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Show A Workman's Time Checker. An English time check has been designed de-signed for use in factories and workshops work-shops for keeping a register of the time of the workmen. Its Inventor claims that it is the only apparatus of the kind actuated and controlled by electricity. It contains no special clockwork and no complicated parts and requires no fixing. fix-ing. As many checks can be fitted to one clock as may be desired, and any ordinary clock can be adapted for the purpose. Each man is provided with checks, one of which he drops into the slot of the apparatus on entering the building. The checks are subsequently removed, and after their numbers have been registered placed on a board ready for the men to take when next leaving work. Any number of slots can be provided, pro-vided, but as a rule two only, marked respectively "early" and "late," are required. re-quired. When the time for beginning work has gone by, the "early" slct is closed by an electrical attachment, and the "late" slot is opened. Before the next spell of work commences the "late" slot is closed, and the "early" slot is made ready to receive the checks of the workmen. Exchange. One of the "tough old gals" of Maine came to mill toting a plump bagful of corn upon her shoulders. While tbe miller was doing his work the woman went down to the village grocery and bought a salt mackerel. As the miller was an obliging sort of man, she roasted roast-ed her fish on the red coals in his stove, got: a mug of water from the pail, produced pro-duced a big, flat biscuit from her pocket pock-et and well, she ate everything except the fishbones and gazed at those regretfully regret-fully while she had a pull at her T. D. pipe. Do not Borne of you Maine dyspeptics dys-peptics wish that you could have that woman's appetite to go with your money? mon-ey? Yes, and her muscle, too, for Bhe lugged that sack of meal away to her home two miles off about as easily as some women carry their shopping bags. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. |