People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Result of Laziness. [ARTICLE]

Result of Laziness.

The steam engine was made perfectly automatic by a lazy boy who was employed to open and close the valves. Desiring to play instead of to work, he tied a string from one part of the machine to another, thus making the engine attend to its own business. He was never heard of again, and even his name is unknown, but a perfect engine was the outcome of his laziness. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat

—None of the First Water.—First Wave—“ Will you dance with me?” Second Wave —“No, only the rougher elements are out to-day.”—Truth.