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Show Timely Topics Railronds of the United States now operate more than 5,700 air-conditioned air-conditioned cars, and the number m service is being steadily increased. increas-ed. During 1935 not n single pas. Ranger was kiilcd on railroad trains of the country, but about 3,000 persons per-sons were killed in grade crossing accidents. Passenger revenues increased in-creased about four million dollars over 1934. A New York observer recently made a wisecrack wheh seems to have some truth in it. He said he Jid not believe the stock market was a true barometer of business, out rather a thermometer to register reg-ister tho temperature of cold feet i in high places. i I About 6,000 persons in New York City call the telephone exchange ex-change each day to ask the correct time. One operator on duty for the purpose answers all calls, although she does not hear the inquirers' voices. She simply announces the ( time every 15 seconds, and all who i are connected with her line can I hear. 1 Some years ago John Kellatly of Washington left nn art collection worth about five million dollars to the Smithsonian Institution and later his remaining fortune was 00st- .Wh nhe died at the age of "8, his family had to borrow money with which to pay his funeral expenses. |