Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — The “Just Alike.” [ARTICLE]

The “Just Alike.”

Few people perhaps notice that all omnibus wheels are painted yellow, says the London Chronicle, so that any wheel may be worn with any bus color. Every circus ring in tbe world is of precisely the same diameter, whatever the size of the auditorium, so that tberider knows the angle at which Bee must lean in San Francisco is the angle of safety in St. Petersburg. Eventhe ladder is “standardized.” Every hodman in England knows what hehas to step when toiling up the builder’s ladder, though he may not know it is seven inches. The sailor who runs* up the ratlines has twelve inches as astep, and that makes a run possible,and the firemen’s ladder is crossed with exact equivalence to the ratlines-