Arizona republican., 1895-01-22
SHE SIZES THE PEOPLE UP,

A Fruit Seller Tells Why She Sometimes
Sets Exorbitant Prices Her Wares.
While waiting for cross-town car to
the ferry the other day, said lady
according to Chicago paper, 1 saw a
well-dressed woman stop at a fruit
stand on the corner and ask the woman
in charge the price of ounces 1 did
not hear the response, but heard the
inquirer's exclamation as she f1ounced
away.
''Oh, you are exorbitant!'
Two italian laborers stopped to price
the tempting-looking fruit.
Fifty cents apiece for ounces -
said the fruit seller, and the astonished
men passed on almost at run, talking
excitedly together in their native
tongue and evidently feeling that they
had barely escaped serious financial
peril.
Curious to learn the reason for her
high valuations I timidly advanced in
my turn and inquired the price of
ounces. Her terms, courteously given,
were moderat tie. which emboldened me to
ask why she had named SO high price
to the person who had come before me.
Il have been selling fruit at this
stand for ten years. she said, and
smiled wisely, and ought to be some
thing of judge of people by this time.
The lady you saw did not mean to buy;
she's one of the kind that cannot get
past sale stand or counter without
stopping to price everything on it, and
L was pleased to have her think me ex-
orbitant on the first question. As for
the Italians they thought the ounces
new kind OF fruit that they might buy
and eat like an apple, so it was useless
to waste time with them, and I gave
them figure that nearly caused them
to fail down. Now, with you the case
is different. You came to me fairly for
information about something that in
terested you, and that I am very glad
to give. Behind fruit stands, as well
as in bigger concerns, we get to know
how to size up the>people, and to treat
them accordingly.
France Encourages Electrical Progress.
France has for some time past been
specially active in the application of
electric power to canals, a fact due
probably to the Importance and extent
of her canal system. The latest sue
cessful trial reported is one on the
canal boats of the Havre-Paris-Lyons
compaignie, in which a transferable
electric motor and rudder combination
is used, while the motor has been driven
by current from storage batteries.
The canal boat, having a length of
thirty-eight meters and carrying one
hundred and eighty tons, is driven at
speed of eighty-fve centimeters per
second, an increase of forty per cent.
over the speed with two horses, while
the electrical energy consumed was
about four and siX-tenths horsepower.
At times speed of one meter three feet
three inches) per second was obtained
1t is now proposed to employ also
trolley system, as on the Bourgogne
canal, and to let the feed water that
maintains the levels at the proper
height operate dynamos generating
the necessary current. France has al
ways been foremost in the application
of electricity to navigation.
CUTTING coarse fodder makes it more
digestible, and hence it makes it more
nourishing, denial of the fact in some
quarters to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
In her eagerness to create, nature
may sometimes be betrayed, but she
never creates monstrosity without
protest.