and is capa- | 4” Officer of the court testified that he | ble in other respects, he receives a | bad measured the length of street gone | permanent aprointment lover by the vehicle with a pedometer “In the first six months of his service | Which had long been used in the court, he is bound to learn where about 1,500 | 4d that he found the distance consid- places are situated. we be- | erably more than three miles. On the taht olalint other hand, the defendant had caused | ar in which he is at work. 0 the ground traversed to he measured | aided in his memorizing by his experi- with a chain by the superintendent of ence. The next six months he is ex- | the ordnance survey. who found the dis- | pected to learn even a greater number | tance to be under three miles. The de- | of offices, and in four years in fendant’s case Was strengthened by the cases must have at his tongu record of uw + 1 pedometer. which where between 14,000 and 19.000 post- | #l8e was carried over the ground, and * offi arc. and be able to tell how to | by Which the distance was made only send mail matter to them. Of course, {two and a half miles. Finally. | the men will forget some out of this — expert in pedometers was lhed | enormous number. but the percentage | in, who, upon examining the in- | is small, otherwise the clerks could not | Strument on which the court had been | keep their places. accustomed to re pronounced it “The trouble about the whole thing | “Shaky,” and said that it registered ten is that the employes must be examined | Yards too long in every mile. periodically, no matter how long they Notwithstanding this conflict of testi- have been in the service, so that we can | mony, the magistrate gave judgment in make sure they have not ceased review- | favor of the cab-driver, a decision which ing their lessons. A man might have | has been severely criticised in the Lon- all his offices committed to memory and | don newspapers. The knowledge. more- | yet forget many of them in a year or | over, that two instruments 1 two, if he did not keep up his studying. | more than half a mile in three mile By the time men learn the last of their | has not tended to encourage the sale of 18,000 names, they have forgotten some | pedometers. which are plainly worth- of the first ones, so their task is an end- | less if not accurate. less one. Itisa fact not generally known that “The mere committing to memory of | the pedometer had a prototype in the | the best way to send a letter to its ad- | so-called “odometer.” which was in use dress is not all that is expected of | in ancient Rome. The apparatus could | our men. ‘They must also know some- | be attached to the wheel of a vehicle, | thing of the less advantageous routes | and by means of its machinery, at the | and the times at which trains which | end of each mile a pebble was made to earry the mails reach intermediate | fall into a bronze receptacle. which was | t points. It sometimes happens that | opened at the end of the journey. The i the train on which the clerk is at | odometer is said to have been remark- work meets with « delay, and he can | ably accurate. and if any one could now t not make the connections he ordinarily | rediscover its principle. he would have | : could. In such cases he must have a | a fair chance of v nning the prize long | clear idea of how he can send the | offered by the Paris municipality for a i pouches over some other route, so that | trustworthy self-acting machine which 4 they will reach their destinations with | will register the number of kilometers as little loss of time possible. Often- | traversed by cabs.—N. Y. Ledger. times this will compel him to re-assort = = i his mail, so that he can send part of it Chinese Ladies at Washington. { one way and part another. Again, he When the ladies of the Chinese Lega- | i may have an unusually large amount | tion at Washington go out on the street | \ of mail matter to handle. so that, in | for a walk, they are objects of univer- : spite of the utmost diligence, he | sal attention, suys the New York can not‘have the letters. pac Ledger. ‘Their poor little feet are newspapers, etc. properly ass mere scraps. and they can not walk. | i when the train reaches a station where | put hobble ong like cripples, clinging | i some of the pouches are to be thrown | to a friendly fence or post if they ee i off. In such cases he must change the jostled. and sometimes tumbling all to- scheme of assortment, getting ready aS | gether like a row of bricks. ‘The much mail as he can, and sending the | never go singly. and rarely extend their rest back as soon as possible. A man | walk beyond sight of their own home. must have a clear. cool head on his | 4 servant stands in the front of the shoulders, and be able to plan out a] Legation house—he is an Irishman, by long campaign of railroad connections | the w and keeps a watchful eye on and routes in his mind. all their movement: so long as they are | “In spite of the qualifications and | in the street. They do not walk | study needed to make a satisfactory | abreast lest one should fall and upset | railway mail service clerk, the pay of | the others. They are ruddy of hope the men is poor, promotions are slow | and bright and pleasant to look upon, | and the tenure of office by no means so | and they appear to be cracking stupend- | dependent on good behavior as it might | ous Chinese jokes about the passers by | be. The highest who stare at thom too rudely. ‘These | clerk is $1,300 3 ¥ | aristocratic ladies are so clumsy, with takes eight to nine years to reach that | their fat hands and little feet, that they grade. No, a place in the se’ pis not the most desirable one in the world, « most of the 6.000 men who are in it will tell you. N.Y. Trib Cheysanthemuanys in Japan. Of all the blooming plants that adorn Japanese gardens, the chrysanthemum is the one most carefully cultivated. Its blossoms are tegarded as symbols of longevity. and the ninth month, accord- ing to the old lunary calendar, was called “the month of chrysanthemums,” and special festivals were kept for the purpose of seeing the beautiful national flower. In fact. the Japanese imperial coat of arms is nothing else than a chrysanthemum of sixteen petals. The rich employ special gardeners to culti- vate the plants in their parks, and the poor delight themselves by purchasing some in pots for a few cents. In “the month of chrysanthemums” there is not a house in the whole empire where the dwellers do not have some species of this flower.--Harper's Bazar. Prospects Good. “Florry, dear,” faltered the Washing- ton youth. “I—I couldn't summon courage to tell you what was in my heart and 1 wrote it. You got my let- ter, didn't you?” Yes, George, I got it.” And you read it, didn't you?” “Yes, Tread it. In fact, I—I read it over twice. “And now, Florry, he said. growing bolder, ‘I have come to learn my fate.” “The best I can promise you, George,” said the blushing daughter of the dis- tinguished Congressman, withdrawing her hand from the ardent clasp of the infatuated young man, ‘is that I will advance your letter to a third reading to-morrow, Chicago Tribune. —The Prince de Joinville has the 7 i) reputation of being, with the exception | of the Comte de Paris, the most par- simonious noble in Europe. He willnot have extra fires lighted in his vast and { chilly Paris mansion when he comes from the country to spend a day or two there, and he sends around the corner to the cook shop for a bow] of soup and a plate of meat rather than waste coals in the kitchen range. Both these royal economists ye enormous fortunes. oa cam are quite unable but require the constant se maid. They appear to greatly the freedom cf their American life. to dress themselve © oof enjoy *| The Wrong, Place for Lovers. It is not difficult to imagine that the Goddess of Liberty smiled gently and | indulgently as they made their way up | the walk to the Capitol. And when | they entered the hall where the whis pering gallery is the sight-seers all seemed to pause as if they had heard | Cupid flap his wings. The points of in- | terest didn’t seem to attract them much, | and at last they found a cozy nook be- | hind in a corner where the crowd could not jostle them, and where they were safe from even the stare of the stair- way's marble eyes “Darling.” last alone. he whispered. © we are at | You have told me often, but 1 want to her it again. Tell me that you love me. Her lips parted, but as he awaited her reply there came the words in a hoarse, brutish voice: “You can bet your life I do.” | They looked once into each other's startled faces and fled. They had struck the whispering gal- | lery and there was an audience at the other end of the line.—Washington | Post. | The Land of Suicides. Germany is the classical land of sui- cides and Saxony is its most suicidal province. To every 1,000,000 of Saxons there are 400 suicides, although the rest of the empire has an average of only 150 to 160 to 1,000,000. In Leipsie the ratio is the highest in the civilized world, 450 to 1,000,000, or 50 more than | in Paris. In London the number per | 1,000,000 is 85; in St. Petersburg, 160; in Berlin, 260; in Vienna In Prus | sia the number of suicides increased be- | tween 1850 and 1878 from 1.426 to 4,68: In France. fifty y ago, the number of suicides was i.7) it had increased to ¢ and in 1886 to! 8.187. Of the suicides of 1986, 1,380 were | committed by men between fifty and | sixty years of age and tween forty and fift Ss ann In 1878] 924 by men be- | Chicago News. | fol owed Directions. ; Farmer Yoeman—Doc.. th | and whisky don't do me F —Strong in Orthography.—Old Mr. no gord. The ague has g ' 44 Hustle (to young lady applicant for po- | oth on us yet. * sition as typewriter)—Can you spell | Bich a von take se aeoondne i 4 well? Young Lady Applicant—Yes, | man ea ara sir, ordinarily; but | sometimes get tan- eee ae Sopp tausects | gled be 4 when it comes to “artesian."— | 41. quinine = i take the whisky.— i N. Y. Sun. Zaare. | be be how. ‘You want to inhale it—breathe itin. Aw! don't cough, but it was too late. [ had coughed and pretty nearly | loosened my cervical vertebra. ‘Keep yourself from couzhing by an effort of | | the will” [did so successfully. and in three whiff. I was staggering. That | settled it. I was a cigarette fiend. There's lots of things a man can take to | conductor satin his perch in the eaboose, | infirm and palsied. | girl. unless it be the same He sitting | howling winter DRUNK ON COFFEE. lue Experience of a@ Man Who Drank It Very Strong. md I don't know what's the matter with | one man to another ina North stree t-car the other day. ‘Abou after I eat my breakfast I nm my stomach. My appe-j for abeut | 1 so que tite is good and I ne half an hour. 