"Attend to this matter promptly, Major, and you'll see the result when you come to us in July for your vacation." Having attended to all the requirements of the projected Millville Tribune, as he thought, Mr. Merrick called the operator for the amount of his bill and paid it to Sam Cottingthree dollars and eighty cents.

With need of less skill than the elevator operator, but more patience and tact in managing human nature, the woman conductor is getting her patrons into line.

Just as I came up to one operator, she lifted an engine truck-box to the table and started drilling out the studs.

The experience of Tom Potter, telegraph operator at an obscure little way station, is truth painted large.

" "You don't mean Mrs. Leffingwell?" queried the aerial operator in a strained tone.

The camp was the office, so to speak, of the division commander, with his clerks, telephone operator, commissary machinery, and so on, the commander himself living at the immediate front.

Beyond, from a bush-covered tent, came the jingle of a telephone and 'the singsong voice of the young Turkish operator relaying messages in German"Ja!...

That attic was like a scene in some military melodrama, with its tattered roof, its tripod binoculars peering at the enemy, the businesslike officers dusty and unshaven, the field-telegraph operator squatting in one corner, with a receiver strapped to his ear.

What a Joy must it be to the unlearned Operator to find that these Words, being carefully collected and writ down in Order according to the Problem, start of themselves into Hexameter and Pentameter Verses?

I used paper moved by clockwork upon which I caused a lever moved by magnetism to imprint the letters and words of any required dispatch, having also invented and adapted to telegraph writing a new and peculiar alphabetic character for that purpose, a conventional alphabet, easily acquired and easily made and used by the operator.

[Mr. Stanly] was the operator.

The one and safer for the operator is the suggestive, in which appearances are made by consummate tact and artful flattery to excite the imagination of the buyer so that he is led to believe what he desires without compromising the agent.

Gently has he dabbled in stocks, and no modern operator is half so conversant an he is with the juggles of the Stock Exchange.

Telegrams marked "deferred" are sent at the convenience of the operator, generally during the night, at half of the ordinary rates.

The sign over the entrance to the railway station reads "Jeypure;" on the lamps that light the platform it is painted "Jeypoor"; on the railway ticket it was "Jaypur"; on the bill of fare in the refreshment-room of the station it was "Jaipor"; on a telegram delivered by the operator at the station it was spelled "Jaiphur."

He had besieged an astonished young operator early in the morning, and had implored him to call every ship at sea within reach.

" "The fog's lifting, I think," said the operator.

She now turned the paper as she spoke and held it so that the headlines leaped out across the table: MILLIONAIRE COAL OPERATOR TURNS VAST HOLDINGS OVER TO THE STATE Son of Old Peter Page Converted to Socialism "What!" cried Morrison.

The district messenger, the telegraph operator, the typewriter, the stenographer, the bookkeeper, the canvasser, the salesman, the commercial traveler, the engineer, the car driver, the hackman, the conductor, the gripman, the brakeman, the electrician, the lineman, the elevator boy, and a host of others, follow trades and occupations which had no existence in the middle of the eighteenth century.

It is only necessary to say that the implements in question are of two kinds; one, the "carotid fork," is an adjustable instrument, which being held in the hand of the operator permits him to exert any degree of pressure upon both carotids for any desired length of time.

He is really an amiable sheep-operator, our authorwhat placid benevolence and hatred of quackery appear in his instructions "Learn to slaughter gently, dress the carcass neatly and cleanly, in as plain a manner as possible, and without flourishes."p.

Tho' I admitted my operator to an equal share of profit and loss, the publication has been managed in such a manner as if there had been a combination to suppress it: notwithstanding which, it makes its way very tolerably at least.

David Laurence Chambers (A); 30Mar61; R273238. CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. Secret service operator 13.

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM H. Secret service operator 13.

Just as Mr. Pillbody was making arrangements to bring these mines before the public, his stockbroking friend, through whom he had effected the purchase, left for Europe, and it was then discovered that Mr. Pillbody's mines, if they existed at all, were ten feet under a swamp, on property which belonged to somebody else, the title deeds of which had been forged by the adroit operator.