. Book of the Royal blue . TO A SKETCH. CWEET rlower, Thy outlines sketched by oneWho rivals thee, aye distances theeIn all thy fairness and beauty,—Thy gentleness and purity;—Comest thou from thy hiding placeTo call up memories of her absence ? Dear thou art, but dearer she. Whose handiwork thou art; Go thou back to her who made thee. Tell her of that great love Which swells my heart to-night, While I, alone, keep silent vigils In my den. Go thou, whisper it it is not for others ears ;But that sweet love which livesUnfathomed, boundless and eternal. S^JPf^ti SOME JUGGLING WITH FIGU
. Book of the Royal blue . TO A SKETCH. CWEET rlower, Thy outlines sketched by oneWho rivals thee, aye distances theeIn all thy fairness and beauty,—Thy gentleness and purity;—Comest thou from thy hiding placeTo call up memories of her absence ? Dear thou art, but dearer she. Whose handiwork thou art; Go thou back to her who made thee. Tell her of that great love Which swells my heart to-night, While I, alone, keep silent vigils In my den. Go thou, whisper it it is not for others ears ;But that sweet love which livesUnfathomed, boundless and eternal. S^JPf^ti SOME JUGGLING WITH FIGURES. CHICAGO NEWS BUREAU. T^NORMITIES of any character at--*— tract attention and for large figuresthere is no better place to look than inthe records of the railroads for a year inthe United States. In the first place there are 240,129miles of track or 480,258 miles of 60 pounds to the yard this rail weighsabout 105,600 pounds or about 53 tonsto the mile. Then the total track in thecountry weighs over 25,000,000 tons pounds. The freight movement mileage inthe United States last year was 93,885,-853,634 or equivalent to carrying oneton 3,755,434 times around the globe. The passenger movement mileagewas 13,044,840,243 or equivalent to car-rying a man 521,793 times around theglobe or around 1402 times a day for ayear or 35,050,000 miles in 24 hours,which is 1,460,000 miles an hour at therate of 405 miles a second. In otherwords our passenger trains carriednearly thirteen times as many passen-gers one mile as there are human beingson
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