The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-11
Some CuriOS and Oddities.
mere Are Lots of Queer Things
in This Old World. to Be Sure.
EtiAEHEN we reached Switzerland. !"
wv said the tourist I'VE found IN the


ttlAIHEN we reached Switzerland"
wv said the tourist 1--WE found IN the
railway stations alongside OF the
ticket office machines for measuring the
height of children. said to the agent in
"A half ticket for my little girl
Isn't she too tail2' the man asked.
MY daughters height was duly taken.
1t was four feet five.
" All right, said the agent She passes
'"fhen the man explained to me that on
account of Innumerable disputes over the
age of children half fares were now sold
in Switzerland according to height in
stead of according to age Children I'M
der three feet travel free Those between
three feet and four feet six paid half fare.
Those over four feet six paid FUN rare
The new rule is a good one said The
agent. We have no more disputes. The
children are measured a the ticket
flee, and that is the end of the matter 9"
Visitors. I suppose. bother you a great
deal. sir said a reporter to a famous
statesman.
I have no less than forty visitors a
day" the statesman replied. ''Of these
forty, twenty. on an average. must
How do you get rid of them quickly
enough? How. without offending them;
MY secretary" said the Statesman,
comes in to me when the time limit has
expired and he tells me very audibiy that
my wife wishes to see me-"
'Ha. ha. ha,". laughed the reporter. Il
But just then there was an Interrupt
ton The secretary entered the room
and murmured to the statesman:
Your wife. sir. wishes to see you.
Jimmy! Jimmy Confound that boy.
Where has he gone now, ..e..,,--.
The bookkeeper FASTENED respectfully 10
Anything 1 can do. sir?" he said
Jimmy has sneaked out again
Wei. never mind. jenkins II wait
tin he returns said the boss. Then,
turning to his visitor. he commented
.'Timnv is. 50 lazy that believe he has
a great fortune ahead of him Laziness
is a sign of greatness. you know All
our 1niilionaires were lazy boys. They
never when they worked for salaries
earned their salt.
Il have yet TO see a self-made million
aire with enough plodding industry IN
him to do q days work OF the kind his
clerks do-an honest days work, from
till 8. at pushing or figuring Every
millionaire. every successful man. Is lazy
IL is only in the ,plodding faiiures-the
boOkkeepers and the laborers and the
clerks-that the virtue of Industry Is TO
Won saw that great mems minds are
active even though their bodies be in
dOIent? Well. that is nothing Every
body's mind Is active.
Successful men succeed because tneir
laziness sets them to thinking, thinking
hard. on the way TO earn money easily,
money without doing much work. watch
these men at the beginning Of their ca
reers a nd YOU see them as II red clerks.
Notwithstanding in order to scheme and
build-when they should be bending over
their desks. Watch them after success
is attained and you see them, with their
fat stomachs, Iolling IN their offices too
lazy 10 write a letter or make out Il Dill
or draw I'D a check.
Hence / think Jimmy will succeed. lie
Is lazy. and iaziness is success prime
fac-o--
An Englishman has opened III New
York "A shop devoted entirely 10 walking
sticks. He who enters this shOO Is first
struck with the fact that all the hUn-
dreds Of sticks on display are as long
as alpenstOcks and have no ferrels on
Zach stick. sir. ne said IS, as IL
were made to your measure. You buy
Il five feet long. YOU decide what length
suits YOU best, a workman half
minute cuts the stick down TO that
length and ferrules IL. Thus everyone
who patronizes this shop get a stick
that fits him perfectly
The salesman pointed out a huge room
filled with sticks ana umbrella handles
You select your stick and your silk,
he said. ..anG we make tho umbrella to
your measure. 1t comes out just the
diameter and just the length you like
best
bent twisted, Strengthened. even knotted.
On the broad surface OF a large and very
hot stove there was a bed % very hot
sand Sticks laid in this sand became
quite pliaDle. Here a gioVed workman
was bending a hot STICK handle INTO
w There another was tying arother-
handle IN an elaborate bowknot
skilled work. said the salesman. "a
heat that suits one Kind OF WOOD ruins