Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1913 — Sinecure Had Lasted Long. [ARTICLE]

Sinecure Had Lasted Long.

Pensions are not the only things commanded and forgotten. An in* quißitve member of the British house of commons was struck one day by the presence of a policeman in one of the lobbies. He wondered why this particular lobby should always have a guardian strolling up and down and made inquiries. The records of the house were searched and it was found that fifty years previously, when the lobby was being decorated, a policeman had been stationed there to keep members from soiling their clothes. The order never having been countermanded, the constable had kept his. beat for half a century.