's fit to “to make g when! rink. I taught my flee, and it can bear up No comes on the table in mine “TL tell you what 1 matter. You're just getting over a coffee drunk. You know how you fe el when the Be is | dying in you. Wel A mau can't | there get drunk on | can't he? Well, Ive been a6 drunk asa lor 4 on it. One night an- other fellow and [ had a lot of writing to do, and it took all the wits we about us to do it, too. und we had to sit up late. and to keep us av brewed a pot of coffee, and made strong as aqua fortis: stronger. I don’t know. the ideas came. ing for words. had ke we} it asj and may be} My land! how In droves. o hunt- They in and gave themselves up. H getting pretty gassy, g good deal. I'd been eine away, | drank, may be, three or four cups, when I got upto get a match for my began to notice myself and I found that my hands and feet felt about as big as a hickory-nut. And then I discovered | that unless I hung onto my chair I'd hit | the ceiling. I was just ready to float. [| let the coffee alone after that and i about ten or fifteen minutes I was ot right again. But, 0! my stomach! felt asif 1 had been going to eon | sociables and feeding on ice-cream and cake for a year.” ay be it was the cigarettes did it.” no. Cigarettes will cause insanity consumption, premature baldness, p ralysis of the vaso-motor system, fits, rheu tism, ingrowing nails. and that tired fecling—if the newspapers are to } eved—but they can't make me | Tam too well acquainted with | cigarette. and I found I couldn't wali: | straight. My head was as sober} as a judge. but my legs were | drunker than a fiddler. And then I} | | drur them [remember the time.though. when | they did make me drunk. I had been smoking ¢ rettes the same as a man} smo!: sand didn’t see much to the I weak stuff. friend—well, let's call him friend any- thought they were pretty “You don't inhale,’ said a make drunk come besides whisky. I have heard you can get drunk chewing toba Idon't know. I have never tried. Well, here’s my street.” Tribune. —Chicago HE WAS NOT DISMISSED. An Act Which Secured a Conductor's Pro- | charge. Not long ago a freight conductor ona | Maine road won promotion from an act he supposed would give him the! 1 bounce. { One day his frei i Was side-track of the express approachine from the | west. The freight train was so long | that several of the rear cars could not be crowded upon the siding. but extend- ed fora short distance along the main line. Now. rules prescribed that a brake man with a fi should guard the rear | of the train. as no train was expect- ed from the east these precautions were | disregarded, and flags were displayed only for the benefit of the express. The and below buzzed the pussengers, two elderly ladies. and an old gentleman, , All at once there , was a rattle and roar, and around a curve from the east dashed an engine drawing a work train. Nothing could avert a collision between the in-coming locomotive and the rear of the freight. For about a minute our friend, the con- ductor, did a pile of thinking, coupled with wondrous alacrity. Like a flash he was down into the car and was dash- | ing for the door. dragging an astounded elderly lady under each arm. The old man, responding to the trainman’s fran- tic yells, hobbles after as rapidly as his infirmities would allow. When the in- evitable crash came. the puffing quartet | Were at a safe distance from the wrecked caboose. Of course. the unhappy conductor im- | mediately received notice of suspension, and this notice was duly followed by a summons to the manager's office. That official, after sternly regarding the hu- miliated employe, proceeded to deliver what the conductor supposed would be sentence of immediate dismissal, joined with some scathing remark. But this is what the manager said: ' Mix. + You deserve discharge for neglect of duty. You shouldtake noth- ing for granted in railroad matters. and your neglect to display signals is inex- eusable. However, your quick wit and promptness of action has saved to the company thousands of dollars that oth- erwise must have been paid to those three passengers or their heirs. You are a young man. have heretofore been faithful and I think this one lesson will prove amply sufficient to insure faith- fulness in the future. We have decided | to promote you for your service to the | company. | as conductor on the passenger train on and you will hereafter serve —— branch.”"—Chicago News. nea you by the cosy hearth-fire in the ime.