Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1915 — Some Lost Motion. [ARTICLE]

Some Lost Motion.

A Philadelphia mathematician ha< figured It out that the telephone companies lose 125 hours’ work every daj through the use of the word “please’ by all operators and patrons. Anothei has discovered that the froth on th* beer pays the freight. But as yet nc one has estimated the total horse power wasted In swallowing cigarette smoke and forcing it through the nose instead of blowing it from the month —Newark News.