Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — A Writer’s Work. [ARTICLE]

A Writer’s Work.

A rapid penman can write thirty-two words in a minute. To do.this he must draw his pen through the space of a r'id,. sixteen and one-half .feet. In forty-eight minutes his pen travels a furlong. We make, on an average, sixteen curves or turns of the pen in writing each word. Writing thirty words in a minute, we must make 480 turns in each minute; in an hour, 28,000; in a day of pnly five hours, 144,000; in a year of 30U such days, 43,200,000. The man, therefore, who made 1,000,000 strokes with his pen was not at all remarkable. Many men—newspaper writers, for instance—make 4,000,000. Here have in the aggregate a mark 300 miles long to be traced On paper by such.a writer in a year.. It’S a good deal more profitable to make ten men think they are above you, than to make one think you are above him.