--Semerville Jour nal. ak coffee | § | Keats drew in his poem of * ea cider-press | | more than one mil ' posing | cider, } labor, barrels, ete. | barrels A GLASS OF CIDER. Suggestive s Concerning Sac- | charine Apple Juice. The sight of a keg of sweet cider on the ¢ more frequent in city yestaurants nowadays than it was @ dozen yearsago. A piece of pumpkin pie and a gi doubtless ss of saccharine apple juice peal to the country-bred tastes of m: a grizzled merchant and busy clerk. and call up recollections of rude old country cider-milly and the great vats of a nber liquor into which they once inserted the potent rye straw Or possibly the pretty girl ng glasses at the counter reminds them of ome country Pomona such as John 2 Autumn.” wash who loved to sit besid “and watch the last slow ocozings., by hov hour got to be an ider business has only about on cider-mills, owing to The price of cider does not seem to fluctuate with the supply. It is al- Ways served out by the retailer at five cents a glass, and may be bought by the keg at from thirty cents to forty cents third of a yield from the erop. 'a gallon Asa rule. the flush year of the apple s furnishes a vinegar supply for Good cider is worth more r this year. so that the crop be used in its fresh state. cider manufacturers own some half a dozen, and they make a handsome profit. Sup- that they pay a farmer fifty cents a barrel for apples. A barrel of apples will make nine gallons of which will bring them twenty cents a gallon or $1.50 for the yield of fifty cents worth of apples. There is, of course. some ontlay for machinery, Second-hand whisky are generally used. and they "ars. than vine will mostly Not a few | cost about $1.25 apiece. The cost of making cider is from two to three cénts a gallon, and.the farmers often prefer to pay this and market their own cider. But here they are at a disadvantage from not being known to the trade. A Connecticut cider firm made a bid the other day to supply 300 barrels of cider at eighteen cents a gal- lon. Such large orders would daze the average farmer, of course. The romantic old-time cider-mill is j being rapidly supplanted by the more | thorough and trustworthy modern sorts. | In the old one the apples were often ground by h power. Bnt fhost frequently the cider-mill was pitched beside small stream, the power of whic half wasted on a great “overshot” wheel, was made to do the grinding. Often the supply of water would fail, or the dam or other con- trivances give way, and then there v a great temptation to water the make up for lost time while waiting for the dam to fill up. The pressing was done generally by an upright screw into which iron bars were thrust and pushed around by brawny arms. The writer has seen a broad-backed Dutch woman helping her husband at this arduous work. The modern cider-mill, however, shows by the puffs of steam that it does not depend on dams. ‘To be sure, there may be a dam a foot high in the neighboring vine. a fall of water enough to work a hydraulic ram and feed the boiler. The grinder re- volves at a rate which makes the building hum. The ground ap- ple, or pulp. falls down through the floor into canvas sacks. which {are hastily closed and laid in a tier of a dozen on the platform of the hydraulic press. Then down comes the cover with irresistible power, and the sence of the apple gurgles into the at. From here a pump. also propeled by steam. forces the liquid up into a large vat. from which it can be drawn | nto barrels by turning a spigot. In old times the loading of a barrel of cider, weighing over four hundred pounds, oc- cupied the close attention of several brawny men as they rolled it up a pair of “skids” with a concert of **heave- ths.” But now a pair of barrel tongs, | arope thrown over a windlass having a large wheel for the hand rope. and the muscle of one man lifts the barrel and swings it into the wagon. It is a strong argument for the sweet- ' cider drinker that the pomace left after pressing is absolutely worthless as a food for any thing or as a fertilizer. The virtue of the apple must therefore go with the juice. The best cider is that made late in the season from the best matured fruit. Cold weather also conduces to its keep- ing well. Russet apples make about the finest cider in market, and it will bring anextra price. Some other varieties, Newtown pippins oer crab apples, make very fine thick cider. If properly worked, cleared of por and kept air- tight in new, clean barrels it will keep all winter as rich and pleasant as a sherry wine, while. of course. less alco- holic, and so less harmless. ‘The pleasure of “sucking cider through a straw’ is not always attainable. as straws are not everywhere convenient sthand. Anexcelent substitute for the straw is a stick of macaroni.—Pitts- burgh Dispateh. An Exhibition of Jewelry. —A plan has been broached of open- ing an exhibition of jewelry in St. Petersburg. Syn Otetchestva ener- getically opposes the idea Thus it de- clares: ‘All married men, all fathers who are ble d with grown-up daugh- ters, and fina all nen who have any pleasant connections with ladies, must | in a body oppose this erazy undertak- ing. Ifoeur ladies can not at present pass by an ordinary jewelry store with- ent conceiving a desire to own the ele- exhibited in the show win- ws. how greater will that mo en they see the exquis- rt in that line gathered rs of the globe! It is : to think of the ruin of | loss of virtue whic hi} mn mig wht cause. 1 desire be w ite works of to servant)—“Is your mis- nt—*Sir. this is the tress 1 kitchen. 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