The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-02
A Novel Postoflce scheme.

In order to facilitate, and accelerate
at the same time, the collection and de-
| livery OF letters and packages in
Vienna, the Ministry of Commerce is
engaged upon plan of an underground
electric railway which would link to-
gether the chief and various district
postoffices Of the city, some sixty-four
in all.
According to the plans which are now
under discussion, the line would be
built twenty-five feet below the surface
of the ground, and the tunnel would
have height of five feet and a breadth
of four feet four inches. The stations
would be built underneath the post
offices. The trains would run at twenty
miles an hour, and would consist of
motor and three cars, each carrying as
much as the ordinary post van.
1t is estimated that seven years
would be required for the construction
of the line. While 1t would cost an
enormous sum of money in the long run
the line could be operated for much
less than the present horse and wagon
service, while the mails could be ham
died in less than half the time now re-
quired for the purpose.-Pall Mall
Gazette.
The Kaiser's Press Cutting Agency.
The German Emperor's interest in
everything that goes on in the world
is well known; but not every one is
aware of the trouble he takes to keep
in touch with current affairs. Accord
ing to a Munich newspaper, the Kaiser
reads at least three papers every day,
changing the list several times a week
in order to become fully acquainted
with the ideas of all political parties in
the state. But this by no means ex-
hausts his appetite for information
Every day the ministry of foreign af-
fairs, as we'll as that of the interior,
has to provide newspaper cuttings,
properly named and dated. and pasted
on slips ready for the Emperor's peru
sal. These he carefully reads, making
marginal notes as he goes along, and
they are then scrupulously classified
and put aside ready for immediate ref
erence. Often, too, the emperor, whose
catholicity of interest and insitence
many a journalist, asks for cuttings
relating to the particular technical sub
jects in which for the time he is
specially interested.
The Prize Fly.
Poultney Bigelow, the brilliant au-
thor and journalist, said the other day
Of the chicken farm that he is about
to set up at Maiden:
"I hope we succeed with this farm.
I hope our experience won't too
closely resemble that of my old friend
Horatio Rogers. Rash Rogers lived in
the suburbs. On the suburban train
one morning he said to me with
sour laugh:
"T've got something nobody else
has got Mr.. Bigelow.'
"'Have you, Rash?' said I. What
is it?'
"'We1l.' said Rogers, L bought
$50 incubator last month. put SIS
worth of eggs in it, and Matched out
bluebottle fly
HE frowned, then sighed.
Eyes he said, I've got the only
$65 bluebottle fly in the world
Dividing tho Responsibility.
Early in Baron Huddlestons career
at the bar he shared rooms with an
other barrister. Bodkin went one even
ing to take tea and wine with the fu-
ture baron, and he particularly noticed
the dirty, slovenly appearance of the
clerk who waited upon them, and whom
the host had for the once assumed ex-
elusive possession.
Bodkin strongly advised Huddleston
to insist on a change in the treatment
of the youngsters person and appear
ance and said 1t was scarcely decent !
to have a person in that dingy condi- |
ton about him. II do not much like |
to Interfere" was the reply. "he looks |
upon Mr. T. as his master, and at the |
utmost 1 cannot claim more than half |
Of him.
"Then," said Bodkin, ST would. at all |
events, make him wash my half of his
Bench and Bar.