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Show VALUE IN" LITTLE THINGS. From waste paper alone one railroad last year realized $5000. Pins, pens, nails, old brooms, bottles, tin cans and wornout machinery of all sorts .are gathered up along the route by all the railway, companies 'and' turned Into money. Even the ashes are sold or utilized for Improving the roadbed. The greatest corporations In the world are not above taking care of the fractions of pennies. The railway scrap heap of the country last year reached the value of $1,250,000 a. most respectable sum ot money, notwithstanding it came from plcked-up pins and paper, old nails and old brooms. Waste forms one of the most vital questions In economics, not alone for railroads and big manufacturing manufac-turing plants, but for every household. It is impossible, of course, for any very great sum to be realized in the saving of waste in a household. And .yet the usual waste of any home is relatively far greater than, that of a railroad. Chicago Journal. |