Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — Japs Travel Slowly. [ARTICLE]

Japs Travel Slowly.

The Japanese are a go-ahead people in almost everything but railway speed. Of all the twenty-three lines in Japan, State, and private, the Tokio-Yokoha-ma has the honor of the best time—an average speed nineteen miles seven-ty-six chains an hour. Next ranks the Ofuna-Yokosuka Road, with an average speed of nineteen miles eighteen chains. According to Paris publications the observations of Alva Clark and Percival Lowell in Arizona have Increased the number of canals visible on Mars from seventy-nine to 183, all in geometrical proportions. The seas under these observations have turned to prairies and the lakes to oases. He Who puts a bad construction upon a good act, reveals bis own wickedness at heart