Show M THOSE ORDER alic 1 I 1 brij li s r colini furnished furnis hd THE 1 i n is with a ful account ot the orders issued by abo superintendent of the philadelphia and beading railroad Kail road company forbidding the brakemen and of the road to wear beards and how that several of the men have resigned in consequence wo are not informed why this order compelling the denudation of the face of all hair south of the upper lip was confined to the brakemen and nor what reason the had for making ho order but he must have had some reason A T stewart objected to salesmen who wore a mustache on the ground that it lessened the distinctness of their utterances and further that the attention demanded by these hirsute ornaments resulted in a loss of the bearers wearers wear ers time for which ho paid in more modern times gentlemen who pose as humorists have objected to the wearing of whiskers because they impede the free passage of the wind but what harm tha beard has ever done to cause a railroad law for its extermination is not at this moment apparent it is clear that the beard of the brakeman does not interfere with his duty of turning brake because brakemen nowadays do not turn brakes that work being dono by compressed air interfere with the clear enunciation of the names of railroad station 3 if did tho teu laput of the philadelphia heading would not object to them because it is the chief object of a railroad superintendents life to seclude from the traveling public any information of that character one would imagine that any railroad would prefer men bearded like a pard to beardless boys but in trying to get at the inner of a railroad manager oue has to argue by contraries con traries the only excuse that is tenable is that beards are comfortable for table they protect the throat and chast of the wearer and therefore the order for their removal gives the superintendent as much pleasure as it causes the men annoyance wo wonder what the country would say if tho brakemen aud were to refuse to work until tho superintendent and general manager had shaved off their mustaches THE POSTAGE stamp will celebrate ita fiftieth anniversary next year the innovation is due to printer JAMES of dundee who died in 1853 and who fi nilly with his system tho adhesive postage stamp conquered the whole civilized civilised civili sed world england fifty years ago introduced the postage stamp and according to a decree of december 1839 issued the first stamps for public use on may ath 1840 A year later they were introduced in the united states of north america and switzerland and again a few years later in bavaria belgium aud france one of the most important and valuable collections of postage stamps is in the german imperial post office museum which contains over 1000 postage stamps and other postal do livery devices |