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Show Oriental IdVaa uf Punctuality. The indifference of time, characteristic of orientals, was illustrated in many umuxing ways whim first a railway was opened in a new part ot India. Coining but bitter cxpcrifiico could vonvinco thv natives that a train, unlike tho btil!o:k wagons they had m-n accustomed to. would not wait an indefinite time to pick up paHengcr. Tho deputy cornniis-sioncr cornniis-sioncr had on one oirasion, shortly after the opening of a new line, sent bis er. vant w itn his official letter bag U) mwl the train, and was inueh annoyed at see-ing see-ing the man presently returning with it, having missed tho train. "You had not half a mile to go, and you knew that liie train left the station at 3 o'clock!" "Yen, truly, your majesty," replied thr man in an aggrieved tiae, "but when it strikes three here tho train goes from there." That was sharp practice of which h had no previoua exieriwii:, and it wat evident that ho did not think it very creditable to the company. Teuipto Bar. |