The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-18
Here and There.
THE AFFAIRS OF MEN BRIEFLY DISCUSSED.

posed that any one could get much fun
out of q cork leg. Yet l know a man who
had the misfortune TO lose his leg who got
a good deal of amusement out of its cork
substitute. Once he nearly scared an old
gentleman u of his wits. II was in this
way: The said cork leg was a very well
made one, and when its owner was seated
you could not tell the difference between
the real and false article. One day my
friend was In a railway a and opposite
him was an old gentlemen. My friend
look out his penknife and began pairing
his nails. When he had finished, instead
Of putting his knife rack in his pocket.
like an ordinary mortal. he gave il q jerk,
and il stuck in his cork leg, and vibrated
to and fro In "A sufficiently horrible man.
ner. The old gentleman's feeling can
''better be imagined than described" as
they say in the novels. He turned a beau
tiful green color, and mt the next stoppage
skipped from the car in a most active
manner. He evidently thought he had
got i'm with a mailman, and probably inn
agined his leg would be the next to be ex-
perimented on.
Few people have any idea of the length
of space over which the pen traverses of a
man who earns his living by The work OF
that silent though powerful instrument.
A writer on the st. Louis Republic, with a
turn for mathematics, has been making
some calculations, and gives the follow
ing astonishing figures: "A rapid pen
man can write thirty words i'm a minute.
To do this he must draw his pen through
the space of a rod-sixteen and a half
feet. In forty minutes his G travels a
furlong, and i'm five hours q third Of a
mile. We make on an average sixteen
curves or turns of the pen for each word
written. Writing thirty words in n min
ute, we must make forty-three curves to
each second; i'm an hour $1,000, I'm five
hours 144,OO0, and in 100 days, working
five hours each day, weNnake not less
than 43,200,0O0 curves and turns of the
pen. The man who makes but 100000
strokes of the pen a month has done
nothing remarkable; there are those who
make four times that number. Here we
have in the aggregate a mark 800 miles a
year. In making each letter of the ordi-
nary alphabet we make three to seven
strokes of the pen-on an average three
and a half to four
A play was produced i'm England not
long ago, said the Illustrated American, al
an institution for the instruction of deaf
mutcs, by persons who had been taught to
speak, but who were wholly incapable of
%perceiving sound. A performance even
more out of the common was given in
New York City by deaf mutes who were
restricted to sign language. The specta-
tors cannot say a~udicnce-were per
sons afflicted like the players, and al.
| though the actors did their duty with
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not a sound was to be heard in the hall
from the beginning to the end of the per.
Torrance. The entertainment was i'm aid
of a fund for erecting a statue of Harvey
Prindle Peel, the great educator of deal
mutes, who died January 1, 1873.
Something new i'm the line of strikes and
boycotts is presented by the beer drinkers
of Munich. Soldiers, tradesmen, railway
employees and workers i'm factories have
signed a pledge no to drink any Munich
beer because the proprietors of the brew
cries hav raised the price of the bever
age. In order TO bring the N down tn the
old figures. the strikers drink Strasburl
beer, Frankfort beer, Dortmund beer ol
any kind Of beer that does not come from
the Munich breweries. This interesting
strike has been in full force since April I
and il is believed the offending brewer,
must come down with the price or shut uI
their establishments.
The course of true love seems 10 strik,
its toughest places in the theatrical pro
fession. Mary Anderson couldn't MARI.
Mr.. Navarro with any peace Of mind o
serenity of conscience until Mr.. Henry 4
Abbey said that he would bring no actor