The Sunday herald., 1886-12-26
RANDOM WRITINGS.

The progress made In nventlng all sorts OF de.
vices to simplify and expedite the mercantile trans
actions in the enormous shops OF the day has been
wonderful. When the wooden balls first rolled
along little tramway TO the cashiers desk with the
change crowds nocked to the store to see the inno
vation. People bought something just for the sake
of seeing dollar bill put inside croquet ball and
rolled away 10 return presently changed into
silver. True, the return was not always very speedy
but the transaction had charm of novelty, and the
balls at least did not knock the patient waiter for
change first one side and then the other, rs the
human mediums who rushed about with baskets
and were named "cadaSh" did This little ball roll
ing lesurely along its track the money changers
seat was great invention, but, like all new things,
II acted challenge to every Ingenious mind, and
in few months a dozen improvements were intro
duced. one store proudly followed It's lead with
baskets In which the purchases were holsted up to
the ceiling and sent sailing down cords to the
cashier and the wrapper. Another store immedi-
ately trumped that card with a lightning delivery
system OF boxes which run on wires worked by an
engine, and glide away with the money and whiZ
back with the change with startling rapidity.
II really seems as Though the most that could
be done for the purchase and the change had
been done already, but there Is something sull-a
problem which veXes the mind of the merchant
what TO do with the purchasers. There Is no DOUBT
that they are terribly in the way, especially that
change" /" for somehow other they do have TO walt
for change in spite of the improvements. In the
crush OF holiday shopping II mas really become evil
dent that some way must be arranged for disposnR
quickly and effectively Of customer az soon as MS
business ia done. If the customers could only be
in the basket with the bundles and the change
instead OF standing buifeted about in the narrow
! aises, and approached every half minute by some
one eager to wait on them. Before the purchase
was made u was dificut matter TO get attendance
| but afterwards sR average OF rye girls minute
Will offer their services. To each one the ex-cus-
| toner must give monotoIoas explanation OF MS
existence, "waiting for change" Nov, Why could
there not be powerfu! hostlng apparatus arranged
with numerous little swings depending from 1t?
| When the clerk makes arrangements to send up the
| change he draws dQyp one OF these graphing de-
wees, attaches 1t to the purchaser and swings him
| up Just above peoples heads. These Ge Is out oil
the way and can walt at leisure and In comfort. or
course the details of this plan are not worked out,
bnt 1t is safe TO say the store which frat puts 1t in
| operation will be thronged.
With such plan IN operation the practice OF max
| ing the crowded shops place for socal reunions
| would soon cease. In the present order OF things
| one is often amused and sometimes annoyed ny
such little encounters this Scene, just inside the
| door OF large store, where the crowd coming In
met the aToyd coming out. Passage dlncult at best
suddenly becomes impossible as two ladies' meet
both together. "Why howlye do; your stranger
"why haven't you beenup?" "You mad better say so
why haven't you been down." 81 didn't get back
I'LL the 2Oth of October; hows John?" ON, spendld;
he's In the second year at bennington. Pm getting
MIN scarfpln; papa's going TO give him watch;
how's Jenny?n swell az can he. Isn't II perfectly
a,ct,l shopping now, such crowds. What are you
making for Christmas this year?" "Nothing much
"Neither aIn /; 1t really doesn't pay DO come az
soonn ayes, you come down. Remember me tC
I JohI ghen you write," etc. True, these conyersa
tlons are iDte.esng but II one is very hurried as
will sometimes nappen y is hard TO spend time To
listen 10 them.
II sometimes makes one feel as II trying to inform
the ,plic mind through the medium OF newspaper
was hopeisss task. Due prominence was given
at the time the bill kEQyn as the "Presldenial Sue
cession bill" was passed BY bcth Houses OF Con
1 gress at the last session OF this G0EgEess, anC
signed January 10, 1856, by the President, 10 th6ss
facts, ana tnal i E1a1e the members of the Cabinet
/ In order heirs 10 tue Bfcslqency, when Tor any
csqss vacancy existed In tue Two gIghesi otfces
Yet DepQcY4tic Senator's wife, who was "a Ne"
YORK while tue Fregldept vas lately suffering from
,hat atv whom she met there iGasG 10 her tha
no bill 10 provide for nliing the vacancy, sh0q-
, there be neither President nor Vice President u
I oejre except that which provided Tor the success
SION IN gUg0 O case OF the President OF the senate
or, II iaere be EcIe, the Speaker Of the House 0
Representatives, had eJeT heen passed, anu Tue
. remarked while the President vas ~. "Ihe Demo
crats would be In nice nS II the FTesdent sA1DA
i die as senator Sherman, Republican, w0uld sue
I rred IN the once aud they would not believe
i, i wlep stG said It would be secretary BayaId'
n The announcement IL maze l.G4 Igs HF!ca Pres
dent OF switzerland" has been elected 'fTeslesn.
for 1851 AS grave comment on AWeflcau aHAIb
sometimes founded on the supposed csa'"be .
Is swilzerand une above Incident, for Instance, mem
p y,ilhout parallel mere its worth while 10 Temar
a aaaia u u mere s no such once as "Presldenl
- Switzerland" ..prutiye power is vested In III
% Federal Council, anu this Lq9y elects presldln
~ Otcer for It's deliberations, as our heDag GOES u
Il holds ONCE for only one year among the s"A'' an
" elrnor be reelected for the next ensuing year II
re powerisSIcre shadow 10 that OF the America
p chiet Aagi'na'f, F52s almost p'''a''' !" '''
al garrison.
9. Al the Bishop th0ught-reading selnee Taesda
"a evening senator ingalls, was lnirusted with a pin
N hide outside the Aa lie promptly went 10 the sid
door OF q saloon and stuck the pin In the lapel
10 somebody's coat, Mr. Bishop then went ont blln
D. folded aud led the committee at break neck spec
10 10 tAe same slde-door. This Indicates tnat Dota
= and ING senator must have lived Ia prohlbltlt
u States,
W The Ways Of shop Girls.
u fChlcago Eerald.l
,o Some shop girls are queer. Not satisfied with I
~ CONSEQUENCES which every one OF them should
lg possessed Of that toll is honorable, ana that 3
VINO stands nehind the counter IL Just az gool
o. woman In America as she VINO SITS In front ui a
. paws things over, they indulge IN false s0fl
e. pride leading 10 an lncOnRTuous aud raher CONT
In effort 10 appear what they are not. chicago sh
girls aud clerks do mol carry bundles OF leAl-boo
he while waking through the streets 10 make penI
, think them school-glrs, as some shop girls are 81
u, 10 do In New YORK. But friend OF mine, VINO II
al shop girl herself, says that number oi you
women OF her Acquaintance carry lhelI luhcheu