Show no walked far too far in a hotel iu berlin there is a night watchman who did not take kindly to tho system adopted a few years ago requiring him to go through the hotel at certain hours and touch an electric button fixed up in various places after much thought ho fixed up an automatic arrangement on several of the buttons eo that they would report at certain hours soon the button system got so out of order that tho management abolished it it was found necessary to keep watch in bamo bomo way on the gentleman however pedometer was given him to carry on his rounds which would register every step he took all went well the first two nights thereafter but on the morning following tho third night the old man was missing on search being mado ho was found sound asleep in tho engine room and the pedometer so attached to the piston rod of the engine that with every stroke it registered a step it had been traveling all night and when taken off it registered miles berlin gazette |