Work Of A Writer

A rapid writer can w rite thirty words in one minute. To do this he must draw his pen thrcragli the space of a rod, sLxteen and one-half íeet. In forty minutes his pen travels a furlong, and in five and one-half hours a full mile. lie makes on an average sixteen curves or turas of the pen for each word written. Writing at the rate of thirty words per minute he must make eight curves to each second; in an hour 28,800; in five hours, 144,000, and in 300 days, working only five hours each day, he makes not less than 43,200,000 curves and turns of the pen.