Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-24

vance the plan of . celebration to which all
the tribes of the earth should flock to see
how much We have improved since We
were discovered. he, too, Is modest,
claiming nothing. but Is all the more
worthy of recognition and honor, as is Miss
Smith, newspaper woman, who was at
least four years in advance of Colonel
Anderson in making public the great and
ever. glorious Idea.
BoTANIsr.
Among the four or Eve leading bota-
nists Of the world is an English lady, Miss
Helena Omerod, who since her childhood,
which was spent in the widest and most
beautiful parts of Lancsshife, has de-
voted all her time to the study of plants
and flowers. Insect life, as related to
plsnts, has also been study of special
interest to her, and she was still mere
girl when she was awarded the silver
floral medal of the Royal Horticultural
society for beautiful drawings and models,
illustrative of insect depredations, which
aroused much interest In the scientific
world.
She was the first lady ever admitted TO
the fellowship of the Meteorological society;
is lecturer at the Royal Agricultural COL
lege; the inventor of q process by whioh
she is able to make exact reproductions of
flowers and fruits; and the correspondent
of hundreds of botanists ths,word over, 80
that she leads the intensely busy life of the
scientist and let's the fashionable worlds
follies and fancies psss by, as one is con-
tent to do when engrossed by an employ
ment both noble and fascinating.
A SURPRISE FOR THE TYPEWRITER GIRL.
Here is a statement that will astonish
the typewriter girl, causing her to open
her eyes in pleased amazsment at the
thought of her own strength and energy.
1t is possible for her to estimate accurately
the amount of energy she has expended
upon her days work. Perhaps, after a
particularly busy and trying day at the Of
fee 1t would only add to her fatigue to know
exactly how much force ehe had exerted,
Just as in very torrid weather it only adds
to ones discomfort to note the degree at
eter-if it Islands" at all.
But this is the way to figure the matter
out, If she cares to do it.
To depress key on typewriting ma
chine requires four ounces of energy.
There are, on an average, sixty charac-
ters used to line upon the large square
letter paper. This means sixty depres-
sions, requiring two hundred and forty
ounces of energy. Reckoning twenty-five
lines to the page gives one thousand FIVE
hundred depressions, and to write thirty
of such pages, which may be considered a
fair days work, the operator must have
depressed the keys forty Eve thousand
times. Multiplied by four, the number of
ounces to one depression, we have the
rather startling result of one hun
dred and eighty thousand ounces.
Dividing by sixteen, we find that
eleven thousand, two hundred and fifty
pounds, or about five tons, of force, have
been expended upon the thirty pages. This
really is not so very much when compared
with some other kinds of labor, but is suf-
iciently surprising to convince us that the
typewriter's work, though 1t seems but a
fantastic gallopsds over the lightly drop
ping keys, must be rather taxing, and
that If she complains of weariness, after
exerting five tons of physical force, she is
in need of and has earned our respectful
sympathy and admiration. HILARY.