Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — Orders a Plenty. [ARTICLE]

Orders a Plenty.

Courier Journal. Two men, not too well dressed, stood at the corner of Second and Jefferson streets, yesterday morning. The face of neither wore an expression that would betoken feelings of happiness. Each one carried in his hand one of those small, square satchels with which book agents are always-supplied. While waiting for a car this conversation passed: First Agent—Well, Harry, did you get any orders today ? Second Agent —Not an order. Say, I never saw people so crabbed in my life. How did you do? Did you get any orders? “Oh, I did very well. I got an order every place I went into. They ordered me to get out, you know.” A French statistician says that the numberof men and women in France is more nearly equal than in any other country in the world, there be* ing only 1,. 007 women to 1,000 men., In Switzerland there is 1,004 men to 1,000 women, and in Greece only 933. 'The conditions in Hong Kong, according to this authority, is appalling, "there being only* 306 women to 1,000 men.