The Press., 1888-06-14

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 THE SPEED OF TRAINS. is not one person in one hundred of the millions who travel on railroads in the course of year who has any idea of the speed of a train. A large per cent of even the regular train men of the country can not tell with any degree of accuracy how fast train is run ming. Frequently engineers are dispatched on trip over line of railroad with in- struction to run at speed of a certain number of miles an hour. The engineers do not carry a speed indicator, but have learned by various methods to guage their engines so as to make only the slightest variations from their orders.
 The majority of engineers use their driv- ing-wheel as a guage. They know its cir. conference, and by counting its revolutions within certain time can tell very accurate ly the speed at which they are running. Another method is to time the run between mile posts, and still another is to make cal sulations from the number of telegraph poles passed in a certain time. These poles, in level country and where four or five wires are used, are spaced so that there are thirty to the mile. If only a single wire k used they are spaced from twenty-five to twenty eight to the mile.
 The most accurate method, aud the one most in use by experienced railroad men is to count the number of rail joints the train passes over in twenty seconds. The rails, in nearly all cases, are thirty feet in length, and the number passed over in twenty sec. onds is the speed per hour the train is run ming. For instance, if a passenger sitting in a sleeper can count thirty clicks of the wheels on a rail joint in twenty seconds, the train is running at the speed of thirty miles an hour..-Kdnsas City TVn,es.
 DR. MARY WALKER AND THE SMALL
 BoY.-Some of the pages at the capitol seem to take keen delight in worrying | Dr. Mary Walker when she makes her ap-
 pearance there. The doctor is a terrible
 enemy of tobacco smoke, and it makes her
 as mad as a wet hen when anybody smokes in her presence Recently a page named
 Johnson, who is a protege of Congressman
 Amos Cummings, and who is not in the
 habit of indulging in cigarettes, procured one of these "boy killers" for the express
 purpose of annoying Dr. Mary. She, or
 'it," as this eccentric person is quite ire quently called, was at the house document room for the purpose of procuring several
 cigarette in hand marched up to Dr. Mary
 and asked for match. The latter grew ? white with rage and raised her umbrella to , chastise the little fellow. The boy with squirrel-like agility sprang up steep flight of steps leading to the loft. When
 he had reached a safe distance he took a ] match from his own pocket and soon had
 raised cloud of smoke. Dr. Mary abused him roundl--, and said he was a disgrace to his parents, and added that if she could
 get hold of him she would take the cigarette away. The boy, as he sat gazing at this female crank attired in a mans complete outfit, including silk hat, said "Now look here, Dr. - didn't you
 use to smoke when you were a boy?' The younRster became bolder, and in a , moment or two descended from his place on the iron stairs when the doctor seized the cigarette, threw it on the floor and stamped her boot-heel on it. Then she strutted off as if she had accomplished q
 great deed.-,S. Louis RepUbticdn. WHERE SILENCE WAS SAFETY. -Jepson -"I notice that you always speak we'll of me to my face, Jobson, and, while l have [ no reason to believe that you do other.
 wise behind my back, think it does not harm man to be criticised: by his friends ito be told his little fhults I know I'm not perfect, and would be glad to have you remind me of the fact sometimes" } Jobsun-"Tell you of your faults ?" Jepson-"Yes; criticise me, tell me . what your honest private opinion of me is, , That's what want"
 Jobson-"Jepson, you are six feet two,
 and am five feet four, and you want me to give you my honest private opinion oi you? No, sir-ee. Jobson, my boy, I'm
 no fool !".-BoStOn Courier.
 , Chicago Tribune Kansas tramp What } towns this just ahead
 Kansas sfarmer-Oskaloosa.
 . Tramp-Where they've elected lot Q ? women to the offices?
 Farmer-The same.
 Tramp (shouldering his bundle and pre- pairing to take the back track )-That's all want to know. won't have nothin' tc do with DO such durned town. was raised in a country where men were capable o | running things themselves
 , Farmer (relative of member of city conn
 ciD -Gol you don't show it bit Boston Courier A little girl was sent acros, the street to a neighbours for milk. The COW . which the neighbor owned had ceased Co give milk for the time and there was none to b, had. ''There is no milk today" said the lie
 tie girl on her return. "No milk" said th'
 mother" Whats the matter ?" "She didnt
 tell me what was the matter" was the reply,
 "but guess the COW aint laying just now"
 Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets Possess Powerful Potency, Pass Painlessly, Promote Physical Prosperity.
 was troubled with catarrh and hay fever
 for thirty years. Have suffered great deal