Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — Labor Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Labor Statistics.

A building was in process of erection opposite a public building, in Washington City. One of the clerks, who had been looking out of the window for some time, said to another clerk who was reading a newspaper: “I have been watching that workman over there, and he has not done a lick of work in all that time. I wonder what he gets paid for?” Just about the same time the workman remarked to a fellow workman: “Just look at that Government clerk over there. He hasn’t done anything except look out of the window for the last half hour. No wonder the country is going to the dogs.” —Texas Siftings.